Advanced SQL SPECIALS

Bernard has more than 15 Years of experience as part-time and full-time lecturer and trainer: University of Pretoria (Hons class in Informatics), Monash (First Year Introduction to Business Computing and Second Year Software Development), University of Witwatersrand ("Organization, Data, Information and Business Intelligence") and Oracle University.

Technical courses include :

• Oracle Business Intelligence
• Microsoft Power BI
• SQL
• Java
• XML
• Oracle Data Warehousing
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Project

Information Technology experience includes: IT blueprints, outsourcing, data migration, and software development. The project environments include: research, financial services, medical services, telecommunications, short-term insurance, mining, retail and IT outsourcing.

Project Management experience include acting as senior project manager on IT Projects, setting up project approaches and project offices, acting as a project mentor and trainer, and as an IT Team Service Manager

Memberships:

• IPTSA
• Project Management Society of South Africa
• ACM (Signatory to Code of Ethics)

Award: Oracle University: “Best Fusion Middleware Lecturer. ZA FY2010 and ZAFY2011”

Relevant Qualifications and Training:

Date: 2014 APM Group. Passed Agile Practitioner. Certificate Number 02905943-01-L9LH
Date: 2005 APM Group, on behalf of the Office of Government Commerce (United Kingdom),
London Passed PRINCE2 Practitioners Examination and certified as a "PRINCE2 Practitioner".
Date: 1998 University of Pretoria Advanced Certificate in Information Systems Management (cum laude).
Project Management and Decision Support were amongst the subjects
Date: 1993 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Course in "Managing People in Software Development"

Mark is the Managing Director of Leading Edge Business Solutions. Mark has been programming since the age of 10 when he wrote his fist Basic Program on an Apple IIe. He has always been passionate about computers and education and started tutoring matric students in 1994. Mark has been training advanced Linux courses, installing, configuring and maintaining Linux servers since November 1999. In 2002 Mark began training Perl courses. Mark was among the first group to write the LPI level 2 Certification in South Africa in 2004. Since March 2006 Mark has been training PHP, MySQL and JavaScript. Since 2009 Mark has started training Java and Python.

Mark's formal qualifications include:

Bsc (Engineering) Electrical

Institution: University of the Witwatersrand.

Final Subjects IncludedComputer Engineering

Certification: Level 2 Certification

Institution: Linux Professional Institute

Ryan is a Senior Trainer and Linux Support Engineer at Leading Edge Business Solutions. He has been training in Linux, SQL, PHP, Laravel, HTML and JavaScript since September 2004. Ryan is a skilled facilitator who regularly receives outstanding reviews from his students. Ryan has been actively maintaining and designing Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) based hosting solutions since June 1999.

Ryan's formal qualifications include:

National Diploma: Engineering: Computer Systems

1999 Tshwane University of Technology

2005 Linux Professionals Institute LPI level 1 certification

2007 ICDL International Computer Drivers Licence

2016 CompTIA CTT+ Classroom Trainer

2016 MTA - Database Fundamentals

2018 CompTIA Linux+

2019 MICT SETA REGISTERED ASSESSOR (RAS/07/2019/0015)

2019 MTA - Introduction to Programming using HTML and CSS

2019 MTA - Introduction to Programming using JavaScript