Lawrence is a Sales Manager and Training instructor at Leading Edge Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd since April 2008 and has been a technical instructor since 2004. Lawrence combines technical knowledge with good communications skills and consistently receives enthusiastic reviews from his students. Lawrence has trained in all 9 provinces of South Africa as well as in the DRC, Botswana, and Swaziland.
Operating Systems and Application Software
Windows 95 – Windows 10, Office 97/2000/XP/2003/2007/2010/2013/2016
Linux
PowerBI
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Project, Visio, Microsoft Excel Dashboards
Open /Libre Office Writer, Calc, Impress, Base
Thunderbird
Google Apps
Gimp, Scribus
Wordpress and Joomla Content Management Systems
Soft skills / Business Skills
Selling, Presentation, Communication, Time Management & Anger Management.
Certified
Certified Technical Trainer (Ctt+)
N5 Electrical Engineering
Installation Liaison Officer (Telecommunication)
Business Communication
Entrepreneurship
Microsoft Office Specialist, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
ICDL
Network+
I-Net+Hardware and Networking from City & Guilds of London
IC3
Google AdWords
Google Analytics
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
I studied computer engineering at Tshwane University of Technology. I then joined a web development company in 1999 where I began my journey in back-end web development. I had to learn to work with several web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Being a back-end developer also meant learning all about databases and how to interact with them using SQL. I also became very familiar with setting up Linux servers for website hosting.
Around 2001 our company moved into instructor led training where I started training mainly corporate companies in all the technologies I had learnt. I joined Leading Training in 2011 with a primary focus on technical training and managing the IT infrastructure. In the last 5 years my main focus has shifted back to my roots of back-end web development. This now involves writing web-based applications to automate business workflows. For this I mainly make use of a PHP framework called Laravel and a library called Laravel Livewire.
I am very active in my church in all things technical. I enjoy mixing live sound and assisting with the live streaming of services.
In order to become more productive in a command-line environment used by many popular systems, like GIT, Docker, and PostgreSQL a basic grasp of the frequently used shell commands is necessary.
You will learn to:
Leading Training is focusing on providing virtual training courses for the foreseeable future and will only consider in-person and classroom training on request, with a required minimum group size of four delegates. We remain committed to offering training that is fast, focused and effective.
| Delivery Method | Duration | Price (excl. VAT) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulltime | 2 Days | R 5,000.00 | |
| Webinar | 2 Days | R 3,600.00 |
Save up to 10% by booking and paying 10 business days before the course.
Delegates that intend to use command-line tools such as those available for GIT, Docker, and PostgreSQL.
Computer Literacy, basic operating system concepts and a reasonable typing speed.
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