Mike Heydon

Mike Heydon

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ABOUT ME
Dynosaur with vast experience to offer solutions to obscure issues.
Dynosaur with vast experience to offer solutions to obscure issues.

I have functioned in positions of a System and App Developer,DBA and Unix Systems Administrator amongst any other "Rise to the Situation" crisis that has spanned over 30 years. I have extensive experience in the inner and obsure binary and machine level of workings of development and databases and have mentored many junior programmers to become efficient and expert technical coders. I currently am involved in technical development and consulting for IOT projects utilising RasPI and other devices. I am now semi-retired with my own company and have ample time to devote to any challenging project or consulting issues.

English
Pretoria (+02:00)
Joined February 2019
EXPERTISE
22 years experience
I have mentored many junior programmers to excel in improving their coding and logic skills. Sadly in today's world there are many coders...
I have mentored many junior programmers to excel in improving their coding and logic skills. Sadly in today's world there are many coders who leave an institution believing they know everything about coding? The reality is that most of them have developed many bad habits and have no real understanding what effect their code is having on the underlying machine achitecture. The candidates I have mentored have benefitted from the low level coding and diciplines of more structured languages and have applied these skills into the more modern languages such as C#, Java etc.
22 years experience
I am very familiar with low level file extracts and integration between modern and legacy ERP systems using various databases. Whilst wor...
I am very familiar with low level file extracts and integration between modern and legacy ERP systems using various databases. Whilst working at EOH, I developed many integration interfaces into the BaaN (now ERP LN) system that used an Oracle database. I am able to develop and provide any integration links and service applications that will provide a solution for a complex integration project.
30 years experience
I believe that to get the maximum performance and efficiency from an application, service, daemon etc. you must invest in developing in a...
I believe that to get the maximum performance and efficiency from an application, service, daemon etc. you must invest in developing in a compiler that produces native machine code for your platform. Modern languages such as Java, C#, Python are not true compiled code and are more of a byte-interpeter implementation. These platforms make it easy for amateurs to code, but efficiency, size and deployment are greatly sacrificed. My code solutions take advantage of the low level machine code compilers and efficiency such as C, C++, Delphi, FPC and Lazarus.
DelphiAssemblyPascal
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26 years experience
I have functioned as an Oracle and MS-SQL DBA since late 1997. I am respected and well known for being able to solve obscure database iss...
I have functioned as an Oracle and MS-SQL DBA since late 1997. I am respected and well known for being able to solve obscure database issues, particularly in the BaaN (now ERP LN) environment. I have also developed many DB utility tools including a generic very fast CSV or other format dump for database tables as well as an Oracle GUI management tool specifically designed to manage the complexity of the BaaN or other erp systems.
CisamdBaseOracle
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CisamdBaseOracleSQLErp ln
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EMPLOYMENTS
CEO
Magetech (Pty) LTD.
2013-09-01-Present
Magetech (Pty) Ltd. is a custom software development and IT consultancy company. Whether you are looking for a specific software soluti...
Magetech (Pty) Ltd. is a custom software development and IT consultancy company. Whether you are looking for a specific software solution unique to your business requirements or whether you have legacy systems that need to be integrated into modern ERP or other systems or require data migration and conversion between various databases, Magetech brings many years of development experience to the table from the IT sector. Our latest ventures are moving into the new and exciting world of IoT - "Internet of Things"
Database
Integration
Coding
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Database
Integration
Coding
Mentoring
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Technical Consultant, Developer and Oracle DBA
EOH South Africa
1997-01-01-2013-08-01
EOH Holdings Limited is a large South Africa-based technology company. The Company is engaged in information and communications technolog...
EOH Holdings Limited is a large South Africa-based technology company. The Company is engaged in information and communications technology ICT service provider in Africa and a focused on technology and business services. I was involved from 1997 and was one of the original founding members.
C#
Oracle
Delphi
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C#
Oracle
Delphi
ERP
Unix Server Administration
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Group IT Software Developer
Federated Blaikie
1990-01-01-1997-01-01
Federated Blaikie Limited was a building material division within the Barlow Group (now known as Barloworld), until early 1999 and consis...
Federated Blaikie Limited was a building material division within the Barlow Group (now known as Barloworld), until early 1999 and consisted of a merger between Federated Timbers and Blaikie Johnstone. These where the intense years of software development. I was responsible for many country wide integrated applications written in both Turbo Pascal and Clipper (a DBase compiler), including the yearly budgets as well as each monthly accounts pack for some 20 companies using my own cisam designed file access system. TurboQuant was another project that used Turbo Pascal and a custom interface into a RS232 Digitizer board that allowed estimators to extract building plan quotes by clicking on a physical building plan with a digitizer pen.
Pascal
Clipper
dBase
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Pascal
Clipper
dBase
Cisam
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PROJECTS
Wattlog Energy MonitoringView Project
Wattlog
2015
Designed Database and developed supporing SP and Black=Box classes. All Win32 services and utility tools developed in Delphi and all RasP...
Designed Database and developed supporing SP and Black=Box classes. All Win32 services and utility tools developed in Delphi and all RasPI utilities and daemons developend in Lazarus on a RasPI 3B+ using a custom TCP packet protocol.
Delphi
Raspberry Pi
Internet of things
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Delphi
Raspberry Pi
Internet of things
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