Adam Heunis

Nov 2019 – Present

As a member of the executive team reporting to the CEO, I lead all product engineering functions. Growing our business is dependent on designing, building and delivering highly scalable, compliant world class products for the biopharma and life sciences sectors.

Responsible for cloud engagement across application, data & analytics platforms. Accountable for managing Azure tenants including architecture, security, resource planning, budgets, billing (limited), approvals, policies and group-level access. Within the company, I’m the Tenant Administrator.

Feb 2016 – November 2019

Lead and expand a talented team to design, develop and implement modern enterprise level software applications for the pharmaceutical sector. This includes driving development processes across multiple products and providing technical and architectural design, direction and oversight.

Dec 2013 – Feb 2016

Applications and services for the pharmaceutical clinical trial sector developed on a modern .NET technology stack. There is continued emphasis on enterprise software architecture and modern but proven patterns & practices.

• Accountable for all software technology decisions and direction for .NET & Mobile products
• Make high-level design choices and dictates technical standards, including software coding standards, tools and platforms
• Provide practical solutions to challenges that arise during architectural and engineering phases
• Identify technical requirements and limitations to ensure proper system functionality
• Drive technology innovation and research; lead technology strategy through market analysis, and share emerging technology trends with development teams
• Oversight (including regular code reviews) and support of software development staff participating in product development
• Provide training for software developers and testers
• Maintain the knowledge-base for .NET & Mobile products
• Confer with users, sponsors and stakeholders to identify their vision and needs
• Manage and maintain process creation for development
• Ensure timely approval of all technical design specifications for all product releases

Technical skills: C#, ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC , SQL Server 2008 – 2014, Entity Framework & LINQ, Web API, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AngularJS, Visual Studio 2010-2015, Visual Studio Online (TFS on Azure), Windows Azure, ReSharper, NuGet, SignalR, jQuery, Bootstrap, PhoneGap, Xamarin, AutoFac, Git, GitHub, SDLC.

Oct 2013 – Nov 2013

Responsible for designing, developing and implementing enterprise and consumer web applications. Leading the development team to create well performing, stable and modern web & smartphone applications in the fast changing consumer advertising environments.

Providing software services to some of the biggest brands in South Africa.

Aug 2006 – Sep 2013

Created, consulted on & supported software applications varying from SharePoint applications, upgrading legacy systems to cutting edge cloud-based solutions for some of the biggest firms in the world. Lead the complete life-cycle of software development from analysis through design to implementation.

Clients included but were not limited to Coca-Cola, Volkswagen, Dimension Data, Eveready, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU).

Operating primarily on the Microsoft stack of development tools & technologies such as SQL Server, IIS, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, TFS and Azure. Also did several projects with Oracle and MySql. Extensive experience in client side technologies such as HTML (4 & 5), CSS, Javascript, jQuery, SEO, Analytics and Knockout.

Sep 2004 – Jul 2006

A core systems rewrite of the operational system used to manage the Housing Corporation (a £20 billion organisation). The new solution was written in C# and ASP.NET on the .NET Framework with an Oracle database. I started on the project as a consultant, then was eventually promoted to the Technical Architect. I reported to the Housing Corporation project board.

Aug 2004 – Nov 2004

Created an online marketing application for Sony Ericsson - one of the largest electronic companies in the world. At the time the biggest online campaign outside of the US with 600,000 registered users. Used ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server.

Apr 2004 – Jul 2004

An online .NET/XML-based web service that produces financial product illustrations (quotations). The service is consumed internally by a web front-end and externally by The Exchange (Marlborough-Stirling). This multi-tiered solution is built on a .NET Framework (relying on XML and MSMQ) and consumes a Prophet API. Extensive knowledge of Origo Standards were required. Project was developed using the structured development guidelines of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF). Collaboration between many financial service organisations characterised this project.

2000 – 2004

Part of the team that created Intelligent Office, a market leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, for Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs).

I was responsible for the Quotes, Valuations & Transactions (QVT) module of this platform.

Dec 1992 – Mar 2000

Responsible for the development of Neatsys, the software platform that this ISO and SABS certified manufacturing plant used for Quality Assurance, Wages & Salaries, Sales, Production & Management Reports.