Johan Van Huyssteen

• Developed an Android IOT Management Platform and are providing software as a service offering to the global market
• Created a Push-to-talk platform to enable communications for the security, logistics, and construction industries

• Oversaw all product launches and product development
• Achieved a 100% Product Launch rate for 3 Years

• Re-developed and implemented a Broker commission system and integrated it within all divisions within Discovery Holdings
• Developed a complete new commissions system in 4 months integrated it with discovery ensure in 2 months

• Provided Software as a Service Solutions for Enterprises
• Managed over 20 million devices globally

• Established an infrastructure-wide management platform
• Created a framework to integrate management platforms in the market and the modules we developed as a single management platform

• Identified that in the EMEA region desktop management for organizations is an unidentified market and structured my department to deliver these platforms and services
• Sold and implemented 400,000 NetWizard Licenses with our rpc integration application over 4 years in South Africa, and also developed three other modules to auto-deploy or agent software to Windows 3.11 and Win95

Project Manager at South Africa Revenue Services I was head-hunted by Pravin Gordon deputy commissioner of SARS because of my infrastructure management experience to assist with the new implementation of the South African Revenue Services Network called SARSNET.

The project scope was to migrate 128 buildings with 14000 End-Users from a Terminal Mainframe solution to the first Microsoft Domain client-server environment in South Africa, including a new Wide Area Network.

The timeline for this project was 6 months, we delivered the project in 5 months and one week and was confirmed and approved by the attorney general.

My Team of 300 and I implemented the following:

• Wide area network (WAN) to 128 buildings
• Server rooms 512
• Microsoft Domain Controller Servers 128
• Network Devices and Cabling
• Desktops 14 000
• Network Printers 1000j

This system was developed in parallel with the implementation during the SARSNET Project to enable South Africa to migrate from a GST Tax platform to a VAT platform.

The implementation of the NITS system was challenging due to the client application that needed to be deployed to 14,000 with constant weekly updates.

We tested 12 Device Enterprise Management Platforms and decided on the Attachmate Platform called NetWizard.

The scope was to implement the Netwizard and NITS platform on 128 regional staging servers, with 14,000 workstation client agents.

The challenge of this project was that the Netwizard Client Agent could not be Auto-deployed to the workstations and reinstalled during hardware or software maintenance.

I then studied the Microsoft NT4 Workstation Architecture and discovered RPC Protocol, this protocol allowed me to authenticate against the workstation directly and install the NetWizard Agent.

I developed a server application that scans the Sars network IP subnets, identifies if the device is a workstation, and if the agent is installed or not, if not the agent is installed. This ensured the maintainability of the agent implementation for the NetWizard Platform.

Project Scope: Identify and Implement a Device Enterprise platform to enable the deployment of the NITS Platform that must go live on the 15th of January 1999, in 3 months.

Project Time-Line

20th October 1998 to 15th of January 1999

We Delivered the Following Project Milestones:

• Identified a Device Enterprise
• System NetWizard
• Implemented the NetWizard on 128 Staging Servers
• Developed and Implemented a NetWizard client Deployment system
• Deployed the NetWizard client to 14000 desktops
• Package the NITS Workstation Application
• Test the Deployment to 20 Test Buildings
• Deploy the NITS Application to 14000 Desktops

Project Success

I delivered the project to the SARS Executives on the 4th of January 1999 before the due date of the 15th of January 1999, this allowed them to review all aspects of the delivery and update the parliament and the associated press of the successful implementation of a maintainable NITS Vat Platform.

My mandate was to create an Information technology department to manage the complete IT Infrastructure of the following departments:

• Executive Board
• Corporate Audit
• Treasury
• Finance
• Housing
• Human Resources

We had to manage the following Environments:

• 1700 End Users (Desktops, Laptops, Local Printers)
• All Networking Architecture Server Environments with Business Applications
• Novell Directory Services Management
• Email Management
• Mainframe Management

I implemented the following:

• Department Budget P and L
• Procurement of all Information Technology Equipment
• Appointed 28 Staff members to assist with service delivery
• Established a service desk to manage all service requests
• Established a Central Network Control room to manage all server and network infrastructure
• Created Standard operating procedures to manage our complete information technology architecture
• Standardize all Desktops and laptops with the same make and model
• Implement a 10% Hardware swap pool to eliminate meantime for repair for end users' desktops and laptops
• Implement Network Printers and remove all local printers from end users
• Automate desktop operating system deployments
• Automate application and configuration
• Support staff attends service requests with complete replacement units for laptops and desktops.

The above standards resolved all service requests in 20 min.