Curriculum Vitae

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2002: Bachelor of Engineering Honours
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South-Africa
Specialisation in Information security and telecommunications
Information security: Studied fundamentals of information security and cryptography.
Telecommunications: Theses resulted in the successful simulation of a fading path time spreading algorithm.
1997-2001: Bachelor of Engineering - Electronic engineering
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South-Africa





Publications:
International Conferences:

Greeff, Paul G., Hancke, Gerhard P., Van der Merwe, Derrick L., Horváth, László, "Design of an access control module for an instrumentation gateway" IEEE International Symposium on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, VECIMS, 2003. Lugano, Switzerland






International Journals:

Greeff PG, Hancke GP & Van der Merwe DL, "Design of an access control module for an Instrumentation Gateway," IEEE Transactions of Instrumentation and Measurement, Febr 2006, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 140-149.

Academic Background:

Postgraduate level:
Information security / Cryptography B.Eng (Hons)
Telecommunication B.Eng (Hons)


Experience:
Working:

2007 - present: Acting COO / Operations manager Lucidview
I am currently employed at Lucidview.
Responsibilities include
  • software and product development and steering
  • presales
  • client support
  • project planning
  • budgets
  • training
  • operations
2003-2006:

 Permanent full time lecturer University of Pretoria
Responsibilities
  • Teaching
  • Course development, undergraduate and postgraduate level
  • Student representation
  • Engineering week preparations
  • Research
Teaching includes diverse fields of
  • Engineering graphics
  • Digital signal processing (B.Sc and B.Eng students)
  • VHDL FPGA
  • Digital systems
  • Computer architecture
  • Software engineering - undergraduate and postgraduate level
2002: Part time lecturer University of Pretoria
Responsibilities
  • Teaching
  • Course development, undergraduate
  • Research
Teaching includes diverse fields of
  • Engineering graphics
  • Digital systems (B.Sc and B.Eng students)




Languages:
English Fluent  
Afrikaans
Fluent
Native
  
German Getting there...
  

Computer skills:

OS Linux, Windows, DOS, OSX, Android, Solaris, OpenIndiana (other Unix variants?) - mostly linux these days.
 Programming Python, Bash, PHP, Assembler, C/C++, VHDL
IDE Eclipse, Netbeans, vi(m)
 Scientific Matlab, Octave
Typography LaTeX, Microsoft Office, Open Office / Libreoffice, wordgrinder (console ftw)
 VoIP Asterisk
Networking

Virtualisation
Cloud Computing		Routing, firewalling, packet shaping and all the other goodies
VmWare, VirtualBox, QEMU / KVM
Google, Digital Ocean		Database


Containerisation		Google BigQuery, Postgresql (including optimisation), NoSQL, (Casandra and Hadoop - cursory knowledge only), Mysql, Oracle (a long time ago)
Docker, Linux Containers


Interests and Activities:

  • Amateur radio
  • Satellite communications
  • Networking
  • 4x4 off road lifestyle
  • Boating (if I ever get the boat finished) - Boating
  • Fishing
  • Motorbikes (I have the scars to prove it)
  • Hunting, if our police department ever get their act together and approve my hunting rifle license...