The team

Who we are - VPPS Management Team

Mr Warren Lambert

Managing Director - VPPS Africa

20 years experience in the IT industry.

Warren started his IT career in 1978 as a computer operator. His experience includes: Technical experience gained as a programmer and management experience at Software Manager and Development Manager level.

In March 1996 Warren founded The Careerline Group (Pty) Ltd in South Africa. The Group specialised in IT recruitment, both permanent and contract positions. The company evolved as a market leader through customer focused products and services and grew over a two-year period to a multi-million rand organisation. The company was sold in June 1998.

Warren is a partner in the VPPS Group. The company was launched in the UK in 2000 with the acquisition of a London City based IT recruitment company, RD Riggs Human Resources Ltd. Warren's strengths lie in the appreciation of the people business coupled with a vision of how technology and people will evolve in the 21st century.

Shaun Krog

Senior Software Development Manager

Shaun too has held senior positions, including Analyst Programmer; Contractor and Analyst Programmer; Systems Development Manager and similar responsible positions with such well known groups as the Psiber Group (PTY) Ltd, where he was responsible for the Nedcor Bank Ltd operation; the Careerline Group (PTY) Ltd and Aegis Insurance Ltd.

In these roles he has acted on a Programme Assessor basis, the development of mainframe operations and testing of system integration. He has provided standby support for quality insurance testing, maintenance of an underwriting system and has been involved in many long running tasks with these companies, including customer information control system and involvement with ATMs and SSTs. He also boasts a sound educational history and a series of various qualifications within the IT industry.

In his role with VPPS, his duties are to develop new internal and client centric solutions, develop and maintain existing company websites, supply support business critical systems and act as network administrator and network support officer. He has been integral to the research and development programme since he joined the Group in 2000. His elevation to his present position with VPPS took place in July 2002 and as such since then he has been key to the research and development programme. He is a highly trained individual and a dedicated member of the team. He is equally at home dealing with customers at large or, indeed, involved technical IT problems in depth.

Lee Copestake

Senior Software Developer and Designer

Lee joined the company on inception and has been integral in the development of several of the company's major products, including 'BookWise' its base product (see Products and Services below). His duties and achievements have included the design, development, testing and implementation of all products released to the market. He also supports the team in analysing the exact requirements of clients and the start of the design process. Again, he boasts a sound history within the IT industry and is well qualified in his present role and indeed the extra responsibilities that the expansion programme will commit him to.

Craig Smith

Senior Software Developer

Started his career in 1998 as an Operations Supervisor, gaining experience of system migration, functionality enhancement and business processes. Craig was involved with developing new business solutions and managed existing client projects, as well as design and implement project management methods across the companies operations.

His focused changed in 2002 where he started providing account management and hardware and software solutions, primarily to government institutions. His roles and experiences include: Managing a small BEE company in South Africa, Hardware solutions, Software solutions, Asset management, web design, document management, Address Cleaning and Postal Code verification system management, MS Windows, Visual Basic, ASP, SQL, MySQL, Access, HTML, ASP.net exposure, Internet development and web solutions, for a variety of companies, Technical infrastructure (networking, cabling, desktop rollout) projects, Comprehensive training within the Microsoft development sector., Business architecture and product solutions, Tier to tier application design to improve business capacity, Extensive Adobe suite training, utilizing Apple Mac technology, Design and publication principles within the advertising industry, Project development and business logic, Windows 95/98/2000/NT, MS Project, Lotus Suite

Jacques Vosloo

Account Manager

Jacques started his IT career with the Mine Pension Fund where he started doing desktop support but quickly moved on to supporting both a Sun Solaris Unix based system and an in-house Pension Administration System. Here Jacques was exposed to main frame systems and then later moved on to supporting client server systems when legacy systems were phased out. From there Jacques move on to work in the private healthcare sector, for the Life Healthcare Group. This is where Jacques gained valuable exposure to various PMA's, clinical systems and Healthcare IT as a whole. His responsibilities included business analysis, user support, and training coordination, selling of PMA and services, client liaison, software testing and implementation.

Jacques brings a wealth of experience from private healthcare and now works for VPPS as an account manager and is currently managing projects in the Ugu District. Jacques is realigning business with IT systems and on-going training & support.

Andrew Mugisha - Uganda

Country Manager

Andrew is a practical IT professional who started his career as an Intern at African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) IT Department in January 2004, AU Nairobi office. He then worked with the Joint Clinical Research Center as a Regional Data Manager for just over 3 years. He is also associated to Afroeducare Uganda as an IT and Data Solutions Specialist. During his career he has gained sound experience of Database Management and IT Project Management with his most recent assignment being the supervision & implementation of a school's Grading Information Management System for Private Secondary Schools in Uganda. Andrew also has a strong passion for IT projects.

Siphiwe Ntsekhe - Lesotho

Account Manager

Siphiwe started her career as a Data Capturer for Computer Business Solutions in Maseru in 2001 where she obtained a Certificate in Systems Programming and Database Design. In 2002 she joined the Senkatana ARV Project as a Data Capturer and then progressed into Monitoring and Evaluation, which brought on numerous courses and workshops within this field. Currently Siphiwe is working at the Senkatana Center as a Senior Research Officer where she is utilising and supporting the BookWise HIV & Aids Clinical Management System.

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