CV of Dr L J Gous
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1 PERSONAL PARTICULARS

NAME: Loot
SURNAME: Gous
FULL FIRST NAMES: Lodewyk Johannes
BIRTH DATE: 27 May 1951
BIRTHPLACE: Pretoria, South Africa
MARITAL STATUS: Single
RESIDENCE: Own house
ADDRESS: 10 Saffraan avenue, Weltevredenpark X9, Roodepoort, 1709
TELEPHONE: +27 11 476-1899
FAX: +27 11 476-1899
MOBILE: +27 82 454-1059
WEBSITE: LootGous.com
E-MAIL: loot@absamail.co.za

2 ACADEMICAL QUALIFICATIONS

UNIVERSITY: D Com (Business economics) in September 1987 part time at the Rand Afrikaans University. The title of his essay was: "Die ontwikkeling van bestuursinligtingstelsels vir 'n motorverhuringsmaatskappy". Translated this means: The development of management information systems for a car rental company.

UNIVERSITY: M B A in 1979 part time at the University of Pretoria. The title of his essay was: "Winsprognose met spesiale verwysing na vooruitskattingstegnieke". Translated this means: Profit prognosis with special reference to forecasting techniques.

UNIVERSITY: B Com (Acc) in 1974 full time at the University of Pretoria

SECONDARY SCHOOL: High school Staatspresident C R Swart at Waverley Pretoria 1964-1968 Obtain a first class std 10 (Grade 12)

PRIMARY SCHOOL: Primary school Totiusdal at Waverley Pretoria 1957-1963. Obtain std 5 (Grade 7)

Other Courses

Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management of the Information Systems Examinations Board (iseb) January 2007
Introduction to SQL & Magic V8 Enterprise Programming with SQL - July 2000
Magic V8 Application Partitioning on Windows NT - July 2000
Migration from Magic V5 to Magic V8 - October 1999

3 EXPERIENCE - SUMMARY

3.1 POSITIONS HELD

Own enterprise 1992-Now

Computer Systems Development in Magic 4+gl and HTML

Uniserv group 1990-1992

Information Technology Director of Sun Couriers (Pty) Ltd and Burlington Express

Part time lecturer at the Rand Afrikaans University 1988

Motorvia group 1974-1990

Administrative manager 1974-1976
Assistant accountant 1976-1977
Programmer 1977-1979
Group management accountant 1979-1982
Group data processing manager 1982-1983
Administrative manager 1983-1984
Personal assistant to the executive chairman 1984-1984
Accounting and systems manager 1984-1987
Group information systems manager 1987-1990
Director of Budget Rent a Car and of Motorvia (Tvl) (Pty) Ltd
Executive Director of Dumarson (Pty) Ltd

3.2 TECHNICAL

He has detail and/or managerial knowledge of the following (among others):

Hardware

Local area networks (Novell LAN) and cabling.
Computer rooms and computer room equipment.
Wide area networks, international networks, modems, muxes, Unisys CP2000, saponet and diginet.
Main frames - Unidata B1700, B1800, A3, A5 and A10 (was Burroughs) with their respective peripherals (tape drives, disk drives, printers and uninterrupted power supply units (UPS).
Medium systems - Data General MV2000, MV2500DC, MV7800XP and MV15000 model 20 and communication thereof with an IBM mainframe in Los Angeles.
Small systems - several IBM compatible personal computers (PC's), HP model 1938 and 1945, Unidata B20 and Data General DG10 and DG30.
Several Unidata and Data General terminals.
Fax cards for PC's and Hassler Fax machines.

Software (Among others)

Operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.11, DOS 6, Novell (LAN), SCO UNIX, SUN UNIX, Rdos, AOS/VS and MCP.
Fourth generation languages: Magic4, Magic 8 and Magic 9, CQCS, Clarion, Clipper and Progress.
Programming languages: Java, HP Basic, Unisys Cobol, Data General Cobol, MFCobol and RPG II.
Data bases: Oracle, Btrieve, DMS II and Dbase III.
Packages: Netscape Communicator, SOHO accounting, Turbocash, Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, xSite Web Developer, SmartFTP publishing of web HTML documents to the web, Perfect Office for Windows, Lotus 123, Quattro, Multiplan, Word Perfect, Multimate, Word Star, Xtree, PC tools, Harvard Graphics, Storyboard, PC Anywhere, Voice mail, D211 emulator, CEO - blast, cc-mail, Right hand Man electronic-mail, Netblaster (internet and sound), Senate general ledger and creditors etc.
Various real time on line and batch processing application programmes.
Fully integrated applications developed: Vehicle Tracking system, Wages, debtors, creditors, general ledger, profit and loss and income and expenditure statements, car rental reservations, vehicle damage monitor, pilot vehicle cost control, management reports, vehicle service monitor, invoicing, statements, codes, address lists, imports, exports, Bill of entry, automatic fax, automatic debtors collections via ACB, Beltel, Satamars reservation system, fuel control, international freight monitor, forecasting with adaptive filtering or the least squares method, and customer information systems.

4 EXPERIENCE DETAIL

Own enterprise 1992-Now

Manager of his own enterprise called Dr Loot J Gous.

In December 1992 he started his own enterprise. This business mainly focused on Computer Application Systems Development. He mainly developed computer systems in Magic running on a Wide Area network using the Oracle database on a contract basis. Magic is an Object-Oriented Code free Application development 4+ generation system capable of running on top of some relational SQL databases. Magic is suitable for systems from small PC applications to LANS to high end Unix applications using the same system if required. The language is highly popular in the United States to downsize from mainframes to Lan environments. He does the analysis of systems required as well as the design and development of these systems in Magic. Other work undertaken in this enterprise is writing articles on Technology and Personal Finance in the business section of the Afrikaans Sunday newspaper Rapport.

Uniserv group 1990-1992

Information Technology Director of Sun Couriers (Pty) Ltd and Burlington Express

In July 1990 he left the Motorvia group and started working at the Uniserv group. He reported to the group chairman. He was appointed as Information Technology Director of Sun Couriers (Pty) Ltd and Pyramid Freight (Pty) Ltd. Pyramid Freight was run as three separate companies: Burlington Air Express, Burlington Export Express and Burlington Ocean Express. Sun Couriers was an express parcel delivery company with branches all over SA. Burlington was a freight import/export agent. Data processing of Burlington Export Express branches under his control was in RSA, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In Uniserv he was in control of a data processing staff of 45 that was reduced to 30 over two years. Eleven different sizes Data General MV mini computers and 3 DG desk top models were controlled on a decentralised basis. Linked to these computers were 222 terminals, 225 PC's, 217 printers, 66 modems and 28 muxes on a countrywide X.25 network. The value of this equipment was approximately R 7 mil. The data processing budget was this equipment was approximately R 7 mil. The data processing budget was approximately R 500 000 per month.

Motorvia group 1974-1990

Director of Budget Rent a Car, of Motorvia (Tvl) (Pty) Ltd and Executive director of Dumarson (Pty) Ltd.

In November 1987 he was appointed as director of Budget Rent a Car. In 1988 he was appointed as director of Motorvia (Tvl) (Pty) Ltd. In 1989 he was appointed as Executive Director of Dumarson (Pty) Ltd the company controlling the Motorvia group's information systems department.

Part time lecturer at the Rand Afrikaans University 1988

During 1988 he was part time lecturer at the Rand Afrikaans University in the subject: Management information systems for the degree M Com (Business management). The RAU equivalent of MBA.

Group information systems manager 1987-1990

In March 1987 he was promoted to information systems manager of the Motorvia group. He reported to the executive chairman of the Motorvia group of companies. In this position he managed the data processing function of the Motorvia group that included Budget Rent a Car. During this time they upgraded systems and migrated them to one large system A10 mainframe computer of Unisys. About 350 terminals and 40 printers were handled on a country wide network. The value of this equipment was approximately R 12 mil. The Data processing budget was approximately R300 000 per month.

Accounting and systems manager 1984-1987

In October 1984 he was appointed as Accounting and systems manager of Budget Rent a Car (Motorvia at that stage held 50 percent of Budget's shares). He reported to the managing director. In this position he was among other things responsible for the following:
- the development of computerised real time on line and fully integrated administrative, operational and management information systems and
- the administration of the accounts department of Budget Rent a Car. The accountant with a staff of 15 reported to him.

Various fully integrated real time on line systems were developed in Cobol on a Unisys mainframe and implemented for Budget Rent a Car. Computer systems like:
- a countrywide reservations system (integrated with debtors) that printed contracts before the rental countrywide at the branch where the car was rented,
- a countrywide vehicle movement control system that indicated exactly where every vehicle in the fleet was every moment of the day,
- a decentralised invoicing system that automatically optimally priced and invoiced every contract, and was fully integrated with debtors,
- a centralised debtors system that printed consolidated statements for all rentals countrywide and collected some accounts monthly automatically via ACB of the banks,
- a centralised creditors system that automatically interfaced (together with the debtors system) to the general ledger system,
- a centralised general ledger system,
- a vehicle damage monitoring system and
- a vehicle service monitoring system.

Personal assistant of the executive chairman 1984-1984

In January 1984 he was appointed as the personal assistant of the executive chairman of the Motorvia group of companies with the specific instruction to develop fully integrated and consolidated real time on line financial information systems for the group that took into consideration the group's decentralised management requirements and style. This general ledger and creditors system was adapted from a package and were successfully implemented on a centralised mainframe.

Administrative manager 1983-1984

In April 1983 he was appointed as administrative manager of Motorvia Transvaal at Weswoodpark. (Staff 10). In this capacity he reported to the Transvaal managing director. The accountant of Motorvia Transvaal reported to him.

Group data processing manager 1982-1983

He was data processing manager from May 1982 until April 1983. (Staff 20). He reported to the group chairman. He was responsible for the total data processing function of the Motorvia group. The group then had a Burroughs (now Unisys) small system mainframe.

Group management accountant 1979-1982

In January 1979 he was appointed as group management accountant. He reported to the group chairman. He was responsible for the production and accuracy of various group reports that were produced on a new mainframe. He worked very closely with the computer department. In his own time he taught himself to programme in Cobol and wrote various programmes.

Programmer 1977-1979

From August 1977 he worked as programmer at the Wynberg (Johannesburg) office of Motorvia (Tvl) (Pty) Ltd. He reported to the Managing director of Motorvia (Tvl). He analyzed and programmed various systems in the "Basic" programming language and implemented these on a small desktop Hewlett Packard computer. These systems included among others a wage system, a vehicle cost control system, a claims control system and a monthly profit and loss summary report system.

Assistant accountant 1976-1977

In August 1976 he was appointed as assistant accountant of the Transvaal head office in Rosslyn. He reported to the Transvaal accountant. He was responsible for the administrative systems of all the Transvaal depots. He was in control of systems like wages, debtors and creditors. (Staff 3).

Administrative manager 1974-1976

In 1974 he started working for Motorvia (Tvl) (Pty) Ltd as administrative manager of the Kaalfontein depot (2 staff members reported to him). He reported to the Transvaal Operations manager. Motorvia was a motor transport company that delivered vehicles from the factory to the dealers. They had approximately 70% of the total SA vehicle transport market. Here he created and implemented various new administrative systems for the depot.

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Edited 2007/04/08