“We believe in people that believe in themselves. Our staff is the core-competency of e-Logics, each and everyone of them.” Johann van der Westhuizen. MD, e-Logics.
The e-Logics Management Team consist the following people:
Johann van der Westhuizen, MD
Johann started his career as a research assistant at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany after obtaining an engineering degree from the University of Pretoria. On his return to South Africa, he became involved in the fields of operational management in the Municipal Engineering environment. He shortly shifted his focus to technology during the late 90’s where he was a start-up member of a successful IT company.
The entrepreneurial environment suited Johann and he co-founded e-Logics in 2000. He designed the software development processes and project methodologies deployed at the company during the early stages. He led the implementation of large scale systems across multiple industries, initially focussing on custom software development services. Johann’s passion was to move beyond custom software development and implementation, into the software product space.
For the last 3 years Johann lead e-Logics from a consulting company into the current e-Logics product and solutions base. Johann is still involved in the inception and design of many projects and products within e-Logics.
Alwyn Moolman, System Architect
Alwyn Moolman has extensive experience in the field of Operational research involving computer programming and problem solution. For the past years Alwyn has been involved in numerous technology leading developments where he was the primary system architect. His experience includes software team management, design, implementation and management of the SDLC process. As such, he has been involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Some projects to highlight include:
The development of an offence capturing module (GISMO).
The design and development of traffic monitoring systems.
The development of optimization systems for route planning and load and balancing.
Election systems for IEC and SABC.
Development of engineering decision support system for Spoornet.
Technical Lead on several GIS projects.
His responsibility on projects varied from design, development and implementation in Visual C++, C#, Visual Basic and Java, Web, .NET. Oracle and SQL Server.
Andreas Liebenberg, Development Manager
Andreas has been involved in the software development industry for more than 20 years. His latest experience has been in the design and core development on various projects in the Microsoft .NET environment with SQL server and Oracle databases. These products and projects include;
Software for implementation projects on the e-Logics Framework.
IAMM V3.0 – 3.2
Esi 2.1 – 3.2
Andreas key role is the management of the SDLC within e-Logics with a focus on technology and people direction. His responsibilities include Design, Development, QA and Technical documentation.
Prior to his involvement at e-Logics, Andreas has been a software development manager, in charge of a team of developers responsible for the development of the EDAMS suite of software. This software included: Billing, Demand Management, Asset Management, Operations & Maintenance and Network Analysis. It was all aimed at the Water Utilities industry. It was developed in C++ with Borland C++ Builder using Oracle and SQL-Server as databases. In his role as Vice President Product Management Andreas has been managing Product Development, which includes Development, Technical Writing and Quality Assurance.
At Citadel Andreas was part of technology research. This included things such as Workflow solutions, WEB applications, developing 3-tier applications using C++, VB, COM and Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0.
When Autodesk bought Automated Methods, they started developing the successor to Regis, Autodesk World. This is an Internationally sold GIS. His responsibilities in the Development of World included the whole CAD, this includes all CAD functionality, graphics functions, trigonometric functions, geometric data cleaning engine, projections and the DWG drawing format interface. Andreas was also responsible for performance turning and enhancement for the whole system. All development was done on Windows and NT in C and C++ using Microsoft development tools.
He was responsible for Ultimate CAD AMFM. This was an internationally sold CAD product with Automated Mapping and Facilities Management capabilities. His responsibilities included the design and implementation of the CAD engine, all CAD functionality, graphics, geometric algorithms and projections for the CAD and Regis (a GIS which Ultimate CAD was part of). He was also responsible for the DTM’s (Digital Terrain Model) triangulation and underlying trigonometric functionality. All development was done on Windows and NT in C and C++ using Microsoft development tools.
Jackie van der Westhuizen, Engineering Business Manager
Jackie has been involved in the fields of engineering management, asset management and maintenance management processes as well as asset and condition acquisitioning technology in the fixed infrastructure environment for the past 8 years.
Experience in the IT industry includes the business requirements, functional specification, system design, maintenance management process design and project management of a variety of stand-alone and enterprise systems and projects in the linear infrastructure domain. He is on the Transportation Research Board (USA) committee Railway Infrastructure Maintenance.
Recent experience includes the design and implementation processes and systems for the spatial data capturing and attributing of approximately 12000 km of rail assets for Spoornet throughout South Africa. The data feeds into an asset management system of which Jackie led the design and development, leading to an enterprise asset maintenance management model for linear infrastructure assets. This model has been implemented at Spoornet and Anglo Platinum and was also utilized by CVRD. Jackie now leads the functional design and implementation team at e-Logics, ensuring compliance of design and implementation to the company standard.
Before joining e-Logics he was a full-time lecturer at the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Pretoria.
Cobus Rossouw, Chairman
Cobus is the Managing Director of Volition Consulting Services. Cobus started his career at Louis Heyl & Associates as consulting industrial engineer where he gained experience in the food and chemical industry. Between 1996 and 2001, Cobus was a member of the Board of Directors of Cadbury South Africa. His supply chain responsibilities included procurement, planning, inventory management and logistics. Cobus also led the SAP implementation and strategy development process. Cobus joined The IQ Business Group in 2001 to head up IQ Commerce, which became Volition.
Cobus is a part-time lecturer at various tertiary institutions and a Director of SAPICS, the Professional Society for Supply Chain Management. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and combines supply chain integration insight with operational realities.
Heinrich Strauss, Non-executive Director
Heinrich leads the Supply Chain Integration business unit at Volition Consulting. He specializes in the fields of integrated business logistics and techno-economics.
He has extensive experience in various aspects of supply chain design and management and has been involved in the formulation, design and management of procurement, manufacturing, distribution planning and control processes. During his career he has been involved in various supply chain assessment and turn-around projects.
