My name is JC Oberholzer and I have been working in the IT industry since 1990.  I majored inMathematics and Computer Science and started off working with a variety of
technologies, using Cobol, Fortran, C etc. on VMS, Windows, Linux.  In 1996 I joined SDT, a company doing Microsoft based development for the financial industry.  Since then the focus has been mainly on creating N-tier applications for financial services on Microsoft platforms, although I have had some exposure to Java on Linux during this time.  Since 1999 I functioned as the chief system architect of SDT. Areas of Expertise are:

• Product Families
• Long Lived Software
• Rules Base LOB Software

I am an engineer at hart, interested in anything with one or more of the following attributes

• high level of quality
• simplicity masking complexity
• creative/innovative
• artistic

At work, the following things make me tick

•  Packaging Complexity
• Long Lived Software
• Product Families
• Rules Base driven logic

What makes me tick when I’m not at work?

My Family

Motorbikes – Any kind, but mostly Enduro type machines

Being creative

KLR in the Namib