Portfolio of EvidenceNhlanhla Ntimane

31 October 2015

OverviewFull Names: Nhlanhla Ntimane

Identity Number: 9010135329084

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Technical Skill SetSkills and strengths

Nhlanhla chose C# as his primary technology and Javascript as his secondary. Nhlanhla was one of the stronger developers in the academy with some of the better skills from the outset. He enjoys taking charge

of a project and leading the building of a solution across a team of developers.

Signed - Ed Wrede , Technical Manager _________________________________________

Soft Skill Set

Top 3Team Player Leadership

Problem Solving

Most Improved CompetencyProblem Solving -  Nhlanhla has grown to identify problems, involve others in seeking solutions and developed the ability to responds quickly to new challenges. This is an extremely valuable trait as a team member to find and implement solutions.

Signed - Diego Snayers, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager _________________________________________

TestimonialNhlanhla would be a great junior developer in any development team. He has good C# experience and is

interested in the Microsoft stack. He follows good programming practices and has a great understanding of object oriented principles. Nhlanhla is ambitious and determined and would thrive in an environment where he could be upwardly mobile and move through the ranks of a development team / department. I have no

hesitation recommending Nhlanhla for a role as a junior developer.

Signed - Gary Bannatyne, Managing Director _________________________________________

What is The Digital AcademyThe Digital Academy is built to create the impact and output of digital products and innovations that have commercial intent.

This is done by sourcing talented young Africans and further developing them by creating commercial innovations for corporate clients that have industry commercial applications.

The integrity of The Digital Academy is built on the vision to create opportunities for the youth through incentive based learning by partnering with stakeholders that share the same vision and desire for impact.

The Rapid Internship Program is designed to identify talent and fast track opportunities and success for these individuals.

We have created an environment and platform which allows for the optimal development of the young software developer to grow technically as well as tactically, through immersion into a real world and industry standard development lifecycle.

Our interns solve real problems with innovative solutions, from ideation to deployment.

Tactical/Soft-skill ReportWhy do we measure soft skills at The Digital Academy?

While technical skills may lead to a qualification and a starting contract, interpersonal skills are what are the most valuable to a young professionals career development. One’s work ethic, attitude, communication skills, emotional intelligence and a host of other personal attributes are the soft skills that are crucial for career success.

What are we measuring?

We have identified 10 competencies which are absolutely key in the successful completion of our program, and in the development of an innovative mind, and passionate executor. These competencies are:

How do we measure?

We measure the competencies and progress from self-assessments as well as team leader ratings. To complete the 360 perspective, the monitoring & evaluation manager will assess the interns progress as well. This occurs on a weekly basis, and personal feedback is recorded to give context for sharp changes.

Problem-solving

Discipline

Motivation

Team Player

Communication

Leadership

Initiative

Ambition

Emotional Intelligence

Efficiency

Competency Ratings for Nhlanhla Ntimane

Please note that these scores are given from 3 perspectives out of a maximum of 5 points, and then consolidated for an overall 360 score, per competency per month.

This scorecard allows us to measure and track growth or decline over the period of the internship with regard to the key competency as listed on the left.

Letter of Attendance Dear future employer

This letter serves to confirm that Nhlanhla Ntimane with identity number 9010135329084, was carefully selected through a 3-stage recruitment process from a pool of approx. 800 applications to be inducted into The Digital Academy Internship on 01 Aug 2015, he has successfully completed the program on 31 Oct 2015.

The program is a work-integrated and experiential learning program. It addresses key issues within the South African IT industry, including an alarming percentage of graduate unemployment, and evident skills gap.

The program is run over 3 months and provides the opportunity for the intern to be involved in challenging and exciting projects being built with our partner in mind. This allows for the transfer and sharpening of knowledge. Our focus is on software and technology development skills supervised by subject matter experts. The intern is equipped with the basic soft and operational skills such as leadership, project management and effective communication. We aim to produce principled, innovative and workplace ready developers, supporting a culture of agile learning and development.

The intern compiles a portfolio of evidence to support and justify his/her career advancement, and we believe that Nhlanhla will add value to specific workplaces through the application of key technical skills and interpersonal competencies as an individual or within a team, that has been demonstrated.

______________________________Gary Bannatyne Co-Founder / Managing Director

Please contact info@thedigitalacademy.co.za for a reference check

Technical ReportThe technical report considers the hard skills possessed and developed by the intern, 10 of which have been identified as key building blocks of the successful software developer.

The skills are rated out of 10 maximum points, at the outset of the program and at its close. The scoring is ultimately done by the technical manager, he is assisted by two mid-level developers.

Initial skills ratingsUpon entering The Digital Academy Nhlanhla’s skills were rated as follows by the technical team:

Final skills ratingsAfter her 3 months at The Digital Academy Nhlanhla’s skills were rated as follows by the technical team:

Object oriented practices

Maintain-ability of code

Docu-menation

Problem solving ability

Primary techno-logy (JS)

Secondary techno-logy (Unity)

Planning of deliver-able execution

Database prof-iciency

Ability to work from a spec

Server side program-ming

5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 3

Object oriented practices

Maintain-ability of code

Docu-menation

Problem solving ability

Primary techno-logy (JS)

Secondary techno-logy (Unity)

Planning of deliver-able execution

Database prof-iciency

Ability to work from a spec

Server side program-ming

7 6 5 7 7 6 6 5 6 5

Work Evidence

The Project represented in the screenshots below are to be considered evidence of applied skill in software development across the development lifecycle.

Project Details

“The Bubble Wave” is an exciting educational game for kids, which aims to improve how kids get involved in financial learning.

When playing the game children get to invest their moves for the later stages and this helps them to learn to invest for future events in life.For completion of each stage the child will be asked an educational question related to banking but at a kids level, if they fail to get it right they lose points otherwise they gain extra points.

Screen Shots