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Making a positive change

With a background in electronics, specifically microwave transmission, Andre le Roux, director of Enterprise Infrastructure Services at the University of Cape Town (UCT), has been involved in ICT for 21 years. He serves as the IITPSA Western Cape chapter deputy chairperson, which he has done for the past three years. Prior to this, he served three years as the Western Cape chapter treasurer.

11 February 2019

In the past, Le Roux worked on several military technology projects, and holds what he calls the ‘dubious title’ of one of the few people who has worked on and maintained analogue ballistic computers.

Once he realised his passion lay in computing, he changed career course, becoming a technical trainer responsible for providing training to corporate clients on Microsoft datacentre technologies and systems. “For me, it was about selling the future and the hope that people will be employed in IT. However, I had difficulty with the ethics in that type of sales environment. I heard about an opportunity at UCT and joined it as an internet and programming consultant, responsible for the fledgling online learning aids of that day. I was the person who evaluated the first learning management system at UCT, and from there it has progressed.”

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