Acuity

THE TEAM HOWARD SELFE Owner Howard Selfe has a BSc (Honours) degree, with majors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. He has Top Rated Plus status (great success with bigger clients and longer contracts) on Upwork. He has an Upwork Job Success Score that is still 100% after 55 jobs, 10,000+ hours and more than 10 years on the platform. He is also a Certified Microsoft Professional in the field of Data Science. DAVID SELFE David moved from a UI-centric design and layout background into the get-your-hands-dirty BI & RPA developer he is today. He is an expert in Microsoft Power BI and the growing stack of Microsoft Business applications. He has corporate experience in working with diverse data sets and setting up relational models from systems as diverse as Azure blob storage, Excel, SQLServer, SharePoint, APIs and more. He has led transformational change in organizations in migrating their legacy excel and csv data to cutting-edge business intelligence tools. MARTIN WOLFAARDT Having earned a BSc(Hons)(Cum Laude) in Applied Mathematics and Physics Martin entered the financial markets as a quantitative analyst specialising in arbitrage, eventually heading up Quantitative Risk for the Nedcor treasury. He then started Insite Solutions, a web development and hosting company, with Howard Selfe. When the company was sold in 2010 Martin worked as a consultant full stack developer / architect. His success with one particular client - Peopletree Group - led to permanent employ and he held the CTO position from 2014 to March 2022. THE AGENCY Acuity has real technical skills, such as Python, ML & Deep Learning, Power BI, Excel, Tableau, VBA, SQL, Mongo and PHP, and our team is certainly not afraid of getting their hands dirty, but they also like (and are able) to operate on a higher level, to see a project or requirement through from concept to completion in the most elegant and efficient manner. BI & RPA: Power BI (MS Certified), SQL, Tableau, SharePoint, Power Apps, Power Automate Cloud: AWS, Azure Data Science: Python, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow, Matplotlib, Plotly, Spark Technical: Python, DAX, Power Query, Excel, PHP, SQL, mySQL PM: MS Project, PlanView, Jira, Confluence and Trello. Database: SQL, MySQL, PostGres and Mongo. Peripheral: Knime, Git, Vim, SSH and Putty. Soft skills: Communication, people skills, the ability to work in an unstructured environment and be self motivated, relationship building aptitude and writing skills. Collectively, we have 60 years of experience in real world web, application and solution development.