2. Overview
Full Names: Collins Nkambule
Identity Number: 9306145513083
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Technical Skill Set
Skills and strengths
* Collins is an extremely self motivated young developer. He shows great discipline, is reliable, meets
deadlines and is able to be left alone to conduct research, solve problems or learn new technologies
without the need to be micro-managed. Collins chose C# as his primary technology and has a strong
desire to improve his skills in the Microsoft stack. That said, he also got heavily involved in PHP and
MySQL.
Signed - Ed Wrede , Technical Manager _________________________________________
Soft Skill Set
Top 3
Motivation
Efficiency
Discipline
Most Improved Competency
Efficiency - Collins has grown the skill of getting things done swiftly without compromising on the quality of
output, whether it is code centric incl. scripts, basic testing, documentation or softer skills such as team
management and reporting.
Signed - Diego Snayers, Monitoring and Evaluation
Manager _________________________________________
Testimonial
Due to his ability to execute on a spec, conduct his own research and meet deadlines Collins would make
a great junior developer in any development team geared around Microsoft technologies. He is also
passionate about web technologies and has basic exposure to Javascript and HTML5 based web
technologies.
Collins is also ambitious and driven which I believe will see him take any opportunities presented to him
and rise through the ranks in any development team.
Signed - Gary Bannatyne, Managing Director _________________________________________
3. What is The Digital Academy
The 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.
4. Tactical/Soft-skill Report
Why 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
5. Competency Ratings for Collins Nkambule
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
right.left.
6. Letter of Attendance
Dear future employer
This letter serves to confirm that Collins Nkambule with identity number
9306145513083, 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 Collins 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
7. Technical Report
The 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 ratings
Upon entering The Digital Academy Collin’s skills were rated as follows
by the technical team:
Final skills ratings
After her 3 months at The Digital Academy Collin’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
3 5 5 6 5 5 6 5 5 6
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
6 6 5 8 7 6 7 5 5 6
8. Work Evidence
The Project represented in the screenshots below are to be considered
evidence of applied skill in software development across the development
lifecycle.
