Nhlanhla Ntimane completed a 3-month internship program at The Digital Academy to develop his technical and soft skills. He demonstrated strengths in C# and Javascript. Testimonials praised his skills, leadership abilities, and potential as a junior developer. Metrics showed improvement in problem-solving skills. His portfolio provided evidence of a game project to promote financial literacy in children.

1. Portfolio of Evidence
Nhlanhla Ntimane
31 October 2015

2. Overview
Full Names: Nhlanhla Ntimane
Identity Number: 9010135329084
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Technical Skill Set
Skills 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 3
Team Player
Leadership
Problem Solving
Most Improved Competency
Problem 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 _________________________________________
Testimonial
Nhlanhla 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 _________________________________________

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 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.

6. 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

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 Nhlanhla’s skills were rated as follows by
the technical team:
Final skills ratings
After 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

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.
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