michaelbain

michaelbain is a freelance development business owned and managed by Michael Bain.

More About Michael
Michael has an Economics, Money and Banking and Information Systems B.Comm. degree obtained from the University of the North West in 1996. He is an IBM Certified Domino Application Developer and a PHP&MySQL developer.

After a corporate career of 5 years at IBM South Africa and 5 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Michael decided to enter the freelancing environment and capitalise on the benefits freelancing affords his clients:

• Personal client attention
• Involvement from start to finish
• Appropriate post-project adjustments where needed
• Closeness to the project and the requirements
• Flexibility with regards to what the product ought to be and how it is to be delivered

More about the product, the service
michaelbain operates from Gauteng, JHB, South Africa and concentrates on freelance projects utilising PHP & MySQL for web development projects and Lotus Notes/Domino for client and web projects. Due to the nature of freelancing, michaelbain does not only concentrate on projects in Johannesburg, Gauteng or South Africa.

michaelbain partners with your own designer and hosting provider or, where a designer is not part of the client’s team or hosting is required, these services can be included. michaelbain concentrates on coding and development and partners with leading industry designers and webhosts.

Areas of speciality include:

• Backend PHP and MySQL enablement of websites to make them dynamic
• WordPress site customizations and added functionality
• e107 (a content management system) site customisations and added functionality
• Bottom-up, customisation or maintenance developments (big or small – managing the project or as a sub contractor) in both PHP & MySQL and Lotus Notes/Domino environments