What I run
Two trading arms, a product, and a consulting practice — all under EADS Direct CC, registered in 1999 and still going.
EADS Direct
Electrical engineering and installation, instrumentation, stainless steel welding and technical consultation — with real depth in CIP cleaning systems, pasteurisers, separators, SCADA and food-grade piping. Plus hybrid solar for businesses that would rather not let load shedding set their schedule.
The engineering and solar side started in 2019 and runs out of Ladismith, headed up by specialists in those fields. They know the nuts and bolts far better than I do. My part is oversight, strategic direction and administration.
Selected work
- Milk and cream separator, fully automated under Siemens PLC control
- Solar installation for TOPS at SPAR, Ladismith
- 11kW hybrid solar pump station
- 25.5kW Jinko panels, four Deye inverters, 70kWh battery backup
DS Software Development Services
Front-end and back-end development, systems architecture, software integration, data transformation and engineering design — across more than twenty industry verticals.
Win Accounting
A locally developed, proudly South African all-in-one accounting solution that unifies every facet of a business — built for small and medium businesses, accountants, bookkeepers, and everyone in between.
- Debtors control — invoicing automation, interest calculation, document capture
- Creditors control — purchase order tracking, recurring credits
- Stock control — real-time inventory, integrated with sales
- General ledger — balance sheet, trial balance, full financial statements
- Reporting — over thirty flexible reports including VAT and profit and loss
- Multi-user and multi-company, commission management, and configurable business codes
In development: point of sale, and job costing. Sixty-day full trial at winacc.com.
Consulting and oversight
Architecture review, systems design, integration strategy, and delivery oversight on business-critical platforms. Thirty-nine years of watching what actually breaks in production, applied before it does.
I work by teaming up with specialists — people who are genuinely excellent at their particular discipline — rather than pretending to be all of them at once. That is how the good work gets done.