COMPANY PROFILE. Who we are

COMPANY PROFILE Hooligan Development is a development house established in June 2013 in Johannesburg. We develop custom applications and websites for...
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COMPANY PROFILE Hooligan Development is a development house established in June 2013 in Johannesburg. We develop custom applications and websites for both the desktop and mobile devices. We believe that it is best to do one thing really, really well – for us that one thing is System Architecture, which translates into perfect development roll out. Close client relationships and personal attention represents our companies unique approach. We only employ and collaborate with experts in their fields, to provide holistic and comprehensive outcomes to our clients. We do also however believe that you can be serious without a suit, our founders built Hooligan around the idea that work should be challenging, and the challenge should be fun.

Great just isn’t good enough. We see being great at something as a starting point, not an endpoint.

Who we are

Mission To always be professional and ethical in all our business dealings To build lasting partnerships with our clients and partners To create valued solutions and make a difference in everything we do

Vision A great place to work where challenge and fun come together To become one of the leading development companies in Africa Nurturing and training world class developers To be responsible world citizens, even though we’re Hooligan Developers

Why we do it

Development Services CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT Database Design

DATA ANALYTICS Visual representation of transactional data

Website Development Custom ground up Word Press Joomla Umbraco





Desktop Development Windows

Mobile App Development Android Windows IOS CE Compact Framework



Custom Javascript controls

Data aggregation

SEO Adwords Metatags Content Optimisation



DESIGN



Website design UI and UX Digital and print media production Brand development

What we do

Profile Malcolm McMorran

FLAGSHIP SKILLS

Malcolm believes “Dreams don’t work unless you do”, so as such hard work and determination are mantra of Hooligan Development.

I established Hooligan Development with my partner Ricardo, because I was given an opportunity to make something great, something that would allow me to put my mark on the world. I no longer wanted to be a cog in a machine, I wanted to be the one driving it. I want to create a new standard that people will follow, no shortcuts, world class software done right and done differently. I hope that one day people can look at Hooligan and say “I would never have done it that way, maybe I should have.”

Complexity is easy, anyone can make something more complicated then it should be. Making something simple is the hard part.

Malcolm’s passion is in automation – making it simpler and easier for clients and ultimately end users. His experience includes development of responsive Content Management Systems for various industries.

Meet the team

Profile Ricardo Carvalho

FLAGSHIP SKILLS

Ricardo, a skilled developer is also committed and dedicated to exploring new technologies and the business growth of Hooligan Development and its clients. Ricardo’s experience is varied across industries and includes time at one of South Africa’s largest advertising agencies, FCB South Africa. I co-founded Hooligan Development with my partner Malcolm, because we were fortunate enough to be put in a place to stand back and make an important decision. The decision was to take an opportunity to do something the right way on a new project and push the envelope with

AWARDS 2010

2010

2011

www.catchyourfriendsout.co.za

www.nowology.co.za

www.nowology.co.za

Silver Loerie Award

Bronze Bookmark Award

Silver Apex Award

regards to technologies and methodologies and ensure that the project is a success from the ground up. Once that decision was made, I saw that the successful implementation of this project in question was so good, that I realised it should be the way

Focus on the user and all else will follow -

that all projects get done. So we did it and have had nothing but brilliant

We always focus on providing the best UX

work leaving our studio for all of our clients since.

possible for all our platforms.

Ricardo, although a young entrepreneur, has already been awarded for creativity, digital and strategic contribution by the Loerie, Bookmark and Apex Festivals.

Meet the team

What we’ve done for our clients

Tracker We were tasked by a company called Injozi to develop a CMS corporate website for www.tracker.co.za. The brief was to develop a CMS system to manage the content of the public facing website but, it had to be as simple as possible to use. We delivered the perfect solution for Tracker by implementing a custom built layout with custom modules and macros as well as templates using XSLT, running on top of the Umbraco open source framework. The website is designed to be responsive for all media sizes down to a smart phone web browser. A large amount of the background technical requirement, was to ensure that SEO is of a top priority throughout the system. We developed this system with that in mind and on every content page throughout the site, a seamless Meta Tagging process allows for the content to be delivered to any and all Social Media platforms as well as providing relevant and accurate content for Google searching. The resulting product developed by Hooligan was well received and is currently the website being used for Tracker’s public facing information portal. This project gave us valuable insight in the development requirements and expectations of a highly corporate client.

Technologies Used

Our work... so far

Racnet Racnet is an enterprise solution involving Visitor, Person, Estate, Guard and Vehicle management. It is a responsive, secure and data intensive yet extremely fast application. Using MVC 5, Javascript, Razor, a REST API and an extremely robust custom framework. Racnet Mobile Device The Racnet mobile solution was developed using a new technology from Motorola called Rhomobile. We are one of only two development houses in SA to be using their enterprise development framework to date. We created our own javascript framework and classes to handle the application, utilizing subscribe/publish methodology and namespaced patterns to ensure maintenance ease. The application as a whole is a Ruby based MVC design where Ruby is used to communicate to device hardware using the Rhomobile and Elements framework. Racnet Windows App

The Racnet windows application was developed using WPF with the MVVM design pattern. It is essentially a shell application utilizing DLL injection to allow us to customize the functionality of the application easily and to develop independent applets for custom integration into existing client systems. Racnet is one of the most ambitious and advanced systems we have ever had the pleasure of working on.

Technologies Used

Our work... so far

Contributors

Hooligan Development works hand in hand with OhWow Studios for all specialist design of functional and creative user experience/interface for applied products, websites, apps and CMS. OhWow Studios has 18 years experience in design and development across various industries and has gained extensive marketing experience in large agency environments, as well as on small bespoke projects. The range of OhWow Studios’ contribution to Hooligan includes: Web design and digital media production, gif and flash animation, video editing, internet marketing media, mailers, HTML & HTML 5 websites. OhWow and Hooligan collaborate on the project planning with great consideration to ensure successful delivery and outcomes for our clients.

Read Between The Lines is a management consulting and business development company that deals with the business and commercial side of Hooligan Development. The services that Read Between The Lines provide are based on many years in the advertising and marketing industry dealing with the financial and operational area’s of the business at a management and board level. Read Between The Lines Managing Director, Samantha Condon, works closely with Hooligan management assisting with client partnerships, legal advice, HR matters and financial planning. Our partnership was established in order for the Hooligan team to focus on development and servicing of clients while the Read Between The Lines team assists us in achieving business goals and future growth.

What we bring to the party

Contact Ricardo Carvalho Director

Happy clients... Happy developers

Email: [email protected] Web: http://hooligan.co.za Mobile: (082) 337 3612 Tel: (011) 791 6291

Dan Justin Cofounder and CTO Fluid Business Solutions +44 2074814235

The Hooli Quarters: 32 Ebbehout Street, Sharonlea, Randburg

Lucy Wilkinson Development and Support Director Integrity Software +27 0861 077 766

Let’s chat

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Reference: British Dictionary definitions for hooligan

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