What Happened?
Austin, TX-based Worldwide Chain Stores has Appointed Andrew Boake as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
For over 40 years WCS (Worldwide Chain Stores) has provided global customers with innovative Retail and Supply Chain Solutions. Our Best-of-Breed product and solutions portfolio is expanding as a result of new partners, whose great products complement our offerings. Our Supply Chain solutions include Warehousing, Yard Management and Mobility Solutions. Our Retail Solutions include Merchandise Management, Buying and In-store systems. Together, these solutions empower our customers to optimize their operations and support their business goals. WCS has offices in Chicago in the USA, Bagshot and Nottingham in the UK and in Durban, South Africa. WCS is a wholly owned subsidiary of the UCS Group. UCS provides a wide range of consulting, services and products to the Retail and Consumer Goods markets both in South Africa and internationally. WCS is able to leverage the scale, capability, skill and reputation of the UCS Group to deliver outstanding solutions to all its International customers with a value proposition that is compelling and globally competitive!
About the Person
Andrew Boake brings a wealth of experience to the WCS team, spanning almost 30 years, in a number of areas. His work includes operating systems, image processing, geographical information systems, compilers, knowledge-based systems, financial systems and retail systems. He has first-hand experience in the tasks involved in delivering well-designed, useful software, in the roles of developer, user interface designer, team leader, system architect, solution architect, IT Department steering committee member for a large South African bank, and CTO of a software development company. Dr Boake holds both a Masters and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pretoria, and continues to conduct research into aspects of software engineering. He lectures Computer Science students in Software Engineering and Software Architecture, supervises Masters and PhD students, referees academic research articles, and is an evaluator of applications for funding for the commercialisation of research from the South African National Research Foundation. Alacrity Technologies is a privately held software company that has provided services and crafted software solutions to fit specific business and technology domains for 15 years. They have worked with WCS to help provide exceptional software solutions, strategic services and technical resources to South African and international businesses across a number of different industries, including financial services and retail.
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