Johan Booysen

When did you join Matrix?
September 2004

Job title:
Systems Administrator

What does your job involve?
I'm a member of the Technical Services team, responsible for all aspects of the network infrastructure in the company's different offices. This includes maintaining the existing hardware and software that comprise the network, as well as testing and deploying new hardware and software solutions to ensure that all aspects of the network are secure, functioning properly, and up-to-date.

What do you most enjoy about your job?
Working in a close-knit team that is able to creatively deal with the day-to-day challenges of the job, and in an environment where I'm exposed to an interesting variety of technologies.

What is the most challenging aspect of it?
Trying to predict whether the next cup of tea made by the Head of Technical Services will this time be drinkable.

Describe yourself in 3 words:
I, tea addict.

What's the best journey you've taken?
Aged about 7 or 8 - driving through the Karoo in South Africa while sitting on my dad's lap and steering the car.

What uninvented gadget does the world need?
The ATADUD - Automated Tea-making And Delivery Unmanned Drone

Favourite Quotation:
"...and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says: 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
J. Robert Oppenheimer (scientific director of the Manhattan Project)