About Me
I'm a technologist at heart, using technology to solve business needs is what comes natural to me. Over the past 20 years i have been fortunate to solve problems using technology, this is what I do best, be it designing an application or be it ensuring that it conforms to security best practices with BCP (Business Continuity Plans) being top of mind. I've partnered with some of the top brands in South Africa and globally. Feel free to validate my experience and contributions to business success in my resume section.
Program Management
Solutions Architecture
Business Process Management
Development
What I Do
Development
Looking for a Power BI dashboard to inform your board members to make sound business decisions, or a website that drives traffic to it for your chosen demographic and industry, I can assist in putting this all together with skilled people and with the technologies that fit you business needs.Cloud Deployments
Be it AWS, Azure of GCP, I assess what best suits your business, factoring in no only tecnology stack, but also cost of operations.My Resume
Experience
Aug 2022 - present
Head of TechnicalDigitas LiquoriceAt Digitas Liquorice, I'm heading up the technical department. This includes the management of the engineering, project management as well as the quality assurance teams.
Formation of a consolidated Project Management Office (PMO) with all PM’s reporting into me across the business and implementing Agile PMBOK ways of working.
Implementation of a learning program for the PM / Dev / DevOps and QA teams.
Implementation of Terraform in the Publicis South Africa group.
Successful execution of Distell Three Ships whiskey online sale campaign.
Management of Sasko’s “Bake it better” rebrand web application.
Sep 2019 - Aug 2022 (2 Years 11 Months)
Technical SpecialistConsultantManaged the build of a new Kantar Profiles .NET panel platform leveraging API integrations into CINT and integration of SMS / Email / Shortlink Generation / TOTP API / Push Notification Micro-Services.
Jul 2017 - Aug 2019 (2 Years 1 Month)
Head of TechnicalKantar ProfilesMigration of application stack from on premises to AWS cloud. Survey platform development programs, bespoke client dashboards (Woolworths / Tiger Brands / VW SA) Agile Implementation (JIRA), Development program management.
Aug 2014 – Jun 2017 (2 Years 11 Months
Project ManagerSimfy Africa / Exact MobileAgile Implementation (Jira), device development, backend, API, infrastructure project management, SMSC integrations, Billing systems, Subscription systems and various other systems project management.
Jun 2013 – May 2014 (1 Year)
Operations ManagerUniversal Healthcare Services (PTY) LTDInfrastructure development projects including server environment setups, disaster recovery and businesss continuity plan implementation, cloud server implementation, telephony infrastructure implementation, software development as well as Systems Integration projects.
Oct 2010 – Mar 2013 (2 Years 5 Months)
Project ManagerMetmin (Pty) LTDSuccessfully approved an IDP project in collaboration with the Ventersdorp local municipality and successfully executed a fencing project for a farm school, in accordance to DMR, Education Dept. and Municipal Standards.
Oct 2008 – Oct 2010 (2 Years)
Full Stack DeveloperMetmin (Pty) LTDSuccessful development and implementation of a Wordpress CMS as well as distributed internal operational application feeding data from the the Ventersdorp operations centre to Midrand's head office.
Education
Mar 2023
AWS Cloud PractitionerAmazon Web ServicesAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF) - Active
2021
AppSec FundamentalsAppSec FundamentalsSecurity CompassApplication security training focusing on best practice implementation into application projects I have been working on.
2021
SAW101 2021 Security AwarenessSecurity Compassexplain how bad information security behavior affects you and Training which encompassed how companies need to protect sensitive information about them or their company from attackers.
2021
Software Security Practitioner – General Suit ExamSecurity CompassTraining for entire development teams, including software developers, software architects, QA engineers, and project managers on fundamental elements of software security and language-specific secure coding practices.
2021
CISSP Cert PrepLinkedinPrep for taking the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.
2012
Project Management - Postgraduate Diploma NQF Level 8Cranefield College
ME - Professional English: Effective Writing and Speaking
M3 - Organisational Quality and Performance Management
M6 - Financial Management of Corporate Projects and Programmes
M5 - Creating High-Performance Project and Process Teams
2011
Project Management - Advanced Diploma NQF Level 7Cranefield College
M Alpha - Project Management: Perspective, Planning and Implementation
M1 - Project Management: Leading, Creating, Implementing and Improving
M2 - Programme Managing Organisational Performance and Innovative Improvement
M4 - Transformational Corporate Strategy
2009
Web Design - Advanced National Certificate in Internet and Web Design - NQF Level 5UNISA, PretoriaHTML, CSS, Javascript.
2009
PHP FoundationsZend, Canada
Basics: Numbers, Constants, Variables, Strings, Arrays
Control Flow Basics: Operators, Conditionals, Loops
Functional Basics: Functions, Libraries, Advanced Arrays, File Handling
Programming Basics: Best Practices, Debugging, Brief Introduction to HTML
Web Basics: Brief Introduction to Server Communication, Sessions, Security
Database Basics: Brief Introduction to the MySQL/SQLite
Application Basics: Best Approaches to Creating Applications, Course project
