Andy Mcdonald

General Manager at Mobican
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, ZA
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Credentials

  • ITIL Foundation Level
    APM Group
    Apr, 2008
    - Oct, 2024
  • PRINCE2® Foundation Certification Training
    APM Group
    Oct, 2007
    - Oct, 2024
  • Scrum Master Certified (SMC)
    SPRINT-IT
    Dec, 2006
    - Oct, 2024
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
    Project Management Institute
    Jul, 2008
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

  • Mobican
    • South Africa
    • Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • General Manager
      • Jul 2020 - Present
  • n/a
    • Wellness and Fitness Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Independent Consultant
      • Aug 2019 - Present

      Independent consultant currently providing Project Management and Business Consulting services. Independent consultant currently providing Project Management and Business Consulting services.

  • Derivco
    • South Africa
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Head of Monitoring Services
      • Feb 2018 - Jul 2019

      The Monitoring Services team is responsible for setting up and maintaining monitoring solutions for a number of data centres around the world. The fast-pace of the industry we are in provides constant new challenges which we overcome through some innovative-thinking and hard work.Some of the technologies we are currently using are:- metrics collection using statsd/graphite and riemann/influxdb- log collection and analytics via the Elastic Stack- predictive analysis and correlation using Netuitive- alert escalations via PagerDuty Show less

    • Team Lead
      • Dec 2012 - Jan 2018

      Team Lead for IT Service Assurance team.We are responsible for deploying and maintaining data centre monitoring solutions such as Elastic Stack, StatsD/Graphite, updog, Riemann, InfluxDB, Grafana, Netuitive, PagerDuty, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Nagios.

  • Project-IT Consulting
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • Consultant
      • Feb 2011 - Nov 2012

      CMDB and ITSM solutions consultant CMDB and ITSM solutions consultant

  • Column Technologies
    • United Kingdom
    • Book and Periodical Publishing
    • Consultant
      • Jun 2009 - Jan 2011

      Senior Consultant at Column Technologies (Project Management, Consulting in ITSM, CMDB) Senior Consultant at Column Technologies (Project Management, Consulting in ITSM, CMDB)

  • Business Connexion
    • South Africa
    • Project Manager
      • Jun 2006 - May 2009

      Project Manager at Business Connexion; seconded to Derivco. Project Manager at Business Connexion; seconded to Derivco.

  • Nedbank
    • South Africa
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Project Manager
      • Oct 2005 - May 2006

      Project Manager at Nedbank Consumer Credit in Durban Project Manager at Nedbank Consumer Credit in Durban

  • Varsity College
    • South Africa
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Lecturer
      • Jul 2005 - Sep 2005

      Part-time lecturer in Corporate Strategic Planning. Part-time lecturer in Corporate Strategic Planning.

  • X-Pert Group
    • Australia
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Consultant
      • May 2004 - Jun 2005

      Responsibilities included: • Project Manager (including 3 month secondment to Bytes Document Solutions as a PM) • lecturing in project management and facilitation, and course development • preparation of proposals and tender documentation Responsibilities included: • Project Manager (including 3 month secondment to Bytes Document Solutions as a PM) • lecturing in project management and facilitation, and course development • preparation of proposals and tender documentation

  • Arcus Gibb
    • Engineer
      • 1997 - 2004
  • Jacobs
    • Netherlands
    • Retail Office Equipment
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Graduate Engineer
      • Sep 1994 - Mar 1997

      Graduate Engineer (Water engineering) Graduate Engineer (Water engineering)

Education

  • Heriot-Watt University
    MBA
    2002 - 2003
  • Newcastle University
    MSc, Hydraulic Engineering
    1993 - 1994
  • University of Nottingham
    BEng, Civil Engineering
    1990 - 1993
  • Churchill Comprehensive
    A-Levels
    1984 - 1990

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