Experience

French Tech South Africa

• South Africa
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of the Board

  • Feb 2023 - Present



INNOVATIVE MATTERS

• South Africa
• Business Consulting and Services

• Founder

  • Sep 2014 - Present

  MATTERS is an innovation lab using creativity and rigour as a business booster! We offer strategic advice throughout the innovation chain, from inspiration to ideation up implementation and prototyping. 1. INSPIRE: insights for innovation MATTERS explores the human side with a genuine empathy, analyses your existing documentation to reveal hidden treasures, identifies trends through inspiration tours and competitive reviews 2. CREATE : build smart products, services and experiences MATTERS guides you through the whole process of innovation from immersion to ideation up to prototyping and branding. 3. OPTIMISE: leverage your assets MATTERS detects your under-exploited ideas or skills and helps you leverage them to their full potential. 4. EDUCATE : adopt an innovative mindset and get trained on specific steps of the innovation chain. MATTERS tailors workshops in order to automate the innovation mindset in your company. 5. BUILD A BRAND: brand your innovations. MATTERS creates consistent brand platforms and identities Some examples of roles and projects are described under "Experience" below: Head R&D for PAYPS, Maths product lead for IDEA Digital Education as well as Design thinking lectures and workshop facilitation. www.mattersltd.com



PAYPS

• France
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Research And Development

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  Payps is a cross canal platform disrupting the value chain of instant discount coupons. Payps collects meaningful data throughout the customer journey and position itself strategically with the launch of a R&D lab on data mining and machine learning to optimise promotion campaign. Payps is a cross canal platform disrupting the value chain of instant discount coupons. Payps collects meaningful data throughout the customer journey and position itself strategically with the launch of a R&D lab on data mining and machine learning to optimise promotion campaign.



AI In Africa

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder AI in Africa

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Our mission is to find and groom the next generation of thinkers and doers from disadvantaged communities in Africa. We design interventions that bridge the gap in education and prepare learners for 21st century jobs. We achieve our objectives via high-impact workshops, trainings, events, and collaborative programs with academic, public and private institutions. Our mission is to find and groom the next generation of thinkers and doers from disadvantaged communities in Africa. We design interventions that bridge the gap in education and prepare learners for 21st century jobs. We achieve our objectives via high-impact workshops, trainings, events, and collaborative programs with academic, public and private institutions.



Milpark Business School (MBS)

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lecturer in Design Thinking for Problem Solving

  • Jan 2018 - Nov 2020

  Online lecturer for Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration (NQF level 8) Design thinking workshop facilitator Online lecturer for Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration (NQF level 8) Design thinking workshop facilitator



IDEA

• South Africa
• E-Learning Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Maths Product Lead

  • Nov 2018 - Feb 2020

  Innovation pedagogy Designing a disruptive math product promoting active and interactive learning: from designing the learning path to prototyping the product and optimising the process. Recruiting, training and managing a team of ±15 persons. Innovation pedagogy Designing a disruptive math product promoting active and interactive learning: from designing the learning path to prototyping the product and optimising the process. Recruiting, training and managing a team of ±15 persons.



University of the Witwatersrand

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Researcher

  • 2012 - 2014

• Lecturer in computational and applied mathematics

  • Jan 2009 - Dec 2011

  Researcher in image processing and remote sensing: Automatic Change detection, Classification, Sub-pixel analysis, Detection of stoned-walls, Features extraction. - Mathematics modelling involving: Probabilistic Modelling, a-contrario modelling, Random matrix theory, Factor analysis, Regression, Decision making, Control of false alarms, Random sampling, Support vector machine; - Fields of application: Land cover monitoring, Mining, Precision agriculture, Archaeology, Video surveillance, Automatic car driving- Types of data analysed: Hyperspectral Image analysis, multi-spectral satellite imagery, Video sequences Publications in peer-reviewed international journals and presentation in international conferences. Reviewer for international journals and conferences. Lecturer in Mathematics Modelling (1st year Applied Maths), Optimisation (2nd year Applied Maths), Probabilistic System Analysis (3rd year Electrical Engineering) and Computational Mathematics (3rd year Electrical Engineering). Co-supervision of PhD students. Supervision of Master and Honors degree students. Collaboration with the Council of Scientific and Industry Research (CSIR, South Africa).



Meraka Institute, CSIR

• Pretoria Area, South Africa

• Post-doctoral researcher, Remote Sensing Research Unit

  • May 2008 - Dec 2008

  Vegetation Monitoring using low resolution satellite imagery (MODIS) Urban change detection using radar images. Vegetation Monitoring using low resolution satellite imagery (MODIS) Urban change detection using radar images.



Ecole des Mines de Nantes

• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Post-doctoral position

  • 2007 - 2008

  I developed change detection techniques to exploit long time series of heterogeneous data (e.g. optical and radar images). I built a probabilistic model (a-contrario model) to detect changes automatically by controlling the number of false alarms. This model does not require any a priori on the data. This post-doc was done in collaboration with Sebastiano B. Serpico from the DIBE (University of Genoa, Italy), where I was staying for 4 months. I developed change detection techniques to exploit long time series of heterogeneous data (e.g. optical and radar images). I built a probabilistic model (a-contrario model) to detect changes automatically by controlling the number of false alarms. This model does not require any a priori on the data. This post-doc was done in collaboration with Sebastiano B. Serpico from the DIBE (University of Genoa, Italy), where I was staying for 4 months.



Université Paris-Descartes, Mathématiques

• Paris Area, France

• Lecturer-Researcher

  • Sep 2005 - Sep 2007

  Research: Sub-pixel Change Detection and Classification using time series of multispectral satellite images. Creation of novel approaches based on "a contrario" probabilistic models, Implementation and experimentation/validation. Applications: Vegetation monitoring and Precision Agriculture Contribution to the development of FARMSTAR for precision farming (EADS Infoterra) Lectures: Linear Algebra and Mathematics and Computation to 1st and 2nd year students in Mathematics. Research: Sub-pixel Change Detection and Classification using time series of multispectral satellite images. Creation of novel approaches based on "a contrario" probabilistic models, Implementation and experimentation/validation. Applications: Vegetation monitoring and Precision Agriculture Contribution to the development of FARMSTAR for precision farming (EADS Infoterra) Lectures: Linear Algebra and Mathematics and Computation to 1st and 2nd year students in Mathematics.