Experience

Saucecode

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

• CTO / Scrum master and Product owner

  • Feb 2016 - Present

  United Kingdom Recruited top developers, business and process talent to breathe life into new product and develop solutions that maximise the use of data in core business and RPA solutions. Initially the Product Owner and Scrum Master behind Tistro, a PC agent-based enterprise solution to measure efficiency and productivity, and subsequently behind Roboteur, a Robotic Process Automation product, which we have launched as a SaaS product.



Ogilvy South Africa

• South Africa
• Advertising Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Technical Director

  • Nov 2012 - Feb 2016

  South Africa Accelerating the success of multi-award winning projects, a key player in the start-up and scale-up of technical products, energised a 10+ strong developer team through the SDLC, using Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid and Scrum methodologies to fast-track development in line with business and market needs. - Technical Director to the SDLC of IoT, Competition and Webpage products for 1st Tier clients including Mini, BMW, Vodacom, First National Bank and KFC, translating complex commercial and… Show more Accelerating the success of multi-award winning projects, a key player in the start-up and scale-up of technical products, energised a 10+ strong developer team through the SDLC, using Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid and Scrum methodologies to fast-track development in line with business and market needs. - Technical Director to the SDLC of IoT, Competition and Webpage products for 1st Tier clients including Mini, BMW, Vodacom, First National Bank and KFC, translating complex commercial and technical specifications into award-winning solutions that surpassed expectations; - Recruited and developed a 10+ developer team, driving the SDLC of digital business products across an expanding portfolio; guided the technical aspects of products and projects, with a focus on delivering out-of-the-box and creative products to overtake competitor solutions; - Breathed life in digital product development, using appropriate KPIs to monitoring and drive improvement, quality and customer satisfaction, with governance over customer specifications; - Established a collaborative, creative and fantastic team culture, involved in selecting and developing talent for the next generation of technical leads; - Governor of project philosophy, protecting development teams through requirements analysis, technology roadmaps, product development, testing, deployment and go-live; - Added technical expertise to overcome hurdles, problem-solving throughout the SDLC and product development lifecycle; communicated with various teams, stakeholders and clients to deliver a scalable, robust and reliable brand solution. Show less



TROZON TRADING

• Entrepreneur / Business Owner

  • Sep 2010 - Nov 2012

  South Africa Launched Trozon Trading from start-up to successful SME, recruiting high-talent to accelerate the brands offering for data analytics and data investigation services. Personally oversaw the technical development of analytics products, including in line with government specifications. - Created a trusted Data Analytics & Investigation product solution that attracted top governmental stakeholders to buy-in to products and service solutions; - Oversaw the technical development and… Show more Launched Trozon Trading from start-up to successful SME, recruiting high-talent to accelerate the brands offering for data analytics and data investigation services. Personally oversaw the technical development of analytics products, including in line with government specifications. - Created a trusted Data Analytics & Investigation product solution that attracted top governmental stakeholders to buy-in to products and service solutions; - Oversaw the technical development and deployment of services, including guiding individuals through the analysis and interrogation of systems and processes to identify weaknesses; - Consulted with client technology leads on the development of robust, secure data solutions to manage large volumes of data; - Led technical development projects, scoping, developing and deployment client solutions to add capability to business and criminal analysis processes. Show less



Memex South Africa

• Technical Director

  • Aug 2006 - Sep 2010

  South Africa Selected based on a diverse technical background and considerable expertise in the development of back-end technology services for the start-up venture and the development of a new product for the South African market. An influential member of the senior management team, involved in the pre-sales processes as a Technical SME, through the development of the proposition through to product deployment and general client-sided support. - Hands-on in the technical design of Memex products… Show more Selected based on a diverse technical background and considerable expertise in the development of back-end technology services for the start-up venture and the development of a new product for the South African market. An influential member of the senior management team, involved in the pre-sales processes as a Technical SME, through the development of the proposition through to product deployment and general client-sided support. - Hands-on in the technical design of Memex products, taking a seat at the leadership take to define the technical product roadmap of the start-up venture, driving start and scale-up in the South African marketspace with complete ownership of product development at a technical level; - Created a compelling pre-sales technical proposition, also supporting requirement gathering and analysis, production of technical specification and dissemination to development teams; - Pitched technical solutions to Government Ministers and officials, as well as Corporate Boards for the integration of Memex products to enhance technical capability; - Scoped the need for client system upgrades, including hands-on changes in structured databases and programmes, including re-structuring files for a major government data project; - Oversaw as a Project Manager, technical implementations, re-using and modelling successful scenarios to meet extreme time pressures and stable integrations; - Managed system design and development in Pearl, C#, VB and Java. Show less



IZAZI SOLUTIONS (PTY) LTD

• Systems Analyst / Administrator

  • Jun 2004 - Jul 2006

  South Africa First responsibility was to secure and improve the network stability. Maintain the various databases and firewalls for the company. Redesign the network, development and deployment process. Placed on various sites to help with the installations and developments. (Teba Bank and Eskom were the two main sites).



RUBICO

• Deployment Specialist

  • Jan 2003 - Jun 2004

  South Africa • Involved in the deployment of large ERP projects. • Took over Grinaker Construction running on HP UX and Sybase and moved to NT 4 and MS SQL7 • Helping with technical assessments and advising what hardware and software to use for the projects below. This also involved boardroom negotiation, gathering of the client’s needs and training of IT staff to administer the Rubico system. • Other site I was involved in: o Absa insurance Project o Wilderness… Show more • Involved in the deployment of large ERP projects. • Took over Grinaker Construction running on HP UX and Sybase and moved to NT 4 and MS SQL7 • Helping with technical assessments and advising what hardware and software to use for the projects below. This also involved boardroom negotiation, gathering of the client’s needs and training of IT staff to administer the Rubico system. • Other site I was involved in: o Absa insurance Project o Wilderness Safaris o Medscheme o Deutsche Leasing project – porting Jboss over to Weblogic. • Internal support • Setting up WANS, firewalls, proxy servers, Linux, Sun Solaris, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL7, NT 2000, NT Rational rose, uml, xml and desktop support. • Deployment of the Medscheme project on Windows 2000 using oracle 8i on a SUN server. Show less



Netology

• Technical Support Engineer

  • Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  South Africa



FRIENDTECH COMPUTERS

• Information Technology Specialist

  • Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  South Africa



FOLAM TRADING

• Production Manager

  • Feb 1994 - Jan 1997

  South Africa



ECONOMY GARDEN SERVICES

• Business Owner

  • Apr 1991 - Feb 1994

  South Africa



S.A.P

• Police Constable

  • Jan 1989 - Apr 1993

  South Africa