Keziah Naidoo
Senior Technology Consultant at Prophet SA, UK & US- Claim this Profile
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Joy Flower
I had the pleasure of working with Keziah at Land Resources International for two years, from 2007 to 2009. Keziah worked as an Application Developer for the company. Although I didn't work closely with Keziah in her department, much of her work required collaboration with the GIS department in which I worked. I always found Keziah to be confident and extremely efficient, with an incredible work ethic, always willing to go above and beyond what was required. Dealing with difficult clients and working conditions, she always managed to get the job done without any complaints, and always brought a positive, enthusiastic energy to the office. I found her to be a very kind, encouraging person, always looking for the best in people. Keziah would be a great leader and an asset to any company she worked for.
Thasmeel Singh
It’s my great pleasure to recommend Keziah Naidoo. As a Business Analyst under her leadership, I’ve been extremely impressed with Keziah’s skills as a product manager, her commitment to colleagues & clients, and overall acumen. I have no doubt she will bring the same enthusiasm, rigor, and dedication to any organization. Along with her enthusiasm, positive energy, and attentiveness to client & organizational needs, Keziah has led Fruit South Africa to become a force in the digitization of the South African fruit export industry. This effectively has put South Africa among one of the peers on the world stage of the export market. She has also provided excellent support to our clients and helping build long-term relationships. She’s also been a tremendous contributor to our team internally, crafting processes to help our team run more smoothly. Keziah is extremely accountable to deadlines and skilled at working independently, while at the same time is proactive about contributing to the team and collaborating with her colleagues. Because she’s so accountable and communicative, I have no doubt that Keziah will excel in any team. As a Business Analyst under her leadership, I can attest that Keziah is an impressive, reliable, consistent, and creative person who supports her colleagues, takes initiative, and is an absolute pleasure to work with. Keziah stands out for her kindness, commitment, and initiative, and I’m completely confident she will surpass all expectations when joining your company. Please don’t hesitate to contact me for any more information at 0730536606 or email thasmeel.singh86@gmail.com Thasmeel Singh
Joy Flower
I had the pleasure of working with Keziah at Land Resources International for two years, from 2007 to 2009. Keziah worked as an Application Developer for the company. Although I didn't work closely with Keziah in her department, much of her work required collaboration with the GIS department in which I worked. I always found Keziah to be confident and extremely efficient, with an incredible work ethic, always willing to go above and beyond what was required. Dealing with difficult clients and working conditions, she always managed to get the job done without any complaints, and always brought a positive, enthusiastic energy to the office. I found her to be a very kind, encouraging person, always looking for the best in people. Keziah would be a great leader and an asset to any company she worked for.
Thasmeel Singh
It’s my great pleasure to recommend Keziah Naidoo. As a Business Analyst under her leadership, I’ve been extremely impressed with Keziah’s skills as a product manager, her commitment to colleagues & clients, and overall acumen. I have no doubt she will bring the same enthusiasm, rigor, and dedication to any organization. Along with her enthusiasm, positive energy, and attentiveness to client & organizational needs, Keziah has led Fruit South Africa to become a force in the digitization of the South African fruit export industry. This effectively has put South Africa among one of the peers on the world stage of the export market. She has also provided excellent support to our clients and helping build long-term relationships. She’s also been a tremendous contributor to our team internally, crafting processes to help our team run more smoothly. Keziah is extremely accountable to deadlines and skilled at working independently, while at the same time is proactive about contributing to the team and collaborating with her colleagues. Because she’s so accountable and communicative, I have no doubt that Keziah will excel in any team. As a Business Analyst under her leadership, I can attest that Keziah is an impressive, reliable, consistent, and creative person who supports her colleagues, takes initiative, and is an absolute pleasure to work with. Keziah stands out for her kindness, commitment, and initiative, and I’m completely confident she will surpass all expectations when joining your company. Please don’t hesitate to contact me for any more information at 0730536606 or email thasmeel.singh86@gmail.com Thasmeel Singh
Joy Flower
I had the pleasure of working with Keziah at Land Resources International for two years, from 2007 to 2009. Keziah worked as an Application Developer for the company. Although I didn't work closely with Keziah in her department, much of her work required collaboration with the GIS department in which I worked. I always found Keziah to be confident and extremely efficient, with an incredible work ethic, always willing to go above and beyond what was required. Dealing with difficult clients and working conditions, she always managed to get the job done without any complaints, and always brought a positive, enthusiastic energy to the office. I found her to be a very kind, encouraging person, always looking for the best in people. Keziah would be a great leader and an asset to any company she worked for.
Thasmeel Singh
It’s my great pleasure to recommend Keziah Naidoo. As a Business Analyst under her leadership, I’ve been extremely impressed with Keziah’s skills as a product manager, her commitment to colleagues & clients, and overall acumen. I have no doubt she will bring the same enthusiasm, rigor, and dedication to any organization. Along with her enthusiasm, positive energy, and attentiveness to client & organizational needs, Keziah has led Fruit South Africa to become a force in the digitization of the South African fruit export industry. This effectively has put South Africa among one of the peers on the world stage of the export market. She has also provided excellent support to our clients and helping build long-term relationships. She’s also been a tremendous contributor to our team internally, crafting processes to help our team run more smoothly. Keziah is extremely accountable to deadlines and skilled at working independently, while at the same time is proactive about contributing to the team and collaborating with her colleagues. Because she’s so accountable and communicative, I have no doubt that Keziah will excel in any team. As a Business Analyst under her leadership, I can attest that Keziah is an impressive, reliable, consistent, and creative person who supports her colleagues, takes initiative, and is an absolute pleasure to work with. Keziah stands out for her kindness, commitment, and initiative, and I’m completely confident she will surpass all expectations when joining your company. Please don’t hesitate to contact me for any more information at 0730536606 or email thasmeel.singh86@gmail.com Thasmeel Singh
Joy Flower
I had the pleasure of working with Keziah at Land Resources International for two years, from 2007 to 2009. Keziah worked as an Application Developer for the company. Although I didn't work closely with Keziah in her department, much of her work required collaboration with the GIS department in which I worked. I always found Keziah to be confident and extremely efficient, with an incredible work ethic, always willing to go above and beyond what was required. Dealing with difficult clients and working conditions, she always managed to get the job done without any complaints, and always brought a positive, enthusiastic energy to the office. I found her to be a very kind, encouraging person, always looking for the best in people. Keziah would be a great leader and an asset to any company she worked for.
Thasmeel Singh
It’s my great pleasure to recommend Keziah Naidoo. As a Business Analyst under her leadership, I’ve been extremely impressed with Keziah’s skills as a product manager, her commitment to colleagues & clients, and overall acumen. I have no doubt she will bring the same enthusiasm, rigor, and dedication to any organization. Along with her enthusiasm, positive energy, and attentiveness to client & organizational needs, Keziah has led Fruit South Africa to become a force in the digitization of the South African fruit export industry. This effectively has put South Africa among one of the peers on the world stage of the export market. She has also provided excellent support to our clients and helping build long-term relationships. She’s also been a tremendous contributor to our team internally, crafting processes to help our team run more smoothly. Keziah is extremely accountable to deadlines and skilled at working independently, while at the same time is proactive about contributing to the team and collaborating with her colleagues. Because she’s so accountable and communicative, I have no doubt that Keziah will excel in any team. As a Business Analyst under her leadership, I can attest that Keziah is an impressive, reliable, consistent, and creative person who supports her colleagues, takes initiative, and is an absolute pleasure to work with. Keziah stands out for her kindness, commitment, and initiative, and I’m completely confident she will surpass all expectations when joining your company. Please don’t hesitate to contact me for any more information at 0730536606 or email thasmeel.singh86@gmail.com Thasmeel Singh
Experience
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Prophet SA, UK & US
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Technology Consultant
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Mar 2023 - Present
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Product Manager
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May 2016 - Mar 2023
• Manage the activities and output of the Business Analysts and Support Team to ensure deliverables and products meet customer's specifications and are delivered within reasonable and agreed upon deadlines• Ownership, definition and alignment of the company’s strategy and product roadmap• Identify problem areas in our processes/systems and assist with producing beneficial strategies• Product vision and planning• Effectively prioritise goals and features based on user need and business impact, ask the big strategic questions• Central point of communication, negotiate and resolve conflicting interests between key stakeholders• Provide updates regarding project progress/hindrances/areas of risk as well as the needs of the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development(DALRRD) and the fruit industry• Proven ability to deliver projects according to specification and defined timelines• Drive the communication amongst the team and put out fires• Sharing the vision of the systems and getting buy-in from stakeholders• Facilitate demos and stakeholder feedback sessions• Backlog refinement• Pass on system knowledge to other team members• Assist the business analysts with technical background, logic of platforms, user stories and specifications• Report bi-weekly to the director general of DALRRD on the project/s statuses• Managing staff according to and above the needs of the organogram• Ensuring KPIs are done, for those staff members in my team• Create presentations for stakeholder proposals and integrating with third party/other DALRRD internal systems• Co-ordinate tasks with Project Manager• Document user requirements at high level• Identify gaps in our systems and way forward• Attend and coordinate disciplinary hearings and gather any evidence required• Assist in troubleshooting issues on any of the eCert/PhytClean systems• A member of the FMS Core working group and assist with yearly amendments to the FMS• Interview new candidates
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Business Analyst
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May 2016 - Mar 2023
• Get requirements from stakeholders, translate that into business objectives, plan and document these for the development team• Writing technical documentation which included the requirements, use cases and any other supporting documentation that would aid in implementation• Conduct baseline research on client requirements and establish the best possible solution• Meet with working groups and DALRRD officials• Full understanding of business and industry processes• Improving and streamlining business processes• Analyse existing systems and see how they need to be improved• Understand multiple business viewpoints and represent stakeholder interests• Encouraged collaboration within the project team• Produce user guides, videos, training material and FAQs that stakeholders can use to gain better knowledge of the systems• Manage the support team• Track the feedback received from clients on our ticket system and convert them into the necessary change requests
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Software Development Project Manager
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May 2016 - Mar 2023
• I was one of the pioneers in creating the first paperless systems for the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD). • I programmed the PhytClean platform, in MVC, which is responsible for ensuring orchard compliancy. This is a central online database storing phytosanitary information for Food Business Operators and orchards and is used for decision-making during export. All fruit exported to special markets has been mandated by the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development(DALRRD) to go through PhytClean for phytosanitary compliance.• Also manage the eCert project which is a first for South Africa. It removes the paper from the export process and allows for the electronic processing, verification, and delivering of data to the export country. • This platform is continually expanding to cater for new products and digitizing more paper based processes so I’m involved in meetings to discuss this and to map out the requirements.• Requirements gathering, product specification, product development, test cases• Lead stand-ups, sprint planning and project planning sessions• Responsible for creating user stories and user tasks for the development team• Interview new resources and manage existing staff• Drawing up letters of offers and staff contracts• Managing project progress and adapting work as required• Oversee all projects, ensure that the development is completed on time and within spec• Managing relationships with clients and stakeholders and liaising with the different fruit associations• Analysis of data using SQL and creation of reports• Mentor and upskill new team members
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Smarter Business
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United Kingdom
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Utilities
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1 - 100 Employee
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Business Consultant
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Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
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IT Project Lead
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Aug 2014 - Apr 2016
• Created a data warehouse, in SQL, that keeps snapshots of data on a daily and monthly basis. I added more features to it so that we could slice and dice the data in every way possible • The data from the warehouse is rendered in two ways. One way is through the web using the reporting tool I created at Summit Solutions which we bought licences to. The second is using PowerPivot in Excel as it consumes far more data and processes it at a quicker rate • Maintained existing IT projects and managed new projects from specification all the way through to testing and implementation • I developed SQL Server jobs that were responsible for updating our warehouse with the latest information, ftp’ing data to external parties, notifying users when errors occurred as well as scripts to correct bad data • I utilized SQL Server Reporting Services to distribute reports to management on a weekly basis • Very involved in the ETL process • Training other members of the operations team in the different IT languages and programs • Rewriting the reporting tool and interface used by the Crop department • I not only managed all our software projects but also did the bulk of coding of our in-house software • Assist and mentor team members • Ensure that deliverables were ready on time
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Summit Solutions
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Information Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Application Developer and Project Manager
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Nov 2009 - Jul 2014
• Developed the company’s core reporting product that is being sold as a SAAS now. This was developed using a Flash/ActionScript front-end, a C#.net business layer and a SQL backend. A third party component called AnyChart was used to render the visualization • I also developed plugins which were added to the visualisation and reporting tool. One of these plugins was a GIS component which used Google Maps Enterprise and showed in real time what a truck’s position was • Created Windows services which were responsible for the creation of pdfs and Excel reports on the fly, and the dissemination of these reports to the end users. This is an automated process that is managed through a scheduler I created in Flash • Responsible for training junior staff members • Oversee a team of developers • Skilled in all phases of the SDLC • The agile methodology was used for the bigger projects • I was solely responsible for publishing all web applications to the live environment • Developed a mobile version of the in-house reporting and visualisation tool. This was done in Adobe AIR with a C#.NET business layer and SQL backend. This application was distributed onto Android, Apple and Windows platforms. This is available in the Google Play Store and iTunes Store
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Land Resources International
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Redlands Estate, Pietermaritzburg
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Application Developer
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2007 - Oct 2009
• I developed both desktop and web application using .NET and SQL as the backend • Applications were created for both the company itself as well as external clients • Created various reports using Crystal Reports • Developed Windows Phone application, for wetland scientists, that allowed them to record their findings in a wetland and capture the exact GPS location using a Garmin device that it was paired with. Once in an area with internet connectivity they could sync that data with the live database • I wrote a tool that automatically generated the research reports using the images, coordinates etc. that was captured in the Wetlander app above
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Custom IT
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Howick
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Application Developer
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2005 - 2007
• Developed multiple windows applications (in .NET) • I was responsible for collating data from the sugar and timber industries and generating Excel files which charted the overloading/under loading and other logistical figures. This involved major data analysis • Involved in the ETL process • Created the company’s first visualization/reporting tool which charted the information mentioned above. This was used both locally and internationally • Assist and upskill fellow developers in SQL • Responsible for setting the coding standards
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Intranet manager and report creator
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Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
• I was responsible for managing the intranet which included ensuring that all web-related projects, that were outsourced, met the requirements and were finished on time • Assisted in the deployment of the above-mentioned outsourced projects • Developed web applications, which were used at the branches, to do affordability assessments • I developed various financial reports using crystal reports and SQL as the data source • Created a package that determined debtors’ flows and automatically disseminated it to upper management via email. I saved them lots of time and manpower and gave them the correct data delivered to their desk which was a huge win as it normally took multiple people, many days to generate the figures. • I was involved in a team of 3 which started the first warehousing project and extracted data from the warehouse cubes (such as daily figures) and published it via the intranet to the 120 branches. • Developed a web application to manage staff telephone calls and run exception reports • I was involved in developing the Extraction, Transformation and Loading process (ETL) for a data mart as well as debugging existing ones
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Education
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2001 - 2003
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Bachelor of Science(Information Technology), Computer Science and Business Information Technology
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