Experience

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  Self Employed

  • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

  • Looking for a new opportunity(s)

    • May 2022 - Present
    • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Do you need assistance with any document or records management challenges?Do you need help with achieving POPI compliance?Do you need guidance with your Electronic Document & Records Management System or implementing an EDRMS solution?Do you need a helping hand with procedures or auditing adherence?Do you need a simple inexpensive legally compliant digital signature solution?Do you need advice on how to setup a technical document control system?Do you need to understand what the elements of Enterprise Content Management consist of and how they fit together?Do you need value-added training in ECM and best practice?Do you need any consulting services in various information management elements?Do you require assistance with National Archive prescripts and elements such as policy compliance, file plans, transitioning from Registry to EDRMS processes?

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  Isilumko Staffing

  • City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

  • Manager; Records & Document Management

    • May 2021 - May 2022
    • City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Appointed as the HDA Manager: Records & Document Management to align the Agency with National Archive prescripts. This consisted of developing a Records Management Improvement RoadMap consisting of the following elements;• Governance Documents – hierarchy of documents from Policy to Framework to Practice Notes and Guides• File Plans - development of standard and business specific file plans for the classification of all information• Preservation - management of an off-site long-term service provider in line with archival requirements• EDRMS - creation of a functional specification, terms of reference, tender adjudication, and vendor appointment• Training & Awareness - generating material for group wide sessions on all aspects of DM & RM• Assistance with a Governance Document structure and processes; digitalisation of critical current and past information; process mapping; lesson leaned; standardisation; best practice.

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  FirstRand Group

  • Sandton Johannesburg

  • Information Management Consultant

    • Jan 2015 - Aug 2020
    • Sandton Johannesburg

    Initial assignment was to assist the Group Records Manager in the compilation of the Group Master Records Registers based on a variety of Data Themes. This involved collecting, creating, collating, amending documentation that had been generated as part of a Records Management Improvement Project that was ongoing. These were then submitted to Records Management Custodians for review and approval.In addition, I was tasked to assist the Enterprise Risk Management business area in enhancing their document and records management processes in order that they would be first in line to implement an electronic document and records management system.Transferred from Information Governance to Group Treasury as FCC Records Manager in order to implement the EDRMS, starting with a records management PoC. This was successful and the system was rolled out to the whole of FCC with a variety of added-value functionality - MyWorkSpace; Functional Document Management; Workflows; eSign; Microsoft & Documentum integration; Dashboards, etc. GoLive was 1st May 2020 with 61 business areas involving approximately 500 users.Concurrent to this responsibility I was actively involved in the data privacy (POPI) readiness project and data quality processes. Records Manager activities included running the working group on improvements; maturity assessments; metrics & reporting; governance; EDRMS roll-out; system inductions & training.

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  Bombela Turnkey Contractor (Bombela TKC)

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • Information Manager

    • Oct 2005 - Jun 2016
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

    Current assignment is a secondment to the R25 billion Gautrain Rapid Rail Project as the Information Manager, Bombela Turn Key Contractor for the implementation & integration of a project-wide information management system & processes in order to satisfy Client & Project needs. The position is a full-time function from November 2005 until March 2012. This involves the establishment and setting of document control processes & procedures, assisting JV’s with information management, managing document control staff, recommending systems for commercial operations, investigating & utilising various EDMS solutions, etc.

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  Murray & Roberts Engineering Solutions

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • INFORMATION MANAGER (8/2002 - 10/2005)

    • Aug 2002 - Jun 2016
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

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  Mossgas (Pty) Ltd now PetroSA (Pty) Ltd

  • DOCUMENTATION CENTRE MANAGER

    • Oct 1989 - Jul 2002

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  Eskom

  • Senior Clerk Documentation / Head: Contract Administration Koeberg Nuclear Power Station

    • Sep 1982 - Jun 1989

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  Cape Provincial Administration

  • SENIOR / ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

    • Feb 1977 - Feb 1982

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  Cape City Council

  • ACTING SENIOR CLERK / CLERK

    • Feb 1975 - Jan 1977