Experience

A1L Realizations
• South Africa
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Enterprise Content Management Specialist

  • Apr 2016 - Present

Software Arkitex
• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• Data Arkitex Division Manager

  • Apr 2014 - Mar 2016


Telkom

• Türkiye
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Specialist

  • Aug 2010 - Mar 2014

  Providing 3rd Level Support is Unix/Oracle/IXOS in production environment.In House Performance Tools Development.

• Enterprise Archiving Solution Technical Support Team Leader

  • Apr 2006 - Jul 2010

  The installation, configuration and maintenance of the Telkom's Enterprise Archiving Solution required knowledge in Unix System V, Oracle Database (9.2.0.1) and IXOS Server. The tasks of the Support Team are to insure day to day operations, preventive maintenance, optimization and customization in order to respect the Service Level Agreement.

• Technical Support Team Leader

  • Jan 2006 - Mar 2009

  Enterprise Archiving Solution Technical Support Team Leader

• Team Management

  • Sep 2005 - Mar 2007

  Migration of Corporate Archiving System from COLD to IXOS on Centerra (more than 13 TB of data) Done 04/2009 - Report Server Optimization ProjectOn complement of the leading of Enterprise Archiving Solution Technical Support Management, I also perform the Optimization of the Report Server Programs which, due to the large volume of data addressed,

• Senior Unix System V System Engineer/ Senior Oracle Database Administrator

  • Feb 2003 - Mar 2006

• Senior Unix System V System Engineer/ Senior Oracle Database Administrator

  • Feb 2003 - Mar 2006

  Working as a contractor for Time Quantum and my principal client is Telkom South Africa.; of Unix User Logins with Windows LDAP user management to implement a Single Sign On Strategy Done Study and Implementation of a Revision Control System for Clarify Software Done Migration of the Customer Care and Billing Application from Oracle 8.1.6 to Oracle 9i Done Migration of the Customer Care and Billing Application from Sequent Synix/Ptx to Sun Solaris 9 Done Migration of the Customer Care and Billing Application from Oracle Developer 4.5 to Oracle Developer 6i Done Migration of Internal Korn Shell System Tools to Web Interface Done Study, Design, Realization and Implementation of a Corporate User Tool Management managing 20 000 users Done Show less

• Senior Unix System V System Engineer/ Senior Oracle Database Administrator

  • Feb 2003 - Mar 2006

  Working as a contractor for Time Quantum and my principal client is Telkom South Africa.; of Unix User Logins with Windows LDAP user Done management to implement a Single Sign On Strategy Study and Implementation of a Revision Control System for Clarify Done Software Migration of the Customer Care and Billing Application from Oracle 8.1.6 Done to Oracle 9i Migration of the Customer Care and Billing Application from Sequent Done Synix/Ptx to Sun Solaris 9 Migration of the Customer Care and Billing Application from Oracle Done Developer 4.5 to Oracle Developer 6i Migration of Internal Korn Shell System Tools to Web Interface Done Study, Design, Realization and Implementation of a Corporate User Tool Done Management managing 20 000 users The "Customer Care and Billing" application used by Telkom South Africa is a modified version of the Girafe Software of France Telecom. It has the following characteristics. Number of Users: 8000 Nationally Program Types: Oracle Forms, Oracle Report, Pro*C, PL/SQL, C Numbers of Programs: around 3000 Number of Databases: 23 Nationally Replicated Databases Data Volume: 4 TB Show less



Time Quantum

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

• Enterprise Archiving Solution Technical Support Team Leader

  • Apr 2006 - Apr 2011

  The installation, configuration and maintenance of the Telkom's Enterprise Archiving Solution required knowledge in Unix System V, Oracle Database (9.2.0.1) and IXOS Server. The tasks of the Support Team are to insure day to day operations, preventive maintenance, optimization and customization in order to respect the Service Level Agreement. Team Management Current Migration from IXOS Server 9.5 to 9.6.1 Current Migration of Corporate Archiving System from COLD to IXOS on Done Centerra (more than 13 TB of data) 04/2009 - Report Server Optimization Project On complement of the leading of Enterprise Archiving Solution Technical Support Management, I also perform the Optimization of the Report Server Programs which, due to the large volume of data addressed, Show less



CDPAfrica

• Nigeria
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Pre Sales Technical Manager French Speaking Africa

  • Oct 2002 - Feb 2003

  Willing to establish myself in South Africa, i joined a company called « CDP Africa » as Pre Sales Technical Manager for French Speaking Africa. CDP was the « Channel Development Partner » de Sun Micro Systems for Africa except South Africa. During my mandate, I accomplished the following.Technical Support of local ResellersTenders Solutions RedactionStudy of Technical Solutions for local resellersSystem Architecture Consulting for Sun Micro Systems South AfricaQuotation Redaction for resellersInstallation and Configuration of Sun Microsystems Machines Installation and Configuration of Veritas Netbackup and Veritas Cluster SoftwareInstallation and Configuration Of Oracle software On Sun Micro Systems MachinesI also realized 2 assignments on site: Rack Mounting of 2 Sun 4800 pour NMB Zimbabwe Installation Of Sun Management Console on Site During this period, i also participate as a lecturer during the « Sun Days » in French Speaking Africa. (Senegal, Mali).Using my experience, CDPAfrica also rendered services to the Swiss Company ITGS specialized in Oracle for which I did the following assignments: Oracle 9i DBA Certification Training for « Direction Générale de l'informatique du Gabon « (Libreville)Oracle 9i DBA Certification Training for "Douanes du Congo (Congo Customs) "​(Brazzaville)Oracle 9i DBA Certification Training for « Direction Générale de l'informatique du Congo »(Brazzaville)Oracle Application Installation (HR/Payroll Modules) For Finances State Department of Congo (Brazzaville)Niu & Systaff Application roll out for « Direction Générale des impôts du Congo » (Brazzaville)Design, realization and intallation of a Source Control Revision System for Niu & Systaff Applications for « Direction Générale des impôts du Congo » (Brazzaville)Study of the National Technical Platform for Niu & Systaff Applications for « Direction Générale des impôts du Congo » (Brazzaville) Show less

• Pre Sales Technical Manager

  • Oct 2002 - Feb 2003

  Willing to establish myself in South Africa, i joined a company called « CDP Africa » as Pre Sales Technical Manager for French Speaking Africa. CDP was the « Channel Development Partner » de Sun Micro Systems for Africa except South Africa. During my mandate, I accomplished the following. Technical Support of local Resellers Tenders Solutions Redaction Study of Technical Solutions for local resellers System Architecture Consulting for Sun Micro Systems South Africa Quotation Redaction for resellers Installation and Configuration of Sun Microsystems Machines Installation and Configuration of Veritas Netbackup and Veritas Cluster Software Installation and Configuration Of Oracle software On Sun Micro Systems Machines I also realized 2 assignments on site: Rack Mounting of 2 Sun 4800 pour NMB Zimbabwe Installation Of Sun Management Console on Site During this period, i also participate as a lecturer during the « Sun Days » in French Speaking Africa. (Senegal, Mali). Using my experience, CDPAfrica also rendered services to the Swiss Company ITGS specialized in Oracle for which I did the following assignments: Show less



Sofrecom

• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• System Department Manager

  • Sep 1999 - Oct 2002

  The goal of this team was the development of a core application for the biggest Nationals Telephonic Operator in Africa and supporting 8000 users all over the country on 23 distributed Oracle Databases. I quickly reached the level of Technical Support Manager after showing my skills in Oracle Database Administration and Unix Windows environments.Oracle Database Administrator / Unix System V Administrator for our client and System Department Manager for Sofrecom/ France Telecom.Key Achievements for our clientDesign and Development of a delivery mechanism to deliver the software from the development environments to testing and live environments managing versioning control and patching which improved drastically the software quality control.Complete reorganization of the Development/Testing environments used by 100 developers/testers on 6 machines and 70 Oracle Databases improving the numbers of managed development environments from 4 to 20 and enhancing the development capacity by 70%.Complete redesign of the versioning and delivery system to fit this new development/testing architecture dropping the time required to deliver to live from 3 to 1 day.Implementing a Organized Technical Support Cell which dropped the average delay of problem solving by 50%. Key Achievements for Sofrecom/France TelecomDropping the development cost of our new software by 30% byDesign and implementation of new software development environment for the next revision of our main software developed part in South Africa and part in FranceImplementation of all Oracle new technology software in Sofrecom South AfricaDesign and implementation of an internet platform and secured network in Sofrecom South AfricaImplementation of a vpn between South Africa and FranceInstallation of Wap Gateway and secure external access to our internal servers for a contract proposal with Alcatel South Africa Show less

• System Department Manager

  • Sep 1999 - Oct 2002

• Senior Oracle DBA

  • Jun 1997 - Sep 2002

  Billing" application used by Telkom South Africa is a modified version of the Girafe Software of France Telecom. It has the following characteristics.Number of Users: 8000 NationallyProgram Types: Oracle Forms, Oracle Report, Pro*C, PL/SQL, CNumbers of Programs: around 3000 Number of Databases: 23 Nationally Replicated Databases Data Volume: 4 TB

• System Engineer

  • 1996 - 2002

• Oracle DBA

  • 1996 - 2001

• Oracle Database Administrator, Unix System V Administrator

  • Aug 1998 - Aug 1999



France Telecom / Sofrecom

• Oracle Database Administrator, Unix System V Administrator

  • Jun 1997 - Aug 1998

• Oracle Database Administrator, Unix System V Administrator

  • Jun 1997 - Aug 1998


Sofrecom Doha, Qatar
• France Telecom

  • May 1997 - Jun 1997


Digital Vax

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Oracle Database Administrator

  • Apr 1995 - Apr 1997

  I was sent in Qatar to support a team of developer in the last phase of modifications of our main software and to help them for the live implementation. Key Achievements : Completion and optimization of a data conversion system betweens the TIMS system of Suedtel and our Software dropping the conversion time from 1 week to 2 days. Live Implementation of our software Optimization of Database reorganization dropping it's window time from 5 days to 36 hours Design, implementation and live test of a migration from Oracle V6 to Oracle 7 of our Software for Qatar Telecommunication. Show less


Digital Vax System
• Oracle Database Administrator

  • Apr 1995 - Apr 1997


Source Informatique

• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Junior Technical Support Ingeneer

  • Jun 1993 - Feb 1995

• Junior Technical Support Manager

  • Jun 1993 - Feb 1995

• Unix System V Administrator, Oracle Database Administrator

  • Feb 1992 - May 1993



Pilot Executive Software

• Technical Support

  • Feb 1992 - May 1993

• Technical Support

  • Mar 1991 - Feb 1992

  Raid 2 Project Consulting of Technical and Network Architecture for the projectBuilding of Internal Development Platform for the projectSoftware Delivery and Implementation for the clientA.E.S.N ( Water Agency )Bull DPX TuningIncremental Backup Solution ImplementationManagement and Technical Support four our various in house development PlatformsImplementation of a SAP Platform for a show in Paris

• Technical Support

  • Mar 1991 - Feb 1992

  Raid 2 Project Consulting of Technical and Network Architecture for the project Building of Internal Development Platform for the project Software Delivery and Implementation for the client A.E.S.N ( Water Agency ) Bull DPX Tuning Incremental Backup Solution Implementation Management and Technical Support four our various in house development Platforms Implementation of a SAP Platform for a show in Paris Show less

• Junior Developer

  • Sep 1989 - Feb 1991

  This company was the first one I joined and where I started learning of computers. I started as a developer but founded myself more attracted by the system part than the pure development part.Key Achievements :Support for Accounting Consolidation Software for ACCOR group in ParisSupport and improvement of the financial analysis system of Forasol/ForamerDevelopment of Executive Information System for Thomson GroupTechnical support for our software on Vax VmsBench Marking and performance analysis of our new software release on Vax Vms Show less