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OMNIODelivery Manager
Dec. 2024 - Oct. 2025London Area, United KingdomDriving end-to-end delivery of a major digital payments transformation initiative, re-modelling Omnio’s entire product suite, resulting in a 45% reduction of build time for payments products.
Operating at the intersection of product strategy, delivery and engineering, ensuring roadmap planning, execution, feature prioritisation, and successful release planning across two key public and private sector UK accounts.
TransreportUK Delivery Manager
Nov. 2023 - Nov. 2024London, England, United KingdomDelivery Manager for SDLC and Operations of Web, iOS and Android mobile applications across 32 Train Operating Companies. Definition and ownership of project milestones and operational SLAs to external stakeholders as part of Continuous Improvement strategies.
Main point of contact on roadmap delivery between customer and internal teams
Agile coaching and mentorship of internal teams to mature and stabilise product quality.
AltronDelivery Lead
Mar. 2021 - Sep. 2023Johannesburg Metropolitan AreaDriving of service delivery from project inception & closure, through to operational product service across a portfolio of development and operational teams.
Implementation of DevSecOps, Cloud and Microservice systems and application development teams to achieve client requirements using Agile methodologies. Active tracking of service deliverables & milestones.
Active Client engagement, reporting & relationship ownership, leading to additional sales and uptake.
Driving target ownership, with business sustainability at the core.
Account Management across a portfolio, including forecasting, tracking actuals and budgets, project and
monthly milestones, and future opportunities. Reporting to Executive Management & Technical Subject Matter Experts.
People Management, with a focus on service & performance sustainability. Addressing any potential
challenges, structural opportunities, growth areas, career development opportunities and KPIs.
Artly.co.zaFounder
Oct. 2020 - Oct. 2021Johannesburg Metropolitan Area
DerivcoProject & Programme Manager
Oct. 2018 - Mar. 2021Pretoria Area, South AfricaSetup of new product delivery teams using Agile with Scrum, Kanban & LeSS methodologies - Product backlog & WBS.
- Refinement of Sprint backlog. - Structure & facilitation of Sprint Ceremonies.
- Coaching of Scrum methodology & Scrum definitions.
- Applying the Project Management Processes and Knowledge Areas within the SDLC.
Optimising existing PMO processes to improve - Project practices & governance tools, Project capacity planning, Project delivery efficiencies.
Implementing company-wide OKRs
- Alignment with Business Analysts, Product Specialists & Product Teams to break down and realise business goals.
- Alignment with Product Owners on epic and feature prioritization and product expectations.
Facilitation of project status update meetings with external business stakeholders and internal company-wide teams.
Facilitation of project lessons learnt, post-mortems where necessary, and workshops to assess and improve product feasibility and delivery efficiencies.
FinteqProject Manager
May. 2014 - Sep. 2018Johannesburg Area, South AfricaLeading and directing projects from response to request for proposals (RFPs), through to project closure, maintenance and support.
Aligning with banking executives and business stakeholders in order to carry business strategies throughout projects.
Leading and facilitating cross-border, on-site analysis workshops with project stakeholders to project governance, documentation & practices.
Creation & maintenance of project governance practices & documentation.
Facilitating regular progress meetings with clients, publishing progress reports and baselining project plans accordingly.
Managing project team members and defining and monitoring KPI metrics, career growth and upskilling.
FinteqSoftware Engineer
Jan. 2011 - Dec. 2014Developing backend systems and frontend UI and controls for refining essential cheque truncation and EFT processes and workflows. Creating and refining Production Support solutions, processes and training material.
Refining back-end, workflow-controlled, high-volume design for cheque truncation and EFT processing. This includes developing data access and business access layers, additions to the SQL database structure, SQL reporting, and Windows services.
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