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🔥43%
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Russia
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Work Background
OneConnect TechnologiesExecutive Manager: CEO Office
Mar. 2018 - Jun. 2022Johannesburg Area, South Africa• Consolidated efforts related to key sales initiatives and engagements
• Managed alignment of business areas
• Develop talent by facilitating cross-training, developing, coaching, mentoring & growing individuals & teams in the
Business.
• Monitored company strategy execution
• Attended company events and presented to clients as an evangelist of the company.
• Worked with the corporate teams to prepare packs for the CEO on a monthly, quarterly basis to summarize performance.
• Develop and maintain productive and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Clients to provide consultancy and advisory services related to requests for new technology services.
• Proactively serve as a trusted advisor and act as the primary point of contact for Client stakeholders.
• Build and drive successful relationships across the business promoting a best-for-business approach to solutions and delivery priorities
• Provide thought leadership on the future of technology
• Actively identify and champion innovation initiatives supporting the business strategy.
• Continuously seek improved ways to work and efficiencies within the team
• Promote and foster collaborative team and stakeholder relationships based on growth and resilience, integrity, accountability and inclusion, and adheres to the value of ‘Leadership’
• Encourage career advancement endeavours to staff.
• Ensure training is a part of employees' daily routine & encourages them to tap into the knowledge of their colleagues & to set performance improvement goals.
• Take ownership of driving own career development
• Preparation and signing off Personal Development plan for staff
• Act as the key liaison across all functional areas OneConnect Client Experience: Senior Integration Consultant
Mercantile Bank / Capitec Bank
June 2018 – May 2022
o Assisting the Forex team - July 2021 to date
o Assisting the ESB team - June 2018 to June 2021
MPATAPOManaging Director - IT & Operations
Feb. 2018South Africa• Built and nurtured trust with teams, customers and external suppliers.
• Provided strategic advice to shareholders so that they will have an accurate view of the market and the company’s future
• Prepared and implemented comprehensive business plans to facilitate achievement by planning cost-effective operations and market development activities
• Ensured company policies and legal guidelines are communicated all the way from the top down in the company
and that they are followed at all times
• Communicated and maintained trust relationships with shareholders, business partners and authorities
• Oversaw the company’s financial performance, investments and other business ventures
• Acted as the public speaker and public relations representative of the company in ways that strengthened its profile
• Analysed problematic situations and occurrences and provide solutions to ensure company survival and growth
• Built and manage a diverse group of employees
• Managed operations and adapted processes within time and budget.
OneConnect TechnologiesExecutive: Enterprise Integration Solutions
Aug. 2017 - Feb. 2018Johannesburg Area, South Africa• Implemented and improved overall integration solution systems o Improved and implemented portions of clients’ OSS and BSS solutions o Improved number portability services o Implemented new business orchestration services.
• led a team of 40 engineers at different levels o 12 systems Integration, 10 BPM, 10 CEP and 8 Analytics consultants
• Stakeholders o CIO, IT Development Manager, Developers, Customers and Intermediaries.
Puenty VCPuenty Loud Consultant
May. 2017 - Jul. 2017Raise awareness of the Puenty brand and position it as a top of mind for investors and
entrepreneurs by:
• Getting to know Puenty and its ecosystem to identify a unique selling proposition
• Identifying channels and initiatives in order to define feasible objectives for a Marketing Plan
• Creating a Digital Marketing plan (ROI, channels, partners, key messages, budget, etc.) o Identified and created the persona of the target customer o Made use of the 4 Ps of marketing to achieve our objective
IE Business SchoolMBA Candidate (Sabbatical)
Aug. 2016 - Jul. 2017Madrid Area, SpainSharpening my managerial and financial acumen, my investor mindset, and gaining international experience through the International MBA Program. Start-up & VC Courses:
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Entrepreneurial Venturing
• Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital
• M&A Bootcamp
• M&A for Start-ups Tech Courses:
• Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
• Big Data & Business Analytics
• Disruptive Technologies
• Innovation of the Digital World
• The Digital Social Interface
• Technology & Business Strategy
OneConnect TechnologiesPre-Sales Consultant
May. 2016 - Jul. 2016Johannesburg Area, South Africa• Consolidate efforts related to key sales initiatives and engagements o Assisted in qualifying potential clients within the financial sector and engaging them o Presented solutions on elevating their challenges
• Managed alignment of business areas
• Created and presented POC/POV to clients
• Responded to RFP/RFQ/RFX for Middleware solution
OneConnect TechnologiesSenior BW Consultant
Jun. 2013 - Apr. 2016Pretoria Area, South Africa• Solution development (process, SW, integration), modifications of the solution, resolution of issues with existing solutions
• Develop and maintain software to serve in a real-time environment according to business requirements.
• Wrote and maintained technical documentation.
• Performed thorough technical and unit testing of software.
• Followed change and release control procedures.
• Used source control religiously, tagging versions so as to assist in change and release control.
• Delivered the appropriate work breakdown structure (WBS) to the project manager and provide accurate timelines.
• Engaged business colleagues to understand requirements and expectations.
• Constantly aim to identify technical risks and inefficiencies.
tradebridgeBPM Consultant
May. 2012 - May. 2013Bryanston• Solution development process, integration, modifications of the solution, resolution of issues with existing solutions
• Develop and maintain software to serve in a real-time environment according to business requirements.
• Write and maintain technical documentation.
• Perform thorough technical and unit testing of software.
• Follow change and release control procedures.
• Use source control religiously, tagging versions so as to assist in change and release control.
• Deliver the appropriate work breakdown structure (WBS) to the project manager and provide accurate timelines.
• Engage business colleagues to understand requirements and expectations.
• Constantly aim to identify technical risks and inefficiencies.
TIBCO SoftwareCTS Consultant
Feb. 2010 - Apr. 2012TIBCO Client Experience: Telkom Mobile March 2010 – April 2012
• Joined the Mobile team, using BusinessWorks to create processes for their OSS and BSS stack FNB ECS June 2010 – February 2010
• Work on RedHat environment installing IProcess Engine,Workspace Browser, TIBCO BusinessWorks,
TIBCO IProcess and BW Technology Plugin, TIBCO Administrator and TIBCO EMS
• Joined the development team on the integration stream, using, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Ant to create
the Build and Deployment scripts. Telkom Number Portability April 2010 – May 2010
• Joined the development team on the integration stream, using, TIBCO BusinessWorks to create processes related to porting of cell numbers from other network providers to Telkom mobile. Gijima February 2010 – March 2010
• Worked on a Suse Linux environment with TIBCO Business Studio, TIBCO iProcess Engine, TIBCO
iProcess Workspace Browser, TIBCO iProcess WebService Plugin, TIBCO BusinessWorks and TIBCO EMS.
DVTDeveloper
Jun. 2008 - Jan. 2010Projects:
• Beta Project (JP Morgan) o Developing of the Fund reporting portion of the Beta project. It entailed producing reports for all the trades that occur on a daily bases and also a summary report at the end of each month • C# Processes at AIIF o Creating the Online Claims and Fund Registration website o Maintenance, support and upgrade of the Prescription Alert System Database design o Code review and approval • C# Solutions at On The Dot o Maintenance, support and upgrade of the Media24 logistics website o Code review and approval Technologies Used:
• C# 3.0, ASP .Net, Web applications, Windows Forms application, Windows Service, Remote Services, MSSQL Server 2000/2005/2008, XML, Subversion, Web Services, HTML, SharePoint
Metropolitan Health GroupC#/Java Developer
Jan. 2007 - May. 2008• TQ Functions (Similar to store procedures) re-engineering o Developed a TQ functions plug-in for visual studio 2008 by reverse engineering the existing java standalone application and converting it to a plug-in for MS visual studio 2008
• Java Development Project delivery and implementation.
• Receive requirements/specs from the Development Manager on product requirements.
• Provide feedback to the Development Manager on the progress of tasks assigned, to ensure project completion.
• Receive regular guidance from Senior Developer and Development Manager on tasks assigned, to ensure the project meets its timeframes/deadlines.
• Together with Senior Developer test product(s) or system(s) being implemented.
• Provide input as requested to the Development Manager and Senior Developer on the implementation action plan, taking risks into consideration.
• Drawing up technical documentation related to tasks assigned
• Adhoc Software Development/IT Trainee (2007) o Had to get up to speed with the existing projects in order to help with Maintenance and upgrade
University of Cape TownInformation Technology Tutor
Feb. 2004 - Nov. 2006CSC110H Tutur
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