• 23 years experience in the ICT field
• Thorough understanding of Internet and Open Source technologies.
• Wide business experience covering various business industries in South Africa.
• I understand Information Technology and how to apply it to today’s demanding business environment.
• My philosophy is to use technology to enhance business productivity.
• Technology should be used to gain competitive edge in business.
• My ultimate role is to find out what business need and then find solutions to meet that need.

• Strategic Management
• Departmental Financial Management
• Project Management
• Change Management
• Managing full development project life cycle from Inception to Hand-over
• Budget management and negotiation
• Cost management
• Team management and motivation
• Resource and Project Organisation planning
• Project administration (from timekeeping through to invoicing)
• Facilitation of workshops
• Compilation of project documentation e.g. Project Definition Report
• Compilation of project schedules
• Chairing of Project Working Group Meetings and Steering Committee Meetings
• Report back to Management and Board on project progress
• Client Relationship Management
• Test and Software Quality control

• PM for various development projects at De Beers.
  • Development of a Debtors system from business requirement phase, functional analysis, development, system testing, user testing and ultimately to implementation.
  • Production Statistical Systems that was developed using Client Server methodologies using Visual Basic on the client side and AS/400 with DB2 on the server side.
  • Realtime data interface using C++ for the automation of diamond weighing.
• PM for the De Beers year 2000 project.
• PM for BodyIQ project at Astrolabe
  • Functional analysis and JAD sessions held with various role-players to define function requirement and specifications.
  • Overall system architecture from a technical as well as software was designed.
  • Database schemas was designed and implemented.
  • Client/Server application was developed in Visual Basic that interfaced with SQL Server and other Visual Basic client over the Internet.
• PM for the testing project of the Fundamo backend systems
  • Managed a team of testers in the testing of Fundamo backend financial system developed in Java.
  • Developed testing frameworks according to UML methodologies.
• PM for Virtual News Engine system at Independent Online
  • This project covered the full SDLC life cycle
  • Resources included were from outside vendors, other independent divisions from across South Africa and in-house developers and designers.
  • Interfaces were built to legacy systems on UNIX machines using web services.
  • Application was rolled out in phases covering regions and news paper titles.
  • Training was provided during the rollout phase.
• Formal qualification in Project Management as part of my Honours in Business Administration.
• Experience in the use of Microsoft Project as a Project Management tool.

Thorough business knowledge in the following environments:

• Financial Services
• Financial Systems
• Mining
• Online Media and Printed media
• Sports and sports related environments

Does have good knowledge of General Business Management.

Thorough technical knowledge of the following technologies

• Open Source:
  • Operating Systems: Linux & FreeBSD
  • RDMS: MySQL & PostGres
  • Internet: Apache
  • Development: PHP
  • Various other products for DNS servers, mail servers etc.
• Microsoft:
  • Operating Systems: From DOS through to Windows XP
  • RDMS: SQL Server
  • Mail: Exchange Server
  • Internet: IIS
  • Microsoft Transaction Server, Microsoft Message Queue
  • Various desktop like Office, Visio, Project etc
  • Development: VB, ASP, VBScript including understanding of .NET (Web Services).
• IBM
  • Hardware: AS/400, IBM 9375
  • Operating Systems: OS/400, VM
  • RDMS: DB/400, DB/2
  • Development: Cobol, RPG
• Architecture and Methodologies:
  • Networking concepts and technologies
  • Internet technologies like IMAP, POP, SMTP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS and SSL
  • SDLC development process
  • UML – Unified Modelling Language
  • Testing and the creation of Test plans and Testing scenarios
• Other:
  • RDMS: Oracle and to a limited extend Sybase
  • Development: C++ and C
  • Various desktop like Adobe Acrobat and other utilities.
  • Dreamweaver, HTML, Javascript for Internet development
  • XML, Web Services and other data interchange technologies.