Responsible for ensuring Card Compliance within Capitec Bank. This includes managing relationships with Mastercard, Visa, BankservAfrica, and the Payments Association of South Africa (PASA), and ensuring that the Capitec Technical and Business functions adhere to the regulations and requirements set down by these bodies.Manage the Backlog of all Card Compliance related activities. Ensure that the applicable and required work items are created on the backlog of the responsible technical teams, and hold the team leaders and managers accountable for the on-time and accurate delivery of these items.Responsible for the tracking and management of all Data Integrity issues as they pertain to Card Compliance. This includes managing third-party vendors and alliance partners where operational oversight leads to non-compliance issues.

Writing of Technical Specifications for Interface software.Writing of Functional Documentation for Transaction Switching environment.Driving of Industry Compliance requirements related to the Technical Transaction Switching Environment.Solicitation of Business Requirements for new initiatives related to environment.Creation of Test Plans for new implementations.

As a Payment Specialist, I provide consultation in the form of cost/effort estimation and technical design in respect to sales leads. I am responsible for ensuring that applicable solutions and projects are implemented according to project budget & scope, timeline and best practices, as well as compiling project documentation and exercising technical writing best practices at all times.Involvement in the sales cycle includes successfully motivating the selected design approach and estimation breakdown to facilitate client approval/buy-in/sign off. Once customer sign-off has been obtained, I ensure that solutions and projects are specified and documented according to the agreed deliverables and processes.General functions include internal and external reporting on progress, risks, actions, status, etc. and liaison with other client business groups where necessary. I also act as a technical consultant on products and customizations within the payments space.

Gyrus is a product suite developed in-house by Stanchion Payment Solutions aimed at providing management information on payments data to facilitate strategic and operational decision making and aid in problem resolution within operational milieu. The role entailed the management of the technical implementation projects within the Gyrus space as well as consulting on payment systems data presented within Gyrus, with the aim of improving management of the relevant environments.In a broader sense, it included Business Requirements solicitation and analysis, as well as modelling solution frameworks for complex operational challenges within customer environments

Since 2001, Stanchion has supported the implementation and management of payment environments and card applications for retailers, banks, credit unions, card schemes, payment processors and payment systems around the world. Stanchion gives clients the foresight they need, not only to implement and manage new and existing payments systems but to predict what is happening next. It provides clients with the technology, expertise and support needed to ensure high performance, availability and total system integrity. As Operations Manager, it is my responsibility to provide the link between the sales and technical support for our customers and to ensure that operational excellence of the department is maintained through efficient process design and implementation, as well as accurate budget draughting and forecasting.Fulfilling these responsibilities requires a technical understanding of the payments environment, and by managing and reporting on Production Services activity to the business and the customers. Furthermore, I provide operational recommendations to our customers based on industry standards and best practices, and Improve/Optimise activities and processes in line with the business objectives for the department.I also ensured that all customer incidents are dealt with within SLA timeframes and that department adheres to legislated requirements (such as PCI DSS).Line management functions include the recruiting and training technical staff as needed and ensuring sufficient staff coverage for the various customer accounts.

Transaction Junction is an innovative and dynamic company, focusing on the provision of end-to-end transaction management solutions to the South African and global market sectors.With their sophisticated suite of products and professional consulting services, they are positioned to provide their clients with a safe, secure and reliable end-to-end transaction processing solution.As a Support Technician, I provided general support of and implementations into the Transaction Junction Production environment, as well as customer and vendor relationship management.

Java based development on the Postilion SDK.A key point in my career was my involvement in the development of a downstream administrative tool that placed little to no load on downstream entities and provided the ability to remotely gather information and troubleshoot issues.

Captain in Tactical Military Intelligence.Spent last 2 years of career at the Military Academy in Saldanha, doing my honors and lecturing in Java programming and Knowledge Management.