Responsibly for the technical direction of Discovery Invest.Special Highlights - 2001/2002 was part of the set of teams involved in a merger between Liberty Collective Investments and Standard Bank Unit Trust businesses to form Stanlib.- a member of Discovery Invest business since the inception (2007). An accomplished Senior IT executive confident, decisive, and respected Executive leveraging expertise in Business Strategy Alignment, Strategy Execution, Operations Management, Business Process Management, Digital / Technology transformation, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Business Change, Communication Management, People and Performance Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Project Portfolio Management.Primary Responsibilities- Provide guidelines within Invest- Supervise information systems and communications network- Develop and implement business systems to serve the organization in every respect- Participate in vendor contract negotiations - Create a cost benefit analysis as well as supporting a detail definitions of data requirements and departmental workflow- Assess and anticipate technology projects and recommend appropriate action and resources - Propose software solutions to accomplish company objectives- Establish and direct the strategical and tactical goals, policies and procedures for the IT department- identify user needs and resolve them.an active, self-driven and self-motivated individual, and strategic Chief Information Officer. Draws on more than two decades of success in diverse high-impact roles within the Financial Services sector (including Insurance, LISP Investments and IT / Technology).

Job OverviewMy role is to direct and manage various software development teams, also responsible for systems software product development activities including design, development, testing,and implementation of software platform, system changes, and enhancements.Major Responsibilities Organize, lead, motivate and develop a diverse system development teams consisting of Java developers and PL/SQL developers with responsibility across multiple and simultaneous projects, Motivate team members and promote a strong sense of code quality, extensibility,reusability and urgency Facilitate communications within the team and Facilitate knowledge and expertisesharing amongst the team and other personnel Improve processes and procedures, increasing departmental effectiveness Participate in interviewing, hiring, development and training of new developers- Coordinates development resources in order to meet expected outcome and productquality standards Review the software/systems development lifecycle and workflow Establishes programming standards and program documentation requirements Reviews current status of system applications and prepares recommendations forimprovements Manage and address changing project needs Provides technical direction to the project team Identify resource needs and enforces project and delivery standards

RESPONSIBILITIES : Developing a System to manage accounts in the Collections System Develop Web Frond End using JavaScript, PL/SQL Web Cartridges and Oracle Packages.Projects Conversion from Old System. Development of Interfaces between the Debt Management and Collection’s System

RESPONSIBILITIES :• Requirement Analysis• Specification Documentation• System Modelling and Designing• Coding • Testing  Managed a technical team of 3 staff  Maintenance of Compass Application Compass Upgrade from version 4.6 to 5.3 Implement Patches from the VendorProjects Compass Upgrade CIS Implementation (Collective Investment Scheme Fee) Fundamental Choice (Product Offering) MIS Project Cash and Units Recon Project Tax Certificate (Capital Gains Tax and Interest Distribution) Interface data from Source System (Compass) to SAP Ledger Account System Bank Interest Commission Subsystem

I got placed in a number of diverse clients during my tenure at IOCORE. The most significant were Coca-Cola SA Co and Liberty Life.Some of the work done:• Data Warehouse Extracts – interface data from the legacy system into a data warehouse environment, using SQLLoader, and PL/SQL programs(Functions, Procedures and Packages).• Developing Oracle Reports and Forms • Got to learn the Compass Application • Did Visual Basic 5/6 programming