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Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Growing 80 000 broiler chickens & feeding 200 cattle for mest market.

Operations Manager. Turnkey project implementation of systems. Auditing and investigations.

Middelburg Area, South Africa

Emivista is contracted by a mining group. We build a plant and refine the product to be sold to the Power Station. I am the Transport & Logistics Manager to see that the qualified products reach their destinations. At other sites I have teams that load & Transport commodities to their destinations. At various sites under my appointment I manage the operations of 250,000 tons per month on 3 different sites. My Responsibilities are to Manage ATD Tippers, 6x4 tippers, Loaders, 32 ton link tippers, Labour, Contractors and all concerning operations. My job is to appoint, implement and research to streamline the project. I have to set company standards and report to stakeholders. Audit operations and report to DME.

Iraq

• Security Annalist. • Close Protection for American Generals, Diplomats and Ambassadors. • High-risk protection for Coalition Provision Authorities. • Proactive security supervision. • Personnel security detail. (PSD Team leader)• Counter and combating terrorist attacks

Pristina, Kosovo

o Project manager Euro exchange in Kosovo.o Opening of remote banks in Kosovo and Serbia. Setup banks and security to standard. o Manage Cash in Transit CIT teams for daily consignments & threat analysis. o Protection of the team and consignment. o (PSD) Protection of VIP bank personnel. Foreign bank manager’s security detail

Potchefstroom, South Africa

Dog Unit 2000 to 2002 - Inspectoro Manage Sector and shift personnel. o Reaction to urgent complaints and serious complaints in City and surrounding region.o Flying Squad and highway patrol / Chasing and capture of fleeing suspects.o S.W.A.T. related situations. o Identifying and processing projects to infiltrate criminal activities.o Deployed on Missions. o Using a Patrol dog at serious crime scenes where a patrol dog is necessary.o Finalize court hearings.Detective Branch 1990 – 2000 - Detective Inspectoro Investigation of crime, collecting of evidence, gathering of witnesses.o Forensic evidence gathering. o Arresting of the suspects and finish off the proceedings in court.o Gathering of information is a very big asset in this working environment. o Murder and Robbery Unit, Fraud, Vehicle Theft, Sexual offences, Drug related and other Serious Crimes cases were investigated.o Surveillance and capture of criminals. o Infiltrating criminal networks. Several missions successfully accomplished. o Analyze and react to problem area’s that can be identified. o Successful court hearings.

Associate'S Degree, Safety & Program Management

Activities and Societies: Logistics, Transport, Construction, Project management, Turn key project implementation.

Safety Officers Diploma, Occupational Safety And Health Technology/Technician

Activities and Societies: Occupational & Mine Safety Diploma