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Cape Town, Wc, Za

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Delivery Manager for North America biggest insurance company, John Hancock and Maunual life• Ensuring that all delivery meets our partner markets and expectations are managed• Responsible for incident management, tracking and escalations• Provide leadership to engineering and product teams• Building and sizing product roadmaps• Successfully deliver complext high profile features in a fully cloud based enviroment• Providing Capex and Opex costing for project planning and delivery• Technical Process improvement• Enable teams to deliver as part of a portfolio and actively identify and manage dependencies and obstacles

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• As part of the Digital Transformation program for an international telecom company looking to leverage strategies for boosting adoption, usage and increased engagement for their core and non-core products and services.• South African Financial Institution, Benchmarking and optimisation of Delivery Value Chain• Crafted and communicated the as-is state and benchmark across digital channels• Documented As-is, Current State and To-Be Architecture towards a digital omnichannel Architecture• Architecture Governance and Policy formulation

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

John Lewis Partners(London): Six-week discovery process to recommend an MVP proposition for Wish List and gift list,• Deep dive analysis of the current UK retail landscape and its competitors• Understating M&A options for "Tech Retailers" that are market leaders in Gifting and loyalty• Implement PSD2 Regulatory payments and governance• Ethnographinc and interview research to determine customer feedback and behaviour• Back office flow and system integration and delivery tracking for online purchases• Strategic look at cost reduction from a system perspective

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Crafting and communicating the future- state architecture that supports a new digital banking across the African Continent.Facilitate and drive the architecture vision and roadmap that will support the new business strategy. Analyzing the end-to-end Corebanking system and it’s associated applications to to enhance business capabilities across Africa. Advocate and support the ITstrategy. Focus heavily on research and development, following emerging technology trends.Participate in creating and governing the Architecture Review Board, review various infrastructure and Solution Architecture designsthat alignment with the over all Future State Vision and architectureWe need to create a plan for digital banking across Africa. To do this, we willanalyze our core banking systemand its applications to improveour capabilities. We will also focus on research and development to keep up with the latest technology trends. Our IT strategy is important andwill be supported. We will oversee the Architecture Review Board to ensure thatall infrastructure and solutionarchitecture designs align withour overall vision.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Played a pivotal role in transforming the DevOps and Agile journey within ABSA. His team and various consultants have supported him in driving the transformation across the organisation. The softwareengineering vision and mantra of ABSA is to deliver software at high velocity and high quality

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Responsible for guiding the planning, tracking and day-to-day activities of web development teams, I was involved in a program valued at 1 billion Rand.As a manager responsible for two product teams, they built a customer portal and DSTV Self Service; he modernised and identified process changes that increased the velocity of the development and removed major impediments by significantly reducing time to market by 30%.Standardised and synchronised the Agile practice across the teams in the program.Crafted cross-functional teams to be hyper-productive by instilling software engineering practices such as Test Driven Development and continuous integration.

Gauteng, South Africa

As the person responsible for the application strategy and road map, I oversaw the application design and architecture and supervised the implementation of First Rand applications.In addition, I implemented the TOGAF application portfolio to track the life cycle of applications and analyze licenses and upgrades.I created and reviewed policies related to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and licensing of applications throughout the bank.