Brian Rickards Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Foregenix is a specialist information security business; a QSA, a PA-QSA, a P2PE QSA and Qualified Forensic Investigator within the payments industry.Our focus areas are:* Account Data Compromise Investigations (Forensic Investigations)* PCI DSS (scope reduction)* PCI P2PE* PA-DSS * Penetration Testing * and general information security consultancy. We're.

Harare, Zimbabwe

• Responsibilities:
• Create, develop and implement business plan.
• Register and build company from a vision.
• Put in place processes, systems and resources to deliver products to our thousands of regional customers in the most cost effective, efficient way whilst achieving a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Employed and managed a team of ten which included a warehouse clerk, an invoicing clerk and a team of seven sales/merchandising staff.
• Carry out costings on local and imported goods.

Perth, Australia

• Responsibilities:
• Develop business improvements and marketing strategies to increase business.
• Plan, organise, develop and execute the business plans to achieve revenue and profitability targets (short term and long term).
• Put in place processes, systems and resources to deliver a quality service and achieve high level of customer satisfaction.
• Procurement and logistics which involves sourcing, negotiating and developing the most competitive price-structure with suppliers and carriers to sustain the working relationship and deliver the required services.
• Contract management – generate quotations and service agreements.Achievements:

Perth, Australia

Responsibilities/Achievements:  Achieve sales targets, market share and growth for assigned MSD products through identification and development of customer care plans within a defined geographical territory. Meet with doctors on a daily basis educating/promoting MSD products highlighting benefits, efficacies, precautions and side effects of the drugs..

Perth, Australia

Responsibilities/Achievements:  Constructed and documented process maps for IT Support processes, using Microsoft Visio, in preparation for Java Development resources to be relocated from Perth to an off-shore Development Centre in India. Created an advanced excel spread sheet which is still used as an integral management tool that assigns responsibility.

Harare, Zimbabwe

Responsibilities:  Business Development- analysed and implemented strategies that enabled the organisation to increase market share and profitability. Logistics- developed, evaluated and improved the logistics operational systems and infrastructure. Reviewed and provided input into the operations strategy, execution plan and planning tools which ensured.

Masters Of International Business, International Business/Trade

Course covered topics such as Cross-Cultural Communication and Negotiation, Dynamics of International Strategy, Global Distribution and.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.)

Education record