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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

-Business Development Solutions Managed Services -Cyber Security Managed Services-Cloud Managed Services Ensuring our customers receive solutions that have the right out come for their business with technology and managed service services. -Pre sales engineers team -Solutions Architect team -Project deployment team end to end with the Following:• Recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees• Planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions• Planning and reviewing compensation actions• Enforcing policies and procedures.• Achieve IT operations operational objectives by maintaining current system, evaluating, recommending, testing and installing new technology• Contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews• Preparing and completing action plansImplementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards• Meet IT operations financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, initiating corrective actions.• Determines IT operations service requirements by analyzing needs of users/departments; prioritizing modifications to core system applications; resolves organizational conflict; developing and implementing documentation requirements for problem resolution.• Evaluating and upgrading processes; directing changes.• Analyzing, and summarizing data and trends in new technologies

Gauteng, South Africa

This position means running the full Cyber security business unit end to end with the Following:• Recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees• Planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions• Planning and reviewing compensation actions• Enforcing policies and procedures.• Achieve IT operations operational objectives by maintaining current system, evaluating, recommending, testing and installing new technology• Contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews• Preparing and completing action plansImplementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards• Meet IT operations financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, initiating corrective actions.• Determines IT operations service requirements by analyzing needs of users/departments; prioritizing modifications to core system applications; resolves organizational conflict; developing and implementing documentation requirements for problem resolution.• Evaluating and upgrading processes; directing changes.• Analyzing, and summarizing data and trends in new technologies• Income statement and Forecast• Exco Monthly reporting • All technical projects • SLA to internal Customers • SLA with Suppliers • KPI’s and KPA’s for the team • Ensure that vendors delivers to our business. • ITIL framework • Change Management

South Africa

This position means running the full Cloud business unit end to end with the Following:• Recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees• Planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions• Planning and reviewing compensation actions• Enforcing policies and procedures.• Achieve IT operations operational objectives by maintaining current system, evaluating, recommending, testing and installing new technology• Contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews• Preparing and completing action plansImplementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards• Meet IT operations financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, initiating corrective actions.• Determines IT operations service requirements by analyzing needs of users/departments; prioritizing modifications to core system applications; resolves organizational conflict; developing and implementing documentation requirements for problem resolution.• Evaluating and upgrading processes; directing changes.• Analyzing, and summarizing data and trends in new technologies• Income statement and Forecast• Exco Monthly reporting • All technical projects • SLA to internal Customers • SLA with Suppliers • KPI’s and KPA’s for the team • Ensure that vendors delivers to our business.• ITIL framework • Change Management

Gauteng, South Africa

The Operations team is responsible for the Barloworld Automotive Group infrastructure, this includes Vendor, 3rd parties and suppliers management. Also the following day to day • Budgeting, • IT Strategies, • System Design• Project Management • Promoting Process Improvement• ITIL• HR issues • Change Management • Process ManagementNetwork Team: The network team is responsible for 310 Telkom network lines (MPLS) in South Africa and Africa. This includes the management of Firewalls, WAN and LAN infrastructure. The Network team are also responsible for Designing and implementing new Network designs. The following Technologies are used: • Cisco • HP • Juniper • Packateer • and more Site project Team:This team is responsible to open new sites in South Africa and Africa from desktops to servers and network. The team is also responsible for clean –up’s at existing sites and mini site projects.Technical project team:This team main focus is on improving on existing technologies or implementing of new technologies. • Microsoft Active Directory Infrastructure • Microsoft Windows Server Environment • Microsoft Exchange Server Environment• Microsoft Windows Software Update Services Operations Team:The operations team main focus is to keep the current infrastructure running.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Managing the Server team, this included Vendor and Supplier Management. • Microsoft Active Directory Infrastructure • Microsoft Windows Server Environment • Microsoft Exchange Server Environment• Microsoft Windows Software Update Services • Corporate / Enterprise Antivirus Solutions • Corporate Backups • Microsoft ISA Environment • Disaster Recovery Solutions / Processes• Blackberry Enterprise ( BES and BIS)• Remote Access Server (RAS, RRAS and Juniper SSL )• Processes and Procedures (Solutions, Implementation)• Trend Analysis (Monitoring, Implementation)• Server Hardware (HP Proliant Servers, HP Blade) • VMware Infrastructure (ESX, VMware Server and Hyper-V)• Virtualization Solutions (Design, Implementation, Administration)• Budgeting, • IT Strategies, • System Design• Project Management • Promoting Process Improvement

AD,Exchange, Proxy, network fuctions, backoffice day to day

PC installs onto the domain (NT4) and PC setup's All the application setups. day to day

Mcp, Itil

Fmp & Pmd

Education record

N3, Civil Engineering