Product and Technology leader, agile focus, technical background but a strong business and commercial focus. From business case design to vendor negotiations and team management through to technical decision making at the highest levels, primarily in the technology industry, I have a broad base of skills.Technical Due diligence with reviews of businesses to help investors in their decision making.Recent Projects:- Technical Due Diligence of start ups requiring Venture Capital Funding.- Technology reviews and skills audits - Developing Product business case and framework for hosting provider to partner with a CDN and investigate other new product ideas.- Wi-Fi offload from mobile planning.- Create and manage a fintech migration to AWS and set up as an AWS Technology Partner.- Digital transformation to a more agile environment in a software development company.Experienced in the software and ISP / Telecommunications industry in the network, systems, development, product development and commercial / business strategy functions. Available on contract or permanent hire, my focus is on helping teams perform by making clever use of technology strategies combined with the right set of skilled people, in order to grow a business.AWS Partner Alliance Lead experience, helping to shift SaaS to the cloud.

Head of Operations for VAST Networks with responsibility for the network engineering and support functions.

Key Focus areas include- Technology and strategy consulting and roadmaps- Technology team change management- Project Management- Product development- Commercial business planning and lifecycle management- Vendor and Service level negotiation- Business Process Engineering / Change ManagementProjects between 2014 and 2016- Product development around introducing W-Fi to large corporate companies as well as business case planning for a mobile telecommunications company around introducing Wi-Fi offload technologies.- Plan and develop business cases and select vendors for HCM, CRM, e-learning platforms to be implemented into a financial services wealth management business.- Identify and document processes in small technology business to assist in managing SDLC and support. - Advisory Part Time CIO focusing on the technology platform, monitoring and customer deployments - Technology Team Change Management process - identifying strengths, weaknesses, skills within various teams and management - documenting and reporting on areas for improvement that were both structural as well as managerial and making recommendations on how to improve.

Overall leadership of all Information Systems teams, including - Server Operations, - Development, - Network Management Systems- Business Analysts and Enterprise Systems.Included full budgetary control of all operational and capital expenditure within the MTN Business technology areas.Advisory on technology to MTN Group on M&A activity.

Overall head of IT and Technology Systems teams.Built and managed financial models for costing models, capacity planning, capital planning.Responsible for all Profit and Loss decision making for the Africa region on customer contracts, new capex and capacity spend.

Head of Network, Technology and ProductIntroduced the Product Management and Product Development function to UUNET SA, overall responsible for introducing new products and managing the teams maintaining the Product life cycles.Served on the board as a Director of - UUNET Kenya/Zambia, UUNET Namibia, UUNET Botswana, SDN Mauritius

Part of the founding of the first commercial Internet Service Provider in South Africa.Helped to build an IP network from nothing to over 23 locations, moving a startup business into a substantial service provider servicing the southern african market. Responsible for managing IP networking and consumer access services, and building the technical teams.

Computer Operator managing systems and networks in the European Information Management Centre.