Christa Marais Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

41 Shortland Street, Auckland

Responsibility:I was responsible to deliver a data migration strategy. Key achievement:The data migration strategy was used by the management team in the decision-making regarding the consolidation of all Fidelity Life’s policy administration platforms with a single platform.

• Theta Consulting (July 2015 – present) - Senior Project managerResponsibilities:I managed projects at several Theta clients:Partners Life limited - Senior Project Manager
• BI Sales ETL and report developmentI managed the development of the Sales Data Warehouse ETL as well as the SSRS report development from the sales data tabular module for 12 sales reports.
• Veracidata implementationI managed the implementation of the Veracidata toolset to measure data quality in the BI environment by way of running repeatable tests over the ODS and data Warehouse data. The results provide.
• Analytics I managed the project to use Analytics as a means for discovering meaningful, non-trivial patterns in data that will lead to actionable business insight. The following deliverables were created by Theta for.

Auckland, New Zealand

SAP PO projectManaged the Vendor selection tender process for the replacement of 32 current operational Websphere integration services with SAP PO. After the Vendor selection process, the delivery of the project over 10 months was a combined effort between the third party Vendor (Tango) and the Council. The Tango team was responsible for the SAP PO.

Auckland, New Zealand

Development and Financial Contributions projectResponsible as project manager to design and implement the system solution and business process for the calculation of financial and development contributions to the Council. The solution replaced the seven legacy operational models used by the former Council Policy and Planning divisions. The project.

Auckland, New Zealand

Business Analyst responsible for Outbound Document System Specifications. TOWER is in the process of replacing the Legacy System. The current outbound documents in use by TOWER should be re-designed, updated and aligned to the systems requirements as a result of the system replacement.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Project Manager for the re-engineering of the SARS debt collection project. The objective was to improve the process performance, to note overdue debt sooner and to collect overdue debt faster. The project team.
• Project manager for the redesign of the tax return process for the 2009 tax year. It was done through the automation and web-enablement of the process with a budget of NZ$ 2.5 million. The project team comprised 20.
• Project manager for the Advance Tax Rulings service solution. The project was a SAP Own Accounting solution with a web base solution as the front-end for the applicants. After the Business Requirements were compiled, I.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Business analyst on business requirement gathering projects with the aim to advise the clients on suitable system solutions to enhance the operational performance of the business. Project manager responsible for the recruitment, appointment, managing and scheduling of a team of 14 process engineers and business analysts involved in IT effectiveness.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Project managed the following Project teams;
• NISSAN (Automotive) Nov 2003 – Jan 2004
• Legal Aid Board (Government) April 2003 – Oct 2003
• Cashbuild Retail (Largest hardware retailer in Southern Africa) April 2002 – Sept 2002
• Investec/ Fedsure Merger (Insurance) Aug 2001 – Feb 2002
• Eskom (Electricity supplier) Sept 2000 – Jan 2001

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Pre-Print system implementation: Team lead role for the ARIS business process mapping team with the responsibility to document the “as-is” business processes. The gap was analysed and the user requirements compiled for the “to-be” pre-print system.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Centralisation project: The re-engineering of the business processes, the determining of service level agreements, performance measurements, job profiles etc. The ARIS toolset was used to document the business process flows. First Card project: Facilitated the documentation of the as-is business processes using the ARIS Toolset software approach and.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Automated queries project: To create a system where the response on queries could be monitored and to enable the measuring of staff performance on the solving of queries in the call centre. Call Line Identity Project: Managed the project and monitored the development and programming for the call centre. Process Improvement Project: To improve the processes.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Business improvement projects in government and private sector by using the Ernst & Young business improvement methodology

Masters In Business Administration, Project Management, Services Marketing

Bachelor In Arts, Mathematics

Bachelor In Arts, Mathematics, Physical Education