Deidre Jacobs is a Lead Architect at Nedbank. She possess expertise in integration, soa, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, architecture and 34 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Deidre and I have worked together in various roles in the South African IT industry together over a decade. Deidre has been a client, a business partner and a colleague during these times. Always well liked by all, Deidre has that incredible rare balance of having highly skilled technically acumen and being amazingly good at managing people. As a customer, we had robust technical design sessions together that produced sound (commercial and technical) outcomes. As a business partner, we jointly engaged at clients and Deidre always contributed appropriate technical insight, suitably impressing the client. Not afraid to delve into the technical detail or to master the big architectural picture, her dedication and knowledge are evident and customers are always impressed. I have worked with Diedre where she has taken late, dysfunctional projects and turned them around to be done on time, in budget and with the right solution. I have also seen her navigate misguided large teams out of their quagmire, through constructive decisions to move forward to an elegant solution. I have seen her mentor others and had the satisfaction of seeing them grow, both personally and professionally, under her guidance. She always inspires the teams she works with. I would highly recommend Deidre." and "Deidre was an excellent people person, who was able to combine technical ability with people's needs and understanding. She has and excellent technical ability. She is determined to be successful and I really like that in her. Her ability to work in complex situations which were in flux was remarkable. Deidre delivers on her commitments."