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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Durban Area, South Africa

Working within the information and data security space by focusing on aligning business objectives with information security as guiding principle. This includes ensuring security compliance with various security frameworks, that include NIST-CSF 800-53, POPIA, PCI-DSS and CIS controls and advising business accordingly on impact and risk accordingly. Responding to various cyber threats within the environment and ensuring removal of known vulnerabilities on impacted systems as part of improving security posture. Additional duties include working with various audit areas to improve compliance and ensure consistency of a cyber security program

Durban Area, South Africa

Implement and manage network security technologies. This includes Installation and maintenance of security devices from multiple vendors such as the Cisco firewall services modules, the adaptive security appliances(ASA) and access control systems(SecureACS), Radius technologies, Checkpoint firewalls, Fortinet Firewalls, HP Tipping point IPS and Blue Coat proxy devices, which are deployed within our environment. I also analyze potential threats that might affect our network, liaise with our ISP over internet, mail scanning and dedicated leased line changes and issues. Provide the various business units with technical advice, when dealing with deployment of new software/hardware systems that require networks access whether it be internal or external access and what potential threats or risks that needs to be mitigated. I also perform penetration testing to provide management with technical advise on what the business would require to help prevent future threats.

Durban Area, South Africa

Implement and manage network security technologies. This includes Installation and maintenance of security devices from multiple vendors such as the Cisco firewalls, Check Point and Blue Coat. Assist in administrating and managing the various appliances. Liase with business over security needs

Ethekwini Municipality

Provide IT related support to 200+ users. Duties included Installation of PC Hardware, Printers and other PC related devices with multiple vendors such as Lenovo, Mecer and Apple. Installation and configuration of operating systems such as Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows server 2008. Installing and configuring software packages such as Microsoft Office, IBM i-Series(JDE), Adobe Creative Suite, DMS and Cognos. I also performed troubleshooting on Hardware, Operating system & software packages, related to the above. Other duties and skills includes liaising with different vendors and 3rd parties, providing computer assessments for end users to provide better and more efficient services, software automation by making use of scripting techniques. To help deal with future changes and help the business choose better solutions IT solutions I assisted with proof of concepts exercises and also assist in IT policy documentation.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Provided IT support services to Sanlam Limited dealing specifically with HP products my duties included but were not limited to installation and deployment of HP equipment. General maintenance and troubleshooting of these devices. 1st and 2nd line support which included traveling to various sites within the Gauteng province. Liaising with management and team over challenges and solutions for the various business units as well as liaising with vendors dealing with maintenance and repairs issues with these products.

Chatsworth Center

Cellphone Consultant. Duties included general sales of cellphones, advice to consumers, technical support, processing of cellphone insurance and cellphone insurance queries, general admin such as stock keeping.

Postgraduate Diploma In Business Management, Business/Managerial Economics

Apply advanced management principles and theories in a variety of organisational settings in the following areas. Human Resource.

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management

Professional Diploma In Software Engineering, Information Technology

Professsional Diploma In Network Engineering, Network And System Administration/Administrator

Education record

Maths Physics Computer English Afrikaans Accounting