Heading up the Global12 Fintech and Crypto division. I'm also responsible for advising and implementing internal technology strategy and structures across the various companies that fall under the B6 Group umbrella.Responsibilities:- Group IT strategy- Partnership relationships- Product Owner/System Analyst/Scrum Master(PM)- Budgets- Design and implementation of offshore banking system and integration into crypto exchange.- Implementation of internal systems

Exprimo is a investment and operations company with various business units:- IT Analytic Consulting services and solutions -- Cloud Architecture -- Development (Vue,NUXT, Javascript, CSS, SQL, REST, Google Cloud, Adobe Suite, ....) -- Web3.0 (BlockChain, Crypto) consulting and advisory -- Company strategy -- Company culture -- Personal and leadership development -- Working environment and processes (office design, interaction, creativity/innovation)- Coffee supplier (Airabica)-- Sourcing, Roasting and Supplying of coffee beans/grounded-- Supplying coffee equipment and roasters-- Barista Training-- Coffee consulting (Specifically in the business and hospitality)- Sport & Protective gear-- Reseller of of Motorcycle Adventure/Enduro and MTB Enduro/Cross Country sports gear (Leatt)-- Importer and distributor of Inuteq (PPE, Sport performance) cooling technologies (coolsports.online)-- Motrocycle rentalsKey skills/experience learned during tenure:- Starting (setup including branding, website, strategy) and growing a business - OKR setup and tracking via Jira Atlassian- Identifying passions and purpose- Personal/Team and leadership development- Specialty coffee roasting using air roasting- Barista (brewing using various methods, but specialising in espresso based drinks)- Sport performance garments and protection- Argiculture, supply chain, production, retail/wholesale, hospitality

Shyft Control is a startups building products and providing consulting services in the IT space.Daily activities involve research and operations and strategy.I primarily provide consultancy services, but can also assist in pre-sales, project scoping/analysis and implementation.I'm currently busy with a AWS Solution Architect certification course.I also like playing around with new tech and deploying solutions in Web2/Web3 and on Cloud hosting platforms. I'm currently running on-premises: Helium, WeatherXM nodes and investigating how it can help the agriculture industry and builds a business case includiging supply chain and the hospitality industry. I also run a Theta Elite Edge node in am experimenting with various DApps.Operations include architecture, product development and running of the company.- Architect and setup Cloud Infrastructure- Creation, creation and setup of various Wordpress sites and associated analytics and social accounts- Branding (Logo, colours, etc.) ShyftControl, Hoopil, Canvas Evolution, JiraCloudServices- Company administration and strategy (budgeting, licensing/subscriptions, finance, partnerships)- Business Development/Pre-Sales/Sales- Product (enhancements, market fit and competition analysis)- Testing and Integration of Canvas Evolution (https://canvasevolution.com/), Jira app (Checkout Git repositories, build, deploy, test)- Setup and Jira Projects and maintain confluence

Analytics Consultant focesed on Telecommunication Big Data Analytics products and solutionsMain Responsibilities:- Business continuity- Proposals, Commercials and contracts- Business Development & Sales- Product partnerships- Product Roadmap, Development and Innovation in the Analytics space- Overseeing technical implementation teams and onboarding of team members- Overseeing Support and Customer successType of projects- EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse)- RAFMS (Revenue Assurance and Fraud Detection & Management solution)- Data processing and Analytics in the Law Enforcement(LEA) and Intelligence industry- Innovation in the product and business

As the Analytics Solution Stream Owner(Manager) I was privileged to work with the latest technology and trends in Big Data and Analytics, working with teams and clients in multiple countries.Main Responsibilities:- Vision and Strategy- Proposals, Commercials and contracts- Business Development & Sales- 3rd party OEM/Reseller partnerships (Tableau/F5, MicroStrategy, Google, Elastic, NGINX, RYFT)- Product Roadmap and Development and Innovation in the Analytics space- Overseeing technical implementation teams and onboarding of team members- Overseeing Support and Customer successType of projects- Enterprise Data Warehouse solutions in the Telco industry- Revenue Assurance and Fraud Detection & Management solutions in various Telco industries- Data processing and Analytics in the Law Enforcement and Intelligence industry

Motorrad Executive Rentals and Motoberlin supplies rental motorbikes is one of the biggest operators in Africa.I served as a non-executive director on the board to provide input into the strategy and business operations. I'm currently still a shareholder and advisor, but no longer sit on the board.

Conor Solutions was a startup company that we build into a successful SME providing software solutions to multiple international clients.I build up a business unit that provided consultancy services and software solutions, primarily in the data space.Responsibilities- Executive director- Head of Analytics Business Unit- Business/System Analyst- Technical Lead and Developer, Tester, Deploy, Support)- Product strategy and development- Business strategy- Business Development, Sales, Commercials, Contracts, Imports- Client relationships and success- Partner engagement and relationships (Google, Elastic, NGINX, RYFT)- Office (expansions/move/setup, operations) in the heading up the business unit focussing on Enterprise Search solutions together with Big Data and Analytic servicesNote worthy achievements and projects:- Implemented and Maintained the enterprise search solution across various portals(internal & external) & mobi sites for Africa OpCo's within the Vodacom Group- Tendered and won a large Telco operator in another country to provide a Enterprise Data Warehouse for over 40 streams- Implemented solutions to combat terrorism and assist law enforcement- Created new 3D visualisation software for prescriptive analytics (data exploration)- Was a Google Enterprise(for Work) partner and learned a lot from the innovation and way Google operates- Designed 2x new offices that embodies the unwritten ground rulesKey skills/experience learned during tenure:- Leadership skills- Streamline business using the Enterprise Operating System (EOS)- Growing a startup through the various phases through to acquisition and integration- Company governance, budgets, P&L- Enterprise Search and Analytics- Machine Learning- Business Intelligence Tools- Enterprise Data Warehousing- Data Management- CSS, Angular, Grails, Groovy, MongoDB, Git- Google Cloud, Google Search Appliance, Google Maps- Analytics using FPGA technology- Elastic Search

Excedo was a business that build a database of highly skilled IT resources through a referral program and matched them with companies.Excedo was a business unit within the Conor company, which started to help create a better way to connect valuable people in the IT industry using trust, reputation to find a employer best suited to their needs.Note worthy achievements and projects:- Learned more about recruiting- Networking

Worked as a consultant at Vodacom via Conor.Responsibility:- Analyses work- Oversaw implementation of mobile market place project initiated by Vodafone and implemented at its various OpCo's- Strategic advice around Enterprise and e-Commerce related to search.- Search Engine Optimisation

Work at Vodafone Global as part of the product team developing and rolling out a mobile market place (MyWeb) to to take advantage of the new smart phone area.Responsibilities(London Mar-Jun):- Product Release Management- Work with product development teams in London and Düsseldorf to put in place and streamline processes and standards.Responsibilities(Düsseldorf Jul-Sep):- Support of the implemented system- Troubleshooting- Deployments- Engagement specifically with the Vodacom South African to ensure successful implementationKey achievements, skills and projects:- Improved DevOps practises using Continuous Integration (Dev and Automated Deployment)(Hudson/Jenkins)- Linux (log analysis and trouble shooting)- Work with international teams with different languages and cultures within different countries

Work as a full stack developer on a Call Agent system used to market insurance products

Consult in the Content Management space(Documentum)Service as team lead and provide development services

Work on Portal project at Vodacom (Vodacom Service Provider)Responsibility- Java and frontend developer to implement various portlets to replace the existing website.

Java Developer working for contracting house supplying Document and Content management solutions using DocumentumResponsibility:- Developer- Do Pre-sales and build PoC'sNote worthy achievements and projects:- Digitise the Department of Justice Civil and Criminal court case management system using dynamic generated digital Adobe forms that can be signed using fingerprint readers.- I was the main developer and later team lead of an abstraction layer (API gateway) to display scanned images all cheques and other related images stored and managed in DocumentumKey skills/experience learned during tenure:- Worked in various industries:-- Medical Insurance (Discovery)-- Goverment (Police, Justice, National Prosecuting Agency)-- Reinsurance (SwissRe)-- First National Bank- Primarily work on the Documentum Product- SOAP, XML, Java