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City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Leading the presales division including a team of Presales Solutions Architects, the bid office and lead generation activities.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

South Africa

Heading up the solutions architecture initiatives in the Customer Engagement department of our South African business. Performing all presales activities for the expanding business development, sales and account management team. Daily customer presentations, technical designs for proposals, RFI, RFP, RFQs and bridge in between the product, DevOps and Delivery teams.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Managed Operations for Sybrin SA and managing the leadership team including the, Project Delivery Manager, Testing Manager, Services Delivery Manager, BA Manager, and Technical Leads

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Managed the whole service delivery (support) team for all the Sybrin SA clients' solutions.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Review all artifacts produced by the BA’s within the Case Management BU, including Business Requirement Specifications, Functional Specification Documents, User Guides and Integration Specifications• Assist BA’s by coaching and guiding them on BA, technical or Sybrin specific matters• Manage BA resource availability and assign BA’s to projects based on their experience and competencies• Analyse the detailed time sheets of the BA’s to determine conformity to their responsibilities and working hours• Track the costs associated with the BA hours spent on projects compared to the allowable/contracted hours• Ensure customer success by ensuring retrospective analysis meetings are held and ensure lessons learned are implemented in future projects• Suggest improvements and efficiencies that can be made to our product and improve the containerization thereof by introducing new accelerators• Assist the Sales team with various pre-sales activities including identification of opportunities, requirements gathering, handling clarification talks with the client, determining the work breakdown of activities and determining the effort required to complete the work, drawing up of proposed project plans, assisting with documenting the proposals and conducting demonstrations of our products and solutions to new potential customers.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Establishes milestones and has a significant role in the assignment of tasks and/or responsibilities.• Providing expert technical knowledge in the systems design, build and testing of the platform specific versions of the software products, on varying platforms.• Mentors the team, accurately decide on the correct product/modules/features without conflict.• Works as an intermediary between client, product architecture and the rest of the project team.• Leads the technical landscape of the project and ensures the correct quality and standards are in place.• Obtains input from, and formal agreement to, requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders.• Establishes requirements baselines.• Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organization. This could be technical, development, people, client or industry knowledge.• Analyses, designs, plans, executes and evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets. Analyses requirements and advises on scope and options for continuous operational improvement. Takes all requirements into account when making proposals. Demonstrates creativity, innovation and ethical thinking in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer/ stakeholder.• Makes decisions which impact the success of assigned work, i.e. results, deadlines and budget. Has significant influence over the allocation and management of resources appropriate to given assignments.• Leads on user/customer collaboration throughout all stages of work.• Assist the Sales team with various pre-sales activities including identification of opportunities, requirements gathering, handling clarification talks with the client, determining the work breakdown of activities and determining the effort required to complete the work, drawing up of proposed project plans, assisting with documenting the proposals and conducting demonstrations of our products and solutions to new potential customers.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Managing 3 project teams, each working on multiple projects across multiple clients• Weekly reporting for internal and external steerco meetings consisting of status of current project’s timelines, cost, quality, risks and pipeline projects• Handling difficult client discussions, resolution of problems and mitigating risks• Assist team members with any difficult tasks across PM, BA and Development knowledge areas • Attend to all escalations arising from the projects of the 3 teams • Leads project planning, scheduling, controlling and reporting activities for strategic, high impact, high risk projects.• Manages risk and ensures that solutions to problems are implemented in line with change control processes.• Determines the strategic approach to understanding stakeholder objectives and requirements.• Works with all interested parties, to define and gain agreement on, the principles to apply and to establish effective relationships between stakeholders, including responsibility for the relationship between technology functions and end users.• Establishes and promotes the overall vision for how stakeholder objectives are met and determines organizational roles and alignment.• Actively manages relationships with the most senior stakeholders, and is the ultimate escalation point for issue resolution.• Understands, explains and presents complex ideas to audiences at all levels in a persuasive and convincing manner.• Assist the Sales team with various pre-sales activities including identification of opportunities, requirements gathering, handling clarification talks with the client, determining the work breakdown of activities and determining the effort required to complete the work, drawing up of proposed project plans, assisting with documenting the proposals and conducting demonstrations of our products and solutions to new potential customers.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Run the daily operations of a small project team consisting of developers and a tester• Manage multiple projects simultaneously performing all Project Management and Business Analyst activities for those projects from project initiation until closeout including all requirements gathering, scope management, documentation and change control during the entire SDLC• Work with minimal direction and most activities we’re self-initiated • Assist the Sales team with various pre-sales activities including identification of opportunities, requirements gathering, handling clarification talks with the client, determining the work breakdown of activities and determining the effort required to complete the work, drawing up of proposed project plans, assisting with documenting the proposals and conducting demonstrations of our products and solutions to new potential customers.• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines)• Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project. • Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and ensures regular and accurate communication to stakeholders.• Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.• Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.• Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools and techniques for projects; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Perform all configuration and implementation activities on various projects as part of a project team including: o User interface design o Configuration of scheduled Windows services o Writing SQL functions and procedures used within our software suite o Writing complex SQL views for reporting and MI purposes o Troubleshooting issues raised by Sybrin and Business testers during CIT, SIT and UAT testing cycles o Performing setup and deployments of environments o Completing Deployment/Implementation plan documentation o Completing support handover technical documentation• Perform some project administrative tasks maintaining defect trackers, managing change & updating documentation• Configures software and equipment and tests platform specific versions of one or more software products.• Reports the outcome of testing and identifies potential improvements to the process and to the software products according to ag reed designs and standards.• Mentors and teach others in the team regarding the development standards, delivery and how the platform is structured.• Pre-empt problems as they build/develop the solution.• Has the experience of failures which is used to improve their delivery and solution quality.• Troubleshoot outside of own domain, provide instructions for replication of an issue.• Detailed knowledge about deploying to runtime environments.• Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing.• Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.• Defines complex/new integration builds. Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.• Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build.• Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Configures software and equipment and tests platform specific versions of one or more software products.• Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.• Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.• Advise and analyse business requirements on how it will potentially work within the Sybrin environment.• Perform all configuration and implementation activities on various projects as part of a project team including:o User interface designo Configuration of scheduled Windows serviceso Writing SQL functions and procedures used within our software suiteo Troubleshooting issues raised by Sybrin and Business testers during CIT, SIT and UAT testing cycleso Performing setup and deployments of environmentso Completing Deployment/Implementation plan documentationo Completing support handover technical documentation

Diagnosed and cured problems, being hardware or software on clients computers. Built up PC's. Assisted clients with technical specifications and sales.

Advanced Business Analysis Programme, Pass With Merit

Short Learning Programme, Project Management, With Distinction

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Information Technology