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Gaborone, BW

Gaborone, Botswana

FinDev is a regional software development and support company, headquartered in Gaborone Botswana. Botswana was chosen as the company's operational hub, targeting the blooming financial services industry within the Africa subcontinent. FinDev’s core competencies lie within the development of “package”, end-to-end software solutions for organisations in the.

Gaborone, Botswana

• FinDev is a specialist IT services company focusing on the development of bespoke and packaged software primarily for the financial services market, as well as providing managerial and operational IT support.
• Provide high level leadership, management and overall strategic policy determination;
• Marketing & Business Development
• Overall financial management, budget preparation etc
• Quotation and tender response preparation
• Legal… Show more FinDev is a specialist IT services company focusing on the development of bespoke and packaged software primarily for the financial services market, as well as providing managerial and operational IT.

Gaborone, Botswana

Responsible for providing leadership and vision to the Technology Department,in strategic and tactical planning,development,evaluation and accordance with the Bank overall strategic objective in order to ensure that the department is run and managed efficiently.

Gaborone Botswana

• Key Contributions:
• Technical lead and project manager for the selection of the Core Banking systems with an allocated budget of USD450K. The product was selected, configured and successfully implemented within 90 days and USD50K under.
• Undertake the selection, procurement and confirguration of all the Bank’s supporting IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, Swift & Bloomberg services, as well as office automation systems and accounting… Show.
• Undertake the selection, procurement and confirguration of all the Bank’s supporting IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, Swift & Bloomberg services, as well as office automation systems and accounting.
• Build assist and implement the automatic interfaces between the core banking system and;- Swift (payments)- Sage CS3 accounting system- Bloomberg (Forex rate feed)
• Technical lead on the Bank of Botswana pre-operations inspection committee, with responsibilities for producing all IT policy documents including disaster recovery plans, IT security, systems administration, physical.

Harare, Zimbabwe

• Key Contributions:
• Managed an IT team of 15 members and represented the Information Systems department at IT board level
• Full commercialisation of the internal software development division of the Group, incorporating the definition and set up of all the development and support infrastructures.
• Technical and project management lead in the successful implementation of the voucher processing and imaging systems for the Bank’s clearing department, including the build and… Show more Key Contributions:
• Technical and project management lead in the successful implementation of the voucher processing and imaging systems for the Bank’s clearing department, including the build and incorporation of business rules for both.
• Project manager and technical lead for the successful major version upgrade to the retail bank’s core banking software (Globus).

Harare, Zimbabwe

• Key Contributions:
• Core Banking Software – As the principle technical liaison, Globus was selected after a detailed evaluation of six offerings, configured with the business rules and implemented within four months.
• Hardware – Selection & procurement of all the computer hardware, including the Globus server, ATM switch server, Hardware Encryption Modules and communication equipment,including appropriate disaster recovery equipment.
• Communications –Conducted a… Show more Key Contributions:
• Communications –Conducted a detailed technical and cost evaluation exercise of all available communication mediums in the country, allowing the Bank to take advantage of the most cost effective and resilient options.
• Front-End Processor (ATM/POS services)– Technical and managerial lead on the product selection committee as well as the head of the implementation team. Managed the national Switch certification process that allowed.

Harare Zimbabwe

• Key Contributions:
• Recruited and managed the bank’s team of software developers.
• Conducted the Business Analysis and subsequent software development the bank’s core banking system (Asset Management System). This comprehensive treasury and asset management system, comprising of over 300 programs.
• Conducted the Business Analysis and subsequent software development the bank’s core banking system (Asset Management System). This comprehensive treasury and asset management system, comprising of over 300 programs.
• Achieved an average of 99.9% up-time over the companies internally written core banking software
• Converted the stand-alone, non-integrated systems and programs of the company to a fully integrated, multi-user environment.

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