Gerhard Jacobs Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, GP, ZA

South Africa

Pretoria Area, South Africa

I assisted Assupol with their development processes as well as established an enterprise architecture capability. I implemented a functioning Arhictecture Review Board that is effective in making decisions to drive the Assupol IT division in supporting business. I mapped the baseline application environment, created some conceptual target application views.

Gauteng, South Africa

I managed the software development projects to implement systems that would improve the primary health care experience of patients visiting the Accident and Emergency units. This included in house development and testing as well as managing various vendors.

Sandton

Analysis and modeling of the Finance System for Discovery Business Insurance

Sandton

• Consulting at Nedbank as a Solution Architect, through Knotion Consulting
• Solution Architect in the Core Banking Product On-boarding Team
• Scrum master for a cross functional team responsible to develop a Product On-boarding Engine

Gauteng

• In my role as Lead Architect on the National Cash Management Solution project for the SARB:
• I lead a team of architects and business analysts.
• I ensured that the integration between the SARB, the commercial banks and CIT companies were successful by understanding and mapping the business processes for all entities and then designing supporting application and.
• I was responsible for implementation governance ensuring the quality and conformance of the solution to the architecture and designs.
• I ensured that the Business, Data, Application and Technology architectures were modelled accurately in the SARB’s modelling tool of choice.

Digital Architect is my own concern, running since 2004. I have done some work through it for different clients, including custom development, and consulting in Development, Architecture and Project Management.Often i have been consulting full time to my customers, these customers can be seen on this page.Other times i have consulted directly to customers.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Line manager to the developers and testers at Altrisk
• Growing the Developers, Testers and Business Analysts into a strong team
• Managing the development team ensuring delivery of quality software
• Managing the maintenance team, putting metrics etc. in place
• Building a knowledge base in order to be able to better support and improve the products at Altrisk
• Documenting of current processes and systems

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Looking after all SAP Basis and DB2 related work for Standard Bank Core Banking for scheduling and resource planning.
• Scheduling and driving various upgrades through the environments as well as building new environments.
• Performing the role of change manager for the SAP Basis team.
• Managing production implementations for the SAP Basis team.
• Managing projects for the installation of hardware into the Standard Bank environment.
• Being the middleman between the application project and the various delivery arms for infrastructure, co-ordinating all these interactions and ensuring a smooth delivery of infrastructure.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Reporting to the Project Management Office
• Managing up to 18 resources on different projects at any one time.
• Engaging with business to understand and workshop their needs.
• Building strong self directed development teams, using agile concepts.
• Ensuring that teams are motivated and work to their fullest potential, addressing anything that hamper their progress
• Working with Business Analysts to ensure accurate capturing of requirements and proposed solutions for the team to work from.

Centurion

• Reporting to the Business Unit Manager for Microsoft Technology Solutions.
• Development and implementation of custom software applications
• Developed a web based (asp.net) performance management tool for BHP Billiton.
• Developed a demo on workflow for Anglo Gold, using K2.Net 2003 and ASP.Net.
• Part of the team for Microsoft, rolling out Microsoft Project Server for Telkom. Lots of customizations had to be done. Extensive use of asp.net as well as Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (Nov 2003 – May 2004)
• Designing and developing mostly Internet / intranet solutions using the latest Microsoft technologies.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Reporting to the Development Manager.
• Developing Internet solutions using a wide variety of technologies.
• Projects included an online golfing shop and an online life insurance / investment brokerage for Liberty Life.

Vandirbijlpark

• Reporting to the MIS Manager.
• Maintaining and improving legacy mainframe systems written in Cobol, as well as being involved with data warehousing.
• EIS / MIS systems.