Gerhard Maritz Email & Phone Number

South Africa

• Supplying Architecture consultation via Edge Consulting (www.edgeconsulting.co.za)Consultation on best practices for Architecture and Governance.Creating and ratifying Enterprise Architectures for MTN’s Business.
• Enterprise Architecture Roadmap establishment for Customer Experience and Digital Business domains
• Creating Solution Design artefacts in order to support the Enterprise Architecture and business unit roadmaps.
• Consultation with business unit Executives on Architecture roadmaps, solution delivery and new business needs.
• Solution Designs and consultation for Business unit requirements (day to day and long-term strategies)
• Leading and collaborating in Joint Architecture Design sessions, with business and technical stakeholders.

• Consultation to MTN in the capacity of a Governance, Service Integrator and Solutions oversight, on a technology transformation programme.Consultation on the RODOD stack covering the ORACLE modules and technologies in.
• BRM (Billing)
• SIEBEL (CRM)
• OSM (Order orchestration)
• AIA (Integration enablement)Ensuring legacy integration and enablement from a SOA perspective.Documenting and creating Options Analysis, Statement Of Work, Solution Concept and Integration Specifications.

Vodacom

• Consultation to Vodacom in the capacity of a Governance and Solutions oversight, on a technology transformation programme.Consultation on the RODOD stack covering the ORACLE modules and technologies in Communications:
• OPH4C (Product management)
• UIM (Inventory management)
• BRM (Billing)
• SIEBEL (CRM)
• OSM (Order orchestration)

Vodacom Account, MTN Group Account

• My mandate was to simplify the SOA “methodology” from a conceptual to induction realization.This was achieved through Specialized Integration framework consultation on verticals:
• Business Analysis
• Functional Analysis
• Solution Design and Analysis
• Operational instantiation and realization
• SDLC

• Assisted, Consulted, Created and Managed in:
• Establishment of an operational team to support Cell C’s MVNO/MVNE model
• Created policies and procedures for Comverse's Managed Services model
• Alert and reporting automation
• Comverse ONE architecture consultation to Cell C
• Operational enablement (action/methodology/design and coaching)

• I fulfilled the role of Design Authority and Domain Lead for the SIEBEL CRM Sales Portfolio Business Analysis team.Successfully providing:
• Model driven functional solutions.
• Liaisons with various domain leads (Vodacom and it’s Vendors).
• Efficient model driven designs.
• Technical viability assessments.
• eTOM, NGOSS and TAM Knowledge transfer.

• I was part of the CMRB programme team. I performed and fulfilled several roles concurrently on the programme. I performed the E2E Solutions Architect lead role for the design team, delivering a Customer Management.
• Applications Architect (CMRB Design Authority)
• Integration Architect (CMRB Pre-Paid Customer Management Project)
• Functional Architect (CMRB Pre-Paid Customer Management Project)
• Infrastructure Architect (CMRB Pre-Paid Customer Management Project)Functions performed:
• Solution Analysis in accordance to the TMForum principals (eTOM, SID, TAM) - NGOSS.

MTN Account

I was part of the IBM Global Services team on the MTN Account. My role was on a senior consultant level to support MTN in the retail billing domain. I designed, developed and implemented a CDR/EDR recon application that assists MTN in monitoring all events flowing thru the various systems. Functions performed:Software problem analysis.Software.

• I reported directly to the Head of Operations OSS/BSS and beginning 2009 reported to the Head of Planning BSS/OSS.During this time I was directly responsible for ensuring Operational, Process and Design optimisation.
• Budget requirements
• Technology and Business roadmap feasibility
• Best Practise ArchitectureThe following actions where fulfilled on a day-to-day basis:
• Senior Technical and business consultant to Cell C’s OSS/BSS Team.
• Senior Design Analyst / Architect for all projects as requested.

I was part of the Comverse IN (Intelligent Network) division. My expertise and application areas consisted of SMSC, VMS (Voice Mail System) and the Comverse PrePaid Platform (RTB). I was part of the Comverse project team that implemented a converge solution, using the Comverse IN platform (RTB) and the FTS LEAP billing application. Functions.

Functions performed:General Management – Resources & workload planning. Arbitration, Alignment of the support environment to meet the company’s strategic objectives. Management of 30 staff and 2 team leadersLiaise with other 3rd party support units, the purpose of such liaison being to improve communication within the company and to improve knowledge of.

Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack

11g

Prepaid Platform & Voicemail Platform

National Diploma Advance Project Management

Hp Ux System Administrator

Shell Scripting And Unix Administration

Mrp, Tools And Foundation Logistics Baan

Mcse, A+

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