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Ireland

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Responsible for digital transformation within Hollard.Financial management of the digital transformation budget.Build a digital development competency within Hollard to handle the development, delivery and support of all the digital systems of engagement. Activate technology as an enabler of digital transformation by selecting the highest-priority digital investments.Digitally enhanced customer experiences for anytime, anywhere insurance (Mobile, Web & ChatBot).Optimize operations through digitalization by enabling self-service and digitizing claims management.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Responsible for engaging and building strong relationships with senior business stakeholders.Provide advice and strategic guidance on IT and Business initiatives. Responsible for solution design and guidance through the governance framework.Implemented an Architecture Modelling standards for Conceptual, Logical and Physical designs.Provide mentoring and guidance to the Development Team Leaders and Developers.Design, document and implement reference architecture for Hollard Group.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Solution Architect consulting for Barclays Africa / ABSAResponsible for creating standard architectural practices, design patterns and modeling repository and tools, to enhance the impact analysis for any proposed changes.

Ireland

Leading a highly experienced and multi-functional team with the responsibility to Advice Senior Management on Technology investments and initiatives. Planning the short and long-term technology strategies. Providing leadership in ensuring appropriate technology usage. Assessing new and emerging technologies to determine application to current programs. Developing IT technology standards and protocols inline with federal requirements and industry “best practice". (14th in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2011)

Ireland

Successfully introduced and implemented the SCRUM methodology and approach for the development teams. This created self empowered and engaged team members that planned together, executed together and retrospectively reviewed their quality and timely delivery with the focus to improve together.My responsibilities were to plan the short, medium and long term vision for the Real Estate product group. Managing the development and deployment of the products. Documenting and enforcing the development standards, patterns and technologies.

United States

I help set up an office in the Frederick, Maryland, USA area. In partnership with the company’s founders, I identify opportunities and risks for delivering the company’s services as a web-based business, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to the business's success. I also identify technology trends and evolving social behavior that may support or impede the success of the business.

Ireland

The Senior Team Lead was an extension of the Senior Developer responsibilities to also include the mentoring and coaching of Senior Developers and Team Leads. This was a new role that was created as the company grew.

Ireland

I was involved in the development of a number of ASP (JScript) and ASP.NET (C#) solutions, at all stages of the lifecycle, from requirements gathering ,technical design and development, deployment and post-deployment support. I was responsible for researching various C# and ASP.NET technologies and how they could be integrated into our various systems. Provide mentorship to other developers as to how to use the various re-usable components and also provide general guidance and assistance. Direct communication with clients to agree requirements and discuss time lines etc.Technologies: ASP (JScript) , ASP.NET (C#), JavaScript, Css, Html, Xml, Xslt, Web Services, Web Forms, Custom Controls, SQL Stored Procedures, Functions, View, Triggers. Tools: Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, DB Ghost for Database Source Control, Subversion for Source Control, RedGate Database Compare and RedGate Data Compare.

Togaf 9.1 - Level 1 & 2

Archimate 2.0 Certification, 82%

Archimate 2.0

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Informatics

Activities and Societies: Member of the central council for the first year students at the university and the member for sport.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Served on the Student Council from (1992-1994) Participated in the following sports; Rugby, Cricket, Athletics.