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Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

• A management team member, ensuring that the strategic objectives of Lightstone are met and actively pursued, balanced with the short-term tactical and operational needs• Leading multiple development teams across Banking, Insurance, Real Estate, Logistics and Retail industries• Product Manager for the Platform Technology build within Lightstone. Design, prioritise and coordinate across multiple business units to facilitate the Platform Technology adoption• Platform business transformation course facilitator and tutor – trained more than 80 colleagues to understand and adopt the Platform Business Model• Established the Evolutionary Architecture methods and principles within Lightstone – acknowledges that change happens and that the design must make that easy, cheap and fast• Established the architecture function within Lightstone – Common patterns and practices which allow similar problems to be solved in similar ways

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

• A management team member, ensuring that the strategic objectives of Lightstone are met and actively pursued, balanced with the short-term tactical and operational needs• Implemented Agile development methodologies which lead to better prioritisation and delivery of software products• Commissioned the re-architecture and build of the core data asset in Lightstone. This enabled vastly increased data quality and consistency across Data and Analytics teams. Also enabled additional products that were not possible before

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

London, United Kingdom

Penned and evangelised Information Management Strategy incorporating people, processes and technology. This lead to major increases in data availability across business boundaries via a central data-portal and allowing safe, ad hoc data queries and data reuse. Also expanding the Business Intelligence capability into analytics and executive dashboards.Implement Information Lifecycle Management using Database Archive technologies selected via an extensive RFP process. Achieving lasting improvements in website performance and maintainability.Created data-store selection guiding principles, allowing consistent and repeatable database selection based on data characteristics and usage patterns. Preventing unnecessary divergence in technology.Created Enterprise Data Model; customised for ASOS from industry standards and patterns, which enables consistent designs in data storage and movement.Produced data flow diagrams and definitions to highlight and drive the need for formal information management and governance practices

London, United Kingdom

Define and implement complete information architecture landscape ranging from data principles & guidelines, metadata management and modelling, multi-stream data migration & consolidation, enterprise data model definition & propagation and business intelligence and reporting.Key Achievements:• Presenter and panel member at Master Data Management Summit Europe 2012• Examine and plan execution of business intelligence (BI) strategy and roadmap by collating all reporting needs and tools and defining target architecture. Vast cost savings and synergy across business due to single platform and lowered maintenance and support costs.• Create product management framework by examining existing products and relationship. Business and IT work to the same common ontology which reduces confusion and costs in a complicated environment.• Established working group to define Integration Strategy by utilising internal and external resources. Enforces coherent technical designs, reuse and collaboration between teams.• Define and socialise Enterprise Data Model by collating existing information and discovering new information. The result is a focused and consistent view of business data domains that improves communication between people and systems.• Coordinate multi-stream data migration through details understanding of business domain constraints and capabilities resulting in a cohesive and successful data migration.• Definition and guidance of data principles and guidelines regarding data quality and metadata. Output of development teams are aligned and standardised.• Defined and outlined data integration payload structures by designing and guiding development teams to use canonical data models. The result is consistent data structures across all aspects of data in transit and in rest.

London, United Kingdom

Guide business in finding optimum solutions pertaining to information architecture. This includes processes and data modelling for master data management, vendor selection and information lifecycle management.Key Achievements:• Generate data models and processes for master data management project by collaborating with analysts and data owners. This resulted in quality improvement of business intelligence and significant reduction in supply chain costs.• Formulating the information architecture roadmap by utilising identifying areas of possible improvement. This ensures alignment with business strategy and avoids unnecessary spend.• Broaden use of Enterprise Data Model (EDM) and align it to business processes by communicating and supporting to project teams. The result is data model uniformity, increased productivity and cost saving across projects.• Create and promote data modelling standards (conceptual, logical and physical) and guidelines by evaluating existing data model pain-points and applying industry standard techniques. This leads to increased productivity and capability of solution architects and reduction in subsequent support and maintenance costs. Experienced user of IBM InfoSphere Data Architect• Established practice of capturing technical metadata as part of the software development life cycle by education and document template changes. This lays the foundation for widening the scope to business metadata and ultimately the reduction of costs though improved information quality.• Leading numerous successful vendor selections by matching business needs and requirements to technology solutions. The outcome is a fit for purpose, cost effective acquisitions

London, United Kingdom

Analysed, designed and implemented Point of Sale (POS) system improvements used by 2000 stores and 3000 call-centre staff. Re-wrote telecommunication business website and integrated new Content Management System (CMS).Key Achievements:• Promoted to Information Architect because of data modelling experience and skills. That resulted in the strategic approach to data modelling being developed• Designed, modelled and maintained telecommunication-business website using data model techniques which allowed increased flexibility and product speed-to-market• Implemented UML as a standard design technique in high level design documentation resulting in increased agility and reduced costs for high level design documents• Headed agile development methodologies implementation and coordinated agile-champion training. IT function received fast and effective adoption and acceptance and the business receives better software, faster and closer to specification• Championed agile mentor and team leader role. Leading and supporting project teams. Resulting in increased business satisfaction and shortened project delivery time

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Operational Support Information System (OSIS) analyst programmer for South African Department of Defence. Details are protected by non-disclosure agreement

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Development manager for Rubico ERP v2 and in-house replication code base used in mining and construction industry.Key Achievements:• Managed Uniface development team. Estimated and organised workload distribution leading to effective development team• Prioritised business software development by positively engaging with stakeholders in order to maximum business value

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Captured requirements, analysed, designed and developed Rubico ERP v1 and v2.Key Achievements:• Promoted to development manager after demonstrating leadership and resourcefulness. The result of this was a reinvigorated, positive team.• Learned new programming language by persistent and self-reliant determination. Became a motivated asset with keen business knowledge

Digital Transformation: Platform Strategies For Success

Bsc, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Volleyball

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