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South Africa

Uitenhage

Uitenhage

Plan and develop long term strategies to facilitate business expansion and improve efficiencies and effectiveness.• Oversees all manufacturing and production operations to ensure production meets the required deadlines, quality standards and is completed within the operational budget.• Oversees all manufacturing personnel functions including recruitment, development and assessment. Leadership development, succession planning and responsibility assignments are measured KPI’s for 250 employees.• Implement and review quality management and safety systems.• Develop, monitor and implement the operational budget with KPI’s for each department. Daily reviews of key cost elements to ensure effective resource allocation and cost control.• Directs continuous improvements programmes across multiple departments.• Directs the establishment, implementation and maintenance of production standards in accordance with the company focus on TPM, Lean manufacturing principles, statistical process control and predictive analytics for facility and process optimisation.

Uitenhage Area, South Africa

Plan and develop long term strategies to facilitate business expansion and improve efficiencies and effectiveness.• Oversees all manufacturing and production operations to ensure production meets the required deadlines, quality standards and is completed within the operational budget.• Oversees all manufacturing personnel functions including recruitment, development and assessment. Leadership development, succession planning and responsibility assignments are measured KPI’s for 250 employees.• Implement and review quality management and safety systems.• Develop, monitor and implement the operational budget with KPI’s for each department. Daily reviews of key cost elements to ensure effective resource allocation and cost control.• Directs continuous improvements programmes across multiple departments.• Directs the establishment, implementation and maintenance of production standards in accordance with the company focus on TPM, Lean manufacturing principles, statistical process control and predictive analytics for facility and process optimisation.

Uitenhage Area, South Africa

Sourcing, evaluation and implementation of warehouse management system to integrate into Syspro ERP.• Ownership of the warehouse management system to improve stock visibility and to reduce stock holding.• Responsible for all inventory movements and stock control to ensure all parts are delivered to production OTIF and that all customers receive goods OTIF.• Management of 11 warehouses containing 5000 SKU’s.• Development and training of staff compliment of 79.• Performing systems analysis and data analytics functions to optimise stock control and processes.• Develop strategies to reduce stock holding and improve OTIF to all internal and external customers throughout the value chain.

Uitenhage Area, South Africa

Responsible for servers and networking infrastructure, software and in-house development of business critical solutions covering a user base of 200 with 300 networkable devices.• Responsible for network security and risk analysis and mitigation.• Ensuring conformance to regulatory requirements.• Upgrading of end of life server infrastructure to VMWare virtual server solution with replication to DRP site.• Ensuring business requirements are documented and managing cross functional work teams to develop user requirements for software solutions based on business value streams.• Systems analysis and design to develop software that optimises business processes.• Standardisation of software development methodology to include user specifications documentation, software development standards, UAT, implementation, version control and end user support.• Development and content generation of the company website.• Redevelopment of the company Intranet to include easy access apps for key business functions.• Syspro ERP owner and team leader responsible for data accuracy, systems performance and functionality and managing the upgrade path.

I develop customized management reports in various formats based on various criteria for automotive OEM's.RGT recently entered the banking sector by the redevelopment of the Grahamstown Building Society's banking system. I am responsible for the Mortgage bond / re-advance and loan application modules as well as account management.Call centre management also plays a big role for dealerships' after sales service. I developed customer profiling, fault reporting and questionnaire based service rating for the call centre management application.My daily tasks included: Liaising with clients in order to gather information regarding their specific needs / requirementsAnalysis and designBusiness Analysis and system specification documentationProject leader on various projects or project modulesDatabase design and optimizationReport presentation development (HTML, Excel, Crystal Reports, PDF)Co-ordinating and managing integration of the Accounts application banking module/s Achievements:Redesigning and managing the rollout of the SQS system to incorporate multiple industries, i.e. body shops, computing and radiology, allowing our customer to drastically expand their client base and generate different revenue streams.Through the use of clear, concise OO based re-usable code; I have built a software repository with re-usable classes that can be accessed from the entire banking system. This has considerably reduced development time and cost.By redesigning Landrover SA's management reports, they are now able to compare year on year, quarterly and monthly sales figures at a glance.Through the use of the Customer profiling module, Subaru SA can easily access their buyers' demographics allowing their dealerships to place an emphasis on advertising their target market.Technical snapshot:VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net, Infragistics, Crystal Reporting, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000, DTS, SQL, MS Access, MS Project, MS Visio, XML, VB6

Comau South Africa Press Tools and PartsComau SA Body Systems is a subsidiary of FIAT and is a tier 1 supplier of assembly lines and components to automotive manufacturers. The other plant, Comau South Africa Press Tools and Parts, did die casting for various companies including VW South Africa, Husqvarna, Defy and General Motors South Africa.; Apart from my software analyst role, my focus was on the strategic management and alignment of ICT resources. This was achieved by means of liaising with head office in Italy and other business units regarding global ICT strategies, optimizing the use of the ICT budget, implementation of cost reduction strategies and ensuring operational excellence through ICT integration and optimization.Secondly, due to a change in the ERP solution from SysPro to SAP, project management was very important. Syspro required business analysis, design, integration and administration, and during the SAP rollout, I was responsible for platform readiness, data migration and the communications infrastructure.Achievements:Through my budget optimization, IT costs was significantly reduced (by 30%), without any real risk to the daily operations. Through the focus on operational excellence, appropriate funds and management went into our design office, which allowed the CAD/CAM designers to operate more efficiently and cost effectively. During the SAP rollout, all platform issues where addressed in advance, data migration verified and communications infrastructures where in place by the time I left.Technical snapshot:VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000, DTS, SQL, MS Access, MS Project, MS Visio, XML, VB6

I was responsible for analysis and design of bespoke software, which included TimeLog - a time tracking solution for company wide capturing of working hours - with integration into the project management work breakdown structure. Other projects included the automation and co-ordination of the financial month end, developing an asset management solution for our IT assets and developing Engineering Change Request - a solution to control the process flow of engineering specification changes.My daily tasks included: Analysis and design of bespoke softwareOperational supportBacking up, restoring and administering mission critical databasesFirst line support for CAD / CAM, Unix, Telephony, Syspro (ERP)Infrastructure support including email, databases and applications supportAchievements:By implementing TimeLog, I was able to eliminate disparate legacy systems that managed employee clock hours, access control and hours booked to various sections of projects. In doing so, comparing man hours spent to available budget and allowing project manager's easy access to management information was achieved. The FIS experience was simplified and centralized by seamless integration with the ERP system.ECR allowed a complete audit trail for all engineering changes, including management at various organizational levels, as well as validation of requests against available budgets which fed into the project managers' overall project budget. For the first time, managers were able to quickly and accurately see all expenditures relating to a task in one location. Various scheduled data extractions were still being dumped into excel using SQL server DTS. This included using DTS scripting to place the reports into certain members of management's specified locations.Technical snapshot:VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000, DTS, SQL, MS Access, MS Project, MS Visio, XML, VB6

London, United Kingdom

Information Systems is a UK based supplier of tailored and integrated business applications based on the latest Microsoft technologies.My daily tasks included: Working with clients to analyse their needsWebmasterAnalysis and design of bespoke softwareResearch and development of new IT platformsAchievements:Ladbrokes (www.ladbrokes.co.uk) required a system to provide punters with up to the minute racing results from around the country. Information was gathered from different sources (local store databases, the central database at head office, data deciphered from an incoming linefeed and results captured and displayed from Ladbrokes' web development team). The result (SMSBetting) was one of the first products in the UK to SMS (text message) punters their racing results in real-time.I expanding and streamlined Ladbrokes's (a subsidiary of the parent company registered on the FTSE100) shop bet taking system. This is a client-server Visual Basic 6.0 suite of applications running on SQL Server, with each shop having a fail over local database that needs to be synchronized with the central server at head office. Scalability was a huge issue, as there are over 2000 shops, and each shop might run multiple instances of the application. By implementing this solution, the whole business was automated including tasks like taking bets, doing payouts, printing receipts, calculating payouts and creating/managing exceptions for auditing purposes.I formed part of the company wide drive in promoting the development and use of software for the handheld/mobile platforms. We were particularly looking into how mobile devices can be implemented in the construction industry to ensure cost effectiveness onsite. This was later expanded to Benjy's, one of the largest snack food chains in the UK.By using the latest technologies, I reengineered the legacy website from ASP/HTML to an interactive ASP.Net and SQL server site.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, Management And Operations, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Awarded Schnellecke Top Graduate for 2013

Applied Management (Software), Information Technology Environment

National Diploma Information Technology, Information Technology

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