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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Lead the implementation of Systecon software at Seaspan, ensuring alignment between the Digital Transformation Office, Systecon Directors, Seaspan Project Managers, and the contracted scope of work. Responsibilities included overseeing implementation, training personnel, and providing necessary support.• Collect, coordinate, and expedite technical data for various analysis activities, including Functional Analysis, Failure Modes, and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Reliability Analysis, Repair Analysis, Level of Repair Analysis (LORA), Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Analysis, and Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA).• Identify and determine critical spares for equipment by reviewing Technical Publications and collaborating with Engineering, Materiel, and Supply teams.• Analyze usage data and maintenance information to address and control equipment failures or propose improvements to enhance ship availability.• Review and recommend updates to Maintenance Plans, Preventive and Corrective Maintenance Schedules, Instructions, and Performance Tests.

Sasolburg, Free State, South Africa

Developed and managed Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) simulation models, performing statistical analysis on equipment failure data to calculate system availability and asset life cycles.• Led all RAM projects, providing critical feedback on preventive and corrective maintenance plans and identifying key equipment for optimization.• Owned and managed changes to RAM data models, developing solution designs and architecture documentation for complex systems, including Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA).• Articulated design decisions for RAM data models and incorporated team feedback to enhance model quality.• Collaborated with project and reliability teams to ensure compliance with data quality standards and architectural guidelines.• Supervised Engineers in Training (EIT) assigned to RAM study projects, guiding them through the project lifecycle.• Created and maintained Sasol’s Reliability database, incorporating data from various sources, including Offshore and Onshore Reliability Data (OREDA) and expert opinions.• Developed and managed databases for Reliability projects across Sasol Groups based on Process Flow Diagrams and Mechanical Flow Diagrams.• Applied analytical techniques to assess and improve the reliability of equipment, systems, and processes, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

My responsibilities at ABSA Bank included: • Create data visualizations that are interactive for owner of a project. • Predict patterns and prevailing trends from big data in the home loan division. • Developing of retention models, churn models and predictive models to keep clients up to date with the most recent insight analysis through various data mining techniques.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Responsibilities regarding the work at FNB included: • Ad-hoc projects: Doing analysis and modelling for all businesses in FNB as requested• Developed FNBs Segmentation and the Income Estimate Model whereby one would categorize a salaried customer into segments on FNB’s mainframe. • A Lifetime Value (LTV) Model was developed for the Business Development function within FNB. Using the LTV model, FNB conducted customer-level forecasting and predictions to anticipate future customer value and assess their worth.