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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Provide strategic leadership, guidance, and support to accomplish organizational objectives. Implement effective strategies and industry’s best practices to improve market positioning of the company and ensure.
• Analyzed and optimized production resources during complex and challenging situations.
• Served as a key point in restructuring business sustainability.
• Improved bottom line results significantly by implementing enterprise resource planning processes.
• Provided support to ensure on-time delivery of quality product through reorganization of all operations.
• Defined and implemented real-time processing of production activities to ensure proactive management and control of bottom-line results. Show less

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Drove the entire technical development of product, sales, and marketing, including product R&D with a focus on increasing revenue generation. Led and completed the product diversification and vertical integration.
• Significantly increased sales figure from R110M to R250M through the implementation of effective marketing strategies and approaches.
• Improved turnover and customer base by identifying areas of concern and recommending enhancements.
• Determined and secured long term contracts (successful tendering processes) to ensure business growth. Show less

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Improved bottom-line results and system’s performance by executing enhancements and changes. Headed and completed the implementation of enterprise resource planning program as per company’s policies, procedures and.
• Generated an average year-on-year growth of more than 150% and a turnover of R260M per year.
• Restructured processes and procedures to effectively implement enterprise… Show more Improved bottom-line results and system’s performance by executing enhancements and changes. Headed and completed the implementation.
• Restructured processes and procedures to effectively implement enterprise resource planning process.
• Achieved 2% improvement in material input costs through realisation of effective procurement processes.
• Developed and implemented a just-in-time delivery concept to improve cash flow results.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Development of new business opportunities in the electrical supply industry, specifically related to maintenance activities. Selling of transformer (16kVA - 800kVA) maintenance site services and workshop repairs (power distribution services) for head office in Johannesburg.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Co-founder of the business. Specialised in the development and manufacturing of equipment for the measurement of moisture in the insulation of power transformers, and the removal of such moisture.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Co-founder of the business. Responsible for consultation, design and installation of TV distribution, telephony, computer, alarm and audio systems for the domestic and commercial market.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Part of the engineering management team of the Western Cape Distribution Business. Responsible for the general management of all workshop facilities in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces. The main objective was to commercialise the facilities (electrical, mechanical and transport workshops) with a staff compliment of more than 200.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

A temporary appointment to re-engineer the cable construction business, consisting of a staff compliment of more than 320. Reported directly to the Regional Manager (Western Cape). A part of the re-engineering process was the retrenchment of more than 50% of staff and the total re-implementation of business processes to support the strategic direction of.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Responsible for all telecommunication systems in the Western Cape area. Responsible for the installation and maintenance of all radio, microwave, power line carriers, telephony and supervisory systems (staff compliment of 40).

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Was promoted after six months from the position of assistant engineer to engineer. Main responsibilities were the design and implementation of telecommunication systems.

M.B.A., Masters In Business And Administration

Hons.-B.(Business And Administration), General Management

B. Eng, Electronics