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London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

I joined the Transaction Strategy & Execution (TSE) team in EY-Parthenon. Working within the transaction environment to support private equity firms during the M&A lifecycle.IT pre-deal specifically focuses on the evaluation of client technology landscape including: technology strategy, product platforms, business applications, IT infrastructure and technology costs while identifying high risk areas/issues, unaddressed gaps, and areas for overall improvement.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I joined the nascent Cloud Engineering practice as a Consultant. During this time I helped establish the Cloud Strategy & Innovation team and was involved in a number of key practice building and client facing activities. A few examples can be seen below:Incubator Lead - Cloud Innovation IncubatorSpearheaded the establishment of an internal incubator to accelerate the production of cloud based solutions. These solutions had market relevance to Deloitte in Africa. The incubator helped support from the ideation phase through to business case building.Cloud Partnerships Management - Cloud HyperscalersWorked with the greater Deloitte in order to onboard cloud hyperscalers as member firm partners so that the company could engage in joint market activities within the African member firm. Involved in account planning and driving market opportunities with the various hyperscalers Stream Lead/ SME - Large African Multimedia BusinessStructured and led a DevOps strategy assessment for an Africa wide media company, directing a team of 5 consultants. The recommendations put forward formed the basis of the 9 month implementation phase

South Africa

My time as an Analyst in the Consulting business was in the Strategy & Operations business, specifically the Telco & Consumer team. The projects which I engaged on were all client facing for a number of Deloitte's largest African clients.Some notable projects are as follows:IoT Strategy Point of View – Large South African Telecommunications Company The aim of this piece of work was to illustrate what a potential strategy would be for Deloitte and the client to jointly engage and drive an IoT strategy across the African continent M&A Commercial Due Diligence – Large Global FMCG CompanyThe due diligence centred on assessing whether a product was going to be successful as part of the current portfolio of goods sold Involved in market sizing, sentiment analysis as well as various financial analysis to make a recommendation around whether the product should continue being produced or whether that part of the business should be soldFinancial Transformation – Large South African Telecommunications CompanyFormed part of the team providing advice on how best to help a large telco to restructure themselves operationally as well as financially

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

I joined Deloitte Consulting as part of their drive to hire engineers in their consulting business. This was a client facing role where participants were rotated through different projects at key clients, working as part of the project team on the ground. During this time I worked on a number of projects in the Strategy & Innovation teams. Strategic Advisor - Large Platinum Mine:Part of team providing advisory services to the General Manager at one of the mine shafts in order to identify and drive business improvement initiativesAnalyst, Strategic Improvements - Large African BankAssisted with the analysis of current processes in order to address strategic improvements that could be implemented immediately in order to address the systematic issues within branch activities Solution Architect - Internet of Things (IoT) Startup:- Secondment to an IoT startup to perform a client facing solution architect role. This included understanding the client's business problem and working with various stakeholders to provide a bespoke solution for the client's needs.- Involvement in the re-design of the project management office's. This included identifying the key stages in the lifecycle and redesigning process flows to minimise time and resource wastage.

Greater Boston Area

I was invited to join the Harvard Business Review (HBR) Advisory Council - an opt-in research community of business professionals to provide insight to help shape the content of HBR and add a perspective on the world of management and leadership.

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Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering Bsc (Hons) (Eng), Industrial Engineering, 4Th Year

Football player for MIA football team in the WITS Internal League (2013)