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City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Manage team member growth and development.• Collaborate on short and long term personal development plans. Track progress against these plans.• Schedule regular check ins with team members.• Facilitate team member mentoring and coaching as and when required.• Identify or create growth opportunities for team members coupled with project deliveries.• Retain talent and align team growth/recruitment with business demand and strategy.• Ensure the software development roadmap aligns with the business strategy.• Continuously review and evolve engineering practices.• Track engineering metrics to identify areas for improvement which are aligned to engineering best practices.• Understand business requirements to facilitate the planning of technical implementation.• Engage with project stakeholders to ensure alignment throughout the development of the project.• Standardise and maintain Azure DevOps best practices tailored to Agile Scrum.• Run scrum events: Stand up, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, demo and, retrospective.• Encourage agile best practices and provide coaching.• Initiate performance development conversations and processes as and when required.

• Successful in the delivery of multiple projects and programmes aimed at improving the company’s back-office applications, and modernising legacy systems• Created and implemented a process leveraging Azure DevOps to elicit feedback to effectively rollout an Organisational project process. Reviewed and managed changes to the process in line the feedback provided.• Implemented a Business Unit demand process leveraging Microsoft Power Automate and Azure DevOps technologies• Standardised Azure DevOps best practices tailored to Agile Scrum. Implemented these across all Product Development Teams.• Organising and efficiently running scrum events, keeping the team focused and aligned with the event objective and sprint goal• Manage the Federated Data Lake project with the objective of storing all data produced by our software products and subsequently build insightful BI reports and ML models.• Managing the Balance v.Next and Kafka onboarding programmes, and Push v.Next project—reviewing and monitoring their progress and engaging stakeholders to ensure completion according to the specified timeline, budget and quality• Competently developing and maintaining project artifacts throughout the project life cycle, generate and submit project reports to key stakeholders• Leveraged Azure DevOps queries and dashboards to capture data points as an ongoing measure of team performance and validation of continuous improvement• Maintaining project schedules, tracking and managing project costs, dependencies and risks• Working closely with key personnel to deal with various issues that require attention, ensure project requirements are met on time and processes are communicated consistently• Accelerating the approval and procurement of infrastructure• Supervise and encourage team members to meet or exceed performance and productivity standards• Contribute to the development and implementation of project management methodologies, change management, and continuous improvement

Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

• Directing the development and delivery of all Mining Simulation products to the largest Mining Organisations across the globe• Successfully delivering state of the art Surface and Underground mining simulators of OEM machines• Efficiently planning, estimating, budgeting, and controlling product costs• Planning and managing data gathering exercises to client mines to ensure all project requirements are clear and understood• Proficiently developing project baselines and schedules encompassing key activities, deliverables, resource requirements, milestones, and deadlines• Manage and respond appropriately to risks and issues, keeping the project on track and goals met• Collaborating during sprint planning activities to ensure the product backlog is prioritised for customer value and the goal is attainable• Managing the approval and configuration of all mechanical designs and documentations• Cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with clients by engaging them regularly, and generating and submitting project progress reports• Manage the transport of simulators to client sites. Commission the simulators and provide user training for the effective use of the simulators

Durban Area, South Africa

• Directing the development and delivery of all Military Simulation products valued at over 200M ZAR• Highly effective in managing and leading the Development Team, ensuring that they adhere to the standard development process, resulting in consistent achievement of successful product outcomes• Efficiently planning, estimating, budgeting, and controlling product costs• Showcasing expertise by developing and managing project artifacts and schedules, maintaining project contracts throughout the project cycle• Maintain complex project schedules, tracking dependencies and managing risks to achieve cost-effective outcomes• Implemented hybrid approaches, leveraging certain agile components to provide insight into project progress and health• Utilising exceptional communication skills when conducting monthly meetings with high-ranking Defence Force personnel • Exhibiting strong attention to detail, while maintaining a flexible and resourceful approach to effectively multi-task and manage workload and workflow in a deadline-driven environment

Durban Area, South Africa

• Directing the development and delivery of all Mining Simulation products to the largest Mining Organisations across the globe• Successfully delivering state of the art Surface and Underground mining simulators of OEM machines• Efficiently planning, estimating, budgeting, and controlling product costs• Planning and managing data gathering exercises to client mines to ensure all project requirements are clear and understood• Proficiently developing project baselines and schedules encompassing key activities, deliverables, resource requirements, milestones, and deadlines• Manage and respond appropriately to risks and issues, keeping the project on track and goals met• Collaborating during sprint planning activities to ensure the product backlog is prioritised for customer value and the goal is attainable• Managing the approval and configuration of all mechanical designs and documentations• Cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with clients by engaging them regularly, and generating and submitting project progress reports• Manage the transport of simulators to client sites. Commission the simulators and provide user training for the effective use of the simulators

Durban Area, South Africa

Durban Area, South Africa

Durban Area, South Africa

Durban Area, South Africa

Durban Area, South Africa

Diploma Draughting (Mddop), Draughting And Technical Drawing

Certificate, Prepress/Desktop Publishing And Digital Imaging Design