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A goal-oriented Director of Information Systems who prides himself on building high trust, highly performant teams, with demonstrated abilities in strategic planning, developing and implementing business focused information systems and solutions over a 25-year career. Able to initiate, manage and control tight budgets while still delivering high return on investment projects. A proven ability to develop processes and procedures on an international scale that deliver IT services in a timely, professional and controlled change environment. Utmost importance given to training and mentoring staff to ensure delivery of projects and support services via best practice processes. Adept at crisis management, problem solving and negotiation. Highly experienced at project, resource and change management, acquisitions and mergers, system evaluations, implementations and capacity planning, as well as disaster recovery and business continuity. Highly skilled at data classification, security remediation, threat modelling and PCI compliance project works.Key Competencies: • Ability to foster and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, partners and suppliers – Building trust, respect and rapport (maintaining a positive team that continuously achieves results and objectives). • Highly proficient budgetary skills, able to manage large operational and capital expenditures across multiple projects. • Ability to understand the organisation’s strategic direction and develop plans that cater to numerous business objectives. • An effective change agent with the ability to audit and identify key processes, implement strategies, train employees and act as a role model to demonstrate new and innovative ways to deliver support, systems and services in a positive change environment. • Excellent technical knowledge in a broad range of IT fields including virtualisation and cloud technologies, storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, WAN optimisation, networking, communications, enterprise level operating systems and databases, development process and multilayered enterprise security to name a few.