Marthinus Van Der Merwe Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, Gauteng

• Manage an external IT support company of 5 on-site staff to provide IT support to Trans-Africa Projects’ 3 offices.
• Provide Strategic Guidance on all IT matters in the organization
• Identify, calculate and manage risks affecting the organization
• Administer license agreements for all company software
• Effective management of the IT budget and IT procurement
• Manage the IT Infrastructure, IT operations & IT processes

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Implement & manage a Helpdesk for support call logging
• Migrate Nelson Borman attorneys to a Linux mail server which is compatible with Microsoft Outlook
• IT Support Management for several clients
• Give input to management on technological issues
• Management of Technical team of 5 engineers
• Write specifications for ordering of equipment

• Manage the migration to Exchange email servers in all 4 the SG offices
• Write, implement & manage a helpdesk for support call logging
• Query to make scanned documents available on the CSG web site
• Give input to management on technological issues
• Manage IT Support for SG Offices – ensuring their efficient operation. (4 SG Offices – with a total of 24 servers, about 450 PC users and 13 Network Controllers)
• Problem solving

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Part time lecturer in Networks and Operating Systems at the Pretoria Technikon.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

• Up to February 1997: Manage the implementation of the electronic image scanning system – Trimco (Later replaced with Altris) and the indexing, scanning and quality control of all the property diagrams and general plans.
• The extent of the project is 6,500 books with 470,000 diagrams, 13,000 general plans consisting of 17,500 sheets.
• There are 4 departmental personnel and 21 contract workers reporting to me.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Pretoria Area, South Africa

From August 1988, I was supervising the drafting office. My other duties were: Drafting of general plans using Caddie, system administration of the VAX 730 Mini computer and supervising data capture.

Diploma In Datametrics

Certificate - Public Management Development Programme, Public Management

National Diploma For Technicians (Survey), Land Survey