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• Manage user orientation & expectations• Continual Service Improvement in line with ITIL • Cost Saving: ◦ Accomplish a monthly cost saving of R 25,000 by canceling unnecessary Diginet and ISDN lines. ◦ Change Internet connectivity from ADSL to Metro-Ethernet and Fiber for better reliability and speed. ◦ Reduce Microsoft Licensing cost by implementing Linux for: Proxy server, Storage devices and Archive server. ◦ Reduce software licensing cost by investigating each software license, and interviewing users to get rid of unused licenses. The Software Audit saved the company more than 51% of spending on software for the 2019/2020 financial year (> R850,000) • Documentation ◦ Document the IT Infrastructure ◦ Write an IT Policy and IT Procedures in line with ITIL ◦ Write a Disaster Recovery Plan

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• Enforce company policies and procedures regarding security, use of the Internet, use of e-mail, etc.

• 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 ◦ Network support ◦ Hardware support ◦ Software support (Including Anti-Virus software support & E-mail support (Exchange 5.5)) • Liaise with ◦ Contractors (DBA, Programmers, project managers) ◦ Surveyors General Offices ◦ Hardware & Software vendors • Procuring of hardware & software ◦ Writing motivations ◦ Ordering • Domain & e-mail server administration • Control network security

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 of the whole of Gauteng, Northern Province, North West, Mpumalanga and the Free State. ◦ 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