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Remote First, Us

* Customer-Focused Solutions and Revenue Growth: Designed and implemented tailored Blockdaemon product integrations for top-tier clients, including US banks, Asset Managers, and Accounting firms, leveraging blockchain, web3, and crypto expertise to meet their unique needs and drive revenue growth.* Product Feature Development and Demonstration: Collaborated with customers to understand their needs, informed product development with feedback, and contributed to the creation of Blockdaemon product features. Effectively presented and demonstrated solutions at partner events, workshops, and conferences, enhancing product quality, brand recognition, and customer satisfaction through customer-centric solutions.

Remote First, Us

* Technical Leadership and Innovation: Established a mature architecture practice, contributed to key initiatives, and ensured technical excellence, resulting in enhanced product offerings and increased efficiency.* Cost Optimization and Efficiency: Identified opportunities for cost reduction, optimized resource utilization, and improved data quality, resulting in significant cost savings and enhanced operational efficiency.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Lead Infrastructure Architect for a multi-channel specialty retailer. Responsible for all infrastructure platform architecture in support of both e-commerce and in-store edge technologies. Williams-Sonoma, Inc is a Fortune 500 company supporting brands such as Williams-Sonoma, PotteryBarn and WestElm.Accomplishments:- Evaluated, positioned and deployed an enterprise shared services container platform. Developed an abstraction layer to automate the provisioning of Kubernetes namespaces in order to provide a secure, standardized, self-service onboarding experience for development teams and their brown field tooling. Provided training, day-to-day guidance and container deployment best practices to both software development and operations teams, accelerating the adoption of the platform.- Developed reference architecture, deployment playbooks and operating standards for dedicated, gitops based infrastructure software clusters based on vanilla Kubernetes. These dedicated clusters host core enterprise infrastructure applications such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, KubeFlow and Tibco Mashery.- Modernized and automated the delivery of numerous infrastructure services ranging from private cloud commodity compute to lightweight functions, deployed across the hybrid cloud.

Sandton, Gauteng, Za

Lead Architect within a Digital Transformation Program for a large investment and insurance company Old Mutual plc a FTSE 100 constituent. Nedbank, which is majority owned by Old Mutual, is one of the largest banks in Southern Africa and awarded African Retail Bank of the year.Accomplishments:- Rationalized the program’s application platform deployment options which included numerous CPU architectures, OS’s, databases and J2EE servers. Positioned and implemented two new x86 hybrid cloud platform technology stacks, reducing the initial $24m four year TCO budget by 30%- Produced a public cloud adoption strategy and oversaw implementation of Microsoft Azure services, reducing deployment times from days to minutes- Guided the build and operations teams to ensure that the project met timelines and that services were delivered in line with business requirements- Created a financial modelling tool for the program executives to dynamically determine the cost impact of adjustments to hardware, software licensing or support services, resulting from scenario based solution designs- Regularly briefed executive leadership on cloud and infrastructure services’ cost, alignment to budget and future predicted spend- Developed an automated infrastructure services provisioning capability, reducing deployment times by 80% (Team Foundation Server, Linux, PowerShell DSC, Azure, Operations Management Suite)

Frankfurt Am Main, De

Assigned to large accounts providing enterprise architecture services and direction. Created digital roadmaps and developed technology solutions to meet client’s strategic business objectives. Provided technology position papers and solution designs for numerous outsource tenders. T-Systems is an IT services subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom group.Accomplishments:- Lead a consultancy exercise in decoupling a division of a large vehicle manufacturer (Mercedes-Benz), migrating the new division to a hybrid cloud services model (Microsoft) for identity, collaboration, infrastructure and disaster recovery- Developed a technical implementation plan for the identity management and on-boarding of Old Mutual mailboxes (15000) into Office365

Bryanston, Gauteng, Za

Evaluated and implemented emerging technologies in support of business KPI’s. Provided technical leadership and consulting across the organization, promoting re-use of enterprise services while realizing synergies between business units. AVI owns a number of well-known Southern African brands, operating in different sectors including FCMG, Fashion, and Personal Care. During the last financial year AVI had a turnover of just under $1 Billion.Accomplishments:- Responsible for the migration of SAP platforms for a large food retailer (RCLFoods) to a hybrid cloud model- Reduced the company hosting cost by 65% through consolidation and migration of datacenters over 12 months. Performed P2V and V2V migrations avoiding unscheduled downtime- Motivated and commissioned the use of Amazon EC2 Instances for new SAP Fiori non-production environments, accelerating the project by two months- Designed and oversaw the implementation of cloud based security proxy service (Zscaler) along with mobile device management solution (Airwatch) enabling remote support of the Field Service agents- Prototyped and implemented dynamic site-to-site VPN networks through public cellular networks using remote 3G devices. Reduced annual operating costs by 45%- Developed an integration pattern between Office Communications Server 2007 and a 3Com VCX voice platform which was later used by Microsoft South Africa as a case study

Bryanston, Gauteng, Za

Technology champion, accountable for the build of all network infrastructure services. Provided level three systems support across servers, networks, storages and applications for eight operating companies (300 sites, 400 servers, 9000 employees) at enterprise level. Lead a team of seven senior engineers to proactively improve performance, availability, reliability and security of the enterprise systems. Formed and enforced a set of IT services & standards into all newly acquired companies. Mentor to 1st and 2nd level engineering teams, enabling skills transference and development.

Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

Oversaw client and in-house WAN services (VPN’s, firewalls, QoS devices, routers) for RSAWEB, a leading Southern African Fixed-line and Cloud Services Provider. Designed, built and optimized networks using primarily open source technologies. Developed and maintained the backend PHP & Perl services for the online customer portal and enrollment of products.

Za

Maintained ICT applications and services for numerous small, medium and large businesses. Sub-contracted to Hewlett Packard to manage their HP data center services for a private client. Maintained Primary and Secondary Storage networks for medium to large enterprises.