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Cape Town

As Product Owner for the Customer Team and the Product Team (Meta) my role requires me to:- provide the link between business and IT- think strategically, but implement tactically- metricise and analyse business drivers- rapidly hypothesis, test & learn- determine a core set of features for the products- define and implement the product roadmap- define, understand and manage the business requirements - manage the scrum backlog for the agile development team. - provide design input to the UI/UX team, focused for Digital and mobile users- apply practices of Design Thinking, Lean and Agile principles of product development

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Stellenbosch, South Africa

Responsible for refining the user-experience across Mxit’s mobile product on iOS, Android, Blackberry, J2ME and Windows Phone 8. Drive the refresh of the user interface on smart-phones with trending design and interaction patterns towards a consistent and engaging experience. Set product features, prioritisation and release planning for each product release.

Cape Town, South Africa

Responsible for all aspects of bringing new products to market, including conceptualisation, story-boarding, business modeling, product launch, customer acquisition, product monetization and market expansion. Daily hands-on involvement in programme delivery including agile project management, product back-log grooming, release planning and feature prioritization across multiple products. Also managed all aspects of client projects on mobile platforms from scope definition, sales and proposals through to rapid prototypes and user-interaction design.Focusing on Mxit, Migg33, Mocospace and Facebook.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Mobile application development company for location-based products and services for South African mobile phone users, specialising in iOS, Android, Blackberry & WIndows Phone 8.Our first app is a mobile tour guide of the Cape Winelands for your cellphone. Visit http://thegiraffe.co.za for more details.

Cape Town, South Africa

Responsibilities were to identify, source, deliver and manage the technical architecture, standards and resources necessary to deliver on the strategic plan. Ensure consistency and set standards in the selection, design, architecture, implementation and performance of underlying technology. Work with the Project Office and Product Managers to deliver innovative IT products to the business, directly and via strategic vendor and partner relationships. Plan and develop competencies of IT professionals, and manage and develop a high performance team and the associated budgets.

Cape Town, South Africa

Key deliverables included managing the technical architecture, standards and engineering resources necessary to deliver on the strategic plan, within the parameters of cost and reliability. Directing the implementation and management of physical IT infrastructure initiatives within agreed SLAs. Co-ordinate and programme manage the delivery of IT services for the Operational, Development, Analyst and Design teams as well as strategic vendors. Manage all related multi-million Rand budget and resources.

Cape Town, South Africa

Held multiple roles, beginning as a Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager to deliver on multiple projects from product design, process definitions, system implementation, business operations, call-centre set-up. System Analyst responsibilities included leading a 7-person test team regarding system configuration, testing, release planning and implementation with the bank clearing houses and MasterCard networks. Final responsibilities were to set-up and lead the customer/business intelligence team to deliver business insights around customer behaviour, as well as advanced segmentation analysis for marketing-led campaigns.

London, United Kingdom

Consulted on technical projects related to large corporate architectures, working on projects in the insurance, financial services, energy and public sector. Responsible for project management, business analysis and delivery on technical architecture definition, eCommerce and CRM solutions and major systems integration around ERP systems.

Cape Town, South Africa

Entry-level consulting position with broad exposure across the business value chain, as well as the consulting disciplines of visioning, workshop facilitation, sales proposals and business case development, project management, process analysis and improvement and organisational change management. Project-based initiatives were around improving business processes, managing teams on strategy, analysis and implementation of focused improvement projects and system design for new business ventures. Industries worked in included financial services, telecoms, insurance, retail and asset management.

Bcom

Bcom

O Levels, A Levels

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