I lead the Sports Media team building and maintaining scalable backend and web solutions for our partner brands operating in Bulgaria, Greece, Portugal, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Hungary.

I play a central role in leading the Jobs Marketplace team responsible for building and maintaining job marketplaces operated by our partner companies in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria.Key Responsibilities:* Strategic Planning - Identify and prioritise business needs and objectives, working closely with internal and partner stakeholders to align product development with company and partner goals.* Tasks Scoping (and descoping) - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to scope tasks and brief designers and development and ensure we work on the right things.* Team Leadership and Management - Lead a diverse and remote team, including designers, frontend and full-stack developers, an Android developer, and a quality assurance engineer. Manage team leave schedules, monitor and report on team performance, and provide coaching to foster continuous improvement and maintain team momentum. Shield the development team from excessive meetings to enable them to focus on deep work and delivering value. Employ a strategic approach to assess requests, factoring in business impact and effort, and asking probing questions to gain deeper understanding of the underlying issues.* Collaboration - Foster clear and transparent communication within the team and across departments, emphasising asynchronous communication when possible. Organise meetings efficiently to address critical issues and ensure the right people are involved in decision-making processes.Reporting Structure:I report to the Head of Product - Marketplaces, and maintain strong lines of communication with key stakeholders including platform engineering, group marketing and in-country brand CEOs, customer experience and product management teams.In summary, my role is instrumental in driving the success of our job marketplaces across Africa. I am dedicated to strategic planning, team leadership and fostering effective collaboration, while ensuring that our product aligns with the company's broader goals.

I played a pivotal role in the ongoing development and maintenance of the in-house jobs marketplace platform, working closely with both the in-country team and a talented remote development team located in India, Armenia, Uzbekistan, and Russia.Key Responsibilities:* Team Leadership - Led team standup meetings, conducted business analysis, and scoped project requirements in collaboration with cross-functional teams.* Project Management - Managed the backlog, ensuring a steady flow of work for our development team while maintaining optimal velocity.* Platform Enhancement - Focused on improving platform stability and performance, resulting in increased uptime and the overall quality of the platform.* Communication Enhancement - Successfully improved team communication, reducing the time spent in meetings while enhancing the quality of output.* Remote Team Coordination - Oversaw a remote development team consisting of a UI designer, backend developer, two frontend developers, and a system administrator/devops professional, ensuring effective collaboration and project delivery.Key Achievements:* Improved team efficiency by streamlining communication and optimising meeting processes, leading to enhanced productivity.* Increased the quality of output and platform stability.After the successful migration to the Ringier core job stack, my role evolved to include:* Scoping of Tasks - Assisted in scoping tasks to align with business objectives and development capabilities.* Tech Support - Handled first-level technical support queries to ensure a seamless user experience.* Facilitated Meetings - Facilitated meetings that focused on business-driven product management and feature prioritisation.

Designing and implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions leveraging Palantir Foundry and AIP, as well as custom built solutions.

I have the privilege of working on a diverse range of projects, both public-facing and internal, including high-profile websites and internal-use plugins. These projects are undertaken in collaboration with a highly skilled team of designers, developers, and a product lead from the corporate communications team.Key Responsibilities:* Stakeholder Collaboration - Act as a bridge between the technical team and internal stakeholders. Gather requirements, prioritise tasks, and oversee the development process to ensure alignment with organisational goals.* Infrastructure Management - Proactively provision infrastructure for new projects and provide ongoing support for existing projects, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.* Agile Workflow - Implement an agile workflow that encompasses backlog review and management, feature scoping, and release management. This approach enables us to adapt swiftly to evolving project needs.Team Collaboration:Our core team is globally distributed, with members in Switzerland, Serbia, and South Africa. We operate in an ad hoc fashion, drawing on expertise from various departments as needed. This flexible approach allows us to assemble the right team for each project, maximising efficiency and expertise utilisation.Project Highlights - Some of the notable websites and projects we've been involved in include:* Ringier AG* Ringier Axel Springer Switzerland* Ringier Advertising* Ringier Switzerland Pension Fund* The StudioTechnologies Utilised:Our work relies on a robust technology stack, including Git, WordPress, PHP, CSS, HTML, WP Engine, Cloudflare and Terraform. These technologies empower us to deliver cutting-edge solutions and innovation.In summary, my role is characterised by versatility and strategic leadership. I am dedicated to enhancing our digital footprint, fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams, and leveraging technology to achieve our objectives.

MyEcommerce is a niche software solutions company specialising in technical execution.We partner with businesses, big and small, to architect, build and maintain bespoke solutions to solve unique and challenging problems and have experience working on systems in the FinTech, EdTech and GovTech spaces. We turn ideas into digital reality.We are privileged to work with clients in cities around South Africa including; George, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Knysna, Johannesburg, Durban and Nelson Mandela Bay. Internationally, we service clients in Atlanta, Belgium, London, Switzerland, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Vietnam and Myanmar.In my role as CEO, I'm responsible for driving strategy, the management of company finances as well as recruitment and training of staff but I also happily dig into code when I get the chance.I primarily help our clients with project management, strategic planning, system, user interface and process architecture and often play the role of devil's advocate, asking the difficult questions that usually include if, but or maybe.

I invest in early stage businesses and provide management consulting and mentoring to startups and corporates with a keen focus on product development, systems integration and process architecture.

Working with funders and founders to build sustainable businesses.

I am part of the committee involved in the planning and establishment of the incubator, which culminated in the foundation and registration of the incubator in January 2013. We focus on promoting ICT in the region and co-ordinating technology related events.I assist in the planning and facilitation of innovation driven events, focused on Prototyping Concepts and getting minimum viable products developed instead of spending a lot of money on typical consultants and research, striving to deliver crowd source viable solutions.I'm also involved in hands-on mentorship of startups and assisting new companies define their product and software project goals.I run the software development workshops at our electronics club, known as the G3ECS and engage with other non-profits, in order to identify potential strategic alignments.

I led a team of developers, building and maintaining WordPress websites, blogs and plugins (managed 18 sites + 2 custom plugins), supported multiple platform migrations, and was responsible for the architecture and vision for the core blog ecosystem.In this role, I worked closely with group marketing based out of Berlin, designers based in Kenya and South Africa, the product management and infrastructure teams based in South Africa and Mauritius, and marketing and content teams based in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Senegal.Brands worked on included:* BrighterMonday (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda)* Jobberman (Nigeria and Ghana)* BuyRentKenya* Cheki (Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania)* Expat Dakar* MaMaison* Private Property Nigeria* ZoomTanzania* Timam Cars* Ringier One Africa Media* The African Talent Company

I developed and maintained payment gateway plugins for PHP based ecommerce solutions including: Magento 1, Magento 2, OpenCart 2 to 2.2, OpenCart 2.3, PrestaShop and WooCommerce.I also managed the infrastructure for the various staging sites used to demo and test the plugins and assisted the customer service team with onboarding and troubleshooting rollouts for high profile brands.This role was mostly backend PHP occasionally requiring some JavaScript and CSS debugging.Day to day tooling included: Ubuntu server edition, Git (Bitbucket), Atom and Postman.

Hlalani IQ is a software as a service company that started out with a special focus on construction project management and supporting emerging contractors.As with all things digital we've evolved and now provide a broader set of product offerings.Our tools enable contractors, engineers and property developers to efficiently run projects, reduce risk and report on progress in realtime.We also provide a set of contextual research tools, for surveys, site audits and cost analysis.I'm responsible for driving product strategy and dreaming about the future and our role in it.

Uranium Studio was a business and web consultancy that provided perspective and connected the dots, helping entrepreneurs and business people think differently and identify the right people to work with.I helped entrepreneurs with:* Business Planning* Entity Registration with CIPRO* Design and Development of Websites* Brochure and Business Card DesignI presented workshops:* Business Plan Writing for Red Door.* Health and Safety Training for Working for Water(via Accustomed Risk Management Systems).* The benefits of business websites for Absa Small Business Forum.All web development services have been consolidated under the MyEcommerce banner.

I was responsible for the day to day management of the development life cycle as well as support systems for clients and internal users.I recruited and lead an internal team of developers, support agents and technicians as well as multiple outsourced developers, through four major iterations of the program.I also did site visits, to larger clients and performed on site training.I played a strategic role in hardware and software acquisitions for internal use, as well as the design and deployment of hosted infrastructure.I stood as a member on the South African, Credit Technology Association, in which role I contributed towards the standardisation of documentation and process flow in the Debt Review industry, governed by the National Credit Act. In this role I interacted with various national bodies, the National Credit Regulator, the Banking Association of South Africa, National Debt Mediation Association and other industry role players.

In this role I engaged with the Department of Labour, National Skills Fund and was responsible for financial reporting as well as project management on a pilot programme focused on Community Based Cooperatives, providing a range of business development facilitation and mentoring.The project included the design, development and accreditation of a learning programme.I presented the following courses:* Introduction to the Cooperatives Act of 2005* Produce a business plan for a New Venture – SAQA US No. 119670* Plan, monitor and control an information system in a business environment – SAQA US No. 13933* Care for Customers – SAQA US No. 8600* Apply knowledge of self and team in order to develop a plan to enhance team performance – SAQA US No. 13912* Implement an action plan for business operations – SAQA US No. 114591* Contribute to the health, safety and security of the workplace – SAQA US No. 110064I also coordinated a regional project in partnership with Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and AfriGIS conducted for the Eden District Municipality.

Sales and ordering stock, stock take and general admin of the shop, and co-ordinating shifts of sales people.

Running the restaurant on an operational level and performing basic administration and capturing of income and expenses into administration software system, ordering stock, co-ordinating all shifts of both waitrons and kitchen staff, dealing with customer and staff complaints.

Sales and Customer Services.

Sales and customer service, paying of wages, general bookkeeping, deliveries, stock taking, DJing for corporate events, weddings and birthday parties, assisting with the décor at such functions.

Sales and customer assistance, in all technical matters.Opening accounts and credit vetting clientsopening and closing the store doing cashups etc.

Sales and servicing customersassistance with stock taking.

Sales and servicing customers, supervising other waitrons and dealing with cashups etc. and closing the shop.

Sales and Servicing Customers.

Sales and Servicing Customers.

Sales and servicing customers, supervising other waitrons and dealing with cashups etc. and closing the shop.

Sales and Servicing customers, also took part in the SPUR Ten Steps of Service Training Programme.

Children supervision and entertainment, basic waitron assistance, preparation of drinks.

Delivering news papers, once per week to post boxes in a designated area.