As a Director my responsibilities are to: • Implement and manage strategic development plans• Mentoring of Individuals (staff compliment of 22)• Financial modelling and forecasting of individual projects to understand viability• Advise and report to the board• Stakeholder and customer relations managementOver and above the role above I played a key role into taking the company into Africa helping put together an agriculture solution for Senegal, and while in Africa, being admitted into to the World Bank and African Centres of Excellence board of advisers in the following industries:• Agriculture• Urban Mobility and Planning• ICT, Math and Science

Product Owner role responsibilities can be seen below as per job spec in Unizmo, over and above these responsibilities in this dual role the following were also carried out :• Formulate and apply IT innovations and methodologies that achieve business objectives and comply to legislature.
• Evaluate processes and business risks relating to systems to ensure minimal risk to the project.
• Deliver a service which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations and allows others to provide exceptional client service. Maintain close working relationships with key stakeholders including end-users, Subject Matter Experts, and senior staff members ensuring appropriate IT solutions are developed and providing input to business requirements.

• Assist with transfer knowledge and collaborate with internal and external teams.• Provide functional expertise to troubleshoot highly complex problems, and / or present or market new technology or solutions for business.

• Establish architectural standards and frameworks and assess functional and process risks on projects by collaborating with developers, project managers and stakeholders to translate the business’s requirements. • Distinguish, rationalise and design a specific solution that meets business requirements.• Provide direction to client and technology team on the design, development, and testing of a new solution; and work with the project managers to ensure efficient implementation of changes to existing systems.I have designed, managed and delivered solutions in multiple industries, to name a few :• Agriculture (Senegal) - Senegalese Smart Agri Solution• Governmental (Mpumalanga) - Community Engagement, Education ,Document Control and Municipality Intranet• Fintech (Capetown) - Crypto Currency Enabled Bank and Exchange• Motor Services (Johannesburg)- Unizmo Motor industry data disruption platform• Correctional Services (Durban) - Offender Video Communication System

As a Business and Systems Analyst my core responsibilities were to:• Document business process requirements through research, interviews, or facilitation session.
• Assess, analyse, optimise end-to-end processes.
• Assist in solution design to achieve business requirements
• Ensuring that processes are mapped according to design principles and methodology.
Providing support and guidance to the project and Business Analyst team.• Drafting and creating system requirement documents based on either functional or business requirements.
• Facilitating JAD sessions to deliver solutions which would meet the business requirements.
• Ensuring that solutions adhere to the necessary guidelines from both a technical and legal perspective.
• Liaising and communicating system requirement to the correct audience (Developers, Testers, Architects, etc.)
• Assisting in solution design to achieve business requirements

As a Product owner, my current responsibilities are to:• Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements • Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product• Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities • Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product• Follow our competitors and the industry • Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trendsOver and above the role above I played a key role in successfully taking this product from conceptualisation to commercialisation. We have also managed to raise funding if ± $1,000,000.00 ,due to the solidity of the business case and product, from various government and private institutes and delivering on agreed milestones all whilst achieving clean audits.We have also partnered and will continue to partner with corporate and empowerment industry leaders to create employment opportunities for hundreds of underprivileged youth in Alex.The solution was also adopted nationally and cross boarder.

As a Product Designer , my responsibilities were to:• Conduct quantitative and qualitative user research• Test existing hypotheses• Create customer journey maps, user flows, and wireframes• Develop a product prototype in accordance with a created concept• Design and create mobile and web interfaces• Use design and engineering tools like Adobe XD, Adobe illustrator etc.• Take new ideas from concepts to implementation• Cooperate with engineers and product managers to understand engineering complexity, define• MVPs, and ensure product excellence through launch and iteration• Identify future opportunities, working as a thought partner to the product• Participate in design reviews and share your work regularly with company leadership• Ship, measure and improve designs based on quantitative and qualitative feedback.

As as Senior Systems Performance Analyst Team Lead, I was responsible for the following duties• Liaise with Business Analysts, Solutions Architects, DBAs, and Developers as well as various parties on design and conception of solutions and advise on the performance of the architecture.• Create the test strategy of these solutions against performance goals• Manage a team of performance engineers to achieve these performance goals• Monitor and track logged issues between teams• Mentor and couch staff• Create data rich business reports on the performance of various systems to be used by the board• Analyse Database structures and implement changes for performance optimisation• Plan Milestones over the next 3 years for various projects and resource utilisation

As as Senior Systems Performance Analyst, I was responsible for the following duties• Liaise with Business Analysts, Solutions Architects, DBAs, and Developers as well as various parties on design and conception of solutions and advise on the performance of the architecture.• Create the test strategy of these solutions against performance goals• Create performance Automation Test Cases• Log and track issues• Build Performance Test cases into automated test scripts• Analyse Database structures and implement changes for performance optimisation