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Western Cape, South Africa

Looking after Rio Tinto Corporate Clients in the Legal, Business Conduct Office, Brand Office, Corporate Communications, Ethics & Compliance, TEG and Company Secretariat. Wearing multiple hats, from an Information Systems & Technology perspective including Program Management, Demand Management, Delivery Management and Business Partnership.

Boron, California, United States

Business Partner Borates and Lithium (Minerals) & Boron Mine Senior Leader and member of the Business Resilience Team (BRT)This role consists of various responsibilities as follows:• Borates & Lithium IT Business partner and single Point of Accountability for Digital Capabilities and Services to the business. This includes Business Partnering for the following sites:o Boron Borax Mine Site, Boron, California, USAo Wilmington Port, California, USAo Boron distribution sites in Nules Spain, Rotterdam and Antwerp Netherlands, Frankfurt Germany, Coudekerque Franceo Jadar Lithium Mine, Serbia, EUo Rincon Lithium Mine, Chile, Argentina• Boron Mine IT Operations Manager• Borates & Lithium IT Demand Manager

Richards Bay, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Responsible to define and capture the Business requirements and priorities in the 5 year IT roadmap and deliver to this leveraging existing assets and emerging technologies to shape IT systems and information landscape that meets the specific business needs and priorities ensuring alignment to Product Group and group-wide IS&T strategy, Cyber Security and Enterprise Architecture standards

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Deliver value to the business through execution of Group IS&T strategy and embedding of governance and operating model.Participate in embedding of the demand fulfilment process for enterprise and non-enterprise services.Identifying improvements in the demand fulfilment process for enterprise and non-enterprise services and driving the change for implementation.Execution of standard portfolio management process.Management of customer demand and requirements definition is successfully executed, along with the successful delivery of projects and operational performance commitments. Integrate IT requirements of new mining operation into existing mine, supporting the operation by implementing standard functions including IT Infrastructure, Business Systems and Technical Systems applications.Leverage our knowledge and available solutions to support informed business decisions by increased adoption, embedding and re-use in a fit for purpose manner that protects our information, reputation and mitigate risk.Identify and deliver innovation improvements in our internal processes and services to improve agility, lower operating costs and improve value delivered. Deliver upon agreed Cloud, IM and Mobility technologies strategies.

Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa

• Planning and execution of all IT activities required to Isolate, Separate and Integrate IT Infrastructure and Applications which support Divested Company business process.o IT Infrastructure Isolation, Separation and Integration included the following components: Network (Wide Area Network, Local Area Network, Wireless Network, Firewall configuration) Mobile Services (Secured Remote Access Services, BlackBerry Services) Messaging & Collaboration (Exchange Mail Server, Symantec mail protection) Directory Services (New Company Active Directory Domain, new On-site Domain Controller) System Management Infrastructure (new SCCM and SCOM to manage Desktop Application Deployment, Storage profiler) Data Centre & Hosting (SAP Exchange connector, Storage Area Network & Backup management) Workstations and Servers Management (Operating Software and Antivirus deployment) Remote Support on Desktop (OVSD call registry, Remote Support).o IT Application Isolation, Separation and Integration included the following components: Activities required divesting 11 Applications, either by segregation of user’s access, cutting off access to applications, data extraction, branding removals.o Transfer to the Divested Company legal entity.o Manage the IT Transition IT Licenses and Contracts Services that will be used by Divested Company and approved by the Buyer for and agreed period.o Develop and execute cut over activities and post implementation clean-up activities like server decommissioning.

Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa

-Translate client business strategy into an integrated work break down structure from which related portfolio of projects are created. Creating bespoke solutions. -Involves creating “islands of benefit”.-Manage line, resource and project standards issues for team. -Risk – responsible for ensuring all team discharge risk responsibilities in line with agreed professional Standards.-Demonstrable experience and capability to define medium/high complex undefined solutions which will deliver positive business impact. -Ability to manage high levels of ambiguity when dealing with emerging business strategy.-New suppliers selected and managed.- Ability to build and maintain long term stakeholder support. - Defining and agreeing client business objectives. - Ability to build relationships/ (speak language of) at board level, including presenting and writing reports. - Have extensive diverse team leadership e.g. PMO, change managers. - Mentors Project Managers.- Project Portfolio Management, Implementation of Methodology, Governance, Standards, Procedures and Templates. Team Management, Training and Mentorship

Project Management of Service Transition containing multiple Infrastructure IT Projects according to BT Project Methodology, processes and procedures.

Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa

Infrastructure Projects - Responsibilities include project lifecycle management using Prince2 Project Methodology in alignment with Project Management Office Standards. Adherence to infrastructure architecture, technology strategies, business unit roadmaps, and security and safety standards. Successful infrastructure deployments include satellite dish deployments, network upgrades, VMware/SAN deployments/upgrades and migration of servers to the SAN, wireless communications deployment, cabling upgrades, 3rd Party Network connectivity deployments, desktop upgrades/desktop security upgrades, installation of new infrastructure platforms on "Greenfield sites", infrastructure life cycle refreshes (servers, firewalls, fiber optic backbones, PABX, UPS's etc), domain migrations, server room upgrades, establishment of DEV and QA environments, video conferencing facility implementations, backup design and implementations, etc.Application projects - Responsibilities include project lifecycle management using Prince2 Project Methodology in alignment with Project Management Office Standards and SDLC. Adherence to applications architecture, application strategies, business unit roadmaps, security and safety standards and supporting infrastructure platform.Successful application deployments include system developments i.e. Drawing Registers, Time Management Systems, BU Intranets, Laboratory Information Management systems, interface developments, Crane Booking systems, Barcode Scanning Systems, Mobile Asset Management Systems etc. Medium to large enhancements or packaged solution deployments such as Geology software deployments, corporate tax solution upgrades, payroll enhancements, purchase order enhancement in SAP etc., Isolation and Lockout Systems implementation, E-Booking Travel solution implementation, Access system deployments, Environmental solutions deployments, Clinic systems deployments, etc.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Day to day operation IT Africa PMO.A project portfolio of between R200m to R300m liaising with Business Unit Stakeholders, Suppliers, Project Managers (contractors) and IS&T Infrastructure and Applications team Members in South Africa, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique. Are responsible for the establishment of a Project Methodology (aligned with Prince II), Project Management Office Processes, and Procedures, SOP, induction and training.Manages permanent and contractual staff members, does performance reviews and career path management.Manage Supplier relations and contracts.Enforces Project Governance in adherence with Prince II methodology, tracks project progress and ensured KPI's are met in adherence to business SLA's.Manages PMO budget.Reports PMO performance to Project Stakeholders, Global PMO and Customer Engagement Meetings.The PMO Program Manager also acts as Regional Change Coordinator for Africa representing the Rio Tinto Global Change Advisory Board and is responsible for:Establishment and imbedding of the Global Change Process, Procedures and SOP.Provision of Induction, Practitioner, Operational and Toolset training on an ongoing basis across Africa to Business Stakeholders and Operational/Project teams.Ensuring all changes and releases to the Rio Tinto Production Environment are appropriately approved, prioritized, developed, tested and released in the production environment in a timely manner to meet business needs within their regional jurisdiction according to the Global Change Management Standard.Negotiate change and outage windows with business.Communicate Changes to the production environment to targeted users across the business.

Msp (Managing Successful Projects), Prince2 Practitioner, Programme And Project Management

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