Simon Orford Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, WC, ZA

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Agile Project Manager working at Vodacom looking after 5 Agile squads (4 Kanban/1 Scrum) and also delivering on adhoc projects such as upgrades, new applications and cloud migrations. Three squads cover development and support for 9 systems related to Telecoms billing. One squad is responsible for Automic/Apex development to ensure better up-time and QOS.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Responsible for the roll out of hardware and associated software stack at Vodacom for the delivery of Big Data services including machine learning across two datacentres and three clusters. Also responsible for ad-hoc.
• Google Cloud platform proof of value (Analytics, Machine learning and data ingestion) - working with Google and one of their partners
• AWS proof of value (Analytics, Machine learning and data ingestion) - working with Amazon
• Ecosystem.AI. The build and deployment of a specialised machine learning platform in order to do real-time Model scoring Involved in the culture change program "Ignite" where I have organised a Women’s Day event.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

I co-founded and currently run a non-profit start-up where i am responsible for IT operations, finance, agile product management and development, partnerships, business development, funding, and external marketing.We showcase hundreds of events and activities monthly in and around the Muslim Community of South Africa utilising multiple online channels.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Utilise and customise solutions from the Dale Carnegie suite of products and services to improve the performance of individuals and businesses. Utilise Salesforce for managing leads, and pipeline. Network with international team on global accounts

Cape Town, South Africa

I was blessed with two children in quick succession, choosing to raise them hands-on during their formative years and help my wife out who had some medical complications due to the births. I also engaged in some personal studies and community work.

Cape Town

• Project Management of construction sites – Start to finish, including cost management and profit/loss analysis
• Supplier and Contractor Management
• Customer Liaison
• New business development
• Human Resource management
• Responsible for reduced cost inputs and improved processes and procedures.

Mayotte

Moved to the island of Mayotte so my French wife could practice as a medical doctor as she was not allowed to do so in South Africa. We also stayed in Paris and Morocco where I learnt to read and write Arabic.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Due to irregularities with the cash-flow and funds allocated to atm's I was tasked to reconcile missing monies throughout the ATM cash life-cycle. I analysed, designed, and built a cash management, anti-fraud and.
• Creation of cash management tool for the accurate prediction of cash requirements for ATM’s with a predicted reduction in cash related expenses of 30%
• Analysis of cash transaction fees with a calculated cost saving of R30 000 a month

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• 1. Project Management of deployment of ATMs across South Africa including site vetting of suitable sites for the deployment of atms2. Supplier and Contractor Management3. Merchant Liaison
• Liaise with merchants on the deployment of ATM’s
• Ensuring merchant satisfaction during the rollout of the project until handover to operations
• On-going merchant liaisonHighlights
• Shipping and rolling out of two new types of ATM’s
• New installation and stock processes resulting in cost savings to the company of between 30-40% on new installations

Ethiopia

• Mapped parts of Ethiopia as part of the Mapa Project funded by Google. I was responsible for mapping of road and tourist infrastructure in the protected areas of southern Ethiopia and then driving the vehicle back to.
• Did contract work, filling in for the Marketing Manager of Panda Security while he was off sick due to stress on the job. I actioned outbound marketing efforts, produced and updated marketing collateral, liaised with.
• Travelled to the Middle East for two months on holiday

1.Productisation (associated research, PRD, project management, etc) of Integration API framework and formulation of associated API specifications (Billing, reporting, authentication, address book) for the purpose of seamlessly integrating third-party products into the Clickatell product suite2.Proposal of new pricing methodology to improve and regulate.

• I travelled through Central and South America where I learnt to speak Spanish. I also completed the following courses
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certified
• PADI Rescue Diver certified
• EFR Primary and Secondary Care
• PADI DivemasterDuring this time I supervised training and non-training related diving activities, and lead various dives. In my travels I also had the opportunity to roast marshmallows on lava, kiss a wild crocodile on.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Product requirements and life-cyle management of all Clickatell’s products (API, gateway, additions core products and a number of smaller offerings)
• Product related market analysis, customer analysis and competitive analysis to identify and articulate the market requirements that define the products feature set
• Management and sourcing of service, integration and product partners in relation to messaging market
• Vodacom Lesotho messaging gateway implementation
• Pre & post sales solution development for numerous financial institutions and various network operators
• Launch of Clickatell Wholesale and ICM: A thirty party, white-label, interactive online campaign

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Learnt five programming languages in one month (HTML, ASP, JavaScript, CSS, Microsoft sql) and then developed middle tier object oriented framework that cut down page development time by 80% and significantly improved.
• Integrated third party electronic payment gateway
• Developed email tracking and bad email monitoring system
• Developed customizable survey application
• Jointly developed Auction Site

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Started as a software support agent and within one month I was tasked with and successfully turned around a dysfunctional call centre unrelated to the role I was hired for.
• Helped with restructuring the call centre, integrating three departments into one cohesive unit and replacing three managers
• Managed a team of 30 across three divisions
• Reduced the number of calls waiting from up to twenty five to two or less
• Reduced written correspondence replies from up to a month to less than three days
• Improved staff, morale, efficiency and knowledge

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Ran a busy workshop doing hardware and software repairs and upgrades. Went from technician to manager within three months Designed, programmed and implemented a cost and performance tracking system which determined that the business was not making money (which the owner was unaware of before then). The owner was unable to to turn around the business and.

Cape Town

Produced, installed and delivered houses from architectural plan to full structure on site. This included full project management of each house and design of technical drawings for the conversion of the architectural plans into functional drawings for the panel kit construction and delivery. Included operational and management responsibilities, client.

Diploma In Marketing, Distinction

Btech, Information Technology

Majors: Development Software 4, Information Security 4, Strategic Information Systems 4

Diploma, Advanced Project Management, Distinction

Covered People Management, MS Project, and various Project Management skills

Ndiploma, Information Technology

Majors: Information Systems 3, Development Software 3. • Team leader in Information Systems 3 project • Team leader and main contributor.