• Helping to achieve and surpass regional sales targets by leveraging technical expertise to provide credibility and support to field sales, internal sales, and channel partners.• Involved in both pre-sales (product selection, specification, architecture design) and post-sales (Product application technical support). Main portfolios: Signalling, VSD, PLC/PAC, HMI, Telemetry, SCADA and IIOT.• Industrial Automation Offer team support:- Working closely with the Industrial Automation offer team to ensure products are well supported in the market.- Involved in Product launches.- Educating sales team on the latest innovative technology- Continuously upskilling on products to ensure a high level of technical competency.• Supporting both sales and marketing with technical presentations to clients• Involved in upskilling of end users and channel partners.- Conducting technical training to users of Schneider IA products on all levels.- Presenting on new functions and innovative products.• Solution and Architecture design- Conducting site visits with end users to understand pain points and putting together solutions to help with efficiency and sustainability.- Architecture design of Industrial Automation systems from sensor to the apps and analytics layer.• Taking lead in promoting the Industrial Automation portfolio at Coastal and Inland marketing events. Involved in the creation of interactive demos and presenting to clients on the value of our product range.• Highly involved in the telemetry portfolio in Anglophone Africa- Involved in all telemetry projects in the region.- Support with technical architecture design and aftersales support.- Conducting training for the training academy.- Leading to various opportunities and new sales.• KZN Industrial Automation System Integrator Management- Account management of main System Integrators in KZN.- Use of all relevant company tools such as the SCT, BFO & CRM to manage opportunities and plan actions.

Graduate Product Application Engineer in the Industrial Automation Business unit. This is a Technical pre-sales support role where my main objective is to provide technical support to our sales team. This is done by deeply understanding products, understanding customer designs, configuring and selecting products for customer specification.• Technical support, troubleshooting and specification of a variety of Schneider equipment. Main focus on Industrial Automation business unit, both hardware and software components - Ecostruxure Machine and Plant controllers (PLC/PAC), Variable speed drives, Signal and sensing products, Ecostruxure IIoT and HMI. Various site visits done to solve customer pain points.• Conducted technical presentations on Ecostruxure solutions especially on Ecostruxure IIoT and the telemetry portfolios to external customers and internal sales team.• Assisting with creating demos and presenting to customer for market events. Some of the events involved in: KZN Magnet Roadshow, MTE Sibanya Gold, AVEVA Exchange and Electra Mining.• Training, installation, assisting and providing support to SIs with implementing Ecostruxure telemetry solutions with end clients. - Conducted global virtual telemetry training for the training academy to Malaysia • Assisting with designing, constructing, and fixing of demos/ demo cases required for the sales team. • Conducted site visits with the relevant key account managers in KZN and Gauteng regions with SIs and end clients• Trainings completed in:-Plant SCADA-Introduction to PLC-Ecostruxure Control Expert-M580 Programming-Ecostruxure Control Expert (Intermediate)-Telemetry (Ecostruxure GeoSCADA, Remote Connect and Trio Radios)-IIoT Foundation-Introduction to VSD-Industrial Communications-AutoCAD Electric-Drive Quick Onboarding, France • Certifications attained in Ecostruxure plant: IIoT Foundation, Control systems, SCADA and Telemetry and Intelligent Motor Control.

Worked at industratech for 3months: Feb,March and June 2020• Streamline the Repairs of PCBs in the manufacturing Environment for Textiles, Printing, Automotive industries completing various repairs • Streamlined the Site testing and troubleshooting of industrial electronic equipment to ensure efficiency by 15%• Collaborated on automation and renewable energy projects • Minimized the downtime by 20%, therefore, resulting in minimal losses due to machinery failure.

• Participated in a robotics hackathon where 16 students created innovative mechatronic based robots to solve a problem in a group of 3 engineers• Facilitated the design of an innovative robot to help the sporting industry working in a team of 3 engineers within budget• Designed a full Project lifecycle and proposal

Designed voice evacuation and fire detection systems on building plans for eThekwiniMunicipality building• Implementation of drawings on AutoCAD• Documentation, Compiling, and Editing of GCC documents required for tenders• Spearheaded 1 Site inspection - To verify existing buildings and take measurements where needed• Assisting the Mechanical engineering team of 4 members with the placement of fire hydrant, hose reel, and sprinklers systems.

•Shadowed employees to gain valuable work experience in the professional environment •Gained knowledge about Web creation, database, access control, CCTV & Fiber systems•Researched conceptual ideas for home automation project•Assisted in finding tenders