William Stucke Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, Gp, Za

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

William Stucke Associates was formed in 2007 as a vehicle for ICT consulting. WSA now offers a wide range of skills, including consulting on Internet, telecommunications, wireless communications, spectrum management, regulation, TVWS, programme and project management, cost modelling, network design and strategic consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development. WSA is working with several other consulting groups, to bring synergy to both parties.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

South African Broadband Education Networks (SABEN) is a non-profit company serving schools networks and the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sectors in South Africa. It is purpose-built to solve the digital requirements of these sectors; specifically to end bandwidth poverty among South Africa’s schools and public TVET colleges

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Chairman of the Electronics & Software SectionMember of SAIEE CouncilMember of the Technology & Knowledge Leadership CommitteeMember of the Governance CommitteeVice Chair of the Education Committee 2015-2016Assisting in the formation of new Cyber Security; Computing; and Automation & Control Chapters.

ISPA has formed a Domain Name Working Group to deal with this area of its members activities. As it's potentially conflict-ridden, with members representing three of the four main parties involved (Registry, Registrar and Registrant) I was appointed as the Chair as a neutral party, We have significantly improved relations with the Regulator, ZADNA, during this period.

INX-ZA operates the only completely neutral, and community-run Internet exchange points in South Africa, namely the Johannesburg Internet exchange (JINX), Cape Town Internet Exchange (CINX) and Durban Internet Exchange (DINX). The JINX is Africa's oldest IXP; operating since 1996, with 100% uptime!As a neutral party, but with extensive experience in the industry, I was asked to stand, and have been elected onto the management of INX-ZA

Africa

The African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) addresses the key interconnection, peering, and traffic exchange opportunities and challenges on the continent and provides participants with global and regional insights for maximising opportunities that will help grow Internet infrastructure and services in Africa.

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

TC073 deals with issues of Electromagnetic compatibility.

Cape Town

One of 4 "Special Directors", AKA Independent Directors for TENET, which provides Internet and related services to some 170 campuses of 55 higher education institutions on a non-profit basisMember of the Audit & Risk Committee - June 2018 to dateMember of the Remuneration Committee - September 2017 to date

Africa

I lead a team of Africans commissioned by ICANN to carry out a study of the Domain Name System (DNS) market in Africa. This required us to talk to Registries, Registrars, Registrants, Regulators, IXP Operators, DNS Service Providers and others. We built an online questionnaire in English, French, Portuguese and Arabic to facilitate this. We also have software to analyse zone files, identify the existence, language and location of web servers, etc. Considerable data analysis was involved.We are looking not only at quantitative data but also ecosystem issues like what factors promote or hinder the uptake of domain names and technical issues like the usage of DNSSEC.See http://dnsafrica.study to participate, if you're involved in the African DNS industry in any way

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Twingo2innov8 is a driven - vibrant - energetic niche software and services start-up with a serious intent to see to the success of its clients. After all, a satisfied client is an innov8ive client and this is our passion… to innov8! Twingo2innov8’s multi-platform business approach is focused around three critical core areas of expertise, which are:•enterprise mobility solutions •business intelligence solutions •cloud solutions

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

The Wi-Fi Forum SA is a voluntary forum of operators, service providers, technology providers and associated parties with a shared vision of accelerating the adoption of high-speed, reliable and cost-effective broadband services in South Africa and a shared focus on Wi-Fi technologies as a means for doing so.The Wi-Fi Forum's Mission is: "To create a collaborative self-regulating body that promotes the effective utilisation of Wi-Fi technologies in the delivery of ubiquitous, interoperable and seamless connectivity in South Africa."

Johannesburg

As a founding member and past Chairman of ISOC-ZA, these energetic young people have invited me to join the Board to impart my "wisdom", (their words) to their new ISOC Chapter. I wish them well, and will assist as far as I am able.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

This Working Group falls under Technical Committee 74, Telecommunication Technology. It is responsible for drafting standards for Network Quality of Service.With a large scope of work, the first standard, relating to GSM Voice QoS Testing, focussing on Drive Tests, is complete, as is a standard for Mobile Data Testing.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

As of 2008, the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) has the authority to make mandatory those safety, quality and related standards drafted and adopted by the SABS. ICASA has the authority to make performance, interference and other standards mandatory in the Telecommunications, Broadcasting and Postal sectors.This is achieved by publishing the "Official List".Technical Committee 80 (TC80) is the mechanism by which standards are recommended for adoption by ICASA, via its Council

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Spending some well deserved time with my children

Johannesburg

The Joint Spectrum Advisory Group is a grouping of Broadcasters, Signal Distributors, ICASA and others involved in coordinating spectrum usage and mitigating interference prior to and during the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) dual illumination and migration processes. This includes a number of amendments to the National Broadcasting Frequency Plan (NBFP), low power transmitters and Self Help Stations. It also involved coordination with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) http://www.ska.ac.za/ and all TV White Space (TVWS) Trials held in South Africa to date.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has the responsibility of regulating the telecommunications, broadcasting and postal sectors in RSA. It's governed primarily by the ECA (Electronic Communications Act, 2005), which obliges the Authority to draft a huge volume of new Regulations. Councillors are selected by Parliament and appointed by the Minister of Communications for a four year term on a full time basis. They are effectively the Board of Executive Directors of the Authority. My term expired on the 30th November 2014.

Botswana

SADC Home and Away Roaming Regional Alliance Task Team, which rejoices in the acronyms SHAR RATT.Members consist of Mobile Operator representatives and the GSMA. Objective is to reduce mobile roaming charges for SADC citizens when travelling in the SADC. After ~5 years of no significant progress before I became involved, the Transparency Directive has been agreed and implemented.Collected data and built a Cost Model for Roaming Termination Rates. The incremental cost was remarkably small - 2.6% to 5%.Agreed a way forward, including glide paths, to reduce Voice, Data and SMS rates towards "Roam Like At Home" rates at the last meetings that I chaired in October 2014.

AfrISPA was a non-profit association of African ISP Associations - http://www.afrispa.net. The position of Chairman was unremunerated. Responsibilities included overall accountability for AfrISPA's actions and liaison with funders, Regulators, Governments and other interested parties. The Chair, and other Board members, represented AfrISPA at various international conferences all over Africa and elsewhere. We trained ISPs, regulators, business and government representatives in a number of countries around Africa on BGP Routing for IXPs, on how and why to set up an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) and how to form an industry association. AfrISPA, under my Board’s direction, helped to increase the number of operating IXPs in Africa from 5 to 22, in 20 countries, with a similar increase in the number of ISPAs and conducted a Regulatory Review of over twenty African countries. Was co-leader of CATIA Component 1b. [Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa]

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

QuickStep, t/a QPOP, is an ISP based in Chartwell in the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg. The recent issue of IECNS and IECS licenses to QPOP and many others is set to change the face of telecommunications in South Africa dramatically.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

After joining ISPA in 1998, I was a member of the Management Committee of the Internet Service Provider's Association from 2000, in various roles. Treasurer (2007-2009) and Chair of Finance WG. Previously chaired Membership sub-committee, Membership WG, PR WG and Code of Conduct WG.'Editor of monthly newsletter

ZAnet was a small but innovative ISP, providing personal service to individuals and companies. ZAnet achieved a round dozen "firsts" in the Internet field in South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

ISOC-ZA is the South African Chapter of the Internet Society. I helped to form it, and was later the Chair for 3 years. My daughter, Amber, was the youngest member at the time.

De Beers Research Laboratory - Mpd

Responsibility for multi-disciplinary projects. Deputy Head of Control & Instrumentation Department. Deputy Programme Manager for the Fully Integrated SortHouse (FISH) programme at DRL. Project Manager for several projects within FISH. Later consulted to FISH Programme on all disciplines as in-house technical expert

Premier Mine, Cullinan

As Project Engineer and C&I Engineer I was responsible for the design, implementation and project management of the automation of the underground mine at Premier Mine, Cullinan.Also automated surface thickener controls in the surface metallurgical plant at Premier, reducing water usage by 65%

Finsch Mine, Lime Acres, Northern Cape, South Africa

Responsible for the design, implementation and project management of the automation of the underground mine at Finsch Diamond Mine. Also automated the Decline Conveyor system at Finsch, with a 6 week payback on R5m expenditure over a year. Project completed on time, on budget and with better ROI than promised. Worked as Maintenance Management Engineer after a boating accident.Designed, built and commissioned the first Ethernet fibre optic network in an underground mine in South Africa.

Carltonville Area, Gauteng, South Africa

Deepest mine in the world! Completed training as Junior Engineer on 2# and passed GCC (Electrical Engineer) exams, appointed Assistant Engineer responsible for Piping Contract on new surface plant at 1#. Appointed Project Engineer, responsible for completion of construction and commissioning of 1# Gold Plant and surface works. Completed and closed over 750 contracts in a year.

London, United Kingdom

Started work at SSE as a part-time technician while studying. On graduation, worked full time for what was by then National Telephone Systems. Had responsibility for hardware design, documentation and gaining BABT and SA P&T approval for a range of digital PABXs. Successful with BABT, moved to SA before SA P&T process finished. Improved switching performance of a 4 E1 x 4 E1 space-time switch by a factor of 12

B.Sc (Hons)

Mdp - Management Development Programme

B.Sc. (Incomplete)

Education record