About my work history ….
Matriculated 1982 with exemption – Glenwood Boys High School Durban
January 1983 to April 1990
SA NAVY SUBMARINE SERVICES – Diesel Mechanic and Watch Keeper
May 1990 to June 1993
LOGTEK – Logistics Technician and Technical Author (City and Guilds of London)
July 1993 to August 1994
Support Development and Management – Project Lead for the Army Engineers Foldable Floating Bridge Documentation
September 1994 to August 1996
Started my own business (Tropical Marine Fishkeeping which was my hobby at the time)
September 1997 to December 1998
Universal LAN Technologies – Project Manager for the transition of Nedbank Desktop Support Contract from Olivetti to National Data Systems (NDS)
January 1999 to January 2000
Delta Networks contracted to NDS and ABSA for Y2k
February 2000 to February 2001
De Beers – Project Manager for the ITSM alignment project (Implement ITIL in line with De Beers millennium IT strategy)
March 2001 to August 2003
SCMB – Project Lead for implementation of PMO based on Critical Chain for Electronic Banking
September 2003 to June 2005
Anglo American – Project Manager for Global Strategic Sourcing deal with Dell (Desktops, Laptops and Mobile Devices)
July 2005 to June 2007
Paracon / Connection 42 – various implementations of Project Offices
July 2007 to Dec 2009
Venture Communications – Regional Operations and Projects Manager (East Africa) for telecom implementations (Towers and Fibre optics)
January & February 2010
Sabbatical
March 2010 to July 2013
SBSA – CBT Programme Project Support Office Lead
Operationalize AAT in SCBT
Rolling out PMO practices to SCBT
Support programme management for all aspects of reporting
Knowledge transfer for PMO Best Practices to project and PMO resources
August 2013 to August 2016
SAP Production
Project Manager implementation of Solution Manager 7.1 on Core Banking
SAP Transactional Support Team Lead
Implement numerous production projects including:
Operationalize BSM (Business Service Management) into SAP Banking Services Production Support
Implementation of new generation performance appraisals into SAP Banking Services Production Support
Member of the medium to long term Accelerated Leadership Programme for Group IT
August 2016 to date
Africa Regions Technical Delivery Lead – Digital Channels
Accountable for roll-out of new Internet Banking Application
5 in country deployments
5 hosted deployments
Accountable for driving out automation of deployments
1st deployment 20 hours – latest deployment 12 minutes
Can now execute online day deployments
Can now execute zero downtime deployments
Developed build strategy in line with DevOps
Accountable for delivery this year
Qualifications
City and Guilds of London Technical Writing Certification – 1992
Diploma In Project Management DIP. Proj.M (DMS) – Damelin 1998
Prince 2 Practitioner – OGC (Snap Tech) 2003
ITIL Practitioner – OGC (Quintica) 2007
SaFE Agilist - 2016
Personal Information
Married to Manuela Teresa (1987)
3 Children
Terence 37
Resident in New Zealand
Ronald 35
Resident in UK
Mikaila 27
Soon to be resding in Portugal
7 Grandchildren
Resident in Walkerville
PO BOX 187
Walkerville 1876
