My credentials

I have 30+ years of IT experience, ranging from technical development work early in my career, to solution planning and architecting, which includes complex system planning and project management. For the past 16 years, I have run my own IT consultancy company and worked on multiple projects in various capacities.

Since 2008 I have been working extensively at Stellenbosch University assisting various Faculties, Divisions and Departments with their websites and technical requirements.

My clients include:

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Faculty, Finance Division, Human Resources Division, Maties Gym, Centre for Learning Technologies, Journalism Department, Centre for Teaching and Learning, Hybrid Learning, Postgraduate Office, Conservation Ecology & Entomology, History Department, Operations & Finance Division, Division for Social Impact, Corporate Communication Division, Information Governance, International Office, SUNFin and SUNStudent projects.

SwitchX

I spent 2 years contracted at SwitchX, a banking switch for morgage origination, responsible for operations, service delivery and the product development life cycle.

Oracle Corporation

At Oracle I was responsible for all pre-sales (technical solution selling) activity in the Cape Town region which required articulating Oracle’s key technology messages and translating them into a meaningful solution for the customer’s environment. I  assisted Account Managers with providing the best possible solution throughout the customer engagement process and worked with other product specialists (local and international) to develop customer architectures and roadmaps for Oracle products.

I also had the opportunity to spend several years as a Product Sales Rep for BI Solutions (Data Warehousing, Data Mining, OLAP and related toolsets) which allowed me to develop BI knowledge and expertise.