Bradley Vd Westhuizen

• Key strengths and responsibilities include:
• Managing multimillion-rand e-commerce projects from scope definition to successful go-live, with a focus on customer-centric outcomes and business ROI.
• Certified Adobe Commerce Business Practitioner Expert, ensuring best practices in digital commerce solution delivery.
• Lead end-to-end project management for digital transformation initiatives, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery.
• Collaborate with clients to define project scopes, objectives, and deliverables, translating requirements into functional specifications.
• Manage cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and accountability to meet project milestones.
• Implement risk mitigation strategies, enhancing project resilience and success rates.
• Facilitating Agile project delivery (Scrum, Kanban), sprint planning, retrospectives, and stand-ups to drive continuous improvement and transparency.
• Utilizing tools like Jira, Miro, Smartsheet, Google Workspace, and Microsoft Office Suite to manage workflows, documentation, and team collaboration.
• Leading stakeholder engagement, risk management, and resource planning across geographically distributed teams.

Project Manager

• Defined project scope, timelines, and milestones with the stakeholders
• Provided daily updates to internal and external stakeholders through daily communications with Calls, Meetings and Chat
• Worked cross-functional teams (e.g., development, design, QA, business) to ensure work was properly broken down, estimated and prioritized for the project to succeed.
• Identified, documented (RACI Sheet), and proactively resolve project risks and blockers with the teams from the UK, Latvia and India
• Managed the project budgets and resource allocations, to ensure the fastest way to get the project over the line
• Monitored and tracked deliverables for quality and completeness to ensure a complete and 95% google score through all metrics

Scrum Master

• Facilitate Agile Ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews with teams in India, Latvia and the Ukraine
• Ensured backlog items are prioritized and ready for future sprints

Improved cycle time from a month to 5 days

Product Specialist

• Certified Adobe Commerce Business Practitioner Expert, ensuring best practices in digital commerce solution delivery on the Magento platform

Team Lead

• Responsible with providing performance reviews
• Performance feedback
• Skills coaching and implementing improvement plans
• Driving up-skilling through certifications

Project Manager

• Defined project scope, timelines, and milestones with the stakeholders
• Worked with cross-functional teams to ensure work was properly broken down, estimated and prioritized for the next sprint
• Proactively resolved project risks and blockers
• Managed the project budgets and resource allocations, to ensure the fastest way to get the project over the line
• Monitored and tracked deliverables for quality and completeness to ensure a complete and 95% google score through all metrics
  

Scrum Master

• Facilitate Agile Ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews with the scrum team
• Ensured backlog items are prioritized and ready for future sprints

Project Manager

• Defined project scope, timelines, and milestones with the stakeholders
• Provide regular updates, reports, and decision-making support to internal and external stakeholders through weekly status reports/meetings and monthly Steercos
• Worked cross-functional teams (e.g., development, design, QA, business) to ensure work was properly broken down, estimated and prioritized for the project to succeed.
• Identified, documented (RACI Sheet), and proactively resolve project risks and blockers through open communication with the scrum team and stakeholders
• Managed the project budgets and resource allocations, ensuring cost-effective delivery and workload balance.
• Monitored and tracked deliverables for quality, completeness, and alignment with business goals
  

Scrum Master

• Facilitate Agile Ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews with teams in South Africa and Latvia
• Actively identify and resolve blockers that hinder team progress, working across departments and cultures.
• Ensure backlog items are visible, prioritized, and workflow status is up to date for reporting tot he PMO
• Use data (velocity, cycle time, throughput) to drive improvements to process and team ways of working so that we could bring the teams cycle time down to 5 day

Product Specialist

• Certified Adobe Commerce Business Practitioner Expert, ensuring best practices in digital commerce solution delivery on the Magento platform

Project Manager

• Defined project scope, timelines, and milestones with the stakeholders
• Provide regular updates, reports, and decision-making support to internal and external stakeholders through weekly status reports/meetings and monthly Steercos
• Worked cross-functional teams (e.g., development, design, QA, business) to ensure work was properly broken down, estimated and prioritized for the project to succeed.
• Identified, documented (RACI Sheet), and proactively resolve project risks and blockers through open communication with the scrum team and stakeholders
• Managed the project budgets and resource allocations, ensuring cost-effective delivery and workload balance.
• Monitored and tracked deliverables for quality, completeness, and alignment with business goals

Scrum Master

• Facilitate Agile Ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews with teams in South Africa and Latvia
• Actively identify and resolve blockers that hinder team progress, working across departments and cultures.
• Ensure backlog items are visible, prioritized, and workflow status is up to date for reporting tot he PMO
• Use data (velocity, cycle time, throughput) to drive improvements to process and team ways of working so that we could bring the teams cycle time down to 5 day

Product Specialist

• Certified Adobe Commerce Business Practitioner Expert, ensuring best practices in digital commerce solution delivery on the Magento platform

Key strengths and responsibilities include:

Installation of the Micros POS system including configuration and setup end to end
Customer Training both on site and in the office
Go Live support and troubleshooting
Project close off and sign off