Disemelo Mohoase
Senior Project Manager
Johannesburg,Gauteng
Summary
Delivery Manager driving software rollout, support, and training for public-sector platforms across 5–20 sites with resource planning, system support, and defect triage.
Keeps developers, analysts, and client teams aligned so releases land on time and users get practical support after go-live. Focuses on service continuity, issue resolution, and adoption across distributed sites.
Overview
3
3
Languages
11
11
Certifications
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Boxfusion (Pty) Ltd
01.2024 - Current
- The position requires stakeholder management between the client (Departments of Home affairs and Health in Free State, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape Provinces) and the Boxfusion development team in order to deliver world class solutions. A world class Computer Aided Dispatching solution integrated with a Patient facing Mobile Application, PABX / Telephony as a vehicle tracking solution was delivered in the Free State Province to facilitate Ambulance requests from a mobile application to the dispatch and tracking of ambulances through a web-based solution call taking and dispatching solution that has been integrated with a Private Branch eXchange (PBX) application.
- Duties and responsibilities:
- SLA defects resolution at 99.9% achievement
- Project planning, execution and closure with strong emphasis on measuring progress against objectives
- Patient facing mobile application and a paramedic facing mobile application:
- Business analysis of client requirements for software development for Free State Department of Health
- Conducting weekly sprint planning sessions for the product development
- Managing a team of developers and business analysts in system support and troubleshooting of system bugs
- Managing stakeholders from over 100 health facilities across 5 districts in the Free State Province
- Conducted physical and online training for system administrators and end-users in the Free State Province
Managing Director
Roots Solutions Hub (Pty) Ltd
Johannesburg, South Africa (Remote)
11.2019 - Current
- Directed strategic initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and drive business growth.
- Oversaw budget management, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and financial sustainability.
- Developed and implemented policies that improved team performance and client satisfaction metrics.
- Fostered partnerships with key stakeholders to expand service offerings and market reach.
Project Manager
Boxfusion (Pty) Ltd
04.2020 - 12.2023
- The position requires stakeholder management between the client (Health Departments in Gauteng, Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape Provinces) and the Boxfusion development team in order to deliver world class solutions during and post the Covid-19 Pandemic. A world class Computer Aided Dispatching solution was delivered in the Northern Cape Province to facilitate Ambulance requests from a mobile application to the dispatch and tracking of ambulances through a web-based solution call taking and dispatching solution that has been integrated with a Private Branch eXchange (PBX) application. A process re-engineering exercise lead by the role had to be undertaken in order to ensure that Supply Chain can track the movement of centrally procured personal protective equipment from warehouses to healthcare institutions (Hospitals and Clinics). Furthermore, instantaneous availability of data relating to Covid-19 positive cases, mass screening and contact tracing had to be made available to the Gauteng ministry of health.
- Duties and responsibilities:
- Project planning, execution and closure with strong emphasis on measuring progress against objectives
- Mpilo Application Project Management Services:
- Business analysis of client requirements for software development for Gauteng Department of Health (Tracking of personal protective equipment)
- Preparing daily, weekly and monthly reports for the supply chain management’s reporting of personal protective equipment (PPE) movement in the province (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and PowerBI)
- Managing a team of developers and business analysts in system support and troubleshooting of system bugs
- Managing stakeholders from over 500 health facilities across 5 districts in the Gauteng Province
- Conducted physical and online training for system administrators and end-users in the Gauteng province
Project Manager
Africawide Consulting
08.2017 - 03.2020
- The position required solid leadership skills as it required one to manage multiple projects simultaneously. The position also required a person with great followership and managing of large high performing teams. The position focused mainly in the Education Sector and required stakeholder management between the Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) and stakeholders (training providers and grant applicants). The position required the management of the grant disbursement processes as well as making recommendations the board of the SETA in order for grants to be disbursed equitably across the country.
- Duties and responsibilities:
- Project planning, execution and closure with strong emphasis on measuring progress against objectives
- Ran an extension of the Services SETA Quality Management Division (QMD). The project required streamlining business processes as follows:
- Monitoring of skills development providers in order to ensure that training is in line with SETA requirements
- The Quality Management System (QMS) approved at the time of accreditation (which I also managed) was monitored while training was under way. The QMS would be required to address inter alia, the following (data collected at each monitoring visit):
- Evidence of learners’ attending training
- Evidence of learners’ portfolios which indicate the learners’ work and assessment by training providers
- Correct sampling during assessment of learners’ portfolios
- Correct quality assurance measurements which indicate that an assessor and a moderator have checked the learners’ work
- Application of training material is as per the approved standards i.e. formative and summative assessments are conducted correctly
- The application of the approved QMS also assessed at the end of training in order to ensure that SETA projects address the skills development gap (main objective). This ensures that the funds allocated to training are not misused.
- Any inconsistencies would be corrected while training was underway, this ensured that training providers are given the opportunity to embrace any change that may arise.
- Throughout this process, progress reports were prepared and presented to the QMD senior managers and any changes required implemented.
- Ensuring delivery of project outcomes within agreed timelines
- Ensuring delivery of post project support
- Stakeholder relationship management for multiple clients including ESKOM, Services SETA, AgriSETA and Construction SETA
- Mentoring and coaching of consultants
- Providing guidance and support to a team of consultants working on multiple projects including planning of due diligence visits and reporting across the country
- Managing the development and implementation of technological tools such as the project and learner reporting tool (PLRT) for the Services SETA
- Managing the disbursement of discretionary and mandatory grants (SSETA, CATHSSETA and CETA)
- Managing the update of the Sector Skills Plan for a SETA
- Managing the evaluation and quality assurance of the following for a SETA:
- Skills development provider accreditation applications
- Assessor and moderator registration applications
- External moderation
- Business development:
- Seeking and responding to requests for proposals and quotations
- Creating unsolicited sales pitch packs
Senior Implementation Consultant
Africawide Consulting
08.2015 - 06.2017
- The position required solid leadership skills as it required one to manage large teams. The position also required a person with great followership and managing of large high performing teams. The position required understanding of the operations of a maintenance department for a power utility to assist them in planning maintenance 12 months in advance. The position required strong business analysis skills.
- Duties and responsibilities:
- Project Management:
- Providing guidance and support to a team of consultants
- Project planning
- Ensuring delivery of project outcomes within agreed timelines
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Ensuring delivery of post project support
- Selected to participate in the management development programme which resulted in a promotion to project manager
- Project Controls Implementation
- Lead and support a team of consultants at a power station outage (maintenance) departments
- Strategize on the direction that the implementation team should take in supporting the outages departments to prepare for fast approaching outages and the rapidly changing environment as well as streamlining the department’s business processes
- Design and implement tools that ensure sustainable implementation of project controls
- Ensuring rapid turnaround times for solution design and implementation due to outage dates being close to each other and/or overlapping for the two sites
- Preparation and presentation of weekly update reports
Metallurgist
Anglo American
01.2007 - 06.2015
- I filled multiple roles ranging from a graduate metallurgist to being a laboratory managing metallurgist. The positions required leading multiple teams of technicians to carry out laboratory scale testwork, pilot scale testwork as well as leading metallurgical plant audits across multiple commodities. The commodities included Platinum, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Niobium, Iron and Coal.
- Duties and responsibilities:
- Designed a quality control tool that improved turnaround times by nearly 40%
- Continuous process improvement. Initiated recycling of reagents which resulted in a saving of approximately 20% per month in operational costs.
- Due to high quality of work performed, identified by section manager as the potential quality manager for the ISO 17025 which the lab was striving to get accredited for
- Ensuring compliance with ISO9001/14001and OSHAS 18001
- Participation in annual ISO9001/14001 and OSHAS 18001 audits
- Provided process control trouble shooting support to operations (e.g. assisted one operation in identifying the acceptable coarse Jig operational limits through modelling and data analysis)
- Project management responsibilities which included proposals, budgeting and resource management. Increased labour utilisation and keeping it above 90% at all times. Projects successfully executed in 2014 were worth over 8 million rand
- Sink and float inputs project management (sample receipt, crushing, screening and splitting)
- Liaison with clients (presentation of results)
- Onsite thickener appraisal, focusing mainly on historical process data analysis (Botswana operation
- Assisted the operation in identifying strategies to optimize reagent make up which allowed a decrease in the reagent cost and improved reagent consumption
- Designed testwork programmes for testing different reagents
- Mentored a process engineering student from Universidad Catolica del Norte
- Designed testwork programmes to test different circuit configurations
- Advised on required strategies to improve the operation of certain critical units
- New technologies fundamental research focusing on pre-upgrading processes
- Flotation circuit optimisation project management
- Design and execution of optimisation survey campaigns (Platinum, Copper, Niobium, Iron ore and Coal)
- Data analysis through mass balancing, modelling and simulator design on JKSimFloat
- Report writing and presentation of results to clients
- Ensuring that all SHEQ systems (ISO9001/14001 and OSHAS 18001) are in place for the north campus facility which was new at the time. Ensuring compliance with both internal and external SHEQ requirements
- Participation in annual SHEQ assessments by both external and internal auditors
- Engagement with staff of all levels to ensure high SHEQ performance
- Development of standard operating procedures for piloting campaigns
- Participation in HAZOP studies for piloting campaigns
- Commissioning of various hydrometallurgical pilot plant circuits including leaching, crystallisation, solvent extraction, electrowinning and limited pyrometallurgy
- Operation of hydrometallurgical pilot plant circuits (responsible for both technical and operational elements)
- Managing and guiding technicians before and during piloting campaigns
- Desktop analysis of various physical separation processes
- Design of testwork programmes for testing precious metals leaching ligands
- Report writing and results presentation
Education
Advanced Project Management -
University of Cape Town
01-2025
Agile Project Management - undefined
University of Cape Town
01-2020
New Managers Programme - undefined
Wits Business School
01-2016
B.Eng (Metallurgical Engineering) (First Class) - undefined
University of Pretoria
01-2006
University of Pretoria Foundation Year Programme - undefined
University of Pretoria
01-2001
High School - STEM
Parklands High School
Alberton, South Africa01-2000
Skills
Programme management
Project management
Portfolio management
Change management
Service Delivery
Business Analysis
Business Process Optimisation
Data analysis
Report writing
Stakeholder management
Additional Information
Sang soprano in the choir (EPNEK) that welcomed the olympic flame in Cape Town when the olympics were held in Greece (2004). Toured Greece with EPNEK in my second year of university. Enjoy playing indoor (five-a-side) soccer.
Certification
Conduct moderation of outcome-based assessments, Unit standard 115759, ETDP SETA, 2018
Education
Achievement: Obtained a 2nd position academic achievement award, Achievement: Golden Key International Honours Society Membership (awarded to the top 15% of the university)
Languages
Afrikaans
Upper intermediate (B2)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Spanish
Elementary (A2)
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Boxfusion (Pty) Ltd
01.2024 - Current
Project Manager
Boxfusion (Pty) Ltd
04.2020 - 12.2023
Managing Director
Roots Solutions Hub (Pty) Ltd
11.2019 - Current
Project Manager
Africawide Consulting
08.2017 - 03.2020
Senior Implementation Consultant
Africawide Consulting
08.2015 - 06.2017
Metallurgist
Anglo American
01.2007 - 06.2015
University of Pretoria Foundation Year Programme - undefined
University of Pretoria
B.Eng (Metallurgical Engineering) (First Class) - undefined
University of Pretoria
New Managers Programme - undefined
Wits Business School
Agile Project Management - undefined
University of Cape Town
Advanced Project Management -
University of Cape Town
High School - STEM
Parklands High School