Edwin van Zyl

Involved in various startups and projects while using various software tools and cloud platforms.

- Eco system facilitation

- Various industry verticals including organizational productivity, automation, cross eco system integration and market place deployment.

- Implementing scalable cloud solutions.

- Continued organization optimization and innovation framework implementation.

• Grew patent portfolio significantly by promoting a strong intellectual property protection mindset among team members.
• Developed comprehensive innovation strategies aligned with business goals, driving long-term growth.
• Managed multiple high-priority projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget constraints.
• Introduced a structured framework for evaluating new ideas against predefined criteria, leading to more informed investment decisions in R&D projects.
• Evaluated potential acquisition targets based on their alignment with the company''s innovation objectives and growth strategy.
• Revitalized underperforming products by identifying key areas for improvement and implementing targeted changes.
• Championed a customer-centric approach to innovation, incorporating user feedback into every stage of product development.
• Conducted regular competitor analysis, identifying opportunities for differentiation and staying ahead of industry trends.

• Managed day-to-day business operations.
• Developed and maintained strong relationships with clients, resulting in repeat business and referrals.
• Oversaw daily operations, ensuring all tasks were completed accurately and efficiently by team members.
• Negotiated contracts with suppliers for better pricing and terms, reducing overall costs for the business.
• Managed financial aspects of the business, including budgeting, financial reporting, and tax preparation.
• Consulted with customers to assess needs and propose optimal solutions.
• Trained and motivated employees to perform daily business functions.
• Mentored staff members on best practices in customer service and sales techniques, leading to increased performance levels.
• Successfully navigated challenging economic conditions by making informed decisions that protected the business''s financial stability.
• Achieved financial growth with strategic planning, cost control measures, and targeted marketing efforts.

• Part of the java competency at Vodacom’s Service Delivery department that is responsible for enabling and introducing value added services into the core network.
• Designing and implementing high volume systems into Vodacom’s network and ensuring that these system are operationally stable
• Successfully delivering projects in almost every aspect of the core GSM network (SMSC, MMSC, GPRS, 3G, Location Management, Portals, Please Callme, USSD)
• Http://www.vodacom.co.za
• Involved in the following projects:
• ACG (Authentication and Charging Gateway): Design and implement the AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting) component into Vodacom’s core data network. Providing 2nd and 3rd line support
• SGP (Services Gateway Platform): Integrating various systems to enable value added services. Providing 2nd and 3rd line support
• MMSC billing: Implemented the billing extension responsible for generate CDR’s as well as real time billing for prepaid subscribers.
• CUR (Central User Repository): Assist in establishing a highly distributed LDAP infrastructure that is used for data network, vodamail and portal (vlive and v4me) authentication. Providing 2nd and 3rd line support
• SMSC: Implementing solution to allow SMS policy checking
• Vodacom4ME portal: Providing 2nd and 3rd line support
• Myphone (USSD): Providing 2nd and 3rd line support

• Part of the Shared Services & Prototype unit of Branch Banking Technology that’s mainly responsible for applications shared between FNB business units.
• Design and oversee implementation of end to end solutions within the area. Mostly involved in implementing workflow solutions and system integration.
• Established integration architecture and engine to enable business process automation.
• Established development environment, including source and version control, maintenance of branches and merge procedures, coding standards, application architecture as well as deployment and release management.
• Http://www.fnb.co.za
• Was involved in the following projects:
• 1) Automated Complaints Management System Role: Integration Specialist Responsibilities: Designed, implemented and established integration architecture enabling distributed complaints workflow applications of various business units to interface. Integrated these applications that’s running on top of various workflow engines (TIBCO Staffware and AWD) and platforms (.NET and J2EE) by designing an Application Integration Bus (AIB) utilizing Websphere Business Integration (Web service invocation Framework) technology and Altova Enterprise XML suite, specifically XML Spy, Schema Agent and MapForce.
• 2) Enterprise Content Management System Phase 1 Role: Technical Lead Responsibilities: Interaction with clients, project scoping and requirement analysis Involved in intricacies of software development lifecycle, including the requirements, specifications, programming and testing phases. Architected and lead the team that implemented the IT solution to enable a single sourcing business strategy which aligns with enterprise information architecture. This involved structuring the overall solution architecture based on SOA and establishing the meta-architecture. Major components that had to be integrated was TIBCO Staffware, EMC Documentum and the MDA Technology (AndroMDA) used in the presentation layer.
• 3) Leads Management System Role: Technical Lead Responsibilities: Managed the overall implementation and deployment of a leads management workflow solution where leads are routed to sales regions for fulfillment by area sales managers. Designed and implemented the fulfillment process using TIBCO Staffware. Was involved in the requirement gathering, implementation, testing, training and production roll out of the solution.
• 4) Branch Imaging Solution Role: Integration Specialist Responsibilities: Investigated the integration requirements for integrating the HP MFP devices present in the branches with Input Accel to enable the indexing and storing of customer documentation in a central imaging repository like Documentum. Documented the proposed architecture that was accepted for implementation.
• 5) Sales Mobility Prototype Role: Integration Specialist Responsibilities: Assisted vendors with integration into FNB Mainframe via IMS and FNB’s custom middleware protocol and layer (VODS) to enable real time account opening and other business functionality.

• Part of the Enterprise Application Integration(EAI) department
• This complex environment consisted of two Class A systems running in a highly available UNIX/ORACLE environment process more then 1 million transactions a day: Real time Interfacing Mechanism (RIM) (BEA Tuxedo 8.1/Weblogic) Enterprise Workflow Manager (EWM) or TIBCO Staffware.
• Was constantly involved in integration and workflow projects and activities.
• Environment establishment, Implementing services in a Service Orientated Architecture, Production support, Interface testing, Production deployments
• Http://www.telkom.co.za
• Was involved in the following projects:
• 1) Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Role: Integration Specialist Responsibilities: Responsible for functional requirement analysis and technical design. Implemented and designed interfaces between SAP and Microsoft Project Management Server to enable human resource and financial data to be available on EPM. These interfaces were implemented using Tuxedo services and batch transactions were generated using oracle and java stored procedures. Responsible for designing, documenting and implementing oracle java stored procedure framework and database control logic.
• 2) Development of software using java Role: Integration Specialist Responsibilities: Developed Tools used by the Support and Maintenance team. This includes real time monitoring of both systems (email notifications, setting of thresholds etc.) and daily reporting on errors, bugs and incidents. Developed a Resource Scheduler used by management and other resources.
• 3) Workforce Management I & II (WFM) Role: Integration Specialist Responsibilities: Design and implemented a generic lookup system used by all data transformation components within EAI. This consisted of oracle java stored procedures wrapped in PL/SQL and a data loading utility using dynamic RMI servers. This module was used to retrieve message routing information and reference data lookups.
• 4) Hardware Migration Role: Integration Specialist Responsibilities: This project required 2 class A systems to be migrated to new HP machines without downtime. Was part of the team that performed all the installations and establishment of the new high available environment including fail over and DRP.
• 5) Establishment of Application DBA Role: Integration Specialist Responsibilities: Was team leader for the investigation and establishment of the role of an application DBA within the EAI department. Responsible for standardizing on coding standards, frameworks, naming conventions and roll out and maintenance procedures.
• 6) IT Metrics Role: Integration Specialist Responsibilities: Was responsible for implementing IT metrics within the Department. Automation of daily statistics of the 1 million transactions per day was done using java server processes and servlets was used to access the information.
• 9) Weblogic Server establishment Role: Integration Specialist Responsibilities: Involved in the establishment of a highly available Weblogic cluster environment.

• Front end development for a company that specializes in call center software build on java technology.
• Framework development - designing tools and utilities used by front end developers.
• Http://www.sgsol.com
• Was involved in the following projects:
• 1) Constraint Base Logical Management System (CBLM) Role: Java Developer Responsibilities: Software based on the Theory of Constraints. Designed a real time buffer monitoring view of the business process or production line and also the drag and drop utility used to design the production line, defining constraints and adjusting buffer levels.
• 2) ContactPOINT Role: Java Developer Responsibilities: This product consists of different software components (Profiler, Forecaster (AI engine), Info Center etc.). Was involved in designing a framework database import/export utility and preferences used in all components.