Johann Fourie

• Developing various quality documents for tender responses including technical and maintenance responses on AFC, APTMS, Enforcement and others such as Weight in motion, CCTV, ANPR etc.
• Consulting, identifying, auditing and reporting to Exco on multiple active projects
• Developed Reports and supported all projects with design and operational documentation.
• Delivered outstanding service to clients to maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
• Liaised with suppliers, customers, management to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Prepared presentations to explain revisions, enhancements and process improvements of organization's systems and programs.
• Integrated technology and business operations to identify targeted solutions to customer issues.
• Implemented practices and procedures to reduce expenditures and increase savings.
• Renegotiated outsourcing contracts to save considerable costs.
• Aligned closely with business owners and employees to gather information and gain operational insight.
• Managed multiple deadlines across several businesses to meet dynamic needs of multiple clients.
• Provided reporting for forecast analysis and ad-hoc reporting in support of decision-making.
• Maintained overall safe work environment with employee training programs and enforcement of safety procedures.
• Developed effective improvement plans in alignment with goals and specifications.
• Optimized customer experience by delivering superior services and effectively troubleshooting issues.
• Evaluated staff performance and provided coaching to address inefficiencies.
• Conducted regular reviews of operations and identified areas for improvement.
• Frequently inspected production area to verify proper equipment operation.
• Devised and implemented processes and procedures to streamline operations.
• Created and managed project plans, timelines and budgets.
• Helped meet changing demands by recommending improvements to business systems or procedures.
• Generated reports detailing findings and recommendations.
• Collected, arranged, and input information into database system.
• Cultivated positive relationships with vendors to deliver timely and cost-effective supply of services and materials.
• Maintained database systems to track and analyze operational data.
• Technical Design/Build for Intelligent Transport Systems/Integrated Transport Systems for Automatic Fare Collection for Ekurhuleni (Harambee) BRT Bus services (322 busses) including Stations (with POS Kiosk & Networking) and Server,network, storage (back office design) including full Failover and Disaster Recovery.
• Technical lead for the Design/Build and maintenance for Intelligent Transport Systems/Integrated Transport Systems for Automatic Fare Collection for City of Joburg (Rea Vaya) BRT Bus services (394 busses) including 66 Stations and back office design.
• Technical lead for the Design/Build for Advanced Public Transport Systems (APTMS) for the City of Cape Town (MyCiti Fleet) (220 feeder and 52 truck busses) including Back office, 7 Depots and Stations (65 Trunk Stations) ;
• Technical lead for the Design/Build for E-Toll Violations Processing centre(VPC) back Office
• Design /Build of x 3 E-Toll Depots for Vehicle maintenance and scheduling
• Design /Build and Quality signoff on the build of 24 Enforcement vehicles and 20 E-Toll Trucks (Mobile Kiosks) with Trailers;
• Technical lead on system testing for E-Toll Mobile environment
• Facilities Executive - Managing all ETC Gantries, Head Office, Failover and DR site including depots - savings of R35m due to proper risk management after 4 months in position.
• Technical Design/Build documentation for the City of Cape Town BodyCam and Vehicle CCTV;
• Technical Design/Build and project management for the George Municipality (Go-George) for the On bus Vehicle CCTV solution including site establishment.
• Technical Research and design build for Sanral N3 Weighbridge Enforcement Vehicle solution
• Evaluate and benchmark various hardware
• Attendance of various Technology & Security Seminars
• Service level agreements specifications & signoffs
• Quality Control, Documentation writing and Continuous Improvements;
• Maintenance Management – Processes and Procedure development; Methodologies and Maintenance contract management
• Staff management – Senior Technical IT staff (Servers, Networks and DBA’s);
• Staff management – Depot Managers and Technical Staff;
• Training material development and staff Training;
• Implementation of Metrics and Performance appraisals/adherence to measurements;
• Advanced reporting – EXCO; and Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) and System Integration Testing (SIT) Nationally and international in Switzerland and Belgium
• Multiple Methodology document development including Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
• Managing of Clients Software licensing and Warranties on Hardware
• Maintaining all client assets on all projects and develop training materials for users and provide required training
• Design the layout and structure for different projects on asset management system (HardCat - recent) and design reports using Crystal Reports
• Define approach and implement multiple surveying Methodologies on project take over and provide assessment results through proper validation (QC); taking cognizance of time frames, dedicated team(s) that will be used in parallel to undertake such surveys;
• Define Project Handover take on method statement and plans

(Previously Fedsure Financial Services then became Financial IQ IT and then Nashua Connect took over IT Dept and then Transferred to Volition in 2004 and transferred to E-Logics (now known as Resolve and then ended up in Imperial Logistics group

Positions held on various projects:

• Senior Database Analyst & Systems Programmer: Fedsure/Investec/IQ Business Group
• Head IT Procurement & Systems Analyst/Developer: Fedsure/Investec/IQ Business Group
• ICT/ITSM Manager : Petzetakis Africa (ex Murray & Roberts company
• Senior IT & Supply Chain Management Consultant, Contract Management, Mis & BPM
• Consultant; Murray & Roberts (IT Strategies & Material Management)
• Consultant; Metal & Industries Council (Network Performance & Governance)
• Consultant; Sebenza (IT Governance & Audit)
• Consultant; Standard Bank SA – Supply Chain (Procurement, Logistics, Reverse Logistics, Supplier Management, Contract Management, Business Process Management, Management Information Systems, 6Sigma)
• Consultant for Telesure Insurance Group – (Parts, Supplier and Strategy, process & procurement definitions incl Data Analysis & IT Governance)
• Senior ITS Specialist for Traffic Management Technologies.

OTHER

• Systems DBA & Remedy Asset Management Developer,
• Project Manager
• MIS Manager
• Supply Chain Analyst
• Contract/Commodity manager (contract drafting & negotiations)

Key Responsibilities

• Various Supply Chain Management Projects to enhance the process management capabilities of clients to ensure the ability to expose performance through quality measurements and visibility through balanced scorecards and performance metrics.
• SCMS Metric definitions, Gap Analysis & Suggested Corrective actions for Procurement, Logistics (forward and Reverse), Contract Management, Supplier (incl. BEE) management divisions and systems to use. Develop systems and dashboards for recording identified performance metrics
• Integrate systems (SAP SRM/EBP/Cognos/Reporting Services/In-house systems etc)
• Managing Day-to-Day ICT Operations
• Systems Design & programming
• Asset management Application development & billing
• Infrastructure Management of 3000+ networked computers and servers for Fedsure Financial services
• Infrastructure Management of 3 Factories & 23 Branches local and in Africa for Petzetakis Africa Piping (Previously Murray and Roberts group - Known as Main Industries)
• Plan, coordinate and execute IT infrastructure programmes
• Prepare the specifications and request for proposals
• Financial planning and budget control
• Ensure conformance of all IT products, systems and services to user requirements
• Ensure that the required security levels are maintained according to security prescriptions
• Proactively identify new solutions, development, systems or technologies which could enhance achievement of business objectives
• Review IT risks and ensure that the necessary mitigation plans are developed and executed
• Procurement & Contract Management
• Change, Incident and Service Management
• Implement new IT products and services
• Data Analysis, Cost Savings and various Project management tasks
• Establish and Implement IT Strategies
• Server, Database and Network Performance Analysis/Audits
• Staff management (Dba’s, IT Support, Developers) incl performance appraisals etc.

Other Duties and tasks:

• Implement recommended HW/SW solutions;
• Hardware specifications/Performance & Standards;
• Software licensing, audits & governance;
• Project manager for Desktop, LAN, WAN Hardware & Software rollouts to 3000+ computers;
• Manage Servers, configurations, optimizations of Database Servers;
• Hardware & Software support relevant to client (obtain skills sets required);
• Disaster recovery specifications, planning, implementations;
• Service level agreements specifications & signoffs;
• Implement Policies & Procedures within IT governance framework;
• Audit & analyze implementations of structured IT governance in companies;
• Hardware and software procurement – manage IT Procurement;
• Manage Suppliers and contracts;
• Develop & design Helpdesk, Asset management System, Project Management, KPI, KRA etc. (workflow systems);
• Implementation of CA Unicenter Server, desktop & network management;
• Evaluate and benchmark various other asset management systems;
• Remote server & desktop support/RAS dialups;
• Support of Unix & Ethernet Networks;
• Implementation of structured cabling and naming conventions and standards;
• Implementation of Dark room environments;
• Documentation & diagrams of LAN & WAN infrastructure;
• User Training;
• Data integrity;
• Report writing – Crystal/Cognos/Reporting Services;
• Serve on various Manco & Exco Management teams;
• Steering of IT & SCMS Committee Meetings;
• Manage IT Budgets & KRA’s;
• Research & Development;
• Multiple Complex Data Analytics for Cost Savings Exercises;
• Contract drafting/vetting and Negotiations;
• Attendance of various Technology & Security Seminars
• Performance appraised to attended World IT conference in Las Vegas

Positions Held:

• Computer Operator;
• Senior Computer Operator;
• Desktop Support;
• Junior Cobol Programmer;
• Senior Cobol Programmer;
• Chief Cobol Programmer;
• Systems Programmer;
• Data Technologist;
• Senior Data Technologist (Deputy Directors Level/SITA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mainframe Operations;
• 12 Hour shifts on Cyber/NOS/VE super mainframes;
• Loading of Magnetic tapes;
• Cleaning of Tape drives/heads;
• Certifying of Tapes on certifier Hardware;
• Print jobs/Printer schedules;
• Core settings on system dumps & restarts;
• Mainframe Systems IPL’s;
• DRP battery & diesel engine tests;
• Data Transmission between branches;
• Manage of Storage and IPL Disks;
• Manage of operations - job scheduling;
• BJI – punch of batch job cards/restarts/loads;
• Job scheduling and device allocations;
• Loading of punch cards(Jobs);
• Tape & backup Library maintenance;
• Card Punching for jobs (Salaries & Production) restarts and new jobs;
• Desktop Support;
• Support PC technology introduced in 1984 in SA for Government;
• Cobol Programmer/Senior/Chief/Data Technologist/DBA;
• Completed 3 months intensive Cobol programmer diploma - Scored 98% - appointed to mark exams for final year BSC degree students during course;
• Written various programs/systems/financial analysis in Cobol relevant to departmental requirements;
• Managing junior programmers and department requirements;
• Analyzing system/application data dumps and correct apps;
• Investigate AFIS (Automatic fingerprint id systems for Government and South African Police – Project team).
• Assembler programming
• Software & Databases: JCL, Roscoe, Cics, Adabas, Natural, Vsam (& other relational databases), MVS, SNA, IBM PCDOS, MSDOS, WIN 3.1, and WFWG.