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• Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
• Formed strategic partnerships and connected with potential clients to drive business development.
• Implemented innovative solutions to solve complex problems, resulting in increased productivity and streamlined operations.
• Enhanced team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
• Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
• Cultivated a positive work environment that fostered employee engagement, increased retention rates, and boosted overall team morale.
• Improved project efficiency with strategic planning, resource allocation, and time management practices.

• Served as a highly technical cloud architect for SA's largest banks.
• Evaluated emerging technologies for potential adoption, staying ahead of industry trends to maintain competitive advantage.
• Responsible for complex detailed designs for applications to cloud.
• Responsible for steering customers, teams and squads to migrate and modernize to cloud (Azure & AWS).
• Responsible for end to end security of complex workloads.
• Worked closely with InfoSec teams at SA's largest banks to ensure cloud security and posture alignment.
• Highly technical role for automation of workload migrations to cloud.
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• I am currently technical director and founder of Cloudlogic
• As a subject matter expert of Azure, I currently specialize in enterprise solutions architecture for global and local large enterprises, governments, non-profits, and education institutions
• The commercial engagements are premier high-end consultative engagements
• My current role involves the following key areas
• Pre-Sales Cloud Architecture Enterprise Architecture Systems Integration Enterprise Architecture and Systems Integration Implementation Evangelism & Training Security and Operations Design Network & Threat Mitigation
• Instructor led
• Online teaching
• Workshops and Customer events
• Expo and Conference

• Headed Infrastructure and Technology at Rewardsco since 2011, transforming contact center use of cloud technologies.
• Led cloud technology transformation in contact center space, enhancing IT agility and custom solution deployment.
• Spearheaded solutions architecture, strategic tech planning, and vendor integration, focusing on business strategy alignment.
• Managed risk, IT efficiencies, and gap analysis to ensure robust BCP.
• Drove research, innovation, and adoption of cloud concepts for optimized technical service delivery.
• Guided ITIL practices and business alignment, enhancing customer relationship management.
• Oversaw project management and scoping, delivering customer engagements to final phase.

• See current role summary.

My role at Epages.net was a cloud solutions specialist, focusing on the porting and hosting of customer critical customer facing backend systems and services across globally hosted infrastructure using IBM’s Cloud Platform.

Specifically:
Provide enterprise consulting services in the following pillars, performance, security, management, and integration.
Design/implement enterprise Backoffice systems hosted in the cloud for customers.
Design and Architect Highly available cloud-based solutions for large clients and customers.

As a Senior Solutions Architect for Microsoft Consulting, I was responsible for delivering consulting services for multiple Microsoft technologies to large enterprise customers.

Specifically:
Deliver best of breed solutions to large Microsoft customers in South Africa’s business capital and across the country.
Employed primarily as a Lead on systems management, imaging and as a deployment specialist.
Focused on multiple product and technology streams as lead consultant.
Trained at Redmond at Microsoft Services University as a senior consultant.

A significant part of my career was spent with Unilever South Africa, the global fortune 500 company. My role was lead solutions architect for the company across EMEA region. The technologies we implemented were well received and deployed across multiple continents and countries.

Specifically:
Responsible for new Microsoft technology adoption across the EMEA region.
Completed onsite training, implementations, and deployments in over 34 countries and cultures.
Co-Developed an In-house 'hands-free' deployment solution using automated or lights-out capability that allowed the region rollout to thousands of systems in record time.

Success:
The successful global innovation and rollout of project then saw me move to Microsoft as a Solutions Consultant.

• Evaluated emerging technologies for potential integration into existing systems, keeping the company at the forefront of industry advancements.