Lezel Tanya Van Soest
Project Management
Cape Town
Summary
Focused and adept Project Manager with a proven track record of planning, directing, and maintaining continuous operations across various departments. Demonstrated experience in effectively leading employees and ensuring efficient production aligns with quality standards. Applies a creative and analytical approach to operations, with a strong focus on continuous process improvement. Highly skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing effective solutions. Excels in mentoring, training, and empowering teams to achieve exceptional performance.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
2001
2001
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Project Manager
Application Frameworks
07.2017 - Current
- Project planning across the company
- Defining and Planning resources and activities based on scope of projects
- Develop schedules including Time and Cost Estimations in conjunction with development managers
- Develop budgets based on scope
- Identify, manage and monitor tasks, risks and issues
- Ensuring that timelines are met within budget
- Billing for all projects within the company
- Customer Account Management
- Overseeing the Deployment and Testing Departments to ensure that the required methodologies are being followed
- Member of the senior management team which derives the vision and company strategy along with the directors
- Collaborate with directors and senior leadership to develop and define the company's vision and strategic direction
- Develop a comprehensive company profile to present to potential customers, highlighting key offerings, value propositions, and organizational strengths
- Managed LinkedIn presence by crafting targeted posts to build relationships with potential clients and enhance customer engagement
- Assisting the Financial Role Groups in analyzing and determining the profit and loss of company projects
- Developing business solution proposals
- HR Responsibilities
- Managing the company's insurance policies and coverage
Deployment Manager
Kopani Utility Services
09.2016 - 06.2017
- Management of deployment staff
- Assist the Product Manager and Marketing Department in planning each release
- Ensure that release controls are documented and well understood by technical team
- Ensure that the architecture and infrastructure on which the application will be deployed are robust and stable
- Liaise with Customer with regard to Infrastructure and Configuration
- Ensure that a detailed deployment plan has been documented along with a backout plan should anything go wrong during deployment
- Ensure the product has been correctly and completely integrated across the program
- Validate that the product has been correctly packaged before deployment and ensure that all release controls have been satisfied
- Conduct a release retrospective with the technical team to improve the release process and increase program productivity and product quality
- Liaise with Operations Team for hand over and production support
- Manage Customer Training
Test and Deployment Manager
Application Frameworks
08.2008 - 08.2016
- Business requirement analysis
- Documentation of test cases from source documentation and agile review sessions
- Test case execution
- Analysis of interpretation of expected results
- Developer Testing
- Functional Acceptance Testing (Blackbox Testing)
- System Integration Testing
- End-to-End Testing
- Develop & facilitate software testing methodologies, approaches and standards
- Coach Testers on quality assurance and testing principles, techniques
- Management of designated testing staff though the STLC and when assisting the investigation of Support cases
- Assist Project Managers in estimating costs in reference to testing
- Perform test documentation reviews
- Test Planning
- Testing Resource Management
- Cost Management of the Testing Cycles
- Project Management and Team leadership of STLC and Functional Acceptance (Blackbox) Testing
- Facilitate Software Support Cases
- Manage and control test execution
- Assist Customers during their User Acceptance Testing phase via Testing support and issue resolution
- Assist Project Managers in estimating costs in reference to deployment and infrastructure activities
- Perform test documentation reviews
- Deployment Planning
- Deployment and Infrastructure Resource Management
- Cost Management of Deployment Projects
- Project Management of specific deployment or infrastructure related projects
- Manage Test Environments
- Manage Site specific information per site and tests environment
- Liaise with customer during on-site deployment projects
- Co-ordination of Support cases with relevant customers
- Ensure that a Financial budget exist to perform investigation
- Ensure that bugs from Customers are validated on Testing Support Platform
- Involve the Development resources and ensure they receive all the necessary data to debug defect
- Arrange that the testing of new software build to ensure that the bugs no longer exist and the regression testing the affected components
- Ensure that all affected documentation is updated
- Ensure all components of a release such the correct software versions, utility applications, deployment manuals, development & testing documentation, scripts are completed before a release is assembled
- Create a patch release and made it available to customer electronically and via a hardcopy
- Once assembled the release is made available to customer electronically or via hardcopy
- Ensure that the appropriate in-house support test platforms are updated
- Support Site Management
- Software Deployment Management
- Business Requirement Analysis
- Documentation of requirements into a Design Goal specification for Developers and testers
- Liaising with customers, developers and testers
- Documenting Business Scenarios (user stories)
- Functional Testing to ensure requirements were implemented correctly
- Planning and defining Scope related to Software delivery responsibilities
- Plan activities based on scope
- Define resources required
- Develop schedules including Time and Cost Estimations
- Develop budgets based on scope
- Identify, manage and monitor risks and issues
- Working with other Vendors to ensure successful delivery
Software Tester (based at Old Mutual)
Magmatec Ltd
05.2006 - 07.2008
Investment Administration Team Lead
Sanlam Ltd
02.2002 - 04.2006
Education
Matric Exemption - English First Language (HG), Afrikaans Second Language (HG), Mathematics (SG), Business Economics (HG), Accounting (HG), Economics (HG)
Beacon Hill Senior Secondary
ND - Financial Information System
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
01.1998 - 01.2001
BCom - undefined
Unisa
01.2003 - 01.2004
Test Methodology - undefined
FTI
ISTQB – BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level - undefined
BCS – The Chartered Institute of IT
Skills
Project management
Project planning
Project planning and development
Project tracking
Strategic planning
Risk management
Schedule management
Team collaboration
Project scheduling
Task prioritization
Budgeting and forecasting
Meeting facilitation
Technologies Used
- Natural Programming
- Cobol Programming
- Microsoft Access
- SQL
- Pastel
- Microsoft Office
- HP Quality Centre
- Microsoft Project
Ethnicity
Coloured
Primary Language
English
Secondary Language
Afrikaans
Awards
- Head Prefect
- Top Student Grade 8 - 12
- Student Tutor at CPUT
- Top of the Class in Testing Course
Personal Information
- ID Number: 7905190100084
- Criminal Record: None
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: South African
- Driving License: Code B
- Marital Status: Married
- Religion: Christian
Timeline
Project Manager
Application Frameworks
07.2017 - Current
Deployment Manager
Kopani Utility Services
09.2016 - 06.2017
Test and Deployment Manager
Application Frameworks
08.2008 - 08.2016
Software Tester (based at Old Mutual)
Magmatec Ltd
05.2006 - 07.2008
BCom - undefined
Unisa
01.2003 - 01.2004
Investment Administration Team Lead
Sanlam Ltd
02.2002 - 04.2006
ND - Financial Information System
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
01.1998 - 01.2001
Test Methodology - undefined
FTI
ISTQB – BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level - undefined
BCS – The Chartered Institute of IT
Matric Exemption - English First Language (HG), Afrikaans Second Language (HG), Mathematics (SG), Business Economics (HG), Accounting (HG), Economics (HG)
Beacon Hill Senior Secondary
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