Eugene Parsons

Experience

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  Absa Group

  Jun 2001 - Jan 2003

  Consultant Business Intelligence
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  Systems Implementation Specialists

  Feb 2003 - Dec 2004

  Senior Business Intelligence Consultant

  Established and formulated the BI design & implementation methodology as a consultative offering, complete with project plans and templates.Once this methodology was established as a service offering, I did 2 major BI projects, both successful and in operation for a number of years subsequently.

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  3fifteen Technology Solutions (Pty) Ltd

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Senior Business Intelligence Architect

  I was responsible for the ETL / DW / BI architectures in a number of mid-sized consultative engagements.I was Team Lead on the Data Management and Architecture team responsible for the overall design and architecture of Standard Bank's Basel 2 Data Mart.

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  Standard Bank Group

  Feb 2007 - Dec 2009

  Responsible for the design of the overall Enterprise Information Management (EIM) capability for the entire Personal and Business Banking (PBB) division.Responsible for alignment to the new Target Operating Model, and definition of the EIM architecture as a constituent part of the Enterprise Architecture. Responsible for the overall management of Information as a strategic resource within the Credit division. Formulation of an IM strategy in conjunction with business partners and ensuring the delivery of Information services by Group IT.Serving on the executive committees of both the Customer Debt Management (CDM) and IT and Operations (IT & Ops) business units.

  • Senior Enterprise Information Management Architect

    Jul 2008 - Dec 2009

  • Head: Information Management

    Feb 2007 - Jun 2008
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  Cognosys (Pty) Ltd

  Jan 2010 - now

  Director

  Cognosys (https://cognosys.co) is an IT company. We specialize in Business Process Automation (BPA) and related digital transformation technologies. We assist companies on their Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) journey in either an advisory or enabler capacity.As an advisory, we take on a part-time CIO/CTO role to help companies craft and reify their digital transformation aspirations. We have many years of combined experience at ExCo level, driving and bringing to fruition IT agendas. Assisting especially SMEs wishing to have an experienced IT director help guide them implementing a modern micro-services architecture, applying methodologies such as Lean and Agile. Digital transformation is all about leveraging the ever-changing technological landscape. Our experience and expertise in this regard is highly valued. From the formulation of a synthesized business / IT strategy, to embracing emerging tech such as Blockchain, to putting data on the balance sheet as a very real monetized corporate asset.As an enabler, we partner with companies as an outsourced service provider. Our services are predominantly business process management related and include the digital mapping and execution of processes on our cloud-based servers (BPaaS). Process automation invariably focuses on the integration of many diverse IT systems, and at the same time tries to minimize mundane and monotonous human participation. Such integration can be readily achieved should the systems have an API, failing there are many other ways of achieving this, such as with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools. Our clients frequently also require assistance with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities. Show less