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Ann Smythe

Ann Smythe

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Scrum master / IT Project manager

  • Education

    • WITS

      1994 - 1998
      Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) Maths, Zulu, Phys Ed

    • Potchefstroom Girls High

      1985 - 1989
      Matric Maths, Science, Biology, Geography

  • Experience

    • Siemens Business Services (Pty) Ltd

      Jan 2005 - Jan 2007
      PMO administrator

    • Siemens Business Services

      Jan 2005 - Jan 2007
      PMO administrator

      Supported project managersRan PMO

    • Neotel

      Jan 2008 - Jan 2011
      Project manager

    • NEOTEL TELECOMMUNICATIONS

      Mar 2008 - Dec 2011
      Project manager

    • Vodacom Financial Services

      Jan 2012 - May 2013
      Project Manager - mpesa

    • MTN Uganda

      Jul 2013 - Nov 2013
      Program Manager

      Program manager for MTN SEA (South East Africa) for migration of mobile money platform for Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.

    • Discovery Limited

      Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
      Project manager -Vitality in Asia

    • Plessey

      May 2015 - Dec 2015
      Project Manager

    • Vodacom

      Feb 2016 - Mar 2019
      Project Manager

      Consumer Business Unit - Digital services - Mobile marketing

    • Wunderman

      May 2019 - Oct 2019
      Project Manager at Telkom

    • Falcorp Technologies

      Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
      Scrum Master at Vodacom EBU

      EBU CVM (Ennterprise customer value management)

    • DVT

      Apr 2020 - Nov 2022

      • Interface between Studios and the Games department at Derivco for certain projects related to ensuring game compliance to regulations in newly regulated markets• Project manager for development of reporting solution for Portugal• Project manager to assess, monitor and control issue identified in live testing • Project manager for POPI compliance project in Finance department• Project manager for USB Blocking initiative in Finance department • Rebranding Momentum money card• Card reissue• Onboarding process improvements• Outbound call centre optimization

      • Technical Project Manager at Derivco/Games Global Limited

        Aug 2021 - Nov 2022

      • Project Manager at The Foschini Group

        Nov 2020 - Jul 2021

      • Agile Project Manager at Momentum

        Apr 2020 - Oct 2020

    • Old Mutual South Africa

      Nov 2022 - Nov 2023
      Project Manager Scrum Master

      Project manager/scrum master for the Product team of Old Mutual Bank in their build phase. The Product team developed the business and solution requirements that were possible considering the existing back-end platform of choice. These informed the development of the mobile app.

    • Discovery Limited

      Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
      Project Delivery Manager

    • Mettus

      Feb 2025 - now
      Project Manager

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Jira 7: For Developer, Administrator & Project Managers

      Packt
      Feb 2024
      View certificate certificate

    • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Dec 2021
      View certificate certificate

    • Certified ScrumMaster

      Scrum Alliance
      Aug 2018

    • BPrim Ed

      University of the Witwatersrand

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Ann Smythe
      Top of class UNISA Dec 2009 Top of class for UNISA Advanced project management [APM] course

  • Volunteer Experience

    • IT Support

      Issued by Global Relief Resources
      Global Relief ResourcesAssociated with Ann Smythe

    • Volunteer co-ordinator

      Issued by Parkrun South Africa on Mar 2017
      Parkrun South AfricaAssociated with Ann Smythe

    • Volunteer co-ordinator

      Issued by Friends of Skuilkrans on Mar 2017
      Friends of SkuilkransAssociated with Ann Smythe