Gavin Beckett

Experience

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  City of Johannesburg

  Jan 1992 - Jul 1996

  Design Engineer

  Gavin served as a design engineer focussed on the planning, designing and implementation of townships services including roads, water, sewer and electrical infrastructure. He served as a project manager controlling urban design projects and spent a year as a resident engineer within a team supervising the construction of a major sewerage purification works project. Gavin was asked by the Executive Director of Planning from the City of Johannesburg to serve in the provincial RDP office assisting in the development and implementation of a RDP project evaluation system. Show less

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  Grey Matter Internet Development

  Aug 1996 - Jun 1998

  Account Manager

  As account manager, Gavin was responsible for initial client engagement and needs identification, solution design and costing, requirements definition and interaction with technical and creative team members to ensure development of web site solutions in line with customer need, quality standards, project budget and time lines.

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  DIGITAL ARCHIVING SYSTEMS

  Jul 1998 - Oct 2003

  Consultant

  For this Enterprise Content Management service provider, Gavin was responsible for the entire client solution delivery life cycle including the initial needs identification, analysis of client’s business environment, assistance in building the business case, design of system solution including any business process re-engineering and change management requirements, information engineering, database design and supervision of the technical team to ensure configuration and implementation of solution in line with specification. Show less

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  FNB South Africa

  Nov 2003 - Apr 2010

  As one of the first 3 Process Engineers at the bank, Gavin was responsible for the design of enhanced, end-to-end business processes across a Shared Services environment so as to improve their performance and support the organisation's strategic goals. Gavin delivered projects within a Enterprise Content Management programme. This included a paperless solution for cheque processing, forms capture, docuement management and records management.

  • Process Engineer

    Aug 2007 - Apr 2010

  • Project Manager

    Nov 2003 - Jul 2007
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  Southpaw Solutions

  Apr 2010 - Oct 2011

  Solution Owner for Process Based Transformation

  Gavin led the Business Process Stream, delivering business process management solutions to a variety of clients, particularly in the financial services industry.

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  PwC

  Oct 2011 - Apr 2015

  Senior Manager (Advisory): Strategic Enterprise Transformation

  Gavin led the Process stream for Financial Services Advisory for PWC South Africa. In this role he leveraged people's talent together with developed solutions to help clients gain higher performance through the effective management and continuous improvement of their core customer-servicing business processes. Key projects include leading the Process Stream for the establishing of a Business Process Management Centre of Excellence for a "Big Four" bank as well as leading the conceptualisation and development of a Banking Process Reference Model. Show less

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  DigiBlu

  May 2015 - now

  Intelligent Automation Solution Architect

  Gavin assists clients to achieve substantial cost reduction and sustained improvement in quality, service, and staff satisfaction through the implementation of intelligent automation enabled transformation of processes and operating models. As Solution Architect and Blue Prism Accredited Robotic Operating Model (ROM) Architect, Gavin guides clients on the automation journey to build the capabilities required to ensure the right processes are automated in the right way to achieve strategic objectives. Gavin has led the design and implementation of a RPA Centre of Excellence at a "Big Four" South African bank as well at a major South African Insurer, helping them to scale to the largest Blue Prism deployment in Africa. Show less