Experience

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  City of cape town

  Jan 1995 - Jul 1995

  Children's librarian

  Story-telling and recommending reading material for children

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  Mckinsey & company

  Apr 1998 - Feb 2002

  Resource specialist

  -Supporting research activities both within the local office and firm-wide: (1) Identifying and assembling relevant information resources for a variety of topics; (2) Ensuring that information resources are made available when needed by both local and international consulting professionals; and (3) Disseminating information to both knowledge management community and the consulting professionals.- Training new hires on using firm information retrieval tools: (1) Administration activities for the local Research & Information Services (2) Content management; (3) Financial management; and (4) Editing & publishing various newsletters.- Mentoring and coaching junior staff- Establishing and managing relationships with vendors. Show less

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  Sita

  Sept 2002 - Sept 2003

  Knowledge & information management specialist

  - Delivering current awareness services to senior staff relating to the trends in government information technology;- Disserminating selective information to the government CIO teams relating to global govenment technology issues.- Updating company databases with current information relating to information security issues.

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  Unisa

  Mar 2003 - Sept 2003

  Part-time lecturer

  A short stint at UNISA responsible for coaching 1st-year & honours students in information and knowledge management as well as compiling study material for the same course

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  Accenture

  Oct 2003 - Aug 2014

  Research specialist

  Working in a global team to deliver high-performance research, primarily to internal customers with specialty in Communications Technology. As a researcher in this highly competitive environment, the required skills include advanced internet searching, synthesis and integration of information, effective communication abilities and story-telling.You are active in three distinct ways: (1) helping executives to understand markets and companies by identifying ways in which they can assist clients to become high-performance businesses. A typical analysis might be an in-depth company profile reviewing a company's financial and strategic agenda or an overview of the market identifying trends, key players and the state of the market. (2) working alongside colleagues to provide research and industry expertise; and (3) reviewing published research to create and write viewpoints on the target industry.Primary information sources used for producing these high-impact research deliverables include Dow Jones Factiva, Gartner, IDC, Yankee, Ovum. Show less

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  Barclays

  Sept 2014 - Sept 2017

  Strategy researcher

  Provides strategic research support by driving the creation of new, provocative and inspiring knowledge (research output) to the strategy client team and the senior executives. Also responsible for overlooking the knowledge management initiatives and cost saving opportunities through strategic sourcing of external research as well as building sustainable relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.

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  Absa group

  Sept 2017 - now

  Market Data and Sourcing Advisory Knowkedge broker, Market and Reference data subject matter specialist, Research Support

  • Vice President, Lead Data Engineer

    Dec 2019 - now

  • Vice President, Lead Market Data

    Sept 2017 - Nov 2019