Cobus Van Der Colff

Experience

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  Business Connexion

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2010

  Senior Technical Team Leader

  Leading a team of 8 highly skilled systems engineers.Skills development by assessing individual work motivation, responsibilities and skills shortages.Supporting of all Server hardware running on Windows 2003 environment.Support a distributed Terminal server implementation.Support the Active Directory domain, File and print servers.

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  RCS

  Mar 2010 - Jan 2016

  ICT Infrastructure Manager

  Head up the ICT infrastructure and accountable for Telephony, Networks (LAN & WAN), Infrastructure (Servers, Desktops, Printers, etc.) including 2 data centres and disaster recovery site.Provide Strategy and implement Capacity and Availability Management.Contract Management of all 3rd party technology vendors.Managing innovation and thought leadership within the account in support of business units where appropriate.Lead projects of high and medium complexity or a collection of smaller projects as per project roadmap.Manage Opex and Capex Budget for ICT Infrastructure department (30 Million Rand).Planning and presenting detail annual budget proposals on new innovations and projects.Achievements:Improved DR solution from cold to warm site. (RTO 1h at WNS).Designed and managed VSAT / MPLS and voice solution project for foreign stores.Designed and managed complete failover for outbound voice traffic project. Introduced Automation across infrastructure (SCCM, SCOM).Introduced new costing model for all outbound calls (Total cost saving R4m per annum).Introduced policies and procedures for all infrastructure services.Managed voice retention project (Ongoing process migrating all voice recording from Nice, Datavoice, and Verint devices to disk with offsite backup).Implement new Datacentre, WAN, LAN, Voice, Video for a new building at Golf Park. Show less

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  The SPAR Group Ltd

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

  Technical Project Manager

  Responsible for the analysis, evaluation, and documentation of requirements for SPAR WC business and technology projects.Provide Infrastructure Solutions Design.Responsible for the costing, estimates and planning of projects.Ensure best value is obtained for the project including supplier base, use of internal and external resources.Ensure projects are completed on-time, within budget, and within client expectations for quality and functionality.Manage the operational impact of delivery through change control. Show less

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  Nexio South Africa

  Jul 2018 - Apr 2021

  Service Delivery Project Manager

  Working with Nexio Business Units ensuring that Nexio are delivering to our contractual obligations, extracting reports for review, identifying opportunities to improve our customer’s experience, building strong and long-term relationships with the delivery teams.Achieve strategic objectives through engaging with key stakeholders, participating in the strategic planning & budgeting cycle and planning the projects that make up the broader change program.Establish and implement the necessary capabilities required to deliver successful technology solutions.Ensure projects are completed on-time, within budget, and within client expectations for quality and functionality.Accountable for Resource planning of Microsoft Team offering pre-sales and professional services.Creation of the Cloud Business plan for Nexio and Vodacom Business, focusing on Microsoft Azure and M365 Suite.Create and drive Cloud pipeline and conversion to realizable sales.Develop new partner channels and increase market share through partner sales. Show less

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  BUI - Microsoft Gold and Azure Expert MSP Partner

  Jul 2021 - now

  Service Delivery Manager