Experience

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  Altech uec

  Jul 2007 - Oct 2010

  Project coordinator

  Responsibilities: • Assisted Software Project Managers in the execution of project tasks as required; • Provided input into / generate project plans in Microsoft Project which address tasks, schedules and resources and track progress on a daily basis;• Took part in / hold weekly project meetings to manage and coordinate the project; • Took minutes of meetings, ensuring relevant project manager approval before sending out to clients; • Took part in / hold project reviews to ascertain the processes and performance of the project in terms of schedule, resources and quality aspects;• Ensure project tasks or projects are executed in accordance with company processes and procedures;• Assisted in creating project office internal processes;• Assisted in reconciling time spent on projects and preparation of invoice requests;• Managed small/sub projects. Show less

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  Altech multimedia

  Nov 2010 - Mar 2017

  Project manager

  Responsibilities: • Requirements analysis and definition of project scope;• Project costing for feasibility;• Generated project plans which address tasks, schedules, resources, risks, and budgets;• Holding project reviews to ascertain the progress and performance of the project in terms of schedule, budget, resources, risk and quality aspects;• Derived recovery plans and implemented the corrective actions required to ensure the project objectives are achieved;• Resource planning and management, including offshore resources, to ensure projects are staffed;• Management of cross functional teams;• Manage third party vendors and partners to ensure project delivery;• Risk and Issues Management;• Scope management, including change management;• Ensuring projects are executed in accordance with company processes and procedures;• Liaison with clients – weekly progress reporting to customers;• Liaison with commercial division regarding contract management and commercial aspects of projects;• Management reporting, including financial reporting on business unit;• Management of project budgets (according to revenue, cost and margin);• Management of monthly reporting cycle and invoicing process;• Mentoring of Project Coordinators;• Provide input into KPA’s for Project Coordinators;• Conduct in-house training on EPM;• Types of Projects: Software and Full Product (Hardware and Software). Show less

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  Adapt it (pty) ltd

  Mar 2017 - Oct 2018

  Senior project manager

  Responsibilities: • Meet project objectives within the allocated time, budgeted cost, and at the proper performance or specification level;• Lead and direct multiple projects;• Prepare Project Initiation Document and ensure customer approval of costing; • Generation, implementation and tracking of Project Plans;• Managed the project team;• Change Management within the parameters of time, cost and quality;• Generation of Change Variation Orders and approval thereof with client;• Monthly Project Status Reporting to internal and external stakeholders;• Present at monthly Steercom Meetings; • Manage project financials, monthly invoicing and tracking of budgets;• Earned Value Reporting;• Project risk and issue management;• Project resource management;• Program management; • Supported the sales function i.e. provide input to proposals around estimates, solution and plans;• Managed the relationship with clients;• Ensure project quality in all stages of the software development process;• Prepare project, quality, and risk plans;• Assigned work to project teams and monitor outcomes to manage the project successfully. Show less

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  Derivco

  Oct 2018 - now

  Project manager

  Responsibilities: • End to end management of medium to large high complexity projects, within the parameters of allocated time, cost and agreed on quality;• Definition of the project scope, complexity of the project and project approach;• Creation and maintenance of project governance as well as all related artifacts, including the Project Charter; • Development of the comprehensive project schedule (MSP) and communication of key milestones and deliverables to all stakeholders;• Scenario planning and recovery plans for optimising timelines;• Ensuring resource capacity is planned for the project implementation, as well as for go live monitoring and issue resolution;• Risk Management: Identification and proactive management of risks, issues and dependencies on the project;• Project status reporting to stakeholders as defined in the Project Communication Plan;• Collaboration across various Inner Sourced teams to manage dependencies between project and product teams; • Facilitate Scrum ceremonies i.e. sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, and sprint retrospective;• Help the team define and track the sprint goals;• Assist the Software Engineering Manager in managing the product backlog and prioritising the user stories;• Ensure the team adheres to the Scrum principles and practices;• Act as a servant leader and coach the team on self-organisation, collaboration, and problem-solving;• Remove any blockers that hinder the team’s progress and performance;• Escalate any issue or risks that require external intervention or support;• Provide feedback and suggestions for improving the agile process;• Collaborate with other product teams where technical or schedule dependencies are identified;• Where inner sourcing is required, collaborate with all teams and ensure smooth onboarding of changes. Show less