Johan Du Toit

Johan Du Toit

Apprentice Mechanic

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    A successful and experienced people Manager, and Technical Expert

  • Education

    • Boland College

      1999 - 2002
      Engineer’s Degree
    • Labori, Paarl, South Africa.

      1997 - 1999
      High School
  • Experience

    • Courtrai Auto

      Sept 2002 - Feb 2005
      Apprentice Mechanic
    • Paarl mercedes benz

      Jul 2005 - Feb 2007
      Diagnostic Technician
    • Williams hunt

      Mar 2007 - Feb 2008
      Team leader
    • Paarl Renault

      Feb 2008 - Jul 2008
      Technical Manager
    • Brands garage

      Jul 2009 - Jun 2010
      Diagnostic Technician
    • British Gas

      Jun 2010 - May 2015

      Managed a group of 23 technical support analysts across six teams for three applications in the production and development environments providing office hours and 24/7 call-outResponsible for Smart Metering Head-end Application; VEND Management Application – Prepayment; MDUS - reads archive application used to provide reads for billing purposes to SAPMitigated risk by identifying, monitoring and owned all Core Smart service related risksOwner of the four business criticality 1 IS Smart metering servicesResponsible for the resolution of all production issues and technical exceptions relating to SMART applicationsFull management of small change and Continuous Service Improvement for SMART systemsHeld direct responsibility for the controlled transition of projects into BAU Show less

      • Smart Metering Applications Support Manager

        Dec 2013 - May 2015
      • Application Support Analyst - Deputy Manager

        Dec 2012 - Dec 2013
      • operations control analyst

        Jun 2010 - Dec 2012
    • British Gas

      Sept 2015 - now

      My current work involves heading the implementation of all smart metering, Head-end maintenance releases, which will enable the SMETS 1 compliance rollout, along with other significant application bug fixes - enabling higher daily install and commission rate and an enhanced read to bill performance. Additional recent tasks include collaborating with other PMs to deliver a comprehensive upgrade to operating systems across the Smart applications estate, encompassing; applications estate (94 servers), upgrade Oracle vision from Oracle 11G to 12C on Exadata along with all monitoring and reporting, also creating a new test strategy for all new application testing as well as a complete test environment renovation. Show less

      • Smart Metering Subject Matter Expert

        May 2015 - now
      • Transformation Lead - Secondment

        Sept 2015 - Jan 2016
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

      CSME
    • Gaining Skills with LinkedIn Learning

      LinkedIn
      Mar 2023
      View certificate certificate
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Volunteer

      Issued by Sebastian's Action Trust
      Sebastian's Action TrustAssociated with Johan Du Toit