📆 Calendar
✉️ Contact
<aside> 💬 “I possess a talent for building highly effective teams from scratch and transforming underperforming teams.
My strong communication skills and proven track record in the Big 4, banking, and finance further enhanced this ability. I consistently focus on delivering tangible value to the business, leveraging my delivery and communication frameworks.”
</aside>
<aside> 🏆 Career Highlights
⭐️ Reduced Go-to-Market: From 72 weeks to 10 days, reduced cloud infrastructure cost by 37%. By technology integration, product consolidation, and improved product delivery efficiency by 27%. ⭐️ Global Network Monitoring System: Successfully deployed a global network monitoring system across 75 local zones, utilizing my leadership skills in managing large-scale projects with global impact. ⭐️ Reduced Provisioning Time: Provisioning was reduced from 127 days to 5 days, vastly enhancing customer satisfaction and streamlining operations, with a cost savings of more than $171M. ⭐️ ISO27001 Certification: Certification for allowing integration with the Australian Tax Office. Accomplished certification in under 9 months, implementing a strategic risk management framework. ⭐️ Strategic Market, Team Growth: 35% increase in new Alexa subscriptions by strengthening relationships with technical and hiring partners. Team growth of 57%, and YOY subscription growth of 27%.
</aside>
Effective communication is essential for successful software engineering and management. For example, during an Amazon product launch, the engineering team experienced delays due to complex feature requirements. I organized collaborative workshops involving the product manager and the engineering team to address these issues. These workshops provided a space for open dialogue, allowing engineers to explain technical hurdles and the product manager to outline the business implications of delays. This cross-functional collaboration led to adopting a minimal viable product (MVP) approach, enabling the team to deliver value swiftly while refining the feature iteratively. This approach improved team morale and aligned engineering efforts with business goals, demonstrating the power of clear and consistent communication.
Recognizing and addressing customer needs is of utmost importance in software engineering. My time at Amazon allowed me to spearhead the deployment of a cutting-edge hardware provisioning tool known as Osiris. This innovative tool had a remarkable impact, significantly reducing provisioning times and elevating the overall customer experience. We successfully automated the provisioning process by strategically utilizing an automated framework and comprehensive early testing, minimizing manual effort. As a result, customer satisfaction soared, and operational efficiency improved. This project demonstrated the pivotal role of aligning technical solutions with customer expectations in delivering high-quality services.
To drive growth in software engineering, we need to focus on strategic hiring, team expansion, and process improvements. At Amazon, I oversaw the vision and operations for four services supporting EC2 Outposts. I expanded the team from 5 to 15 members and 2 Security Engineers. This growth was made possible by implementing an automated framework, which reduced manual asset builds from 7 days to 4 hours and automated new hardware provisioning from 127 days to 5 days. These improvements supported over 210,000 hardware assets globally. Not only did this enhance operational efficiency, but it also led to significant cost savings and increased customer satisfaction.
Relational Databases
MySQL. PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM Db2, RDS
NoSQL Databases
MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
Analytical Databases
Amazon Redshift
Data Warehouse Databases
Apache Hive, Apache HBase
Purpose Languages
Python**,** Java, C++, C#. .Net, JavaScript Go (Golang), Ruby**,** PHP(LAMP), TypeScript
Web Development Languages
HTML (HyperText Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python (Django, Flask, Selenium), C# (ASP.NET), TypeScript (Angular, React), Node.js (JavaScript/TypeScript runtime)
Mobile Development Languages
Swift (iOS), Objective-C (iOS), Java (Android)
Data Science and Machine Learning Languages
Python (NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn)
timeline
%%{init: {'theme': 'base', 'themeVariables': { 'primaryColor': '#FF9176', 'edgeLabelBackground':'#FFB3BA', 'tertiaryColor': '#FFDFBA', 'secondaryColor': '#BAE1FF', 'primaryBorderColor': '#BAFFC9'}}}%%
Title
Section South Africa
Networking Communications : Data Network Engineer Telkom
: Senior Network Engineer Reuters
Banking, Finance, and Insurance : Senior Analyst Programmer Investec Bank
: Senior Analyst Programmer Team Lead Nedbank
Retail : Senior Analyst Programmer BOC Gases / Afrox
Section Australia
Retail : Senior Programming Analyst Myers
Banking, Finance, and Insurance : Senior Analyst Programmer / Team Leader - Norwich Union
: Team Manager Software Development Aviva
: Service Delivery Manager NAB
: Integration Delivery Manager NAB
: Service Delivery Manager NAB
: Senior Software Engineering Manager MYOB
Section United States
Retail : Software Development Manager Amazon Alexa
AWS : Software Development Manager AWS S3
: Software Development Manager AWS EC2
Security, Compliance, Software-Engineering: Consultant, AIM, Starbucks: Consultant, Mil-Spec Magnetics : Software Development, Manager Intelisys, Scansource
Oracle: Snr Software Development Manager, Oracle Health