Samantha Zambezi, Senior Consulatant

Samantha Zambezi

Senior Consulatant

Ovations Technology Group

Location
South Africa
Education
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering, cum laude
Experience
12 years, 2 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 2 months

Senior Consulatant at Ovations Technology Group
  • South Africa
  • My current job since February 2015

Work in various project environments.
Extensively involved in business transformation projects at financial service firms.
Leads process discovery workshops as well as visioning workshops providing a blueprint for IT solution architecture design.
Overseeing functional business requirements ensuring the implementation of efficient business processes and adherence to architectural principles. Communication of business process changes to business users.
Setting up of standards for enterprise modelling across various project workstreams.
Involved in setting up of MDM governance processes including meta data governance to ensure data quality standards are met and ownership assigned.
Has established a process architecture at various organisations.

Senior Associate at Ernst and Young
  • South Africa
  • January 2012 to January 2015

Performed various business analysis work including: Requirements gathering (functional and nonfunctional), documentation, Process analysis using BPMN, data analysis, System integration modelling using UML. Development of high level test scenarios for SIT.
Assessment of the implementation of lean principles at a large automotive company, design of a procurement maturity assessment model, establishment of projects management capabilities for the monitoring of continuous improvement initiatives at a large FMCG company, Inventory management analysis activities

Education

Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering, cum laude
  • at University of Pretoria
  • November 2011

Awards: Member of the Golden Key International Honors Society Membership is by invitation only.Students that are within 15% top student in the faculty are invited and receive member benefits which include networking and scholarships SA Women in Engineering Fellowship 2010; SaWomeng has an annual conference each year in which top female engineering students in South Africa are selected to attend. Students then become part of Sawomeng@ network and alumni. Internship: Interned with SABMiler performing warehouse improvement studies Dissertation: Development of a framework for outsourcing logistics (passed with distinction (82%)).

Specialties & Skills

Industrial Engineering
Data Analysis
Six Sigma
Business Process Improvement
Project Management
Lingo (Linear programming tool)
Ms Projects
Tableau
Ms Visio
Minitab
Arena process simulator
Ms Excel

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

South African Institute of Industrial Engineers
  • Associate Member
  • March 2015

Training and Certifications

Data Science Specialisation (Training)
Training Institute:
John Hopkins
Date Attended:
January 2016
Duration:
80 hours
Introduction to SAP ERP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
SCOR - S (Training)
Training Institute:
University of Pretoria
Date Attended:
March 2014
Duration:
24 hours
Six Sigma Green Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Scuba Diving
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