Ian Bezuidenhout

Project management activities (planning, execution and close out) for IT in a 3 PL pharmaceutical logistics supply chain environment (order to cash). Bigger projects included the outsourced development of a distribution system, the conversion of a bespoke Debtors Management system to SAP and the consolidation of business units (from an IT perspective).

Product Management
IT Consulting
Project Management
Programme Management

Nov 2012 - Jan 2014.
Program to implement hardware in Los Angeles and Frankfurt, install and evaluate a new Warehouse Management System (WMS) with new features of Single Sign On and Portal technologies, and implement a Reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) system.

Reason for leaving: Global projects completed successfully, and within global economic economic climate, strategic decision made was made not to start any new projects. Position was made redundant.

• Program management / delivery of global IT projects to the Contract Logistics & Distribution group within UTi
• Reporting into the Global Director for CL & D IT

• Create and execute Program Management Plan for 7 projects being run in different geographies
• Project Management of 2 projects in the program
• Managing Project Managers
• Reporting bi-weekly to Executives
• Financial Management on the projects

Nov 2011 - Nov 2012
As the responsible person for IT in UTi Pharma, business community interacted with me, and I needed to deliver the required services.

Reason for leaving: Opportunity to get global experience

• IT Systems Renewal
• IT Service Delivery
• Reporting into the Global Director for CL & D IT
• Program Management for the renewal of a Distribution system

• IT Planning (Short and medium term) in conjunction with Executives
• Execution on IT plans, which include Application Development, Business Intelligence, IT Operations
• Ensuring IT services are executed according to Service Levels as contracted to • Reporting progress back to Managing Director
• Development Manager (2) and Operations Manager reporting indirectly into me.
• Contract and Vendor Management.
• Financial Management
• HR Management
• Program management for the renewal of a distribution system across 3 geographies (US, Africa, India) using Agile.

June 2007 - Oct 2011
As IT Operations Manager, responsible for the specification of the IT requirements, outsourcing to Development team, then implementing the solutions in the relevant hardware environments, ensuring Capacity Planning was performed on the hardware, procuring hardware, performing Disaster Recovery, and being responsible for IT Compliance.

Reason for leaving: Promotion
• Business Analysis
• IT Operations Management
• Compliance
• Reporting into the Financial Director

• Had 2 business analysts reporting into me delivering User / Business Requirements. This was used to direct Development team.
• Once applications were developed, they were handed over to IT Operations for the rest of the Life Cycle and were managed as such by a team of 5 Application Support staff.
• Hardware platform acquisition and management. Managed a team of Unix system engineers.
• Interacted with clients from 25 companies on service delivery.
• Handled all IT Compliance in the company (SOX and CFR)
• Contract and Vendor Management.
• Financial Management
• HR Management

March 2001 - June 2007
As IT Operations Manager, also had a team of developers reporting into me to do small application changes and a Business Intelligence (BI) team.

• Enhancements to the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management system
• Hardware platforms supporting the ERP
• Business Intelligence Systems
• IS Training
• Reporting into the CIO

• A team of 5 developers reported into me responsible for the development of minor projects/changes
• A team of 3 Unix engineers reported into me doing the planning, operations and support of the hardware platforms for the applications.
• Initiated Business Intelligence systems with team of 2 staff and an insourced vendor.
• 2 Training officers reported in me producing courses and Training Material.
• Contract and Vendor Management
• Financial Management
• HR Management

April 1999 - February 2001
This program interfaced the Departments of Justice, Correctional Services and the South African Police to manage the paper files (dockets) in an effective/electronic means between the departments. First project to do this was the Court Process Project (CPP)

• Program planning
• Business Requirement Specifications
• Preparing tender documentation
• Vendor Selection
• Contract Management
• Reporting into the Director: Integrated Justice Systems

• As member of the Steering Committee, plans were derived on how to execute this program between industry and Government
• Insourced a vendor responsible for the business requirement specifications
• Prepared Tender documents used to inform industry of the expectations.
• Performed vendor selections
• Performed Contract Management

June 1994 - March 1999
Senior Manager - C3I Systems in SITA

June 1994 - March 1999
Implemented the 1st Document Management System into the Defence Force where HR documentation was made available to staff electronically.
C3 systems are near real time systems collecting information, processing that information, and then making it available to users also in near real time.
Intelligence systems are more free text based, with masses of data, that needs to indexed to needs to easy and intuitive retrieval.

• Program Management of C3 and Intelligence Systems
• Program Planning
• Financial Management
• Project Management
o Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS)
o Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
o Information Security Systems (ISS)
• Reported into the Divisional Manager: Operations & Intelligence systems

• Short, Medium and Long term planning of IT systems in accordance with business requirements and IT Strategy
• Had various development teams report into me doing the application development and support
• Personally performed the Project Management of EDMS, GIS and IS Security

June 1990 - May 1994 Senior Manager Information Systems in Infoplan • Management of the development and support of the Intelligence Systems for the SA National Defence Force

Mar 1988 - May 1990
• Manager - Ground Command and Control System
• Reported into the Divisional Manager: Air Force Systems

• Development and support of the applications

Jan 1987 - Feb 1988
GCC systems are used to manage the movements of aircraft close to or on the ground.

• Project Management of Ground Command and Control (GCC) IT systems
• Engineering Master Plan
• Operational Systems Master Plan
• Reported into the Divisional Manager: Air Force Systems

• Participated within a team to build the Engineering and Operational Systems Master Plans (Long term plans) . My role was to ensure that the IT aspects of these plans were specified

Jan 1983 - December 1986 Position: Systems Analyst Team Leader in Infoplan • Development and support of Telemetry systems

Aug 1981 - Dec 1982 Position: Analyst/Programmer Systems Analyst in Plessey Radar Systems • Design and Development of an Air Traffic Control System in the UK

May 1979 - July 1981
Position: Programmer
Developer in Infoplan
• HR System
• Financial System
• Ground Command and Control System
Period Responsible for Tasks