Project Manager
Chillisoft Solution Services
Total years of experience :13 years, 5 Months
Project Management of Enterprise Software Systems development and implementation (Full SDLC: requirements, design, development, implementation):
o Jan 2016 to Jan 2017 - Project Manager for an International 12 month customer engagement in Oman, Gulf region, for a complex bespoke Enterprise Management Information System development, integration (existing systems/APIs) and implementation project - hybrid use of Waterfall, Agile, Lean, Kanban and Scrum frameworks and methodologies.
o Project Contracts Review and strategic planning
o Project requirements extraction and review
o Project initiation planning
o Project Planning, including : Project Governance Charter, Project Schedule, High Level Milestone delivery schedule, High Level System Implementation Plan.
o Project execution, monitoring and control, change control management
o Facilitating and managing project team and stakeholders (internal and client )
o Project Budget management, performance management and reporting
o SharePoint Project site, Kanban Board management
o Project Team logistics planning and management for international project in Oman for 2016
- Project Management of the SDLC for product development in Mobile HTML5 software teams
- Risk Management, Product Roadmap planning, Development, Testing and Deployment scheduling
- Project co-ordination with development teams in Estonia, Hong-Kong and Cape Town
- Hybrid project management methodologies between Waterfall and Agile
- Use Microsoft EPM \[MS Project and Sharepoint 2010 integration\]
- Project Planning, Scheduling, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management
- Compliance with various international software regulatory requirements.
- Cross functional Project Management - End to End (inception/feasibility, design, development, deployment) for new software and IT based product Solution offerings
- PMO implementation
- Software and some hardware Product development lifecycle project management
- Working with PMBOK, Prince II and Microsoft Solutions Framework methodologies
- Project Administration ( PID/Project Charter, MS Project Plan, Risk and Issue Logs, Lessons learned log, facilitate project meetings, minutes, performance plan (Earned Value), checkpoint reports, End Project Reports, Acceptance Certificates, Change Control Notes, Project management (PIW, manage project team, monitoring and controlling, administration, project communication, project budget)
- Multiple and concurrently running IT systems projects for Business Connexion KZN (Tongaat Hulett Limited), Business Connexion Mocambique (Central Bank of Mocambique), Business Connexion Africa (MTN Benin), AME Africa (Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital IT Systems Programme)
- Including: Microsoft Managed Services, MS Migration from Novell, SAP migration, LAN/Network implementation, DR/Backup and Storage solutions, SharePoint implementation, Data Centre implementation of Hosted Services, Business Continuity Plan creation.
- Research, develop: custom Organisational Change Management Methodology, Project Management Knowledge Base, and assist with company website, branding, social media, document template design and content.
Post-Graduate Honours – Bachelor of Arts – Information Science : - Research Methodology - Information Technology: Social Change - Knowledge and Information Management, - User Studies