Founder And CEO
SAL Investments, Wifi Wave, One Net Communications, ASquared, APG
Total years of experience :28 years, 0 Months
SAL Investments / Wifi Wave / One Net Communications / A
Squared and APG
July 2016 - Current
Market research and Business Plan
Develop go to market strategy.
License application through ICASA (moratorium on the Licenses)
Develop Interactive Process management application, from client
onboarding, implementation, SLA and overall client management.
Implement billing application.
Develop and maintain Supplier relationships.
Business Development
Write Franchise, Dealer, Installer, Reseller and Client agreements.
Design Broadband Wireless Network
Develop Franchise and Dealer presentations.
Achievements: Extremely Successful Launch, Lit fibre for the Lenasia
community, built 18 broadband Wireless towers, Awarded GOLD for First
National Bank and Roodepoort Chamber of Commerce Business of the
Year, nominee for 2018 and 2019, Achieved Gold for the International
Prestige Award 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 out of 111000 ISP’s in the
world. Relationship with COCSAI (Council of Churches South Africa and
International) with 27 000 000 strong congregation in South Africa alone.
Too many things to mention, please refer to attached presentation.
DATA Net / MyVoip Communications
June 2014 - July 2016
Business Development
Write Franchise, Dealer, Installer, Reseller and Client agreements.
Design Broadband Wireless Network
Develop Franschise and Dealer presentations.
Develop go to market strategies.
Achievements: Kickstarted Business, Sold first 8 franchises and boosted
capital injection in to the business to catapult it.
Dealer market research
Consumer market research
Platform development
Write business processes & Policies
Business Plan
Launch, Marketing, Radio etc.
Business Development, Dealer sign ups.
Account management
Over all Business Management
CSE (Channel Solutions Engineer) East and Southern Africa June 2012 - Current
Huawei Enterprise
• Sales & Technical Training to Sales Team, Partners, Resellers and End Customers.
• Site Audits and evaluations.
• Drawing up of Value added Solutions, Proposals and presentations.
• Marketing, presentations at various events.
• Defining Go to market strategies for the African Markets.
• Advising Management on Business Strategies.
• Assisting Partners in defining their Cloud strategies.
• Developing and maintaining relationships within our End customer base.
• Projects involved in: MTN SecoSpace Solutions, GeoScience, SKA, CHPC, ABSA, FNB, Nedbank, Metro Fibre Networks, Dimension Data (Internet Solutions)
My experience spans across multiple market verticles as well as professions:
1) component level electronic engineer.
2) customer care
3) Technical support
4) Product Management
5) Business Development
6) Head of department
7) Pr
8) Marketing
9) Training
10) Presentations at multiple events as well as guest speaker to some international events.
11) Managing Director
12) Ceo
Business Development Executive 2003/02 - 2005/02
Advocate Solutions
Delivering projects from concept to completion.
Accountable for the full control of a portfolio projects from pre-contract negotiations, design, technical input at tender stage, interviewing and selection of sub contractors, liaison with clients representatives, contract and site correspondence, production and overview of programming.
Supervised and motivated Project / Site Managers, Foremen and Engineers.
Reviewed weekly / monthly progress and financial reporting.
My experience spans across multiple market verticles as well as professions:
1) component level electronic engineer.
2) customer care
3) Technical support
4) Product Management
5) Business Development
6) Head of department
7) Pr
8) Marketing
9) Training
10) Presentations at multiple events as well as guest speaker to some international events.
11) Managing Director
12) Ceo
Eskom desktop refurbishment project through Arivia.com was most definitely one of the exciting projects that I was involved in. It was a project initiated and managed by myself and implemented by my team and I. This project entailed backing up of user data, formatting and reloading the image and restoring user data on +/- six thousand computers around Gauteng. My team and I were given a period of 6 months to complete this project. Despite all the challenges faced we completed the project within 6 weeks.
Technical Sales Consultant 2002/06 - 2003/02
MB WorkSoft
Upon invitation from the CEO, I joined MB Worksoft as Technical Consultant. The initial task at hand was to implement a quoting system that was simpler, quicker and more professional ( QIK was written in Excel) . Furthermore I had to perform needs analysis for customers, write up solutions and compile the information in a proposal that contained current and proposed scenarios both in written and graphical format, assist with tenders and pricing.
My strong relationships with the Vendors, Suppliers and customers played a major role in the developing of business for the company.
Team Leader HP Technical Support / HP Product Manager 1997/03 - 2002/06
Tarsus Technologies
Employed to head up the customer care division. Within a short period promoted to TECHNICAL SUPPORT ENGINEER OF HEWLETT PACKARD PRODUCTS (TEAMLEADER) . This being a new post, I created a technical library & referencing system. Responsible for pre & post sales support and completing tenders.
Tarsus Technologies distributes Hewlett Packard, Compaq, IBM, Samsung, OKI, Mannesman Tally and APC in South Africa.
I was promoted to the position of HP DESIGNJET, HP Networking, HP NetServers & HP Storage PRODUCT MANAGER.
Responsibilities: stock control, pricing, marketing (includes regular meetings with dealers & DCP's), technical assistance & training to staff & clients.
With the increasing demands & competition of the IT industry, it was vitally important that I produced new ideas & promotions on an ongoing basis both internally and external to gain market share.The opportunity was presented to me to take on the responsibility as Business Development Manager and Technical Consultant for HP Storage, HP Networking & HP NetServer products. I have recently been on a HP Storage Roadshow, hosting presentation to resellers to promote the HP Storage products. This included announcing incentives to the channel.
EARLIER CAREER SUMMARY
Component Level Engineer / Sales Digital Science 1994/11 - 1997/02
Network/Desktop Installation & Maintenance Southern Cash Registers 1994/02 - 1994/10
Executive Member Nasa Computers 1992/10 - 1994/01
Siltek Group 1989/03 - 1992/10
Supervisor Config Centre / Workshop Engineer Tarsus Technologies
Manager Config Centre Micro Design
Component Level Engineer Special Products M&PD
Apprentice Engineer Compucare
Component level engineer responsible for third party product repairs, Config Centre manager, managing the computer build process for MIAD PC's. Defining processes and sytems to maintain those processes.
Honorary Doctorate in Business Leadership and Governance
Finance course, Return on Capital Employed. Stock and financial management
Ho Network System Professional
Distinctions in Mathematics and Logics