PROFILE Systems consultant with good balance between business and technology skills. Has extensive international experience (UK, Australia, Africa) with Unix, NT, Novell and TCP/IP Networks.
QUALIFICATIONS Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Master of Information Systems (Curtin Business School, Perth, Australia), BSc Eng Electrical (University of Zimbabwe), Deloitte & Touche consulting skills courses
ORGANIZATIONS Deloitte & Touche, British Airways, GE Capital IT solutions, Siemens Nixdorf, Smithkline Beecham, Cadbury Schweppes, Government, Non-profit organisations.
TECHNOLOGY Solaris, SCO Unix, Windows NT, Novell, TCP/IP and Internet , OS/2 (up to Warp), Linux, Solaris, Lotus Notes, MS Exchange, MS Mail, Novell GroupWise, Mail Gateways. Integration between Novell, Microsoft, SCO, OS/2 and mainframes. DEC Pathworks, IBM Lan Manager, Banyan Vines, Lantastic, IBM Token ring, Ethernet. Specified and managed several structured cabling projects. Memotec routers, X.25 and ISDN. Intel Landesk, Microsoft SMS. Digital VMS, Macintosh. Compaq, Siemens Nixdorf , DEC, ICL DRS & IBM AS/400 servers. Visual Basic, C++, FoxPro, Oracle, RDB, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Clarion, Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, Modula-2, IEF (Integrated Engineering Facility) CASE Tool. Solution 6, Pegasus, Platinum Accounting, Pastel and COMET accounting packages.
EXPERIENCE
August/September 1999
– Consultancy on NT and unix security and anti-virus strategies at Cadbury, Zimbabwe.May 1998 to July 1999 - Consultancy at London Borough of Waltham Forest:
March/April 1998 – General consultancy including the following:
December 1997 to March 1998 - Systems Support and Administration of a hybrid NT and OS2 network (120 users) at Department of Land Administration - ISO9002 accredited (Perth, Australia). Duties included:
September/October 1997 - Contracted to migrate Pegasus accounting package to an NT4.0 server, from single-user to multi-user including all aspects of networking and printer servers. Allen’s Wood Components, Saxilby, England.
Contracted by GE Capital IT solutions(UK) to re-locate a SCO Unix server, associated ISDN lines and equipment.
July 1997 to September 1997 - Worked for British Airways as a Systems Support Engineer at Heathrow Airport. Duties included:
April 1996 to June 1997 - IT Consultant with Deloitte & Touche Management Consultants. Projects carried out included:
February 1995 to March 1996 - Systems Consultant at Pinnacle Solutions, Siemens-Nixdorf partner. Duties include IS consultancy, project management, systems analysis, exploratory meetings with management, liasing with consultants and training clients(management trained separately), implementing total solutions (accounting, office automation and point-of-sale). Main systems installed and supported - SCO Unix (up to Openserver 5), NT 3.5 and NT 4.0, Novell, Win95 and Win3.11.
February 1994 to November 1994 - Tutoring electrical engineering students in advanced Pascal, first year information systems students in pseudocode, C++ and Excel at Curtin.
January 1994 - Prepared and taught a two week intensive introduction to computers course for hospitality industry trainees at Carine TAFE.
August 1993 to December 1993 - Tutoring first year students in Digital Electronics at Curtin University. Carried out a business analysis of the Western Australian Fire Brigade. Developed an Information System using IEF(Information Engineering Facility by Texas Instruments) CASE tool.
March 1993 to June 1993 - Tutoring first year Engineering students in Basic, Pascal and Logic at Curtin University of Technology(co-ordinator: Ray Ryken-Rapp). Also assisting in daily operations of the engineering computer facility(which consists of HP Apollo workstations, Macintosh network, Novell network, VAX terminals and CASE lab; co-ordinator:Scott Atkinson).
February 1992 to February 1993 - worked at T A Computer Services as a customer services engineer. T A Computer services were the agents for Siemens-Nixdorf(Germany) products in Zimbabwe.
Duties included:
clones) to component level.
March 1991 to December 1991 - Lab demonstrating for first year electrical principles students at University of Zimbabwe.
January 1991 to March 1991 - At National Breweries doing an Engineering Audit on their newly commissioned Z$3 million fully automated Cleaning-in-Place system which was not being utilised efficiently. Also did a Critical Path Analysis of the brewing process to investigate the reasons for below average output. Based in the Instrumentation section.
April 1990 to July 1990 - Lab demonstrator for second year electrical machines students at University of Zimbabwe.
December 1989 to April 1990 - Worked at Z.E.S.A.(Zimbabwe electricity supply authority) Communications Department maintaining and installing PABXs; maintaining and installing mobile radio communication systems and maintaining PLCs(power-line communications). Also learned about the operations at the NCC (National Control Centre), which is the computerized control centre for the national power distribution network.
December 1985 to March 1986 and December 1987 to March 1988 -Worked at Gulab's Departmental Stores, selling furniture, bicycle spares, electrical appliances and accessories, radio spares and records. Also involved with the accounts receivable department, computerizing the system.
Methodologies Used/Experienced
Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland)
Re-engineering for Results (Deloitte & Touche)
4 Front (Deloitte & Touche)
Method/1 (Arthur Andersen)
Information Engineering (James Martin)
Business Skills
Some of the topics covered in the Masters degree include management skills, human resource management, business and systems analysis, data communications, facilitation skills, systems planning and security, marketing management, IS Research, Systems Development Methodologies, Decision Support Systems and technical skills. Several papers written during this course include:
Evaluation of Information Systems"
Support Systems"