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Structured delivery across five workstreams with no industry benchmark available. Designed governance for 80+ FTE cross-functional programme, ran Accenture's PMO across multiple contracts totalling £8m+ in revenue, and managed financials, resourcing, and Statements of Work."},{"name":"Concentra Analytics","position":"Consultant","location":"Greater London, England, United Kingdom","startDate":"2021-04-01","endDate":"2021-10-01"},{"name":"Entelect Software","position":"Intermediate Business Analyst","location":"Johannesburg Metropolitan Area","url":"https://entelect.co.za","startDate":"2019-08-01","endDate":"2021-04-01","summary":"Progressed through multiple roles supporting mining and financial services clients. As Product Owner for a COVID-19 contact-tracing platform at Anglo American, owned roadmap and prioritisation for a solution deployed across 6 mine sites and 30,000+ employees using smartwatch Bluetooth pings. Worked with Global Health to define contact thresholds and response protocols, ran a design sprint with 30+ global stakeholders to set MVP scope, then shipped to production iteratively. Earlier, worked as Senior Business Analyst and Scrum Master on a 3D visualisation and cloud-based storage solution, owning the metadata management framework for 7 spatial data types, and as Data Business Analyst at FirstRand, developing BI proof-of-concepts using Informatica."},{"name":"Africawide","position":"Management Consultant","location":"Johannesburg Area, South Africa","url":"https://africawide.com","startDate":"2019-01-01","endDate":"2019-07-01","summary":"Management Consultant working with Public Sector and Education Clients. - Process Mapping and Requirements Planning for a Remote Monitoring system - Market Analysis for a Decentralised Tutoring Call Center - Feasibility Analysis for projects in multiple industries:: Telecommunications, Healthcare (FMCG) and Digital Debt Collection. - Member of the Internal Wellness Committee as well as Branding Committee which oversaw the full company rebrand at the beginning of 2019."},{"name":"Redflank","position":"Graduate Management Consultant","location":"City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa","url":"https://redflank.com","startDate":"2018-03-01","endDate":"2018-09-01","summary":"Graduate management Consultant working with Public Sector Clients. - Advised commercial launch of an award-winning product (Hotspot Geyser Add On) - Assisted client with development of business plan, marketing strategy, market research and financial modelling - Ran financial modelling workshops with e-level clients and owned financial modelling for the project - Reporting and interviews for Public Sector Monitoring and Evaluations projects - Facilitated discussion and presented on Internal Strategic Model implementation at annual strategy day."},{"name":"Decision Inc.","position":"Intern","location":"Johannesburg Area, South Africa","url":"https://decisioninc.com","startDate":"2017-06-01","endDate":"2017-07-01","summary":"Management Consulting Intern in the Advanced Analytics team taking on the role of an intern Data Scientist. Concerned with data management and forecasting. Practical experience in Microsoft SQL as well as R, in regards to programming, as well as learning Microsoft Power BI and developing my skills in more advanced levels of Microsoft Excel."}],"education":[{"institution":"Nelson Mandela University","studyType":"Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Economics","startDate":"2017-01-01","endDate":"2017-01-01"},{"institution":"University of Cyprus","studyType":"Summer scholarship program","startDate":"2016-01-01","endDate":"2016-01-01"},{"institution":"Nelson Mandela University","studyType":"Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) in Business Management, Economics, Distinction in General and Strategic Management","startDate":"2014-01-01","endDate":"2016-01-01"}],"skills":[{"name":"User-centered Design"},{"name":"Software Product Management"},{"name":"Product Planning"},{"name":"Product Coaching"},{"name":"Product Owner"},{"name":"Facilitation"},{"name":"Product Management"},{"name":"Product Development"},{"name":"Greenfield Projects"},{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Agile Methodologies"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Microsoft Excel"},{"name":"Business Analysis"},{"name":"Business Strategy"},{"name":"Data Analysis"},{"name":"Business Management"},{"name":"Research"},{"name":"Strategic Planning"},{"name":"Report Writing"},{"name":"Financial Modeling"},{"name":"Business Planning"},{"name":"Business Process Management"},{"name":"Proposal Writing"},{"name":"Market Research"},{"name":"Management Consulting"},{"name":"Strategy"},{"name":"Business Process Mapping"},{"name":"Requirements Gathering"},{"name":"Pivot Tables"},{"name":"Scrum"},{"name":"Documentation"},{"name":"Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)"},{"name":"Microsoft SQL Server"},{"name":"Microsoft Office"},{"name":"Microsoft PowerPoint"},{"name":"Microsoft Power BI"},{"name":"Microsoft Word"},{"name":"Informatica"},{"name":"SQL"},{"name":"Microsoft Outlook"},{"name":"Communication"},{"name":"Leadership"},{"name":"Written Communication"},{"name":"Stakeholder Management"},{"name":"Problem Solving"},{"name":"Borland Delphi"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"SAFe"},{"name":"Product Ownership"}],"certificates":[{"name":"Certified AI-Empowered SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager","issuer":"SAFe by Scaled Agile, Inc."},{"name":"ICAgile Certified Professional","date":"2023-10-01","issuer":"ICAgile"},{"name":"ICAgile Certified Professional: Agile Product Ownership","date":"2023-10-01","issuer":"ICAgile"},{"name":"Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I (PSPO I)","date":"2022-04-01","issuer":"Scrum.org"},{"name":"Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA)","date":"2020-04-01","issuer":"IIBA"},{"name":"Exam 761: Querying Data with Transact-SQL","date":"2019-11-01","issuer":"Microsoft"},{"name":"Six Sigma Yellow Belt","date":"2019-03-01","issuer":"VMEdu Inc."},{"name":"Speechcraft","date":"2019-03-01","issuer":"Toastmasters International"},{"name":"MET - Microsoft Excel - Excel on Steroids","date":"2019-02-01","issuer":"Sage"},{"name":"MySQL For Data Analytics and Business Intelligence","date":"2018-07-01","issuer":"Udemy"},{"name":"Certified SAFe® 6 Practice Consultant","issuer":"Scaled Agile, Inc."}]}