Zama Mbatha

De deur, PO Box ***

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Midvaal

Gauteng

+277********

acg6al@r.postjobfree.com

Dear Sir/Madam:

Greetings, I'm submitting my CV to serve as a six sigma blackbelt or

project manager . As you'll see on my enclosed resume, I have the

educational background, professional experience, and track record for which

you are searching. In addition, I am motivated and enthusiastic, and would

appreciate the opportunity to contribute to your organizational success.

Sincerely,

Ms Zama Mbatha

Zama Mbatha

Profile

I am a hard working team leader and I enjoy exceeding targets. I look for

ways to do things better because I am motivated by being successful and

achieving. I have natural leadership abilities and have studied the subject

of leadership immensely spurred on by the teachings of experts such as John

C Maxwell, Dale Carnegie, Brian Tracy and others whose teachings I am so

conversant with I consider them my colleagues, as a project manager I

realise leadership skills are key.

I have advanced technical knowledge coupled with analytical acumen. I also

have business and social foresight & problem solving skills. I am an

independent self starter and a pro-active leader who is always seeking to

improve business processes. I am a motivator I am able to see the unique

qualities in team members that can be developed to ensure the success of

the team at large.

I am a pro-active thinker with a healthy dissatisfaction for the status quo

I not only initiate change I drive it. My results oriented nature ensures

my ability to identify and build creative and strategic relationships. I am

a strong communicator with matched presentation skills. My communication

style is clear, complete, relevant and free of clutter and bias. I love to

inspire people and winning the respect of others is second nature to me. I

am a strategist and steward with the determination to ensure the meeting of

standards of integrity, accuracy and usefulness especially if that output

will be important in decision making processes.

I believe I would be an invaluable addition to your establishment and have

the 'right stuff' for your proposed position.

Personal information

Sex: female

Age: 32

Race: black

Health status: very good

Marital status: unmarried

Drivers Licence: Code 10

Qualifications

Profile

I Have done programmes which I believe would make me a valuable addition

to your organisation. I have listed them below:

Education

1. Matric certification 2000 Edu College (SA)

2. BAS(Bachelor of Architectural studies)1&2 Wits University 2001-2003

3. Certified Estate Agent(CEA) -Estate Agency Affairs Board

4. Project Management Certification January 2006-October 2007 Lyceum

College

5. Six Sigma Green Belt Certification**

6. Six Sigma Black Belt Certification **

7. Sigma Master Black Belt Certification **

8. Six Sigma Master Implementer Certification **

9. Human Resource Certification

10. Selling Skills Certificate

11. Kaizen Certification

12. Total Quality Management Certification

13. Project Management Certificate**

14. Lean Management Certification **

15. Business Analyst Certification

16. Business Statistics Certification

17. ERP Certificate

18. SBEP (small business enrichment programme) University

of Johannesburg

Proficiencies:

MS Project

MS Visio

MS Excel

MS Word

MS Powerpoint

Interests

Training, motivating, leadership, management, strategic management, public

speaking, writing publications, networking and listening to great music.

Career summary

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT: 2013-Currently

HR Process Consultant VUT(Vaal University of Technology)

I am currently an (HR) Project Manager/Process Consultant at VUT(Management

Level/Internal Management Consultant) with a heart for Continuous

Improvement and my responsibilities include mapping out existing processes,

re-designing and improving them (using six sigma and lean methodologies)

and project management for all HR functions which includes creating project

plans, communication with the HR Team and Management Team and facilitation

for further communication. I also come up with continuous Improvement

Strategies for us to better listen to the Voice of the customer and deliver

to the Client and strategies to improve our efficiency as the HR team. I

have also been key in developing over 15 key policies at the Institution

and I report to the HR Executive Director.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE (In Chronological order)

Director Casa Divine Trading (cc) April 2004- November 2008

Casa Divine Trading is a close coperation that I formed in 2004 after

completing my CEA certification, my functions were to fuse this new skill

with my architectural knowledge. In the initial stages I draughted house

plans for clients and submitted them to council and sold the odd real

estate property. I oversaw a construction project for a daycare centre in

Soweto It is the size of a small primary school, I oversaw the project from

beginning to end and procured the consultants to work on site from

builders, construction manager, painters etc. Then in 2006 after the

passing of the NCA the National Consumer Tribunal was formed and I was

subcontracted by Cutting Edge consultants as a project manager.Project

Manager at the National Consumer Tribunal (NCT), subcontracted by Cutting

Edge Consultants, to manage the support services during the formation phase

of the NCT.

Role: Project Manager subcontracted by Cutting Edge Consultants to co-

ordinate and manage various projects and processes at the NCT, with special

emphasis on support services during the NCT's formation phase. The NCT was

created when the National Consumer Act, 2006 was promulgated. Cutting Edge

Consultants were appointed to provide support services immediately after

the NCT was established. Key activities included the following:

* Identification and procurement of suitable office space;

* Development of policies on HR, Procurement, Finance and administration;

* Development of organisational structure for the NCT;

* Co-ordination and management of tender processes for the procurement of

various services, viz banking services, internal audit services, recording

services, financial management services, legal services and risk management

services;

*Co-ordination of the Procurement of equipment.

The project was rather extensive and entailed both project and programme

management skills as a number projects were running concurrently in the

same company, with extremely tight deadlines.

Description

My role as the Project Manager was to plan, execute, and finalize projects

according to strict deadlines and within budget. The key functions included

acquiring

resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party

contractors or consultants

in order to deliver various projects according to the approved plan. As

Project Manager I also defined the project's objectives and oversaw quality

control.

Project Duration: The first phase of the project for period of six months.

The second phase took place a year later, and took a period of three

months. In this phase we had to revise policies and procedures, and fine-

tune them to be aligned with the requirements of the entity. We also had to

manage the procurement processes. Cutting Edge Consultants were requested

to provide professional services and to revise and where necessary re-

design processes,policies and co-ordinate procurement processes.

My Responsibilities and deliverables were to :

. Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.

. Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals

in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.

. Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.

. Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and

stakeholders

in a timely and clear fashion.

. Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.

. Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.

. Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget

changes where necessary.

. Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and

other stakeholders.

. Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.

. Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate

tools.

. Track project milestones and deliverables.

. Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements

documentation, and presentations.

. provided status reports on a periodic basis,

. Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the

success of the project.

. Conduct project post mortems and developed recommendations report in

order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.

. Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.

Training Consultant(facilitator) Creating People Excellence (CPE)

January 2009- July 2009

In 2009 I started consulting for CPE a consultancy within Eskom in

Sasolburg to train their various divisions in Customer Care Service, I

travelled to various Eskom sites to train their professionals in their

synfuels and other divisions in a tailored manner for their unique focus. I

mostly trained their Secunda and Sasolburg staff on an adhoc basis

subcontracted by CPE. The training itself covered topics on leadership

styles, internal and external customers, customer relationship management,

understanding different personality styles, team dynamics, brainstorming

and how to handle difficult customers. I did assesments of the groups I was

training and gave them role playing exercises and had positive feedback in

their implementation of their new skills.

Property Investment Consultant Property Skills September 2009-

March 2010

I decided to venture into the property market and joined property skills as

an investment consultant as this tied in with my previous real

estate/construction/architectural inclinations. my role was to train and

inform interested investors on our products and services and to manage

their property porfolios. We liased with Property developers and bought

properties at cost and made those properties available to our clients as an

investment vehicle, where they would buy to rent out we then procured

qualified renters for them( a letting service) and they ultimately owned

the propertyand could use the colleteral for business and other ventures

and the renter would pay their bond.

Sales Executive Medizone April 2010- October 2010

Medizone is a health spa Marketing business with the potential to pay off

your franchise costs thus allowing you to have your own Medizone business

after reaching a set target, I was a sales executive and purely did it

after reading a book on the importance of learning how to be comfortable

with sales by Kiyosaki and Trump.Most people are intimidated by sales and

this enviroment allowed me to break my comfort zones. In essense I would

contact interested parties, demonstrate how the product/spa works, generate

leads, get recommendations for other potential clients and make the

sale,close the deal and get potential future business from a previous

client. I left Medizone because as much as I enjoyed selling, I did not

want to own a business that was purely sales focused.

Co-Director Malkia Trading (Pty) Ltd January 2011- January

2013

In January 2011 my business partner & I started Malkia Trading (pty)ltd our

desire was to have a consultancy service wing(continuous

improvement,business process Improvement,etc) as well as an import export

wing(SA wines & Spirits). In terms of our import/export wing we travelled

to various countries within the African Diaspora to make inroads to market

South African wines, an example would be Nigeria which is considered the

giant of Africa, and a few others. My role has been to co-ordinate our

projects and manage them, from identifying potential clients, liasing with

potential buyers/suppliers in and implementing projects to transport wines

from SA to our various customers globally. I also had to direct and manage

project development from beginning to end.We had to work within strict

budgets with tight deadline as products could get destroyed during the

logistics rollout of getting products across to various markets.My role

included:

. Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals

in collaboration with stakeholders.

. Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.

. Effectively communicate project expectations to stakeholders in a timely

and clear fashion.

. Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.

. Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.

. Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget

changes where necessary.

. Set and continually manage project expectations with stakeholders.

. Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.

. Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate

tools.

. Track project milestones and deliverables.

. Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements

documentation, and presentations.

. provided status reports on a periodic basis,

. Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success

of the project.

. Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.

Key skills

1. Six Sigma / Lean Management

2. Project Management (non-IT, non-Construction)

3. Workflow

4. Business Transformation / Improvement

Business Turnaround

Change Management

Operations / Production Management

Supply Chain

5 Policy Development

. Strong familiarity with project management software, such as MS project

. Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented,

collaborative

environment is essential.

. Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through

analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

. React to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.

. Flexible during times of change.

. Ability to read communication styles of team members and contractors

who come

from a broad spectrum of disciplines.

. Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating.

. Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including

management, clients, and other departments.

. Ability to defuse tension among project team, should it arise.

. Ability to bring project to successful completion through political

sensitivity.

. Strong written and oral communication skills.

. Strong interpersonal skills.

. Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products.

. Ability to learn, understand, and apply new technologies.

. Customer service skills.

. Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure

environment was crucial.

. physically able to participate in training sessions, presentations,

and meetings.

References

1. Ms Sibongile Nkomo Member of Parliament, Former Chairperson of the

South African Wine and Spirits Board, CEO of the IFP (contacts

available on request)

1. Ms Charmaine Mabasa Property Professional (contacts available on

request)

1. Ms Mary Miti IT professional (contacts available on request)

2. Maleho Daisy Mononyane Cutting Edge Consultants COO (Contacts

available on request)

3. Ms Thembi Mashiloane --- VUT HR (Contacts available on request)

4. Mr Isaiah Marweshe Director of Operations VUT (Contacts available on

request)

Languages

Current READ, WRITE, SPEAK

English

Zulu

Afrikaans

SPEAK

Sotho-Southern, Sotho-Northern, Venda, Xhosa, Tsonga

Countries I have travelled to:

Africa

-Zimbabwe - South Africa

Software Capabilities:

. MS Project 2010

. Workflow

. MS Word

. MS Excel

. MS Sharepoint

. MS Visio 2010

. Minitab

. Quality Companion

. MS powerpoint

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