Project Manager Business Consultant
Resume:
Michael Daniel Venter
** **** ******* ******, ******** West
Phone: 002***********
E-mail: ********.******@**********.***
Comments
I am a well-spoken and descriptive individual who is not only outgoing and confident, but also someone who does not shy away from a challenge. I am a systematic and accurate individual who tackles matters in a logical and orderly manner. I am a comprehensive problem solver as well as a cooperative team member who maintains standards in a conscientious and steady, yet flexible way.
Education
School Education:
School: Academia High School
Windhoek, Namibia
Highest Grade Passed: Grade 12 (1993)
Subjects: Afrikaans
English
German
Economics
Business Economics
Biology
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Tertiary Education:
Institution: Project Agency / Dublin Institute of
Technology, Ireland
Qualification: PRINCE2 Methodologies & Practices
(2002)
Additional Courses:
ACE (Lecturing)
MS Projects
PMBOK Methodologies
AV/DV
Molex
Optical Fibre Management
SHE Representative
NEC XN120 & SL1000
Acumatica ERP Qualifications:
Badges:
Application Developer
Business Consultant
Advanced Financials
Advanced CRM
Inventory & Order Management
Fixed Assists
Integration Developer
Implementation Project Manager
Mobile Application Developer
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Marketing Specialist
Manufacturing Business Consultant
Project Accounting
Practice Owner
Pre-Sales Engineer
System Administrator
Technical Specialist
Acumatica Certificates:
Achieved 84 Certificates from Acumatica. Available on request. Experience
Period: June 2017 – Current
Company: One Channel Namibia
Job Title /Salary: Acumatica Consultant - (N$ 40 000 NETT) Subcontracting
Job Duties:
• Acumatica ERP Consulting;
• Acumatica ERP Implementation / Development;
• Non Profit Plus Consulting & Management;
• Non Profit Plus Configuration;
• Project Management;
Reason for wanting to leave:
Personal.
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Period: January 2017 – May 2017
Company: Welwitschia Private School - Brakwater
Job Title /Salary: Lecturer (Tourism, Business Studies, Entrepreneurship & Geography)
HOD (Sport & Culture) (N$ 30 000 / month
NETT)
Job Duties:
• Day-to-day management of all Sport & Culture Activities, Meetings & Arrangements;
• Lecturing on Business Studies for grade 12;
• Lecturing on Tourism for grade 10, 11, 12;
• Lecturing on Entrepreneurship for grade 10;
• Lecturing on Geography for Grade 8;
Reason for wanting to leave:
Excepted a Project Management/ Acumatica Consultant position at One Channel Namibia.
Period: January 2016 – Current
Company: Prestantia College - Okahandja
Job Title /Salary: Lecturer (CAT, Tourism & Maths.Literature) HOD (Sport & Culture) (N$ 25 000 / month
NETT)
Job Duties:
• Day-to-day management of all Sport & Culture Activities, Meetings & Arrangements;
• Lecturing on CAT for grade 10, 11, 12;
• Lecturing on Tourism for grade 10, 11, 12;
• Lecturing on Mathematical Literacy for grade 10, 11, 12; Reason for wanting to leave:
There has been a lot of rumors of late that the school will be closing soon and also the fact that it is in Okahandja and the commuting back and forth from Windhoek has become too costly.
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Period: April 2012 – November 2015
Company: Global Projects
International
Job Title /Salary: Project Management / Resource
Management – (N$ 25 189 / month)
Job Duties:
• Managing Resources and Change Control Procedures on site specifics;
• Managing of site specifics on fiber optics installations, as well as specifics on site meetings
• Budget control, Staff-, Resource-, Risk & Change Control Management, Billing and Testing
• Technical staff management and KPA analysis as well as Performance Bonus analysis
Reason for wanting to leave:
This was International projects; some of which I managed from Namibia via video conferencing and emails; others I travelled to various site locations (international) to set up site specifics.
Period: February 2010 – 15/03/2012
Company: VOX Orion Telecom
Windhoek, Namibia
Job Title / Salary: Installations Team Leader / Projects Management – (N$ 17 120 / month)
Job Duties:
• Managing installations of PABX, Ericsson, Aristel and Nortel products
• Overseeing projects from initiation through to completion on CAT5/CAT6/CAT6A and fiber optics installations, commissioning and testing
• Managing of site specifics on fiber optics installations, as well as specifics on site meetings
• Budget control, Staff-, Resource-, Risk & Change Control Management, Billing and Testing
• Technical staff management and KPA analysis as well as Performance Bonus analysis
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Projects managed include:
• NIPAM – 11 technical staff on site; CAT5 data & voice installation with cabinets; 600 points – Overall Project Budget: N$ 798,654 (10 month project)
• UNAM – 7 technical staff on site; CAT6a data installation with 42U cabinets; 160 points, all MOLEX Certified – Overall Project Budget: N$ 196,788 (3 weeks to complete)
• M&Z Motors – 13 technical staff on site; CAT5 data & voice installation with 3x 9U cabinets; 230 points – Overall Project Budget: N$ 365,512 (4 month project)
• Government Hanger Complex – 25 technical staff on site; CAT5 data & voice installation with DB boxes; 1,320 points – Overall Project Budget: N$ 103,571,646 (1 year project)
Reason for wanting to leave:
Seeing that Vox is international, but only has a small footprint in Namibia, it is hard to advance within the company. There have been many mergers/buyouts through the past 4 years and therefore with the latest merger I decided to make a career move.
Period: January 2008 – December 2009
Company: Essential Site Services
United Kingdom
Job Title / Salary: Project Manager / Interactive
Manager – (£ 950 / week)
Job Duties:
• Leading the development, web strategy and delivery of internet marketing programs
• Managing web development team including performance reviews, compensation and career planning
• Developing and executing marketing campaigns to increase the acquisition and conversion of site visitors
• Responsible for developing and maintaining Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Lead Generation programs
• Decreasing SEM cost per lead by 40% within six a month period while increasing leads and opportunity pipelines
• Developing and managing customer / prospects communications including emails as well as seminars and direct mail
• Responsible for Search Engines Optimization (SEO) and Web Analytics across
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all properties, including different classes of techniques, known as “Black Hat SEO” or “Spamdexing”, that uses methods such as “Link Farms”, “keyword stuffing” and “article spinning” that degrade both the relevance of search results and the user – experience of search engines
Reason for leaving:
This was a 2 year contract for the upgrading of the admin block at Mayfair hospital in Croydon with particular reference to their IT Infrastructure. Once the contract was completed successfully, I returned to Namibia to try and reconcile with my ex- wife (still married at this stage).
Period: July 2007 – Current
Company: Digex Web Solutions Ltd
United Kingdom
Job Title / Salary: Founder / CEO (Own Registered Company) SOLD OCTOBER 2014
Job Duties:
• Building and nurturing effective relationships with business counterparts and suppliers
• Assured services delivery within various business units
• Providing input in IT strategy and operating plans as well as setting aligned goals for subordinates to deliver these goals
• Providing inputs into IT investments (Capex, Opex Devex, human resources and skills development) relating to business initiatives (new applications and management of existing applications) and operating plans and ensuring that projects and operating plans are delivered within approved budgets
• Analyzing and giving input with regards to IT components of business strategies and opportunities
• Managing decentralized applications within whole business units
• Leading a diverse, cross functional, (virtual) team to effectively deliver strategy and operating plans within time and on budget
• Identifying and analyzing business requirements for their IT impact (including benchmarking, feasibility and assessment) and providing input into the prioritization process
• Providing optimal solutions to meet business requirements and enable new business capabilities
• Undertaking quality assurance reviews of projects (including delivery of the business cases)
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• Identifying IT and related business risks (including resources) across areas of responsibility and developed strategies for risk management and mitigation
• Ensured that effective relationships are developed with business counterparts and suppliers and act as an escalation point for unresolved issues Reason for leaving:
This is my own registered company in the UK. Company was operational till October 2014 when I sold all shares.
Period: January 2007 – December 2007
Company: Elite Labourers Limited
United Kingdom
Job Title / Salary: Project Manager – (£ 850 / week) Job Duties:
• Leading the project team as well as the management of roles and priorities within the project
• Setting and managing the processes against internal project goals
• Agreeing the deliverables of the project with the Steering group and the Project Sponsors
• Established risk assessment and management
Reason for leaving:
This was a 1 year contract for the new Thales building at Gatwick airport. Thales is involved in training BA pilots via virtual flight simulators. Once the contract was completed successfully, I was approached by Essential Site services for the Mayfair contract, which I accepted.
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Period: August 2006 – December 2006
Company: Brent Hotels, United Kingdom
Job Title / Salary: FOH Manager – Catering
(£ 650 / week)
Job Duties:
• Maintaining fast and accurate service, positive guest relations and ensuring products are consistent with the company’s quality standards
• Ensured that Occupational Health & Safety Acts as well as Local Health and Safety Acts and security policies are met
• Ensured that Asset, Profit & Loss Management are followed according to cash control / security procedures, as well as management inventory and staff
• Assisted Restaurant General Manager in recruiting, hiring and interviewing team members
• Ensuring company standards on equipment, facility and grounds are maintained with preventative maintenance programs
Reason for leaving:
I decided to broaden my horizons by entering the catering world via Bombay Palace, as I needed a change from IT. Brent Hotels was an autumn contract (5 months), and once completed I returned to Project Management in IT. Period: March 2005 – July 2006
Company: Bombay Palace Restaurant
United Kingdom
Job Title / Salary: Assistant FOH Manager – Catering
(£ 450 / week)
Job Duties:
• Conducted performance appraisals and motivation as well as staff training
• Ensuring that Occupational Health & Safety Acts as well as Local Health and Safety Acts and security policies are met
• Assisting FOH Manager in ensuring Asset Profit & Loss Management is followed according to cash control / security procedures, as well as managing inventory and staff
• Assisting FOH Manager in recruiting, hiring and interviewing team members
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Reason for leaving:
Bombay Palace was my entry point into the Catering & Hospitality industry. Seeing that I had some experience in the market I wanted a change from IT. I signed a 16 month contract and once completed, I decided to sign myself with a more established organization such as Brent Hotel Group, for an autumn position that came available.
Period: September 2004 – February 2005
Company: Nashuatec, Netherlands
Job Title / Salary: Project Manager – (€ 800 / week) Job Duties:
• Managing web development team including performance reviews, compensation and career planning
• Responsible for new development and lead generation for all global web sites
• Drafting technical and business requirement documents while managing projects and resources
• Leading web site redesign, content migration into new site infrastructure
• Building lead generation and analytic web home grown applications
• Developing web request tracking systems to manage internal customer web site requests
• Working daily with business units, marketing managers, sales and development and project managers
• Drove completion of key high visibility projects with very aggressive deadlines Reason for leaving:
Nashuatec was a 6 month contract I accepted directly after completing my entry contract into the UK at Easy Travel & Estates. Once completed, I returned to the UK as I could not extend my work visa in the Netherlands.
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Period: January 2004 – August 2004
Company: Easy Travel & Estates
United Kingdom
Job Title / Salary: Senior Web Developer / SEO
(£ 500 / week)
Job Duties:
• Leading Developer for e-commerce business-to-business portal solution
• Responsible for design, testing and implementation of corporate Intranet and Internet sites
• Building custom helpdesk tracking systems to streamline business processes
• Working with internal departments to provide associated deliverables such as data development, marketing new applications and client training Reason for leaving:
Run solely by owner Amir Khan, Easy Travel & Estates was mentioned to me by a relative of Mr. Khan whilst in South Africa. I decided to accept an initial 8 months development contract from Mr. Khan in order to get myself into the UK. Once the 8 month contract was completed, I decided to accept employment at a more established company in the Netherlands. As my main objective for moving to Europe was to get into the Netherlands, I subsequently accepted employment at Nashuatec.
Period: September 2003 – December 2003
Company: Microsoft SA
Johannesburg, South Africa
Job Title / Salary: Senior MCT Trainer – (R 14 500 / month) Job Duties:
• Lecturing in HTML Fundamentals, covering Lists and tables, Text / Links and graphics, frames / forms and CSS and introduction to JavaScript
• Lecturing in JS2E, covering exception handling, data types and variables, operators and expressions, core collection classes, methods and inner classes as well as OO Programming
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• Training given in C++, covering introduction to classes, overloaded operators, constructors an destructors exception handling, inheritance and STL, Pure Virtual Functions as well as Class Methods and Data
Reason for leaving:
Position was advertised as a contract position (4 months). Once completed, I accepted another contract. During this stage of my career, it was more feasible to accept contractual work, as opposed to permanent employment. Period: January 2003 – August 2003
Company: PCS Assignments
Johannesburg, South Africa
Job Title / Salary: Senior Developer / Interim SEO
(R 13 000 / month)
Job Duties:
• Managing the User Acceptance Testing Processes
• Developed web repository applications allowing Internet users to query reports partner’s products and services as well as data warehouse management
• Conducting research on technology, trends, architecture, solutions, development configurations, installations and maintenance, focusing specifically on management of SLA
• Development of application specific solutions according to research results Reason for leaving:
Position was advertised as a contract position (8 months). Once completed, I accepted another contract. During this stage of my career, it was more feasible to accept contractual work, as opposed to permanent employment.
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Period: February 2002 – December 2002
Company: M – COT Corporate Training, South Africa
Job Title / Salary: NCNE / NCNA Training – (R 13 800 / month) Job Duties:
• Training given in NCNE Fundamentals, covering all related course materials
• Training given in NCNA Fundamentals, covering all related course materials Reason for leaving:
Position was advertised as a contract position (1 year). Once completed, I accepted another contract. During this stage of my career, it was more feasible to accept contractual work, as opposed to permanent employment. Period: August 2001 – January 2002
Company: Strategic Selection (Torque IT)
South Africa
Job Title / Salary: MCT Training – (R 11 500 / month) Job Duties:
• Training given in MSCD (VB Enterprise) Modules covering .NET, OO Techniques, Arrays, Data types and Variables, branching and flow controls, Exception handling, classes and objects, collection classes, properties and methods, delegates and events as well as using the .NET framework
• Training given in Sun Microsystems’ Java
Reason for leaving:
Position was advertised as a contract position (6 months). Once completed, I accepted another contract. During this stage of my career, it was more feasible to accept contractual work, as opposed to permanent employment.
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Period: February 2001 – July 2001
Company: Leacabile, South Africa
Job Title / Salary: ACE Trainer – (R 12 000 / month) Job Duties:
• Training given in HTML Fundamentals, JS2E as well as C++ Reason for leaving:
Position was advertised as a contract position (6 months). Once completed, I accepted another contract. During this stage of my career, it was more feasible to accept contractual work, as opposed to permanent employment. Period: January 2001(one month fixed contract)
Company: News Clip Media Monitoring Pty Ltd
Johannesburg, South Africa
Job Title / Salary: Web Application Engineer/ Project Manager
(R 15 000 once off with R 5 000 bonus)
Job Duties:
• Project Manager and developing of Support Sales intranet web sit
• Maintaining an NT production and application server using Oracle products
• Participating in database design, system migrations, application server configurations and monitoring key system processes
• Working with minimal direction from Management while designing and implementing robust user interfaces
• Constructing PL/SQL stored procedure applications by developing and testing codes to enhance existing web systems
• Acting as a technical resource for less experienced members of the team Reason for leaving:
Position was advertised as a contract position (1 month) as their current project manager was on compassionate leave, and they needed an emergency stand-in Project Manager. Once completed, I accepted another contract.
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Period: January1999 – December 2000
Company: Percetel Q Data
Johannesburg, South Africa
Job Title / Salary: Software Developer – (R 11 500 / month) Job Duties:
• Supporting the Worldwide Partner Program organization within the Partner Marketing division
• Developed web repository applications allowing Internet users to query reports on partner’s products and services
• Served as Project Manager for the Sybase / Sun Microsystems partner relationship
• Worked with web development team and redesigned external partner web site Reason for leaving:
After being with the company for 2 years and obtaining my MCT, I decided to resign and focus my efforts on lecturing, as it was a passion of mine at the time. Period: January 1997 – December 1998
Company: Schoemans Office Systems
Windhoek, Namibia
Job Title / Salary: IT Technician / Sales – (N$ 3 500 / month) Job Duties:
• Providing service and repairs
• Installing networks and upgrading
• Installing software and Maintenance
• Sales and Marketing
Reason for leaving
Schoemans was the very first company I worked for after qualifying. My direct manager at that time is now a prominent business man in Windhoek, managing his own company. I left Schoemans after 2 years employment to pursue a career in development.
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References
Tiensie Dry – Welwitschia Private School:
mailto: *********@***********.***.**
Ph: 081-***-****
Dawie O’Callaghan – Prestantia College (IMPAK/SACAII) Ph: 081-***-**** –
Ajmal Shah - Bombay Palace, United Kingdom:
mailto: *********@**********.***
Derrick Stafford - Essential Site Services, United Kingdom: mailto: **********@**********.***
Brian Whitebread – Elite Labourers Limited, United Kingdom mailto: *.**********@**********.***
Barry Fagan - Percetel Q Data, Namibia/South Africa – Relocated to UK mailto: *.********@**********.***
Andrew Hall – VoxOrion Telecom, Namibia - PARATUS TELECOM
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