Software Engineering Bootcamp

May-Sep 2019

HyperionDev

3-Month online bootcamp guided by remote mentors.
Key sections covered include:

• Intro to Programming (Python)
• Intro to Software Engineering (Java, MySQL)
• Data Science, Algorithms and Advanced Software Engineering (Python, Java, MySQL)

Postgraduate Diploma in Management

2009

Wits Business School

Subjects passed with distinction:

• Management Accounting
• Organisational Design and Development
• Strategic Human Resource Development
• Organisation Theory

Bachelor of Arts

2006-2008

University of the Witwatersrand

Majored in Industrial Pyshology and Philosophy

Strategy Analyst

Nov 2016 - Apr 2019

Absa Corporate and Investment Bank

• Developed business cases for how business units would manage the Barclays separation
• Delivered analysis of banks that Absa CIB could partner with across key continents
• Worked on annual CIB strategy for sign-off by the Absa Group and Absa Board
• Received positive feedback from senior management and was actively sought out by them for follow-on work

Management Consultant

Mar 2012 - Oct 2016

Global Advisors

Responsible for delivering strategies across industries, incl. agriculture, packaging and media.

• First employee promoted to Consultant, from Analyst
• Taught myself the R programming language for statistical and other analyses
• First recipient of the Values Award
• At the end of my first year I was only the second person to ever be given a 10/10 for a performance review by the Managing Partner in his 17-year consulting career

Africa Outreach Manager

Dec 2009 - Apr 2011

Children of Fire (NPO)

Managed complex medical care for severely burnt children from across Africa

• Project manager and climb leader for 17 burn survivors to climb Mt. Cameroon
• Secondary role of acting manager for the Johannesburg School for Blind, Low Vision and Multiple Disability Children
• Served as Trustee from Apr 2011 until end-2018