Business Development Manager: Protect and Automate

Epiroc develops and provides innovative and safe equipment, such as drill rigs, rock excavation and construction equipment and tools for surface and underground applications. We also offer world-class service and other after market support as well as solutions for automation, digitalization and electrification. Epiroc is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Very excited to be part of this global giant in mining equipment manufacturing. Epiroc has acquired digital technology companies to expand and diversify its market reach across the globe. I’m part of the digital solution team, pr0viding solutions in planning, automation, protection, connection and optimisation.

Product Management Head

Minetec (Pty) Is a Turkish owned company that specializes in safety and productivity solutions for the mining industry. From a bespoke collisions awareness system, to wet stock management with a tailor made fuel automation system specifically for the mining industry, asset management, fleet management and production control.

I was approached to head the portfolio for this rapidly growing company in 2022 and accepted the challenge. It has been an honor to work with the young talent of this company and there has been many lessons learnt from the product development stack. I have an opportunity to mentor and coach the technical staff on standard operating procedures and implement policies and procedures from the ground up

Product Manager: SmartMine IoT

Schauenburg (Pty) Ltd trading as Schauenburg Systems, an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for mine safety, offers the services of a system integrator with comprehensive turnkey solutions including the full bouquet of multi-disciplinary services and program management methodologies required to ensure a successful and cost effective solution for the full spectrum of mine safety solutions and management..

2020 was a difficult year for all of us, learning to adjust to the “new normal”, wearing masks and sanitizing everything we interact with. This brought major changes to the telecoms industry and I had to make a tough decision to weather the storm or to go back to my mining systems roots. As fate would happen, I found myself back in the mining industry with Schauenburg as a product manager for their SmartMine IoT portfolio, with a focus on driving solutions to the mining vertical and driving the value of data driven solution deployment

Customer Solutions Delivery Manager

SqwidNet launched in November 2016 as the licensed Sigfox operator in South Africa. The SqwidNet Internet of Things (IoT) network offers low-cost access to IoT solutions and operators in South Africa, creating opportunities for businesses small and large to create innovative solutions that change lives. SqwidNet is a wholly owned subsidiary of DFA, the premier open-access fibre connectivity provider.

I had an opportunity to learn something new in 2019, in the emerging narrow and IoT space in South Africa. SqwidNet gave me the opportunity to grow with a fast paced, young and dynamic company. My role is directly linked to the company’s operating revenue and the projects I manage are critical to the growth of the company. I consider this role a great opportunity not only to learn some new technology, but also to learn more about business.

Principal Engineer: Surface Mining Technologies

Hexagon Mining Hexagon is a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions. They are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, and quality across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, safety, and mobility applications.

Hexagon Mining gave me exposure to large scale industrial autonomous mining systems. I had a blast working with the mining planning, safety and fleet management systems. Everyday in the office, or in the field, brought a new challenge and I worked with a hard working and dynamic team of engineers that are passionate about their trade.

Managing Director

M H Technologies builds unified communication systems around two way radio, enterprise Wi-Fi, handheld computing and third party application integration. Either through our consulting services, taking direct ownership and risk of our clients projects, or through providing our services to our direct end-user customers, we make business sense of RF.

There is a need for a go-to service provider in the niche communications sector and I decided that I would be of more value as a consultant filling that gap than chasing the corporate ladder. M H Technologies provides a service platform in a very rich product driven market, allowing resellers to expand their customer base through an outsourced partner that ensures customer retention. Scaling projects from small to enterprise, I cater for any customer and my name and status is well known in mainstream industries.

Technical Project Manager

Jascom is a Motorola Solutions partner, a company that delivers integrated communications solutions to various vertical markets requiring private, end to end communications solutions.

Now this was an interesting little company to work for. Founded by a former colleague that I worked with at Altech, he chased his dreams and made a huge success of his business. I was approached by the owner to manage the technical back-end and project implementation side of things. This was done on a shoestring budget, but I managed to implement some open source backend systems that streamlined smaller tasks and I worked on some reusable project containers for reuse in future projects. I also learnt what an impact my resignation had on the industry and the weight my expertise has.
Many hard lessons learnt about how easily mistakes and a little bit of greed can destroy not only a friendship, but a solid business relationship

Technical Product Manager

Alcom Radio Holdings is a division of Altech and a member of the Altron group. Alcom is a leading South African technology company and proud to be the largest Motorola Two-way Radio Distributor in Africa. Altech Alcom Radio is the leading two-way radio provider to the Southern African dealer market and is based in Woodmead, Johannesburg with branches in Cape Town and Durban.

Altech Alcom was a great company to work for, not only was I given the opportunity to further my studies at the University of Stellenbosch but I was mentored by the best people in the communications industry. I was allowed to flex my intellectual muscle and not a single day went by without being presented with a new and exciting challenge. I was given the task of managing a large portfolio of products and a technical team that provided technical backing. We implemented some large scale projects and I was part of the team that supplied FIFA with radio communications during the 2010 soccer world cup

Systems Engineer

Adroit Technologies is a privately held South African-based software development company and has been developing award winning real-time software for the industrial automation markets for over 25 years.

Adroit manufactures one of the best logic controllers that I have worked with. Very versatile and scales well with customers’ requirements. They also have a wide array of tools and the best support structure. I learnt a fair bit about project management, low level electronic programming, working in complex teams of engineers and it was my first time working in the mining industry.

Field Support Technician

Trapeace builds, supplies and maintains speed prosecution equipment that includes back-end traffic fine processing systems..

This was the starting point of my career and what a way to get things going. A South Korean based company offered me an opportunity as an intern and as a student looking to make some cash, I dove in head first. It took getting used to the cultural norms, especially the 12 hour work day, of the company but I soon adjusted to their way of working and their cultural nuances. My knowledge and enjoyment for electronics started here and they we extremely flexible allowing the opportunity to finish my studies

Microsoft

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)

Cisco

Cisco Certified Network associate and professional (CCNA, CCNP)

Huawei

Huawei Certified Network Associate

Motorola Solutions

Motorola Certified Technical and Sales Professional / Systems Specialist

Hytera

Hytera Certified Technical and Sales Professional

Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks Technical Professional for the WiNG Platform

Zebra Technologies

Zebra Certified Technical and Sales Professional

Post Graduate Qualification in Systems Engineering

A foundational layer, added to my degree, in functional engineering thinking. Methodologies on how to maintain design and functionality of complex systems over their intended lifetime. Encompassing risk, change, process and organisational change management. Drawing from my software engineering background and experience in building complex multi tier systems, this adds a powerful tool to my academic acumen.

BSc HONS in Software Engineering

The application of software development in a systematic method. It is the study of gathering requirements, building system and user case documentation, design, coding, testing, debugging, implementation and configuration management. I consider myself to be a software craftsman and less of an engineer.

Matric

English (Higher Grade), Afrikaans (Higher Grade), Mathematics (Higher Grade), Science (Higher Grade), Biology (Standard Grade) and Geography (Standard Grade)

Language skills

Software Tools I Use

This is a list of tools I have experience with in the field and in my off-time tinkering. I listed a few of my favorite business intelligence, OS and client management software as well, software that has saved me a tremendous amount of time and hassle.