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Show profile Hide profileI studied Electronic Engineering at University with a view to a career in Telecommunications, to which end I was awarded a Vodacom bursary, working as an Engineer-in-Training at Vodacom during vacations.
After graduating, I chose to further my understanding of the business world and acquire analysis and consultancy skills via a career in Credit Scoring - Quantitative Analysis within the retail credit sphere. There I worked with companies including BMW Finance, the JD Group and major South African banks FNB, Standard Bank, ABSA and The Land Bank.
Thereafter I nurtured my entrepreneurial spirit by helping start a mobile public phones-based superdealer for Vodacom Lesotho for a year. Helping raise finance from the IDC (Industrial Development Corporation), working closely with Vodacom to define and structure their payphones initiative and dealing with other superdealers gave me experience in dealing with businesses and executives at a more global and operational level than consulting had allowed.
I returned temporarily to retail credit, this time running a credit scoring portfolio (Cheque Accounts) within one of SA's largest banks (ABSA), primarily for the experience of working for a large corporation as well as moving from the largely theoretical nature of consulting to actual operational implementation.
I soon returned to my core interest of telecommunications, albeit from a less technical point of view, by taking employment at one of South Africa's primary Internet Service Providers (Internet Solutions). This gave me a firm grounding in not only the current state of the industry but in understanding and possibly guiding its potential future.
That experience led me once again to a more entrepreneurial role in another international start-up venture, this time in facilitating a potentially Africa-wide wireless ISP (iBurst Africa). Here I was largely tasked with facilitating branches in different countries, working with partners and dealing with regulators in Namibia, Uganda and Nigeria to develop new operations from mere ideas to licenced entities.
Overall, my career path has always been intended to prepare me to play a significant role in the rapidly and constantly developing industry of telecommunications and ICT.
I studied Electronic Engineering at University with a view to a career in Telecommunications, to which end I was awarded a Vodacom bursary, working as an Engineer-in-Training at Vodacom during vacations.
After graduating, I chose to further my understanding of the business world and acquire analysis and consultancy skills via a career in Credit Scoring - Quantitative Analysis within the retail credit sphere. There I worked with companies including BMW Finance, the JD Group and major South African banks FNB, Standard Bank, ABSA and The Land Bank.
Thereafter I nurtured my entrepreneurial spirit by helping start a mobile public phones-based superdealer for Vodacom Lesotho for a year. Helping raise finance from the IDC (Industrial Development Corporation), working closely with Vodacom to define and structure their payphones initiative and dealing with other superdealers gave me experience in dealing with businesses and executives at a more global and operational level than consulting had allowed.
I returned temporarily to retail credit, this time running a credit scoring portfolio (Cheque Accounts) within one of SA's largest banks (ABSA), primarily for the experience of working for a large corporation as well as moving from the largely theoretical nature of consulting to actual operational implementation.
I soon returned to my core interest of telecommunications, albeit from a less technical point of view, by taking employment at one of South Africa's primary Internet Service Providers (Internet Solutions). This gave me a firm grounding in not only the current state of the industry but in understanding and possibly guiding its potential future.
That experience led me once again to a more entrepreneurial role in another international start-up venture, this time in facilitating a potentially Africa-wide wireless ISP (iBurst Africa). Here I was largely tasked with facilitating branches in different countries, working with partners and dealing with regulators in Namibia, Uganda and Nigeria to develop new operations from mere ideas to licenced entities.
Overall, my career path has always been intended to prepare me to play a significant role in the rapidly and constantly developing industry of telecommunications and ICT.
