16 Ilanga

Eldoret Street

Sunninghill 2157

South Africa

Phone: +27-11-236 7238

Mobile: +27-72-070 9107

Facsimile: +27-11-236 7239

E-mail: [email protected]

Career Objective

To leverage my broad and solid technical and business training, exploit the transferability and depth of my experiential knowledge, and draw on my Christian grounding, in improving corporate effectiveness while promoting business integrity, for sustainable business growth, and facilitating my transition into strategic management and executive business leadership.

§       Seasoned Intrapreneur with the experience necessary to provide pragmatic operating advice, strategic input for effective operations and efficiently engineered business processes, and accurate interpretation of performance to business stakeholders.

§       Projects Business Expert intimately familiar with Full Life Cycle Project Management, i.e., initiate, plan, execute, control, and close all project aspects, in EPC project environments, with FIDIC, NEC, and other custom contracts experience.

§       Individual and Team Motivation and Talent Identification and Development through compelling vision casting and by raising and mentoring leadership for performance oriented teams geared for business sustainability through resource and culture continuity. This has been attained while managing multi-cultural and multi-generational teams. 

§       Corporate Relationship Management. Proven ability to improve Business-to-Business (B2B) relationship and client confidence in organisation by consistently meeting operational deliverables and/or contractual material obligations

§     Regional & International Experience forging customer relationships from enquiry to revenue in the southern Africa Region, and supply chain B2B linkages with corporates in the Far East, Europe, and North America.

Selected Achievements & Skills

§       Successfully managed ZAR 160 million (USD 25 million) revenue 20-month power transmission infrastructure project business under a difficult corporate change management environment created by business unit divestiture, and the severe scarcity of skilled resource arising from political and/or governmental restrictions on the importation of skills into Botswana, while managing to re-establish and enhance the client’s confidence in our organisational capability to meet their exacting requirements.

§       Successfully managed a variety of project business in the region (Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Botswana) ranging from ZAR 13 million (USD 2 million) to ZAR 160 million (USD 55 million) often involving multi-function responsibilities including technical design, supply chain, operational, financial, commercial, and contract management.

§       Effected transition from technical specialist as a Structural Engineer and Construction Operations Responsible credited with the localisation of a design capability in the ABB Powerlines business in Zimbabwe, into a proven and respected strategic business thinker and manager with a strong corporate culture and demonstrated professional responsibility – supported by recognition and referrals from ABB Executive Committee Members (such as Eric Drewery and Andrew Eriksson in 2001).

§       Led an international team of five in delivering to a panel of ABB Executive members in Zurich, a greenfield Asset Optimisation eBusiness solution for the ABB Lummus Global Upstream Oil and Gas business, as part of the International Management Programme.

§       Played an integral role in the successful implementation of an ISO 9000 Quality Assurance System in the ABB Zimbabwe business, as well as the business process re-engineering or improvement exercise in the ABB Botton Armature Winding Business through the implementation of the ABB model of Activity Based Costing (ABB ABC-C).

Career Overview & Professional Experience

§       10/2004 – Current: ABB South Africa (Pty) Ltd, Power Technology Systems – AC Power Lines Business Unit, Sunninghill, South Africa

Project Manager

§       08/2002 – 10/2004: ABB (Pvt) Ltd Power Technology, Power Systems – AC Power Lines Systems Business Unit, Harare, Zimbabwe

Projects Manager

§       05/1998 – 07/2002: ABB (Pvt) Ltd Powerlines Division Harare, Zimbabwe

Structural Engineer & Assistant General Manager

§       01/1998 – 05/1998: Kuchi Builders/Murray & Roberts JV Harare, Zimbabwe

Project Engineer

§       11/1994 – 12/1997: N Stipinovich (Pvt) Ltd Harare, Zimbabwe

Projects Engineer

Community Activities

Involved in the planting of Celebration Church Johannesburg - part of Hear The Word Ministries International, founded in Zimbabwe.