CV

Work Experience

Warehouse Manager with Bermine Supplies – S. Africa – Nov 06 to March 08

• Started up a brand new warehouse in Johannesburg.
• Duties: Stock control, orders, deliveries, purchasing, invoicing, client and supplier liaison, price negotiations.
• Major supplier to Lafarge Cement i.e. Consumables, PPE, stationery and machinery spares.

Project Consultant with Brits Textiles – S. Africa – Jan 06 to July 06

• Oversee erection of multi million rand processing factory.
• Duties: Monitor tasks using MS Project. Extract reports on progress, budgets and variations.
• Meetings with contractors on progress and suppliers on deliveries.
• Award contracts based on tenders. Track invoices and payments.

Sales Representative with Argyle Sales – S. Africa – Dec 04 to Nov 05

• First Representative for this company.
• Maintain existing client base and obtain new clients.
• Selling computer and security equipment

Senior Alarm Technician with Chubb Security – S. Africa – Mar 99 to Nov 04
March 1999 to November 2004

• Duties - Installations, repairs and sales.
• Promoted to Senior Technician and made responsible for training staff and commissioning of alarm installations.
• I had to deal with customer complaints as well.
• Alarm panels: Caddx, FBI, Ranger, Texecom, DSC and IDS

Own Business - Exclusive Blinds – S. Africa – Jan 98 to Feb 99

• Manufacturing and selling of vertical blinds.
• Duties: Sales, purchases, stock control, manufacturing and installations
• I had a staff compliment of 5 people.
• Negotiating prices with suppliers.

Project Leader with Anglo American – S. Africa – Jan 80 to Dec 97

• Implementation of a new computerised planned maintenance program.
• Training planners, assisting with reports and graphs.
• Planning maintenance schedules for all major equipment.
• Planning resources for each schedule i.e.: Personnel and spares.
• Maintain assets register for all major equipment in key performance areas.
• Input daily job cards to extract personnel history.
• Supply management with budget vs. actual reports.
• Performing ‘what-ifs’ on equipment using the reliability centered maintenance approach.

Electrician with Anglo American – S. Africa – Jan 76 to Jan 80

• Electrical installations and maintenance on all mining related equipment.

Qualifications

• Senior Certificate (A levels): English, Afrikaans, Geography, Woodwork, Mathematics and Biology.
• NTC3 – National diploma: Applied Mathematics, Applied Science, Electrical Trade Theory and Applied Electronics
• Qualified Electrician: Olifantsfontein Trade test centre – South Africa
• MS Project 2003: Damelin Correspondence College – South Africa

Computer Skills

Windows XP, MS Access, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel, MS Project 2003, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Delphi 2 and Pastel Evolution, currently learning how to create websites