Top Candidates

This outstanding candidate is currently employed with a multi-national engineering consulting firm as the Group Financial Manager, where she is playing a vital role in strategic business and financial planning for the group. She has gained excellent experience in project accounting and has been a key player in the implementation of new systems that would accurately report on job costing, inventory and Work In Progress, which is a major asset in the engineering industry.

This dynamic lady is a hard working individual and will be an asset to any organization. She adds value in all aspects of the business and has strong communication skills. She always looks for ways to improve the business and her own skills.

This a very well presented and professional 24 year old lady is currently employed with Thebe Securities as a Junior Equity Research Analyst for the Institutional desk (commercial). Her role involves full research on the financial and retail industries, industry analysis, company analysis which includes risk, trends, performance and influencing factors (macro economic). From there she combines the fundamental research and figures, performs an evaluation and makes recommendations to the fund managers. She has gained excellent skills in report writing and formulating her opinion and presentation skills.

She shows excellent verbal communication skills and confidence. She is eager to expand her knowledge and has a positive attitude. She is also a member of the Investment Analyst Society of South Africa

This dynamic candidate joined a leading distribution company in April 2008 as a Project Accountant. In October 2009 he was offered an opportunity to be the Acting Financial Manager for their Botswana operations whilst the FM was recovering from illness. At the time he was the youngest Financial Manager within the organization and achieved great success during his time spent in Botswana. The role involved crisis management and implementing standard operating procedures and policies. Here he gained valuable experience in staff management and reporting on a management level. The unit showed a profit during the time he spent with them. He returned to South Africa end of February 2010 and was offered the position of Credit Risk Specialist, heading up the credit risk department. He is currently overseeing 4 staff members and reporting to the National Risk Manager. He goes above and beyond his responsibilities and gives 110%. He saw the need for a quality risk model which he then developed for the company proving to be a valuable asset to the department and the company as a whole.

The company offers their clients Trade Credit services and their clients are from diverse industries. His role involves doing full risk management and analysis on their clients which involves intense research, trade references, financial statement analysis, and gaining information from external sources like Experion reports, industry analysis and conducts client visits senior management level in order to gain insight into the operations and financial performance of the company. After a comprehensive analysis of the company he puts forward recommendations on credit limits and increases.

He has excellent communication skills, passionate in producing top quality work and is extremely professional. His goal is to become a specialist in the financial services industry.

This candidate comes highly recommended.

Experience:
3 years management accounting experience within the insurance industry with experience in budgeting and forecasting, consolidations and preparation of Annual Financial Statements and statutory reporting. Company turnover is R5 billion per annum. As an audit manager he managed a team of 60 auditors where he acquired good coaching and mentoring skills which he would like to develop.

2 years financial management experience within the telecommunications industry, 1 year experience within financial services as a Corporate Accountant. Highly skilled in implementing financial procedures and policies and setting up a financial department which includes recruitment of all operational staff. Currently managing 7 sub-ordinates, reporting to the Group Financial Director. Full financial management responsibility.

This energetic candidate very eager to take on a new and exciting challenge. He has 24 months experience in the telecommunications industry and his particular strengths are relationship building, managing existing accounts, identifying solutions, new business development, channel management and presenting & negotiating deals at board level.
His product knowledge includes total Unified Communications Solutions such as switching, call centre software and solutions, PBX's, including Polycom and Avaya, IP enabled PBX's, including the Samsung product range and TMS solutions.

The candidate is currently completing his B.Tech Degree and has a National Diploma in Marketing, Introduction to VoIP Course; Blackberry Certified Training Programme and Integration Communication Solutions Qualification

The candidates key competencies:
Maintain and service key accounts to create opportunities
Compile, manage and submit larger tender documents.
Understand and identify my accounts requirements for products and services. (Create account plans)
Concluding business deals and contracts promptly and accurately
Performing client follow up deals and contracts promptly and accurately
Proposal and presentations for potential new clients
Client Centricity, consultancy skills.
Administration and processing of my own deals.
Organising, coordinating and working well within teams to create common goals
Knowledge about voice logging software and Hardware.
Knowledge about Quality management in contact centres.
Knowledge about call centre software (ACD and IVR software)
Knowledge about Telephone management software (TMS Software)
Knowledge about LCR (Lease cost routing)
Knowledge about Voice over IP
Knowledge about unified communication
Knowledge about PABX equipment hardware/software
Knowledge about telephony peripheral equipment.
Knowledge about the fixed, mobile and application voice market.
Knowledge around the concept of CRM software (Customer relationship management).
Knowledge around LAN Technology.(Local Area Network)
Knowledge around WAN technology.(Wide Area Network)
Knowledge around Video Conferencing

The candidates attributes:
Hard-working, extremely dedicated person, able to communicate well in the forms of written and verbal presentations

Able to work well with people from diverse backgrounds, and coordinate activities in any project environment
Willing to learn and experience new ideas and techniques in the fields of business while challenging traditional thinking to better understand how and why business is run successfully

This candidate has a very strong technical background having gained experience at one of the country's largest ISP's in the positions of Shift Engineer, Team Leader managing a number of key accounts and was promoted to Team Leader, and then he moved into Sales as Account Manager at the company where he left in June 2010 and joined a newly formed ISP.

The candidate is currently employed in the position of Key Account Manager Corporate and Medium Enterprises.

His target is R15, 5 million for the year of which he has achieved 40% in the six months he has been with the company. At his previous employer, in the capacity of Account Manager, the candidate had a Target of R7 millions of which he had achieved 100% before he left and was 20% short to achieve the incentive trip. He managed 600 accounts, whilst employed with the previous employer he secured a deal with chain of Hotels despite a very difficult Financial Director. He managed to establish an excellent business relationship with the Financial Manager him based on trust and integrity and above all ensuring service delivery. He prides himself on going above and beyond for his clients to ensure they receive service excellence from all areas of the business by establishing good relationships with all the stakeholders within his company.

The candidates key strengths are :
Working under pressure
Works well within a team and self-motivated enough to work alone.
Opening doors and building relationships.
Very driven to achieve and exceed targets

this candidate is a well spoken individual who started his IT career 6 years ago as a field technician. He then moved to a national service organisation where he currently operates as a Desktop Technician and is outsourced to a large financial institution. He currently provides on-going telephonic support to about 1000 users.
Has successfully designed and installed exchange server 2007.

Skilled in the following competencies:
A+
N+
MCSE
MCP
Windows Server 2003
Windows server 2008
Windows XP Pro
Apple Mac
Linux
Vista
Windows 7

This candidate has been in the Telecommunication industry for 10 years. He is currently serving as a Project Engineer for professional service company within the telecoms industry, where his functions involve that of a Project Manager. He has worked on a swap out project in Angola to the value of USD 28 Million, whereby he needed to make sure that they did not have any down time. He has also worked on PABX swap outs for call centre.

The candidate comes qualified with a Project Management Diploma

The candidate has developed the following skills in his 10 years in the telecoms industry;
Senior project management on Avaya product range including presence call centre applications
Client liaison on executive level
Liaising with third parties, i.e. cabling, management systems, routers etc
Problem solving and resolution implementation
Networking of PABX's
LAN and WAN implementation
QOS of LAN and WAN
Queries and escalations
Networking

The candidate has worked as a Business Analyst from June 2003 to date . As a Business Analyst, he has conducted detailed documentation of business and functional requirements, system architecture and process flows for the purpose of business process improvement for a large government institution.

He has experience in the SDLC methodologies which include RAD, Prototyping, SCRUM, at the same time providing continuous feedback with project managers and system stakeholders.
Successfully implemented UML (use cases, context diagrams, sequence, activity diagrams) and business process analysis to translate complex business processes and operational needs into technical requirements. Used process design tools, and have developed performance management dashboards. Vast experience is using intelligent tools such as SAS BI, and modeling tools. He has been involved in developing test cases and running UATs.

The candidate has a Bachelor's of Science degree and a Masters in Business Administration.

The candidate has developed the following technical competencies:
SDLC (RUP, RAD, SCRUM, Agile)
Modelling (Visio, UML, Enterprise Architect)
Strategy frameworks (BSC, ITIL v3, ValIT , COBIT)
Business analysis (Requirements elicitation, documentation, UAT)
Business Intelligence using SAS tools (Forecasting, Predictive Analysis, Modelling, Optimisation)
Project Management (PMBOK methodology)
Business and technology domains acumen

And the skills developed in the past 6 years;
UML 2.0, SAS Strategic Performance Management (SPM), Enterprise Architect (modelling tool), Mercury QC 9.0 (Testing tool) , MySQL, SQL(stored procedures) , MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InfoPath) , MS Project, MS CRM, Base SAS 9.1, Advanced SAS 9.0, Windows 2003 Server, Novell Server, Adobe LiveCycle, Dreamweaver , HTML, Visual Basic 6.0, MS Access, Alfresco, Serena Prototype Composer 2008, MS Sharepoint.

With over 7 years' experience in design and implementation and over 4 years' experience in design and implementation around VoIP services, this candidate is an extremely confident VoIP Specialist who has exceptional communication skills. He has completed his CCNA, CCDA, CCNP and CCIE written and is currently preparing for his CCIE lab. He also holds the prestigious Cisco GTAP certificate which he attained in 2010 He is studying towards his National Diploma in Information Technology. The candidate holds a Cisco Specialist position within an International ISP and has been in this position for over a year.

This candidate is an achiever having received the following awards in recognition of his achievements; 

Award for best idea 2005 at University
Engineer of the month October 2010
Prestigious Cisco GTAP certificate 2010
Employee of the month 2009
Award for Science & Technology 2006

This dynamic, dedicated and confident Candidate., with the ability to Assess Project risks and issues has developed and gained the following experience and knowledge in his 7 years of work within the VOIP and ISP environment; 

Systems Analysis (SDLC), Systems Support, PC Support ,
Hardware knowledge (Layer 2,3,4 and layer 7 devices)
Networking Skills - CISCO based (LAN, WAN, dial up connections,
Network Security, Bandwidth Management, NAT, Access Control List, Traffic policies, routing etc
Knowledge of network security (IPSEC, Authentication types, Encryption types, RADIUS)
Working knowledge of VPN services (MPLS, GRE, IPSEC, and associated encryption types)
Knowledge of management and authentication systems (CISCO works and RADIUS - TACACS
Excellent knowledge of Routing /Tunnelling protocols and switching technologies( OSPF, BGP, RIP, EIGRP VTP, Spanning tree, L2TP, PPTP, EIGRP)
Good working knowledge and support of connectivity types (fibre, wireless, Ethernet, Diginet, broadband, CHE1, PRI etc)

A dynamic self-starter, this candidate has a passion for security and bandwidth optimization. He has been instrumental in various large scale implementations for national and international players in the ISP field. He has also been successful in driving new business development within existing accounts. Product experience includes Packeteer, Juniper, Fortinet, Allot and Wireless Access Points.

The candidate's ideal opportunity would be to take up a more focused Pre-Sales / Solutions Architecture role where he can assist is driving sales and take ownership of solution design. He has a particular strength in dealing with people at all levels and enjoys training, compiling training material, presenting in a classroom setting and providing on the job training.

This phenomenal young man comes qualified with extensive Juniper, Allot and Fortinet certifications and is also a certified BlueCoat Sales Professional.

His skills and experience cover the following:

Installing physical LAN/WAN networks
Wireless networking
Network configurations and administration
Router and Switch configurations and administration
VLAN configurations and administrations
Routing protocols
VLSM implementation
ACL configurations and administration
NAT and PAT configurations and administration
Frame Relay configurations and administration
ISDN (BRI and PRI) configurations and administration
DDR (Dial-on-Demand Routing) configurations and administration
Bandwidth auditing
PC auditing
Packeteer (Bluecoat) PacketShaper configurations and administration
Packeteer (Bluecoat) Intelligence Centre configurations and administration
DBAM configurations and administration
Juniper firewall configuration and administration
Juniper SSL/VPN configuration and administration
FortiGate configurations and administration
FortiAnalyzer configurations and administration
FortiMail configurations and administration
Allot configurations and administration

This candidate is currently employed at an international ISP as a Network Support Engineer where he has been for the past two years. The candidate has a National Diploma in Information Technology and a Systems Support qualification (NQF 5) and is CCNA qualified, currently studying towards his CCNP. A customer oriented support technician with a passion for networking, CISCO and customer service, well versed in working within the constraints of SLA's and is pedantic about following up with and feeding back to clients.
He meets face to face with new clients to understand their needs, clients have includes a large Hotel Group< motor manufacturers and a large international accounting firm.

This candidate presents to his employer the following attributes and skills:

Good communication skills
Team Player
Good interpersonal skills
Computer literate
Exceptionally customer centric
Excellent administrative
Fault management
High level client support
Client liaison
Troubleshooting, diagnosis and resolve network and internet related faults/problems
Cisco routers configurations and troubleshooting
Support all technical aspects of a converged network infrastructure including:
IP networking, WAN connectivity, Telco related problems, router configurations, DNS, servers, ICP/IP, QoS

This candidate is currently employed at one of the Country's largest ISP's in the position of Network troubleshooting Engineer where he has been for the past year. The candidate has the following qualifications, A+, N+, and ICDL and is CCNA qualified. Currently studying towards his CCNP and CCNA security, he is an extremely customer oriented Network troubleshooting Engineer with a passion for networking, CISCO and customer service, well versed in working within the constraints of SLA's. The candidate is requested by clients as he always provides these clients with the highest level of service and expertise in troubleshooting client's issues.

This exceptionally well presented candidate, has excellent communication skills. He has completed various courses such as Linux, java programming, Netcool and UNIX systems courses. The Candidate is currently studying towards his National diploma in Information technology, with over 7 year's experience in the IT industry and 5+ years working on core networking. The Candidate has excellent scripting skills using languages such as Perl, C and C++., an excellent knowledge and experience with UNIX working with it for over 7 years. Currently acting as a Senior Network Engineer.

Created first ever manual for the company's IT Operation which entails all the system that is being used for 1st Line Support i.e. Documentation for NT, SUN Microsystems, HP, Flex Billing and Media Management

He was provided with Leading Light Certificate and exceeded his target for that 2004/2005 financial year end
Received a Spot Light Award (2009) for excellent performance on Network Fault Management System supporting Fifa Confederation Cup

Received Spot Light Award for excellent performance on Network Fault Management System for the year 2010

This candidate is passionate about the Security arena, continuously keeping abreast of what is happening in the field. With an excellent technical aptitude and picks things up very quickly on his own. A self-starter that enjoys getting involved in projects outside of his responsibilities in order to learn and grow.
Currently holding the position of Security Operations Engineer, and is responsible for the Network Security.

His team is also responsible for various projects including installations of firewalls for clients within the logistics industry. He has also been given responsibility for the "Africa" project.

Has travelled into Africa to install, Fortigate, firewalls and switches. A project he continues to run from South Africa, maintaining, troubleshooting and doing installations for a number of countries in Africa that are serviced by the company .

This candidate is also in network trouble shooting where necessary. His team is the escalations point if there are any problems with clients that can't be sorted out within the security arena which he does on a daily basis. He is responsible for looking after secure proxies, as well as installations of proxy's / firewalls, and cut overs from PIX to Fortigate.

His duties include installing new security solutions, managing existing solutions, upgrading and troubleshooting. Previous to this he was in the position of Security Installations Engineer within the Security Installations Team, where his duties included meeting with clients, supplying solutions, Configuration of the said solutions and short term support until completion of projects. Prior to this he was a Senior Network Engineer in the Network and Security Support team. Before joining IS, Trevor was employed at Siemens Business Services (Hixnet) as a Systems Engineer.

The candidate is well qualified with CCNA, CCIP, FCNSP (Fortigate), FCNSA (Fortigate), MCSE, MCP +1, PC Engineering.

This candidate has been in the Telecommunication industry for 5 years to date. He currently works for Vox Telecommunications as a Networking Engineer. He has over 5 year's experience working with internet has extensive experience with basic routing protocols through his experience at ISP and also being Cisco certified and having worked with these protocols on a daily basis.
The candidate has been working on Linux since most of their servers run on Linux he also understands e-mail technology and protocols since this is his day to day activities at his present employer, he also deals with router configuration on a daily basis.

Through his experience for the past 5 years he has mastered computer hardware and PC support at all levels being a basic user to the most advanced user.

The candidate as developed the following Specialist Skills:

Expertise in Cisco Routers including the configuration and troubleshooting networks incorporating Cisco 800, 1600, 1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3700, 3800, 7200, 7300, 7500 and 8500 series. Working knowledge of juniper routers and Billion routers
Expertise in Cisco Layer2/3 switches incorporating the 1900, 2900, 3550, 3560, 3750, 4500, 5000/5500 (catOS), 6500/7600 series (hybrid and native IOS).Database Programming Language
4th Generation Language
Working knowledge of Cisco security devices including the 501, 505 series firewalls. Knowledge of ITIL, IT audit processes in general and protection of information assets, Knowledge of Data ease programming language,
Cisco router routing configuration OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, STATIC, BGP, MPLS

This candidate communicates exceptionally well both written and verbally. She has 2 years experience as a junior Business Analyst within the Insurance Industry. She is currently studying towards her Bachelors of Arts degree.

The candidate has worked with HTML in her previous positions. Her experience is combined with an HTML course, she has also completed a certificate in CSS.

In addition to the above she has also completed a certificate course in SQL gaining practical experience while completing the course although she has no work experience using SQL, she is confidant that she will be able to implement what she learned. The candidate is familiar with and has used Visio flow charts and is fully conversant on MS Word. Although she has no project management experience, she has worked on several projects and understands the processes and procedures of the running of projects. Furthermore she was tasked with extracting relevant information from a 1000 page user manual and simplifying and compiling a user friendly training manual for the call centre agents. The candidate is comfortable training and presenting to others. In her working experience and training she assisted with JAD sessions and dealt with the QA team, developers, Senior BA's and end users

She has a very logical methodical and analytical approach and is naturally an "attention to detail" person, due to this, she recognizes issues in processes and escalates to the relevant person and is willing to challenge processes and procedures when and if necessary.

The candidate has gained call centre experience during her time in the UK where she worked as a call centre agent within the Telecommunications industry.