IT Project Director / Management Consultant

To utilise my working IT knowledge of the Oil industry to further enhance and grow businesses

• Project / Program Management. For most of the engagements below, Mr. Botes had the secondary role as Project / Program Manager. He is a certified as IBM Project Management Professional using IBM MITP. Depending on the client environment all projects either complied with IBM Global Services Method / MITP, PMI or PRINCE Project Management standards.
• Program Management Office design, process development, tool selection and project management for IBM Business Continuity Services.
• IT Strategy and Architecture engagements in cross-industry, process (industrial), petro-chemical and public sectors for various South African clients.
• Extensive business process modeling and simulation in various industry sectors.
• Logical Workflow Architecture and process design for another major SA banking group.
• Business Process Modeling for the leading South African Paper & Pulp company during their SAP transition.
• Project Executive. At above Paper & Pulp company he also led the Y2K effort and followed-on with an e-business strategy and implementation.

• Rand University, Johannesburg, South Africa. B.Sc. Mathematics majoring in Computer Science.
• ISO 9000 (1994) Auditor Training and certification by SA Bureau of Standards
• Quality Assurance Institute (QAI), USA. Certified Quality Analyst.
• PMI Project Management training and Project Management Professional (PMP) certified
• Various IBM Consulting related courses and IBM Professional Consultant Certification
• Saudi Arabia – ITIL Foundation Certification

• ISO 9000 (1994) Auditor Training and certification by SA Bureau of Standards
• Quality Assurance Institute (QAI), USA. Certified Quality Analyst.
• PMI Project Management training and Project Management Professional (PMP) certified
• Various IBM Consulting related courses and IBM Professional Consultant Certification
• Saudi Arabia – ITIL Foundation Certification

He is a Senior ICT Project Executive and Consultant with 20+ years of IT consulting and project management experience in a broad range of disciplines from Application development to Strategy development. He has been working with Middle-Eastern organizations to address their business challenges for the past 8 years.
Currently as Project Executive, he is project managing a high availability IBM z/OS Parallel Sysplex mainframe environment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the Ministry of Interior (MOI). Up until end of 2006 he was with the Saudi Aramco Finance Organization where he focused on setting up a program office, project management and business process reengineering/modeling, BPO during their Finance Transformation Initiative.