Senior Project Manager

Shade is a solutions-oriented Project Manager with notable success directing a broad range of corporate technical initiatives while participating in planning and implementation of Network Infrastructure designs and managing leading various Projects.

• Manage all elements of project execution namely timelines, actions, status reporting, status meetings, deliverables, risks and issues, expenditures, forecast of costs, cash flow, timescales and resource requirements etc. as detailed in the Absa BCL methodology.
• Manage the activities of the project-team members, as well as line role-players and subject-matter experts assigned to the project as detailed in the Absa BCL methodology and training.
• Co-ordinate the work of the project team by allocating tasks, monitoring progress, ensuring awareness of responsibilities and securing commitment to successful project delivery.
• Comply with the appropriate structures established and maintained by the Programme Manager, to ensure the delivery of projects.
• Manage relationships with line role players, business sponsors and -owners as detailed in the Absa BCL methodology and training.
• Manage and run the routine project meetings i.e., team, vendor, testers, to ensure agendas are adhered to, actions agreed, owners assigned and thereafter recorded in project plans, reports and minutes.
• Develop Project Proposal, conceptual quotes, project budget, project plan, post implementation reports.
• Identify and manage all project issues and risks including their mitigating actions, owners, appropriate escalation and contingency management.
• Prepare and maintain detailed and accurate project and resource plans, with current estimates for activity completion.
• Monitor and control the use of resources and funds against the project budget.
• Gain agreement Project Sponsor and or Steering Committee for all changes to the project as necessary.

Bachelor of Technology Physics/Computer Science

Prince 2 Practitioner, MCSE, MCDBA, ITIL Foundation