​​​​Ayanda Madyibi​

Provincial Chief Information Officer, Office of the Premier, Bhisho

​2011 - Present

 

• Strategic management, guidance and advice in respect of policy and strategy, planning and development and implementation of ICT initiatives within the Provincial Administration

• Coordinate effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to enable enhanced service delivery and access to information and service by the people of the province.

• Deploy information and communication technologies (ICTs) as enabling tools through Enterprise Architecture and frameworks.

• Business and Systems analysis, Project Management, ICT infrastructure (hardware, software and networks), Service Management, Application Development and Support, ICT training and ICT Risk Management (Information Security and Disaster Recovery Planning)

• Develop, implement and monitor IS governance structures and policies to ensure IS operational excellence 

• Strategically manage the technology resources of the Province

• Manage financial and human resources within the prescribed relevant legislation.

 

Director: IT Support Management, Gauteng Department of Education, JHB 

​2010 - 2011

 

• To manage and constantly monitor the continuous functioning of the LAN and WAN environment.

• Resolve LAN and WAN connectivity issues and make recommendations to support dynamic business environment.

• Analyze and compile reports on the effectiveness of the ICT environment and make recommendations.

• Ensure a structured performance management system to monitor expenditure against budget in terms of treasury regulations.

• To develop, implement, monitor and maintain ICT policy and procedure: to regulate and govern ICT usage.

• Ensure that the systems run effectively so as to deliver the desired level of business performance.

• Resolve server problems, make recommendations and maintain systems to support the dynamic business environment.

• Analyze and compile reports on the effectiveness of ICT server environment and make recommendations.

 

Senior Manager: Networks & Infrastructure, IRG Consulting, Rivonia

​2007 - 2010

 

• Goal setting, organizing and planning of ICT strategies on behalf of our clients.

• Designing and executing of Business Plans.

• Creating and enforcing of ICT Policies and Standard Operations Procedures (SOP).

• Define and direct project goals, objectives, critical success factors, milestones, and risks.

• Communicate detailed product knowledge to support consulting engagements.

• Collaborated with customers, partners, and internal constituencies to ensure successful implementation of ICT solutions;

• Mentoring and assisting associate services staff.

 

Senior IT Consultatnt, Lifeline Technologies, Sandton 

​2006 - 2007

 

• Senior IT Consultant, Lifeline Technologies, Sandton May 2006 – Feb 2007.

• Collaborated on solution architecture and infrastructure requirements, led planning, designing analysis and implementation procedures on behalf of our clients.

• Managed and implemented server virtualization for our clients; in-line with the global Green IT strategy.

• General ICT Infrastructure support.

 

Senior Network Engineer, JSE Securities Engineer, Sandton

​1996 - 2006

• Planning, Designing, Implementing, Maintaining and Optimising of Cisco Routers and Switches for both the JSE and broker community.

• Supporting Catalyst switches ranging from 2900 to 6500 series and Cisco Routers ranging from 1700 to 7500 series. Wide Area Network (WAN) included links to the London Stock Exchange (LSE) via TELKOM SAT-3 undersea cable.

• Hands on experience in the following areas: IPSec VPN, QoS, VoIP, LAN/MAN/WAN, Wireless LAN, IP Multicast, SNMP/NetFlow/sFlow, MPLS and implementing VLANs, Spanning Tree Protocol, DLSw+, DHCP, ACL and NAT.

• Practical troubleshooting of network routing protocols i.e. EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, etc

• Implementing security solutions which included PIX Firewalls, Netscreen Firewalls and IDS devices.

 

Senior IT Systems Specialist, ESKOM, Germiston​

1995 - 1996

• Specializing in technical support to the Help-U-Desk support personnel and LAN Administrators.

• Development of both hardware and software systems to customer requirements within ESKOM.

• Design and management of new extensions to the existing LAN infrastructure.

 

Systems Programmer, Department of Finance, Mthatha​

1992 - 1995

• Specializing in technical support to the Help-U-Desk support personnel and LAN Administrators.

• Development of both hardware and software systems to customer requirements within ESKOM.

• Design and management of new extensions to the existing LAN infrastructure.