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About Me
Professional Summary
Dynamic and results-driven IT Manager with over 20 years of expertise in Payments Services within Namibian Financial Organizations. Proven track record in leading complex projects, managing multi-disciplinary teams, and driving technological innovation. Adept at leveraging stakeholder relationships, managing multi-project initiatives, and achieving results through strategic planning and execution.
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Core Competencies
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Professional Experiences
2024
IT Manager - Bank BIC
Full-time and Current
6 Years and 8 Months
- Architect and implement comprehensive IT strategies aligned with bank's long-term objectives
- Lead a team of IT professionals, ensuring optimal performance and continuous skill development
- Spearhead critical compliance initiatives, including SWIFT CSP and PCI DSS implementation
- Collaborate with C-level executives to determine technology needs and drive digital transformation
- Manage an annual IT budget of NAD XX million, consistently delivering projects under budget
- Implement robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans, reducing potential downtime by XX%
- Lead a team of IT professionals, ensuring optimal performance and continuous skill development
- Spearhead critical compliance initiatives, including SWIFT CSP and PCI DSS implementation
- Collaborate with C-level executives to determine technology needs and drive digital transformation
- Manage an annual IT budget of NAD XX million, consistently delivering projects under budget
- Implement robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans, reducing potential downtime by XX%
2018
- Directed strategic IT initiatives, aligning technology capabilities with business objectives
- Developed and maintained a scalable IT organizational structure, improving operational efficiency by XX%
- Implemented cybersecurity measures, resulting in zero security breaches during tenure
- Led technology selection and implementation projects, reducing system integration time by XX%
- Established IT governance processes, ensuring 100% compliance with regulatory requirements
ICT Manager - Namclear (Pty) Ltd
Full-time
2 Years and 10 Months
- Directed strategic IT initiatives, aligning technology capabilities with business objectives
- Developed and maintained a scalable IT organizational structure, improving operational efficiency by XX%
- Implemented cybersecurity measures, resulting in zero security breaches during tenure
- Led technology selection and implementation projects, reducing system integration time by XX%
- Established IT governance processes, ensuring 100% compliance with regulatory requirements
2015
- Oversaw operations of Namclear's Cards Systems, processing over XX million transactions annually
- Successfully led the migration of ACH Software project, completed on time and XX% under budget
- Coordinated with multiple Namibian banking industry stakeholders, ensuring seamless integration
- Improved system uptime from XX% to XX% through proactive maintenance and upgrades
- Developed and implemented new operational procedures, reducing processing errors by XX%
Manager - Cards Operations - Namclear (Pty) Ltd
Full-time
2 Years and 3 Months
- Oversaw operations of Namclear's Cards Systems, processing over XX million transactions annually
- Successfully led the migration of ACH Software project, completed on time and XX% under budget
- Coordinated with multiple Namibian banking industry stakeholders, ensuring seamless integration
- Improved system uptime from XX% to XX% through proactive maintenance and upgrades
- Developed and implemented new operational procedures, reducing processing errors by XX%
2013
- Managed operations of Namclear's Cards and EFT systems, ensuring 99.9% uptime
- Ensured strict compliance with Service Level Agreements and industry regulations
- Led cross-functional teams to improve business processes, resulting in XX% efficiency gain
- Implemented new monitoring tools, reducing system response time to incidents by XX%
Manager - EFT & Cards - Namclear (Pty) Ltd
Full-time
2 Years and 1 Months
- Managed operations of Namclear's Cards and EFT systems, ensuring 99.9% uptime
- Ensured strict compliance with Service Level Agreements and industry regulations
- Led cross-functional teams to improve business processes, resulting in XX% efficiency gain
- Implemented new monitoring tools, reducing system response time to incidents by XX%
2011
System Administrator - Namclear (Pty) Ltd
Full-time
7 Years
- Administered and maintained critical IT infrastructure supporting XX users across XX locations
- Implemented robust security measures, resulting in zero successful security breaches
- Led successful implementations of EFT, Code-line clearing, and Card streams
- Reduced system downtime by XX% through proactive maintenance and timely upgrades
- Mentored junior IT staff, improving team productivity by XX%
- Implemented robust security measures, resulting in zero successful security breaches
- Led successful implementations of EFT, Code-line clearing, and Card streams
- Reduced system downtime by XX% through proactive maintenance and timely upgrades
- Mentored junior IT staff, improving team productivity by XX%
2004
Team Leader FNB ATM's and Stock controller - CS Holdings/IT Customer Services
Full-time
7 Years
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Education
1995
National Certificate In Marketing Management
Northlink College - Tigerberg, Capetown
Northlink College - Tigerberg, Capetown
1993
High School Diploma
Windhoek High School - Windhoek, Namibia University
Windhoek High School - Windhoek, Namibia University
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Awards
2018
Namclear 15 Years Service
2002
ITCS Service Star Award Winner(2002)
2001
ITCS Service Star Award Runner-Up (2001)
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Certifications
2017
PCI Professional (PCIP)™ Qualification PCI DSS 3.2 | April 2017
2017
Internal Security Assessor (ISA)™ Qualification PCI DSS 3.2 | April 2017
34Projects
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Recommendations
Wimpie has been extremely helpful throughout our PCI gap analysis and remediation phases. His insight and detail-oriented nature coupled with his clear communication and understanding of the environment tremendously eased our PCI job. I would be honoured to work with Wimpie again and highly recommend him.
Wimpie is passionate about his work and career. On my engagement with Wimpie, he has a strong customer-centric focus. Wimpie is an excellent team player, and continually went the extra mile. It was a great pleasure to work with him as my stakeholder, and would highly recommend him in a management function where he will be able to use his strong influencing skills to add value to the organisation.
He has advanced people skills and he can work and gets results on any project .He is an asset to any team he is part of.
I worked with Wimpie implementing the new Clearing and Settlement service at Namclear, He conducted himself professionally at all times, he is well respected by the "payment" stakeholders in Namibia . It was an absolute pleasure dealing with him.
Wimpie is an exceptionally knowledgeable and action oriented individual with regards to general Information Technology, and specifically within the financial services industry.
He has a comprehensive range of expertise with regards to budget management, risk management, strategy development, negotiation, with an exceptional talent for problem solving and getting things done.
I can highly recommend Wimpie.
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