I’m an electronic engineer with 20 years experience in the technology industry. Technical challenges and problem solving are my passion. My exposure to a broad spectrum of technology has helped me stay current with emerging trends.
I enjoy working with strong team members to focus our collaboration towards achieving measurable benefit. I get great satisfaction from identifying, planning and implementing projects that have definite return on investment.
I strongly believe that in most cases sustainable change is achieved in small increments.
Infrastructure Specialist @ Focus areas / Responsibilities
Participant in the architecture teams responsible for global networks; data centres and information security. Responsible for the delivery of projects across the technology spectrum.
Project Management of Infrastructure-related projects
• Manage projects globally;
• Facilitate and operate at both a technical and business level
• Management of complex risks in a project at a business and technical level
• Manage budgets, resourcing, scope, quality, plans and dependencies
• Contract negotiations and management
• Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
• Effectively apply methodology and enforce project standards.
Change Management and Incident Management
• Manage changes to the live infrastructure.
• Analyse problems, determine trends, initiate preventive action, to minimise the likelihood of recurrence.
• Ability to absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively at all levels, both technical and non-technical audiences.
Architecture
• Draw on knowledge and experience to develop technology solutions for business requirements.
• Implement best practise solutions according to defined architecture.
Relationship Management
• Manage day-to-day client interaction
• Set and manage client expectations
• Develop lasting relationships with client personnel
• Communicate effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions From May 2006 to Present (9 years 6 months) Vice President @ Focus areas / Responsibilities
Technology team leader for Johannesburg office.
• Service delivery
Overall responsibility for production assurance elements (incident / problem / change / capacity / continuity management) – Trend analysis / forecasting and issue resolution;
• Network infrastructure, email and external connectivity
Local responsibility for network architecture and external connectivity design and implementation, including IT risk management representation and approvals;
Maintenance and configuration of email infrastructure for South African offices;
• Trading technology
Market data integration (Bloomberg / Reuters / INET) / Market connectivity and resilience (JSE / SAFEX / BESA);
• Data centre manager;
Coordination and planning of data centre impacting projects; From April 1997 to April 2006 (9 years 1 month) Senior Consultant @ Based at JPMorgan Chase From April 1997 to September 2005 (8 years 6 months) Johannesburg Area, South AfricaSenior Consultant @ Member of team involved with three major projects:
• Environment management:
Stabilise technology infrastructure environment / train client staff to continue the process after project completion.
• Advanced testing and change control:
Develop a testing and change control methodology for a software development team along with Lotus Notes based tools to facilitate the process.
• Groupware architecture:
Research and develop a groupware architecture specification accommodating the client’s knowledge sharing and groupware requirements. From September 1995 to April 1997 (1 year 8 months) Engineering Manager @ Worked at HBA part time during my studies and then full time for almost two years.
Mainly electronic product design and manufacture, but also some Novell networking. From December 1989 to September 1995 (5 years 10 months) Pretoria Area, South Africa
B. Eng, Electronic @ University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria From 1990 to 1993 Matric, 3 Distinctions @ Lyttelton Manor High School From 1985 to 1989 Marinus Groeneveld is skilled in: Data Center, Infrastructure, IT Strategy, Integration, Facilities Engineering, Project Delivery, Disaster Recovery, Project Planning, Incident Management, Change Management, Project Management, Requirements Gathering, IT Management, ITIL, Certified Project..., Service Delivery, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Information Technology, Requirements Analysis, IT Operations, Governance, Business Continuity, Information Security, Business Analysis, Architecture, Project Portfolio..., PMO, Service Management, Security, Information Security..., Data Migration, Cisco Technologies, Management, Virtualization, Cloud Computing