PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Period: September 2013 – Present
Position: Director: Electronic Product Development (EPD)
Employer: Statistics South Africa
Responsibilities:
- Development, implementation and monitoring of publication policy including preservation of confidentiality in statistical data from sources such as population census and vital statistics,
- Project management, budget, personnel and risk management are among the key activities in this role,
- Development of data dissemination infrastructure, databases and electronic data products,
- Quality management of all statistical data products published by Statistics South Africa,
- Develop processes, procedures and implement standards for data dissemination,
- Advising data users locally and internationally about using official statistics data,
- Development of statistical data warehouse and business intelligence tools,
- Dissemination of all publishable datasets situated within Statistics South Africa database catalogue through various online systems,
- Responding to complex user requests and unpublished data,
- External stakeholders that I support include:
- South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC),
- South African Human Science Research Council (SAHSRC),
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),
- Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA),
- The South African Reserve Bank (SARB),
- The National Treasury of South Africa,
- South African Revenue Services (SARS),
- Several government departments and multi-national organisations,
- South African universities, Europe and North America,
- Private sector, municipalities, financial institutions, demarcation board,
- Provide advice to national statistical offices from other African states.
- Participate as a member of ethics and deputy chair of training committe.
- Acting on Chief Director roles.
Period:July 2012 – August 2013
Position: Information and Research Specialist
Employer: FinMark Trust
Responsibilities:
- Project management, statistical and methodological support for FinScope Surveys in SADC, Asia, East and West Africa,
- Review of sampling methodologies for studies conducted in different countries,
- Sample design, questionnaire design, training manual development,
facilitating training, data template development, weighting, estimation and analysis of FinScope studies,
- Recruitment of local project coordinator and in-country research house,
- Entering agreement with the country national statistics office and manage the relationship thereof,
- Involved in planning and implementation of making access to financial markets possible (MAP) worldwide starting with Thailand, Myanmar and India,
- Survey implementation, budget management, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
Period:October 2009 – June 2012
Position: Senior Methodologist: Methodology and Evaluation
Employer: Statistics South Africa
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for methodologies regarding listing, survey sampling, sample weighting and estimation as well as quality assurance,
- Involvement in operational work with other work streams such as training manual development, conducting training as well as questionnaire testing,
- Developing specifications for systems required by methodology division such as drawing sample, listing capturing, weighting and estimation, sample stabilisation as well as analysis,
- Handling queries from both internal and external stakeholders regarding survey methodologies,
- Research on current or developing methodology techniques and improvements including small area estimation,
- Assisting in drawing operational plans and reporting and,
- Provide hands on training on weighting and estimation to other team members.
The position as provincial coordinator below was held concurrently with the senior methodologist position.
Period:September 2011 – June 2012
Position: Provincial Coordinator – Census 2011 Post Enumeration Survey
Employer: Statistics South Africa (North West Province)
Responsibilities:
- Project management,
- Staff recruitment and work allocation,
- Budget management,
- Coordination of all survey activities in the province including training,monitoring fieldwork activities and quality assurance,
- Forward and reverse logistics,
- Assets management and,
- Stakeholder engagements including royal councils, venue owners, police and other authorities identified as gatekeepers.
Period:March 2009 – September 2009
Position: Data Miner (Business Intelligence Department)
Employer: CreditEdge (Mayibuye Group)
Responsibilities:
- SAS programming: Writing SAS programs to solve business problems and resolving errors generated by existing programs,
- Information delivery: Managing regular report produced from the enterprise data warehouse,
- Book valuation: Determining the best price to purchase written-off bad debts through evaluating customers risk profiles,
- Asset activation: Identifying clients who missed payments and initiate campaigns to recover outstanding monies. The process involved survival analysis techniques to determine how long the client continue to pay before they default for the first time and also the pattern of defaults,
- Customer profiling: Classifying potential customers for direct marketing campaigns. The techniques were also used in analysing new business acquisitions,
- Geographic Information System: Using GIS to determine how to allocate sales agents in different areas across Gauteng province,
- Developing OLAP cubes in SAS Data Integration Studio: OLAP is used as tool for information delivery to different business units and,
- Analysing client business culture for branches, which included debt management.
Period: January 2006 – March 2009
Position: Senior Survey Statistician: Methodology, Labour Force Survey
Reengineering (LFSR) project. Note! Promotion occurred halfway during this period.
Employer: Statistics South Africa
Responsibilities:
- Design and implementation of methodologies regarding listing, survey sampling, sample weighting and estimation as well as quality assurance,
- I was also involved in operational work with other work streams such as training manual development, conducting training as well as questionnaire testing,
- For the project as a whole, I led the process mapping activities used in planning,
- Coordinator of central metadata, data and file storage for the methodology work stream,
- Developing specifications for systems required by methodology division such as drawing sample, listing capturing, weighting and estimation, sample stabilisation as well as analysis and,
- Handling queries from both internal and external stakeholders regarding sample survey methodologies.
Period:January 2005 – December 2005
Position: Intern Professional (Data Management and Information Delivery), Methodology and Geography Division)
Employer: Statistics South Africa
Responsibilities:
- Central metadata and data repository (Business requirement gathering process),
- Sampling from business register (2.2 million records) for economic statistics and estimation using SAS macros,
- Investigating data analysis and visualisation combining statistics with GIS,
- Present two presentations on data visualisation, firstly on statistical concepts and secondly on classification schemes,
- Exploring 2003 master sample creation GIS part and municipal boundaries adjustments also creation of EAs and dissemination layer spatially.
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