1. Curriculum Vitae
Ben Sibusiso Mkhatshwa
Personal Details
Full Name Ben Sibusiso Mkhatshwa
ID 7703195734084
Marital Status Single
Residential Address
Unit 201
Library Gardens
55 President Street
Johannesburg
2001
Postal Address Same as residential
Contact Details
Cell: 0762179664
Ben.mkhatshwa@outlook.com
mkhatsbs@gmail.com
Education
Matric Ncakini High School (Mpumalanga Province)
Year of study 1998
Higher Education BSc Computer Science – University of the Western Cape
Year of study 2001
Current Study Master of Business Leadership (MBL)
Institution University of South Africa (UNISA)
Duration of study 2013 – date
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2. Applicable courses
• XML Language Basics
• XML Development
• Object-Oriented Analysis & Design with UML
• Object-Oriented Analysis & Design UML Classes
• BEA WebLogic Integrator: Admin (WLI-A11)
• BEA WebLogic-Dev Integration Solutions(WLI-D11)
• Certificate in Business Analysis
• Advanced Certificate in Business Analysis
Previous Work Experience
Company Telkom LTD, Simply Tech Solutions
Duration July 2005 to March 2013, March 2015 to December 2015
Position Integration Specialist
Division Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Roles and
Responsibilities
• Taking high-level business plans, ideas or requirements, and
translate them into concrete high and low level specifications, and
scoping documents for big, medium and small projects. The
specifications produced describe how the solution integrates with
both the business processes and products, and the existing IT
infrastructure. All this is done with the company’s solution process
and standard documentation. These are clear-cut documentations
as entrance criteria for the development team. Languages that
are used are Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Extensible
Markup Language (XML) using the tool, Enterprise Architect
(EA). And Microsoft office is extensively used especially MS
Word
• Guiding the development team throughout their development
period if any need arises.
• Running workshops with all stakeholders of a project with a quest
of gathering information of the proposed solution
• Compiling of test cases
• Participate in design forums with architecture
• Participate in DR Planning
Company
Nedbank Ltd
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3. Duration
March 2013 to March 2015
Position Systems Designer/Systems Architect
Division Group Technology (GT) Solution Design (SD)
Roles and
Responsibilities
• Perform the administration and configuration to support and
maintain the systems software environment and ensure
availability as per SLA
• Provide consulting services to stakeholders including architecture
• Remaining abreast of latest versions/ technology
• Participate in making recommendations to policy, processes
• Delivering on medium to high risk systems related activities
(Configuration, parameterization, all upgrades, systems software
upgrades or environmental changes).
• Coordination with stakeholders (Business, external parties,
operations, and impacted stakeholders as per stakeholder lists,
senior programmers/II, architecture)
• delivering hardware, software and firmware support across
domains (including production environments)
• Maintain the system software environment
• Participate in Project lifecycle
• Participate in DR Planning
• Produce Use Cases
• Produce Test Cases
• Produce High Level Design Documents
• Participate in JAD sessions
Key Experience
• Participation and facilitation in requirement gathering sessions
with clients.
• Develop and write specification documents (including system
requirement specifications, functional requirement specifications
and non-functional requirement specifications)
• Compiling of:
• Use Cases
• Activity Diagrams
• Sequence Diagrams
• Class Diagram
• Service Usage Diagrams
• Translate Use Case diagrams into service and data models
• Produce project overviews and contract documents between
systems for different interfaces
• Evaluate and analyze vendor produced documents and feedback
to stakeholders.
• Test Cases compilation
• Have training on TIBCO ESB
• Clear Support usage
• Agile SDLC
• SOA
• IBM Rational Products – RSA, RTC, RRC
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4. Current Work Experience
Company Software Arkitex
Duration January 2016 to current
Position Integration Specialist at MTN
Division Information Systems (IS)
Roles and
Responsibilities
• Provide consulting services to stakeholders including architecture
• Remaining abreast of latest versions/ technology
• Participate in making recommendations to policy, processes
• Analyze and design of SOA services for small, medium and large
projects within the middleware division.
• Coordination with stakeholders (Business, external parties,
operations, and impacted stakeholders as per stakeholder lists,
senior programmers/II, architecture) in designing SOA services
• Participate in Project lifecycle
• Participate in design review Planning
• Produce Test Cases
• Produce SOA service design documents
• Create XSDs, XMLs, WSDLs for SOA services
• Participate in JAD sessions
Key Experience
• Participation and facilitation in requirement gathering sessions
with clients
• Develop and write specification documents (including system
requirement specifications, functional requirement specifications
and non-functional requirement specifications)
• Compiling of:
• Use Cases
• Activity Diagrams
• Sequence Diagrams
• Class Diagram
• Service Usage Diagrams
• Translate Use Case diagrams into service and data models
• Produce project overviews and contract documents between
systems for different interfaces
• Evaluate and analyze vendor produced documents and feedback
to stakeholders.
• Test Cases compilation
• Designing for Oracle Service Bus services using SOA
methodology
• WSDLs, XSDs, XMLs creation
• SOA
• IBM Rational Product – Jazz
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5. Achievements
• Spotlight Award at Telkom 2008 for successfully delivery of the Customer Self Service
project on both EAI and Telkom’s side
• Spotlight Award at Telkom 2013 for successfully delivery of the NGN Pilot project on both
EAI and the Telkom’s side
Technical Skills Inventory
Operating Systems • Windows 2000/98/95, NT, XP
• Linux (Unix)
Database Management
Systems
Framework
• MySQL
• SOA
Programming Languages
• JavaScript, Java, C, SQL, Fortran, UML, XML
Middleware • WebLogic Integration (WLI)
• ESB TIBCO and IBM (data power, message broker, process
server)
• Oracle Service Bus (OSB 11g)
References
• Thato Ramantsi – Application Integration Specialist – Nedbank LTD
Work: 011 500 5842
Cell: 0829401246
Email: thator@nedbank.co.za
• Lawrence Thabane – Integration Specialist (Telkom SA)
Work: 012 311 2687
Cell: 082 888 7769
Email: thabalo1@telkom.co.za
• Abdur Patel – SOA lead
Cell: 0832731823
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6. Achievements
• Spotlight Award at Telkom 2008 for successfully delivery of the Customer Self Service
project on both EAI and Telkom’s side
• Spotlight Award at Telkom 2013 for successfully delivery of the NGN Pilot project on both
EAI and the Telkom’s side
Technical Skills Inventory
Operating Systems • Windows 2000/98/95, NT, XP
• Linux (Unix)
Database Management
Systems
Framework
• MySQL
• SOA
Programming Languages
• JavaScript, Java, C, SQL, Fortran, UML, XML
Middleware • WebLogic Integration (WLI)
• ESB TIBCO and IBM (data power, message broker, process
server)
• Oracle Service Bus (OSB 11g)
References
• Thato Ramantsi – Application Integration Specialist – Nedbank LTD
Work: 011 500 5842
Cell: 0829401246
Email: thator@nedbank.co.za
• Lawrence Thabane – Integration Specialist (Telkom SA)
Work: 012 311 2687
Cell: 082 888 7769
Email: thabalo1@telkom.co.za
• Abdur Patel – SOA lead
Cell: 0832731823
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