Marcel van der Merwe is seeking full-time or contract employment and has over 30 years of senior management experience in banking IT at Standard Bank in South Africa. He has owned and operated several small businesses part-time over the years. His experience includes managing teams and departments, IT programming in COBOL, English teaching in Thailand, and establishing a tour agency in Thailand in 2011.

1. Resume Marcel van der Merwe
Email: marcel.vandermerwe@standardbank.co.za
Telephone: +27833077599 SA
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Objective
I am interested in full time or contract employment within your company. I have
Senior Management experience in the banking IT environment.
South African ID Number: 5706145084080
Remuneration
Negotiable
Qualification and Highlights
• 120 TESOL Certificate (TeachTravelAsia TESOL, Hua Hin Thailand)
• Manager in a major bank for more than 30 years, where I provided
management and training for staff in all aspects of IT and management of
systems
• English Camp Teacher, Hua Hin Thailand
• Owned and operated a small vending machine service in South Africa for
four years (18 vending machines Part Time)
• Owned and operated a laundry and dry cleaning services in South Africa
for 5 years (Part Time)
• Owned and operated a self-catering lodge in Dullstroom South Africa for 7
years (Part Time)
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2. Resume Marcel van der Merwe
Email: marcel.vandermerwe@standardbank.co.za
Telephone: +27833077599 SA
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• Worked in a tour company/agency in Thailand.
• Owned and maintained a pre-school premises for three years (Part Time –
managed by my Daughter))
• Trafficmonsoon Online add sharing business (Part Time - 30 Minutes a day
after hours) – Currently on hold
• BITCOIN mining – Part time on weekends (Saturdays) – Currently passive
Bitcoin mining
Employment Summary
Contract at Standard Bank – Application Production Manager through Kabetech
Consultants
2016/11/15 to current – Refreshing My COBOL technical skills.
Online training Courses completed –
Agile Planning
Software Practices Scrum Roles
Adopting an Agile approach to Project management
2016/09/01 to 2016/11/14 – Standard Bank.
• Incident Management and Service restoration.
2016/02/01 to 2016/08/31 – Standard Bank
• Service Availability Management – Emerging Card Payments
• Snapscan, Instant Money, Wechat, Data Services, Account Authentication
project production readiness.
2015/06/01 to 31 January 2016 – Standard Bank
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3. Resume Marcel van der Merwe
Email: marcel.vandermerwe@standardbank.co.za
Telephone: +27833077599 SA
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• Core Banking Task team on core projects
• Co-ordinating system and application monitoring for the AML project
• Take-on and installation of the new application tool AppDynamics
• Central Monitoring to BPPM
2014/08 to 30 May 2015 – Standard Bank
• Service Availability Manager
• Assisting with Crises Management on production systems
• Production service restorations during system outages
2012/06 to 2014/07 - Standard Bank
• Manage a team of 23 staff members in system applications
• Maintaining, fix and enhance partner systems
• Partner system incident management
• Problem Management/Root Cause Analysis
2011/07 – 2012/03 Kritat Holiday Tours and Travels Thailand
• Established a tour agency in Thailand with Thai Partners
• Developed tour packages for tours in Thailand, South Africa and other
South East Asia Countries.
• Selling event tickets, train tickets, bus tickets and air tickets worldwide.
• Hotel Bookings Thailand and worldwide
• Airline packages used in the agency Amadeus and Galileo
• Participated in Tour Fairs in Bangkok with co-operation from South African
Embassy in Thailand
• www.bangkokvoyages.com
• Staff Compliment – 4 people
2011 /06 English Camp Teacher, Hua Hin Thailand
• Developed Curriculum for English Camp
• Designed ESL lesson plans for beginner students ages 6-12
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4. Resume Marcel van der Merwe
Email: marcel.vandermerwe@standardbank.co.za
Telephone: +27833077599 SA
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• Delivered lessons and assessed student retention
1990—2011 Senior Manager, Standard Bank
• Managed several departments within the bank, including 60+ employees,
and the administration, business development, and IT programmer
departments
• Responsible for managing bank investment portfolios
• Managed the bank’s IT and internal COBOL and SAP systems,
• Provided training to all employees on IT and systems as a senior leader of
the bank
• Led the bank’s employee evaluation program,
1986—1990 Junior Manager, Standard Bank
• Managed the IT department in the bank, including managing 20 department
employees
• Provided training to new employees on department and company
procedures, and the company’s IT systems
• Supervised all human resource and performance management related
aspects
1981—1986 Computer Programmer, Standard Bank
• Worked with the company’s management to identify needs in the work
and systems environments.
• Developed program concepts and presented it to management. COBOL.
• Wrote software and worked with management to test and implemented
the new computer systems. COBOL.
• Provided training to many bank employees on how to use the software.
Training was typically one-on-one, class room and lecture formats. COBOL.
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5. Resume Marcel van der Merwe
Email: marcel.vandermerwe@standardbank.co.za
Telephone: +27833077599 SA
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Languages
English Very Good
Afrikaans Excellent
Hobbies / Interests
I enjoy traveling, reading and watching movies
Education/ Training
High School Certificate
Cobol Programming training – Standard Bank
Management skills and people management skills training, Management
Development Program – School Business Development – University of Capetown,
South Africa
120 hours TESOL Certificate (TeachTravelAsia TESOL, Hua Hin Thailand)
Nationality
South African
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6. Resume Marcel van der Merwe
Email: marcel.vandermerwe@standardbank.co.za
Telephone: +27833077599 SA
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Languages
English Very Good
Afrikaans Excellent
Hobbies / Interests
I enjoy traveling, reading and watching movies
Education/ Training
High School Certificate
Cobol Programming training – Standard Bank
Management skills and people management skills training, Management
Development Program – School Business Development – University of Capetown,
South Africa
120 hours TESOL Certificate (TeachTravelAsia TESOL, Hua Hin Thailand)
Nationality
South African
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