2. Personal Information:
Surname: Swanepoel
Name(s): Riaan
Date of Birth: 1979/05/02
Nationality: South African
I.D. Number: 7905025023089
Marital Status: Married
Dependants: Two
Driver’s License: Yes - Code 8 S.A.
Health: Excellent
Tel: +265(0) 9999 67447
Email: riaan@skyband.mw ;
riaan.gigameg@gmail.com
Education:
Highest Standard / Grade Passed / Achieved: Matric / Grade 12 (1996)
Institution of Study: Overkruin High School
Subject(s) Taken:
· English (HG)
· Afrikaans (HG)
· Math (SG)
· Science (HG/SG) - Computer Sciences
· Biology (HG/SG)
· Accounting (HG/SG)
Industry Related Education:
Product Related(s) Training Certification:
· CISCO WIRELESS LAN FUNDAMENTALS - CWLF
· CISCO WIRELESS LAN ADVANCED TOPICS – CWLAT
· WITLINK 2000 TRAINING
· CERTIFIED ALVARION SYSTEM SPECIALIST – CASS WA1
3. · CERTIFIED BREEZECOM ENGINEER – CBE-A2/N2
· PROXIM CERTIFIED WIRELESS ENGINEER – PCWE
· PROXIM CERTIFIED BROADBAND ASSOCIATE
· PROXIM CERTIFIED HOTSPOT SPECIALIST
· RADWIN WIRELESS TRAINING
· MOTOROLA WIRELESS ADVANCED TRAINING
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Employment Information:
Place of Employment (Current): Skyband (Corporation) – Delamere House , Blantyre,
Malawi
Period of Employment: 3 Years and 10 Months (March 2012 to Date)
Job Title: Head of Sales (Southern Region and International Services)
Tasks and Goals within the Company:
I was initially employed by Skyband as the Head of Sales in order to grow the
companies’ local corporate and consumer base.
My employment has resulted in an exponential growth for Skyband in these areas.
The success of Skyband’s growth in the domestic market due to my input /guidance
and oversight has enabled them to engage a Mr. Zaine Bwanali to take over much
of my duties enabling me to concentrate on developing International sales.
The growth now being experienced in the International market has already borne
fruit with several major communication companies having signed contracts with
Skyband and already generating substantial foreign exchange earnings.
This has resulted in myself becoming Senior Consultant for International Sales, a
position that has already seen the expansion of sales to overseas entities like
Vodacom and Internet Solutions generating substantial foreign exchange.
This new role will allow greater concentration on development not only with
additional services to these clients but also to develop new Clients as the company
continues to invest in new and faster technologies.
4. Daily tasks include:
· Daily Staff reporting and Assistance
· Daily Client Queries and Issues
· Monthly Foreign Exchange Earnings Reporting to Managing Director
· International Sales Strategy Planning together with our Commercial Director
· Marketing related tasks as set out by our Business development Director
· International Contract Negotiations with Local and International clients.
· Daily Sales Staff Proposal Approvals before they are sent to clients
· Hotspot Development within Skyband
· International MPLS Sales and Development
· Weekly Sales and Technical Meeting Preparation
· Technical Design/Input and liaison with Skyband Technical Department
· Overall Revenue Increase for Skyband Across the board
· High Profile Client relationship management
Reason for Leaving: N/A
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Place of Employment: Malawi Net (Ltd) – Blantyre, Malawi
Period of Employment: 11 Months (Dec 2010 to Oct 2011)
Job Title: Chief Technical Officer.
Tasks and Goals within the Company:
My immediate goals within Malawinet was to establish sound Technical Policies and
ensure quality delivery of Internet Related Services to existing and new clients.
Stabilization of the Current Motorola Wireless network and NOC and further growth
of the Company through new product and project based income. My goals have
been to make MalawiNet more than a traditional ISP and with my experience
embark on other ICT related projects for revenue generation.
Daily tasks included:
· Daily NOC operation and Management
· Wireless Network Management
· Financial Management
· Staff Training and Mentorship
5. · Product and Supplier management
· Technical Sales Assisting
· New Technology Identification
· Wireless and Other Project related Installation and Commissioning
· VSAT Installation and Commissioning
· High Level Network Design
· Key Product Alliance partnership within the company
Reason for Leaving: Instability of Companies financial position due to unknown
historical issues.
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Place of Employment: Gigameg (Pty)Ltd – Midrand, Johannesburg, South-Africa
Period of Employment: 4 Years (Dec 2006 to November 2010)
Job Title: General Manager / Shareholder
Tasks and Goals within the Company:
As a Shareholder and General Manager within Gigameg my goal has been to grow
the Company to a level which yields good return to all participating Shareholders
and to establish Gigameg in the South-African market as a leader in Broadband
Wireless Services and Technology.
Daily tasks include:
· People Management
· Technical Management
· Financial Management
· Tender Process Management
· Identification of up and coming Technologies which Gigameg can benefit from
· Monthly Sales of Gigameg Services and Products
· Market Research and Gigameg Strategy on an Annual Basis
· Overhead Design and Approval of all new Network Architecture
· High Level Technical Support
· Annual projected Growth as decided and agreed upon by Shareholders’ within
Gigameg
6. · Key Product Alliance partnership within the company
· Salaries and Wages
Reason for Leaving: Seeking new challenges within Africa and Abroad. Looking to
relocate my family out of South-Africa
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Place of Employment: Innovation Factory (Pty) Ltd
Job Title(s): Business Unit Manager– Wireless Technologies
Period of Employment: 24 Months (January 2004 – 2006 Nov)
Tasks and Goals within the Company:
· Wireless Technology Sales within Africa
· Aggressive Sales Targets
· New Tender Submissions
· New Technology Identification
· Technical Research and Acquisitions of new Wireless technologies
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Place of Employment: Communication Solutions (Pty) Ltd
Job Title(s): Technical Manager – Comsol Technical Services
Period of Employment: 3 Years (January 2000 – August 2003)
Job Description / Responsibilities:
· Day to Day Running of Comsol Technical Services – Johannesburg
· Scheduling of Technical Teams for new Installations
· Project Management of new and Existing Projects in AFRICA and Southern Africa
· Wireless Technical Design and High Level Support
· People Management
· Meeting of Annual Revenue Targets as set out by the Board of Directors
· New Technology Identification
· Technical Support and Installations
· Installation Quality Control
· Salaries and Wages on a Monthly Basis
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Place of Employment: Satellite and Wireless Networks (Pty) Ltd /Multisource Telecoms
(Pty) Ltd (Voice and Data was bought over and the name was changed to SWN)
Tel: N/A
Job Title(s): Senior Wireless Engineer
Period of Employment: 3 Years (January 1997 – August 2000)
Job Description / Responsibilities:
· Wireless Design and Support
· New Installations – Mainly Sub Saharan Africa
· Project Management
· After Hours Technical Stand-By and Support
· Quality Control of all new Wireless Installations
· Technical Sales
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Major Industry and Project Achievement over the Past 10 Years :
· Successful Wireless /Telecoms Deployments for Celtel in Congo , DRC, Sierra Leone,
Malawi, Zambia
· Deployment of numerous Wireless Networks for Local Councils within South-Africa
· Deployment of the Largest Motorola Indoor Retail Deployment for the Edcon
Group in South-Africa(Approx. 350 Access Points)
· First successful Wi-Max Deployment in Guinea, Conakry for Blue Planet Telecoms
· Successful Deployment of a Wireless Backbone from Lilongwe to Blantyre , Reserve
Bank of Malawi
· Deployment and Upgrade of Ubank(Formerly Teba Bank South Africa) Wireless
Network
· Successful deployment of Complete Comprehensive Mesh Network for one of the
Largest mining groups within South-Africa – De Beers Mining
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8. References:
The references below are colleagues, mentors and business contacts that I have
built up over the years. (Please feel free to contact them for further information on
my History within the Industry)
1. Matie Strydom (Director – Comsol(Pty)Ltd) : +27 (0)11 700 8200
2. Jean Schroeder (Director – Scan RF (Pty) Ltd): +27 (0)82 572 7299
3. Lester Peteni (Director – Blue Planet Telecoms (Pty) Ltd, Chairman – Huawei
Technology Africa, Chairman –Basil Read Group): +27 (0) 082 780 0082
4. Michael Richardson (Motorola Technical): +27 (0)11 800 7800
5. Bertie Strydom (Director -BTSA): + 27 (0)11 314 0601
6. Erik Jordaan (Director - BTSA): + 27 (0)82 447 1837
For any further Information please do not hesitate to contact me at any time.
Kind Regards,
Riaan Swanepoel
Mobile: + 265 (0) 9999 67447
Email: riaan@skyband.mw
Email Alt: riaan.gigameg@gmail.com
Skype ID: riaan.gigameg
