Ebrahim Essop

Currently, I am building a platform to simplify payments for small businesses and Individuals in Africa to move money with ease at a cost-effective rate within the shortest possible time. I have led a team from across the globe (Nigeria, Ghana, India, Kenya) of Senior Managers, Quality Assurance Leads, Technical Leads and Project Managers in the delivery and maintenance of nodes for the MFS Africa Hub. Our goal is to continually grow our network and maintain the existing network so that people across the world can send and receive money that can make a life-changing difference to their families and friends. I have led the technical delivery of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) for Nedbank RBB (Retail and Business Banking), Identifying processes that are suitable for RPA, building and managing a team to deliver on Requirements, Design, Development and Support of RPA initiatives. I am also exploring how we will eventually merge the work we are doing with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I have also been at the forefront of large-scale releases for our client-facing online channels (Internet Banking, Mobile Banking and Business Banking). In these big releases, we received requirements from our stakeholders within the business, engaged with the relevant product managers on their expectations and then managed the process to get the quotation together for development from the different internal teams (Frontend, Middleware and Host), external vendors and 3rd party integrators. I also managed the performance and budget for our development teams. From a team perspective, I have managed people from multiple different locations (Cape Town, India, Johannesburg) who have worked on different components (SQL, C#, .net, Java, Angular, Adobe AEM, Blue Prism, Datapower, Message Broker, Process Server, TIM/TAM, DB2 and Postilion). My most important asset is my attitude and approach; I am a go-getter and aim for success. If I do not know the answer I find a way to get it. I also pride myself on building relationships and collaborating with others to achieve success. I can not only manage a team effectively but build one up and scale it to the needs of the organisation. I can take complex problems, and break them up into their different components to understand them better along with their dependencies so they can be delivered in smaller portions. I like to organise the chaos by putting processes, people and technology in place to make tasks more organised and allow us to scale while still having control.