Sibusiso Dantjie

IT Strategist

Currently resides in: Gauteng, South Africa

Born in Pretoria South Africa

IT strategist with a blend of technical and business expertise; programming, enterprise architecture, business, strategy.

Current role entails:
- ensuring that business objectives are understood by the IT organization and appropriately translated into specific IT strategies, programs, initiatives and investments,
- ensuring that the capabilities of the technology and, by implication, of the IT organization are fully understood by the business,
- understanding business drivers, the context within which business needs to operate, and how IT will contribute to business outcomes - in order to satisfy the need to drive higher business contribution from IT, and better IT-Business alignment.

Contact details

sdantjie@gmail.com

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Business Address

Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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Current Position(s)

IT Strategist | IT Solutions | TELKOM SA SOC LTD
GAUTENG , South Africa | 2013 - present

ICT and Telecommunications

Responsible to strategize and produce industry-leading strategic content for ITS, liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment, efficient approach and buy-in; To ensure that the appropriate strategic content can be tracked, reported on, reviewed and improved.

Responsible to develop and maintain an IT Strategy (in all aspects of the demand, control and supply of the strategic framework) to ensure a strong and clear relationship between the IT investment decisions and Telkom’s overall strategies, goals and objectives to:
- Improve Business (the internal and external stakeholders of ITS) and ITS alignment by confirming that the ITS direction, investments, and activities are fully in line with where Telkom is going
- Provide value to Business by understanding, embracing and leveraging key technologies to help transform the enterprise
- Improve IT service delivery by managing and measuring performance
- Provide guidance and influence leadership transformation and organizational workforce repositioning.

Primary functions include to:
- Facilitate ITS strategy formulation and communication
- Strategically coordinate ITS workforce training and up-skilling
- Manage the ITS training budget

. Business engagements with various consulting houses including McKinsey, Gartner, Accenture, SybaseSA, SAP, alfabet, and more.

Previous Position(s)

Enterprise Architect | IT Solutions | TELKOM SA SOC LTD
GAUTENG, South Africa | 2011 - 2013

ICT and Telecommunications

Responsible for the overall management of the function that determines the overall architectural direction to support the business within a large, multinational, organization.

Responsible for direction, management, performance and health of business, application, data/information and technology architecture.

Responsible for partnering with key business stakeholders, IT leadership, Portfolio Managers and Enterprise Architecture Management for the purpose of setting Enterprise Architecture direction.

Responsible to integrate information from business strategies and portfolios to define the overall Enterprise Architecture direction, capabilities, integration and quality for the IT Portfolio.

Accountable for the health & effectiveness of key architecture processes such as Standards Management, Lifecycle Management.

This includes the definition of the current, transition and future state architecture intended to support business.

Developer | ITS: System Analysis | Telkom SA
Pretoria, South Africa | 2010 - 2011

ICT and Telecommunications

Developer | IO: System Analysis | Telkom SA
Pretoria, South Africa | 2008 - 2009

ICT and Telecommunications

Developer | IIS: System Analysis | Telkom SA
Pretoria, South Africa | 2007 - 2008

ICT and Telecommunications

Developer (Operational Specialist) | ITS: System Analysis | Telkom SA
Pretoria, South Africa | 2006 - 2007

ICT and Telecommunications

Educational history

Secondary

Rabboni Private Christian School, Brits, South Africa (2001)

Tertiary

University of Pretoria

Pretoria, South Africa | 2009 - 2013

Masters Degree - Information Technology

THESIS TOPIC [ICT Change Management: Successful Emergent Change Management Procedures In A South African ICT Organization]

Strategic ICT Management, IT Financial Management, Research, ICT Project Management, Corporate IT Systems, Digital Economy, Organizational Behavior & Management, Information & Knowledge Management, Information In Perspective, Management Of Networks, Computing In Perspective, Life-Cycle Maturity Models.

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Port Elizabeth, South Africa | 2005 - 2005

Bachelors Degree - Information Technology

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Port Elizabeth, South Africa | 2002 - 2004

National Diploma - Information Technoliogy

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