Owner at Artspark canvases and prints (2023-01 – 2025-12)
- To supply artist with excellent quality canvases and prints for the resale art market.
- Managing deliveries myself to obtain client interaction
- Managing the construction of canvases and printing of images
- Managing profit and loss-margins
- Ensuring continuity of supply of materials to mitigate delivery constraints
- Issuing of invoices to clients and monitoring payment
- Marketing of canvases and prints in the designated environment.
- Managing all areas of human resource management to mitigate unnecessary staff turnover.
Owner at Avant Solid wood creations (Present)
- Designing and building solid wood/steel furniture for resale
- Management and acquiring of materials for furniture construction
- Interaction with customers to identify needs
- Management of budgets and mitigating factors that create financial loss.
- Taking a continuous approach to my own health and safety in the workshop.
- Delivery of completed pieces to clients
- Installation of pieces that need to be mounted.
Occupational health and safety and project manager. at Ground probe Mining technologies (2021-11 – 2022-04)
- Managing all aspects of health and safety on factory level.
- Acquisition of shipping containers, materials and equipment to construct shelters for Radar-towers on open cast mines
- Managing budgets for salaries and materials.
- Ensuring specification requirements are met according to client needs and safety standards.
- Small scale engineering to build shelters.
- Interacting with suppliers and coordinating delivery of materials and completed radar shelters to clients
- Ensuring transparency between staff and management according to labour law practices.
- On site training in construction and quality control.
Occupational health and safety practitioner, staff and property manager at Mr. HJK Ferreira (Private individual) (2011-09 – 2020-12)
Properties
- Acquiring and interviewing potential contractors for maintenance on properties/farms
- Performing site visits and safety audits
- Researching and evaluating solutions to obstacles at various properties/farms in terms of converting grey water to serviceable water for irrigation.
- Developing health and safety policies
- Update and improve emergency incident plans
- General maintenance of properties/farms by vindicating failures of utilities such as water supply and electricity.
- Research and implement counter measures for "load shedding" to minimize threat to security and ensure animal well-being.
- Ensuring adequate stabling of horses and interviewing eligible and experienced grooms.
- Coordinating transport and logistics of horses between buyers, sellers and horse shows
- Managing and controlling the use of vehicles at properties/farms in terms of licensing, services and fuel.
- Coordinating travel of owners.
- Identifying and mitigating hazards for staff at various properties /farms.
- Perform accident or incident investigation on properties.
- Implementing security measures at all properties by meeting with security companies on a regular basis to stay abreast of new technological innovations in the security industry.
- Administrating all expenses forthcoming from managing properties /farms.
- Conduct safety training and demonstrate the functioning of safety equipment.
- Design an introduction program for new employees to familiarize them with safety systems.
- Analyse work methods and improve safety procedures by suggesting better measures and materials.
- Managing all staff salaries, leave and UIF.
- Mitigating and arbitrating disputes.
- Appointing and dismissing staff.
- Implementing safety systems to ensure productivity and safety at properties.
- Supervising activities and issuing of tasks.
- Implementing incentive schemes for staff.
- Resolving issues relating to labour law
- Providing training.
- Providing PPE and supervising implementation of safety systems.
- Managing domestic staff and creating an agreeable environment for owners and guests on occasional visits.
- Coordinating transport and ensuring safety of staff members.
- Provide safety courses in basic firefighting and first aid.
- Appoint safety officers on properties and have regular meetings to discuss possible health and safety threats.
- Develop and maintain hygiene policies for staff.
- Investigate health complaints by staff and find a solution to resolve threat.
Close protection team leader and safety analyst at Steinhoff International Holdings (2007-09 – 2010-12)
- Close protection of own principle and other assigned VIP`S
- Assessment and planning of private functions and mitigating possible security threats
- Managing assigned vehicles for close protection purposes.
- Overall preservation of the integrity and reputation of the principle or assigned VIP`S.
- Receiving of guests from international offices, coordinating their accommodation and recreational activities.
- Receiving and distribution of confidential information.
- Managing staff and properties of assigned principle.
- Ensuring safe transfers of family members of the principle when traveling.
Warrant Officer at National intervention Unit. Tactical operations and deployment police. Pretoria at SAPS (2003-11 – 2007-09)
Sergeant / Warrant Officer at Unit 18 Port Shepstone Public Order Police at SAPS (1993 – 2003)
Constable at Unit 19, Internal stability Unit at SAPS (1991-11 – 1993-10)
