Helgaard Maritz

CURRICULUM VITAE HELGAARD MARITZ OVERVIEW Helgaard Maritz is a professional Operational manager in excess of 10 years of experience in the Technical field, not only in South Africa but also abroad. He has acted in and as a Key account manager, Project manager, Quality Manager, Designer/Planner and have worked himself up from technician for various Big Telco’s and operators in and out of South Africa. He has received an accolade from MTN/Huawei South Africa for best performance as a contractor in 2018. Name Helgaard Maritz Date of Birth 03/08/1884 Identity Number - Cell number - Address 55 Finus Road Valhalla, Pretoria 0185 Languages Proficiency Afrikaans English Speak Excellent Excellent Read Write Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent Criminal Record None Heath Excellent, Non-Smoker Summary of Employment: October 2002 – June 2003HI Tech Medical July 2003 – December 2007CellTech January 2007 – February 2010Ericsson February 2010 - September 2014Citiconnect (Sister Company of Ericsson) September 2014 - February 2016 COJ / MTC (City of Johannesburg) (COJ bought Citiconnect) March 2016 – To Current TNJ/ QAC Employment Details: October 2002 – June 2003 HI Tech Medical Helgaard started working at Hi Tech Medical as a technician where he repaired various Medical Equipment and instruments. Later he started going on Call outs to various hospitals to check and if needed clean or repair equipment while medical procedure where performed. July 2003 – December 2007 CellTech At CellTech he took on the role as technician again where he would need to install Ericsson cabinets and equipment in secure strict access environments. Some of these installations were done at 12 at night or just after to avoid and minimise risk to the Telco customer. In this position he quickly rose to site supervisor and often had to work as a 2-man team where they had to plan the work on their own as they were alone in upper parts of Africa with very little to almost no communication to head office. Managing finances, work flow and equipment became a week or day to day routine. Managing your own time and recourses on your own is one of the skills sets he learned at CellTech January 2007 – February 2010 Ericsson At Ericsson he started as Site supervisor and Splicer. Here he would learn to be part of a bigger corporate world as he had to attend weekly operational meetings and give feedback and progress on his team of 5 people. Collecting stock and planning a head week by week became normal while managing his team and making sure they are on time for every job. Health and Safety became a big roll and he went for health and safety training where he became ‘she rep’. Doing Vehicle inspections, Tool box talks and various other safety requirements were the start of everyday. February 2010 - September 2014 Citiconnect (Sister Company of Ericsson) Ericsson created Citiconnect as a future plan to sell the company to the government of South Africa (City of Johannesburg) At Citiconnect he started as Site supervisor but quickly became Project manager and now had 4 inhouse teams composing of 5 people each and 5 major contractors with 3-4 teams each varying on size. As the Project manager he started getting involved in planning of fibre routes and site builds for MTN and MWEB including a network for COJ that would connect all Clinics, libraries, police stations and some specified government buildings. Flourishing in the position he received the responsibility of doing the maintenance on the entire network which consisted of 367 MTN Sites, 12 MWEB sites and the COJ network of over 4200 kilometres. This was no easy task as there was a 4-hour SLA in place and reporting had to be done instantly when certain tasks where achieved and call outs could come at any time. He managed to do his 8 to 5 job as project manager including the maintenance which varied from calls happening at 12;00am to 04;00 am in the mornings. Doing so lots of training had to be given to teams and contractors to make sure they meet the SLA times including problem solving. Quality also played a huge roll and frequent site visits was needed to ensure maximum quality and productivity. September 2014 - February 2016 COJ / MTC (City of Johannesburg) The Network was built and maintained and eventually sold to COJ as planned in 2010. Only a skeleton crew was handpicked to stay onboard having the knowledge of the core business. Helgaard Became the Operational manager for the entire network the government just acquired. He was plunged into a corporate world with different rules and red tape. Operational meetings on time, quality, SLA’s, planning and maintenance became more frequent and creating reports on the mentioned aspects became a day-to-day routine.He now needed to shuffle teams around to do a lot of problem solving, coordination and create new procedures to maintain quality, needed by their newcustomers. Planning for the maintenance was a key factor in Success. March 2016 – (TNJ 2019) QAC To Current TNJ/ Boabab Green Studio He was Headhunted by a company called TNJ who also specialises in Networking and fibre and whom had tendered for government projects. He started as the Operations Manager quickly setting into his environment getting the field force ready for any government related work. MTN and Vodacom became the biggest customers to TNJ. Helgaard Became the Key account manager for MTN and handled anything towards MTN from planning, Sales to fibre to the home. Him and his team of Coordinators, project managers and team leaders made TNJ the only Preferred contractor out of 5 major contractors to MTN/HUAWEI. Later they became the National Contractor to MTN/Huawei now not only seeing to MTN’s needs in the Gauteng region but nationally in South Africa. In 2018 He received an Accolade from MTN/HUAWEI for the best performance and customer care. During his time at TNJ he bought shares in a Pub and Grill restaurant. He then Left TNJ in 2019 and started managing his business and various other projects. He put together a team and started a IT company that did planning website, design, digital marketing, development and editing. Unfortunately, the lockdown Worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic crippled his business and Helgaard is in the market again searching for a career opportunity to start over. The company was called, Boabab Green Studio. Joined forces with Thorney road in 2021 Thorney road is a Non-profit company seeking to help the community with anything from funs to clothing and food. Under Boabab Green we did the website design and domain for thorny road as well as digital marketing Conclusion: With the Pandemic of the Corona virus outbreak his Business took a serious fall and had to be closed. He now needs to rebuild and would like to join a company where he can contribute positivity, hard work and grow with the company during good or bad times and build a career for the next 20 years. He is also accustom to working away with a valid passport if necessary. He has great computer skills, communication and a keen eye and sense for problem solving. References: Ericsson / Citi Connect - Vegan Govender- COJ / MTC (City of Johannesburg) – Cathy Marais- TNJ/ QAC - Vusi Sithole- Please See Certificates on next page: