Xavier K Smith
City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa-
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linkedin.com/in/xavierksmith
Summary
Xavier is curious and creative with a passion for emerging technology, he loves seeing new, innovative ideas
come to life. As a strategic thinker with an entrepreneurial spirit, he's agile and forward-thinking by nature, and
enjoy using digital tools to find new solutions to old problems.
A collaborative non-conformist, who enjoy working with others to achieve a shared vision, while continuing to
cultivate original ideas and outside-the-box solutions. He is passionate and empathetic, cares deeply about
relationships, both personal and professional. throw himself into projects and enjoy being involved directly in his
field, seeing projects through from beginning to end.
Experience
Founder/CEO
Start-Up Mentors (Pty) Ltd
Feb 2012 - Present (8 years 10 months +)
Help executives assess their performance, provide confidential feedback on individual strengths and
weaknesses, guide them, and to uncover new skills and behaviors. Help the executive build a valuable
network and may also introduce him/her to our own contacts. Xavier and his team take a long term
approach to further the executive's career and business.
Managing Director- Entrepreneurship
Positive Energy Unlimited
Jul 2020 - Present (5 months +)
Specializing in Entrepreneurship - Coaching & Mentoring - New & Existing Business Owners, Business
Plans, Strategic Plans & Marketing Plans, Digital Marketing - SEO's, SEM's & Website Development.
Business Mentor
Allan Gray Orbis Foundation
Mar 2020 - Present (9 months +)
Mentor/Panelist 2020 DijiJam Jamboree
E-Squared Investment: Varsity Pitching - Mentor and Panelist.
Realtor
Aida Cape Town
Mar 2015 - 2019 (4 years 10 months)
Chief Executive Officer
invisicom
Jul 2012 - Feb 2013 (8 months)
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Sales development and performance management, new product development, talent recruitment, cost
control, and trading profitability.
Managing Director
Lighthouse Recruitment cc
May 2011 - Jun 2012 (1 year 2 months)
Managing and directing recruitment operations including headhunting executives and other
professionals.
Incident Manager
Vodacom
Feb 2006 - Apr 2011 (5 years 3 months)
My responsibilities included Incident, Problem, Event, Change and Systems Security Management.
using the ITIL (Service Management) methodology.
Call Centre Manager
Dimension Data
Feb 2002 - Feb 2006 (4 years 1 month)
Managed Supervisors on an America Online - Call Centre Project
Managed Staff on an ASDA project for British Customer in the FMCG industry.
SECTION HEAD: Call Centre Quality Department
Old Mutual Limited
Jan 1998 - Dec 2001 (4 years)
My responsibilities included Training Call Centre Staff and Management, Managing Coaching and M.I.S
Teams. Benchmarking and Improving Customer Experience.
Candidate Bank Technician
Absa Group
Jan 1995 - Dec 1998 (4 years)
My responsibilities included learning and demonstrating skills in all aspects of banking including the full
bond administration and approval process.
Education
International Institute of Project Management (IIPM)
Executive Coaching, Executive Development
2020 - 2020
INSTRUCTOR: John Ullmen PhD
Executive Coach, Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management
Project Management Institute (PMI)®
Executive Leadership, Leadership with legacy
2020 - 2020
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INSTRUCTOR: John Ullmen
Executive Coach, Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management
International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)
Business Analysis Foundations , Business Process Modeling
2019 - 2019
Using common modeling tools
Determining when to use a modeling diagram
Avoiding the pitfalls associated with each diagram
Creating diagrams
Leveraging key stakeholders
Skills covered in this course
BPMN
Business Analysis
National Association of State Boards of Accountancy
Business Plan Development, Creating Sustainable Businesses
2020 - 2020
- Define the problem your business solves.
- Determine a product and revenue model.
- Build a go-to-market strategy.
- Describe the components of a product development roadmap.
- Explain how to brand and market a product.
- List criteria for choosing suppliers.
- Identify common pitfalls of business plans.
Skills covered in this course
Business Plan WritingBusiness Planning
National Association of State Boards of Accountancy
Influencing Others, Making influence work
2020 - 2020
INSTRUCTOR: John Ullmen Phd
Executive Coach, Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management
LinkedBusiness
Consulting Foundations: Building Your Brand, Business Consulting
2019 - 2019
- Establish Your Brand
- Turn on the Loudspeaker
- Become an Object of Interest
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- Special Challenges
Digital Skills for Africa Certificate, The Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
2020 - 2020
- Take a business online.
- Make it easy for people to find a business on the web.
- Reach more people locally, on social media or on mobile.
- Reach more customers with advertising.
- Track and measure web traffic.
- Sell products or services online.
- Take a business global.
Pirple.com
Frontend Fundamentals, Web Development
2020 - 2020
FRONTEND FUNDAMENTALS
- INTRODUCTION TO HTML
- HTML Lists
- HTML Images
- HTML Links
- More HTML Tags
- INTRODUCTION TO CSS
- INTERMEDIARY CSS
- ADVANCED CSS
- CSS RESPONSIVENESS
ISSUED ON
March 24, 2020
Code Institute
5 Day Coding Challenge
2020 - 2020
- HTML 5
- CSS 3
- JavaScript
Xavier K Smith
@ Code Institute
Certificate ID Number:
631eec-ab4bd24cece0484f4d4
Issued On:
March 20, 2020
University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika
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Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Entrepreneurship & Business Management
2012 - 2015
Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative
Enterprise Development Programme - Level 2
2012 - 2012
Foster Melliar
ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure Library
2011 - 2011
Damelin
Project Management Diploma, Project Management
1999 - 2000
• Project Management
• Project Initiation & Startup
• Time Management
• Cost Management
• Budgeting
• Project Planning
• Quality Management
• Project Monitoring & Control
• Change Management
• Project Execution
• Risk Management
• Project Closure
• Issue Management
• Project Life Cycle
• Procurement Management
• Project Reviews
• Communications Management
• Managing Suppliers
Linkedin Learning
Programming Foundations
2019 - 2020
Coding journey as you dive deeper into the foundational concepts, practices, and terminology of
programming. In this installment of the Programming Foundations series, instructor Sasha Vodnik goes
beyond the basics, using Python to tackle a variety of intermediate and advanced concepts and skills
you can add to your programming repertoire. Sasha covers creating and working with collections and
loops, combining and manipulating strings, and using external code—all of which are critical concepts,
regardless of which programming language you end up working with. He goes over several essential
processes, such as choosing a code style and debugging. Plus, he digs into a few more advanced
concepts, including memory management and multithreading.
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Linkedin Learning
Python Essential Training
Python anatomy
Types and values
Conditionals and operators
Building loops
Defining functions
Python data structures: lists, tuples, sets, and more
Creating classes
Handling exceptions
Working with strings
File input/output (I/O)
Creating modules
Integrating a database with Python db-api
Instructor: Bill WeinmanTech Advocate, Entrepreneur, Programming Expert
Licenses & Certifications
Consulting Foundations: Building Your Brand - LinkedIn
The Fundementals of Digital Marketing - Google
X3L ZZK SWB
Frontend Fundamentals - Pirple-
5 Day Coding Challenge - Code Institute
631eec-ab4bd24cece0484f4d4
Skills
Strategy • Business Analysis • Telecommunications • Analysis • Operations Management • Coaching
• Business Strategy • Call Center • Mentoring • Change Management
Honors & Awards
Author: Superfoods for Healthy Living - Amazon
Sep 2014
The research and writing of this amazing book has been influenced by the loss of my parents due to
cancer. It is also written in response to the growing trend in obesity and the ever increasing need for
healthy living in society world-wide. In today's age where children and adults alike spend increasing
amounts of time inactive in front of the television or computers, the awareness that this book creates
around healthy living is fundamental.
If like many, you lack the energy to start a healthy diet or exercise program then this book will help
you to understand how to overcome the fatigue that you may be suffering from and to take the first
step on the road to fitness and wellbeing. The information has been presented in an easy to read and
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understand format with lots of "Did you Know?" questions and answers as well as extra "Bonus Tips!"
along the way.
From invaluable information on weight loss, skin and hair care to how Superfoods can assist you or
your loved ones in your battle against cancer.
I hope that this book will help you to overcome whatever health challenge you may be facing and that
you will be able to use it as a reference guide to healthy living.
It contains the information that I wish I had access to sooner!
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