TechConnect IT Solutions
Sam Taylor has a diverse work experience spanning over multiple industries and roles. Starting in 2000, Sam worked as a Co-ordinator / Help Desk Assistant at OCS Group UK. Moving on, Sam joined PRUPIM in 2002 as a Property Administrator and then joined Arcadia Group Ltd in 2004 as an Approvals Technician. In 2007, Sam worked as a Receptionist / Shop Assistant at Rinaldo Veterinary Hospital. Sam then joined Derivco in 2008 as a Project Administrator. Between 2009 and 2016, Sam worked at SGS South Africa, first as a Project Administrator, then as an Acting Supervisor: Projects and Planning, and later as a Supervisor: Projects and Planning. In 2017, Sam joined Bytes Systems Integration (Mondi Merebank) as a Project Manager. Sam then returned to Derivco in 2018, initially working as a Problem Analyst and later as a Network Operations Centre - Analyst / Information Technology Coordinator. Currently, Sam is employed at TechConnect IT Solutions as a Project Coordinator, starting in 2023.
Sam Taylor has a diverse education history spanning various fields. In 1994, they obtained a Matric Certificate from Northlands Girls High School. In 2007, they pursued a Diploma in Project Management from Varsity College. In 2018, they obtained an ITIL Foundation Certification from AXELOS Global Best Practice and also completed an Agile Certification from Udemy.
In 2019, Sam obtained the Certified Scrum Master designation from Scrum Alliance and embarked on a Microsoft Power BI course titled "Up & Running With Power BI Desktop" offered by Mavern Analytics. They also completed two LinkedIn Learning courses in 2020, namely "Power BI: Dashboards for Beginners" and "Power BI Quick Tips," both focused on Data Analytics.
In 2022, Sam pursued the "Certificate - Mastering Business Analysis" course from PM.Ideas, specializing in Information Technology. They later engaged in training offered by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission in 2023, completing the NDIS Worker Orientation Module.
Throughout their educational journey, Sam acquired additional certifications, including "ITIL Foundation Certification" from AXELOS Global Best Practice in 2018 and "Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)" from Scrum Alliance in 2019. They also obtained several LinkedIn certifications, such as "People Analytics" in December 2022, "Strategic Thinking" in October 2021, "Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging" in September 2021, and "Fostering Belonging as a Leader" in June 2021.
It is important to note that there is a duplicate entry in the education history indicating the completion of the "Power BI: Dashboards for Beginners" course from LinkedIn Learning in 2020.
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TechConnect IT Solutions
TechConnect IT Solutions, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner & Microsoft Gold Partner, are experts in cloud, data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Unlocking value from data, delivering actionable business insights from data you can trust. Since 2011, TechConnect has provided architectural solutions and managed services to its customers to ensure a cost optimised architecture that delivers highly available, scalable and secure cloud architectures. Our Vision is to "Create a company everyone loves' with our Mission of 'Making our customers world better through Cloud Technology'. Our Values are: CARE We are whole people with passions, pursuits and problems outside of our work. We accept and embrace our humanity and treat each other, and everyone we work with, with care, kindness, empathy and respect. COLLABORATION We work as a team with our colleagues, our clients and our partners — supporting each other to solve problems, sharing and celebrating our wins, and enjoying the ride together. COMMITMENT We are committed to every aspect of our work from kick-off to implementation (and beyond). And we own our mistakes and failures, using what we learn from them to do better in the future. CREATIVITY We approach our work with a sense of possibility and openness. If the tool we need doesn’t exist, we’ll build it. If the problem doesn’t have a clear solution, we’ll find a new approach. CLARITY We thrive on turning complex ideas and confusing data into simple insights and solutions. Because we believe the most beautiful and effective systems are also the simplest.