Gordon Richards has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Gordon currently works as a Delivery Director at Velrada since April 2021. Prior to that, they worked at Empired Ltd as a Senior Project Manager from March 2015 to April 2021. Gordon also held the position of Senior Project Manager at Intergen from February 2014 to February 2015. Gordon has experience as a Project Operations Manager and AX Project Consultant at S A Global from July 2012 to January 2014. Gordon was a Business Partner at HGH Business Consultancy from March 2011 to July 2012. Before that, Gordon was the owner and director of Enterprise Systems Implementation, specializing in ERP implementations, IT Outsourcing, and special IT projects from October 1998 to July 2012. Gordon was a Project Manager and Business Analyst at Q Data Consulting from May 1997 to October 1998. Gordon also worked as an Implementation Project Manager at Forte Computer Services from March 1996 to May 1997. Their early career includes roles such as Production Manager at Tractel Trading from March 1993 to February 1996 and Industrial Engineer at CADAC from March 1992 to March 1993.
Gordon Richards obtained a Mechanical Engineering Diploma in 1986 from the University of Johannesburg, with a field of study in Mechanical Engineering. In 1989, they earned a Project Management diploma from Executive Education.
In terms of additional certifications, Gordon obtained the Prince 2 / Agile certification from ILX Group in May 2018. Additionally, they obtained the Certified ScrumMaster® certification from SCRUM ALLIANCE® in May 2015. In January 2015, Gordon achieved the PRINCE2 Foundation and PRINCE2 Practitioner certifications from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
April, 2021 - present