DUMISANI SIKWAYO
Dumisani was born in the rural township of Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. His determination in his adolescence years was distinguished by his perpetual drive for self-improvement and advancement. It is this drive that has seen Dumisani’s strive to achieve the best skills that would take him into the playing field of the electrical engineering in all spheres of industry. Not only did he strive for technical excellence but also as an upright and honest person in his own right to position himself as an entrepreneur and concern for the upliftment of his colleagues around him.
To this end, Dumisani pursued his interest in the Electrical Engineering field and qualified with a National Diploma in Electrical Engineering. To this end Dumisani is licenced as a three-phase wireman and is registered with the ECSA as a Professional Technician. He is also a member of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers. To compliment these skills, Dumisani has further tertiary qualifications in Safety Management through UNISA and a level 6 qualification in Project Management from University of Port Elizabeth.
Dumisani has a wide work experience in the industrial, automotive and power distribution industries where he has worked for Volkswagen SA, Aberdare Cables, Aspen Pharmacare, Modular Communications and Eskom to name a few. Besides these work references Dumisani has established his own business, VD Projects in the electrical service industry, as well as business interests in cleaning, guarding and safety products (PPE) sales
Because of Dumisani’s drive, evident from a young age, and his natural entrepreneurial gift, Dumisani has visioned the need to have a business that would encompass a broader service offering to meet market expectations whereby maintenance and projects work could be carried out from a technical and technologically based Facilities Management company.
To this end Dumisani partnered with key industry leaders in the Eastern Cape to jointly establish a different and sustainable solution to Facilities Management. Key to this idea was the international expertise and experience of a professional FM and change management person.
The partnership was struck, and Sustainable Solutions Facilities Management has been born in the Eastern Cape with a different approach to FM, built on international standards and norms with international and local expertise.
GREG MANTON
After completing his tertiary education in KwaZulu Natal, Greg pursued a career in the Hotel and Hospitality Industry, honing his customer relation skills, gaining focus and appreciation of the importance to deliver excellent service to meet client expectations.
Having a desire to broaden his experiences and expertise, Greg involved himself in development and upgrade projects (refurbishments and service delivery changes) in the UK hospitality industry. This project involvement enabled Greg to hone his international skills and adopt PINCE-2 methodology and acquire best practice in project scope, specification, tendering & awarding of contracts. In addition, this project oversight equipped Greg in maintaining business continuity throughout the term of the projects he managed.
As an independent consultant for over 10 years and aligning with Bowdler Project Management UK, Greg’s experiences span over:
• Project & Change Management • Engineering & Technical Solutions • Integrated Facilities Management • Procurement and Tendering • Catering & Food Hygiene • Health & Safety Management • Quality and Compliance • Finance & Commercial • Contract Negotiation & Implementation • Risk Mitigation and Management • HR • Procurement & Sourcing • Communication • Asset Management • Workplace Optimisation
Allowing him to carry out many successful assignments across various global market sectors, including Health Care, Oil and Gas, Retail, Banking, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing to name a few. Some key clients include: CBRE, Sainsbury’s Retail Stores, Shell UK, British Gas, Motorola Solutions, Mondelez International and Ericsson.
Greg and family have subsequently moved back to South Africa and settled in Port Elizabeth. Greg continues to run projects and manage change control projects focusing on Europe, Middle East and African (EMEA) markets. In addition, he has applied his international experience for Multinational customers here in South Africa with special expertise in compliance to International standards and best practices.
Greg joins the SSFM team in Port Elizabeth bringing a unique international flavour to the team to position SSFM as a market leader and inspiration to the Facilities Management industry in the Eastern Cape region. SSFM although based in Port Elizabeth will develop a strong national footprint as it develops in the coming year.
Greg is organised and knowledgeable and maintains a high standard of integrity and discipline in all his endeavours. His experiences and personality bring a level of diversity, energy and flexibility to his client and customer interactions, achieving the best sustainable solutions for everyone involved.
CLIFF ROSE
Cliff has had a lifetime of experience in the electronics and telecommunications industry. The basis of his experience and training began with the thermionic vacuum tube valve, progressing through transistors and solid-state devices to today’s electronics using sophisticated programmable DSP devices, Artificial intelligence and software driven solutions. His base experience in the telecommunications industry forms the basis and his understanding of sophisticated copper, fibre and wireless network solutions used in virtually every aspect of our daily lives today.
Cliff has a formal Full Technological Certificate qualification from the City and Guilds Institute of London in subjects, Advanced Electronics, Telecommunications, Radar, Microwave, Radio and line transmission systems. Cliff continued his tertiary education in specialising in programming logic controllers and microprocessors, design of discrete and surface mount devices for control and industrial audio system and went on to establish the largest industrial manufacturer in South Africa of the well-known brand of Modular Industrial sound equipment for public address, white sound and emergency evacuation systems, still in use today in many corporate institutions. Further qualifications include Production management and Fire systems registered designer according to SANS 10139
Being an avid entrepreneur for more than 30 years Cliff has managed leading companies in the Fire and Security industry and has a vast experience in design, implementation and maintenance of a vast range of installations in all business sectors. Currently Cliff manages Modular Communications in the Eastern Cape with a reach across South Africa. Modular has also established a virtual control room from which live CCTV, Fire and alarms are monitored nationally. Projects are carried out throughout South Africa, and neighbouring states as well as Tanzania and Ghana.
Maintenance of all systems is key to a sustainable investment in these systems and Modular has a sharp focus on preventative and remedial maintenance offering. It is with this focus that Modular is partnering into the Facilities Management arena with Sustainable Solutions Facilities Management (SSFM) to bring a new, meaningful and different sustainable solution to FM within the Eastern Cape initially and in future nationally.
ANDRE WESSELS
Born in Namibia, Andre, schooled in Port Elizabeth, has been in the construction industry for more than 10 years after leaving DF Malherbe High School. Andre has carried out various projects in the building and civil works industry which has put him in a strong position to run projects at Modular Communications SA
Andre has subsequently successfully managed various projects at Modular over the last 9 years. His experience ranges from construction management to industrial Fire and Security installations managing projects from a few thousand Rand to multimillion Rand contract involving civil, construction, electrical and electronic fire and security installations throughout South Africa.
During his employ at Modular, he has graduated with distinction in project management and continues to grow in experience in this field of expertise.
In addition to a successful career in Project Management, he has also pursued a qualification in Construction Health and Safety and is a registered Health and Safety professional with the South African Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
With both a background in project management and construction health and safety, Andre continues to deliver successfully managed projects in the industrial security sector. He has successfully managed and continues to manage projects for International clients like Mondelez, Engie Peaking Power, Corning USA and Enertronica Namibia.
Andres professional demeanour and integrity allows him to act as a key asset on site for both the client and team. Further cemented by his adherence to the rules and regulations defined by the South African OHS Act and commitment to getting the work completed lends towards his key role as an on-site project manager.
Andre brings a strong, hands-on approach to handling project work for SSFM where it may be needed and is the driving force to regulatory compliance for all self-execute and nominated sub-contractors during the execution of new projects, preventative maintenance and remedial repair works within the ambit of our Facilities Management offering.
SIDNEY PATON
After attending Westering High School in Port Elizabeth and being a meticulously minded person, Sidney moved on to further hone his keen interest in things electronical by pursuing a formal training program in Information Technology. In 2006 Sidney completed his training in Information Systems Engineering with distinction at CTI in Port Elizabeth. Being an avid mind, Sidney also completed training in Project Management and Financial Accounting at Varsity College.
In 2007 Sidney joined Modular Communications in Port Elizabeth to take on the internal development program focusing on VOIP applications, at that time an emerging communications concept in audio engineering. As chance would have it the development team stumbled upon the application of audio over ethernet to be deployed in microphonic perimeter intrusion systems, a concept used only in two places in the world for security applications. Sidney and the development team quickly developed state of art hardware DSP controllers and software to produce South Africa’s own advanced acoustic perimeter intrusion system using advanced electronics. Sidney is proficient in software development tools like Visual Studio, C++ and all that goes with a windows 10 software development application.
In addition to software development, Sidney played a key roll in the development and roll out of Modular’s live monitoring virtual CCTV control centre for offsite monitoring on a National basis. This further honed his network skills for local area networks (LAN) and wide area networks (WAN) in order to join remote sites to the control room in Port Elizabeth. Through the years Sidney has managed multi point (in excess of 400 points) networks for Mondelez’s extensive fire and security network and continues to develop this along with cloud and LoraWAN applications for virtual and IoT applications.
Sidney has done training in Germany on advanced CCTV applications on Dallmeier CCTV systems, recently being involved in commissioning the PRASA’s national nerve centre (GNC). Sidney has complete fire system training and is a registered SAQCC Commissioning engineer and has also done exhaustive training on Access Control systems and other security systems.
Sidney brings a high level of Information Technology expertise to the SSFM table coupled with many years of high-end training and application in the South African Fire and Security arena. We see the deployment of IoT devices as a key component in Sustainable developing Facilities Management Solutions in a new and dynamic way to meet the expectations of the 4th industrial revolution.