{"id":263,"date":"2007-06-13T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-13T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T14:45:00","slug":"sentech-welcomes-new-coo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/263-sentech-welcomes-new-coo.html","title":{"rendered":"Sentech welcomes new COO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/photos\/showphoto.php?photo=743\" target=\"_blank\">Ngwenya<\/a> (34) has been exposed to major industry brands like Eskom, Vodacom and MTN.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Starting out at Eskom (1996 to 1997) as a Telecommunications Engineer, following a year in training, Ngwenya was involved with the migration of 1.5 GHz and 1.8 GHz to frequency bands above 8 GHz which constituted South Africa&#39;s Band RE-plan project (SABRE).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">She moved on to Vodacom (Pty) Ltd in 1998 as a BSS Engineer in the Radio Engineering Department. As a senior engineer in 2001 she reported to the deputy CEO of Vodacom in her capacity as a representative of the GSM Africa Secretariat adding organisational and presentation skills to her responsibilities. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">As the GSM Technical Support Manger at Vodacom International Holdings (Pty) Ltd (2004) her involvement with CAPEX activities added to her growing knowledge and experience on a wide variety of GSM operations. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Having spent the last two years at MTN (Zambia) Ltd as the Chief Technical Officer and the year prior (2004 to 2005) with MTN Group (Pty) Ltd as the Regional Technical Manager she was responsible for strategic supplier management, managing technology acquisitions through procurement and CAPEX rollout efficiency assessments for existing operations as well as liaison with GSM vendors\/suppliers on network support issues. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Beverly Ngwenya officially started work on the 11 June 2007. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;We would like to take this opportunity to welcome Beverly to Sentech. We at Sentech are excited and look forward to her contributions that will no doubt assist in taking the company from strength to strength&quot; says Sentech&#39;s Corporate Communications Head, Dr Pranill Ramchander.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=78115\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentech today announced the appointment of Beverly Ngwenya as its Chief Operations Officer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}