EOH Global Applications Solutions (GAS) subsidiary EOH Global Testing Services (GTS) has appointed TJ Hanekom as the company's Sales Director.
With his entry into EOH GTS, he says the challenges ahead and opportunities to grow the company within a maturing South Africa market are to differentiate EOH GTS as a professional services organisation.
"As there are so many testing organisations that have sprung up over the last couple of years, I believe the biggest challenge, for me, will be to showcase the value that testing can provide to a company's information technology (IT)."
Hanekom says the South African testing service industry is displaying similar international growth trends and that delivery of local testing services are on par with technologies in Europe and America. He explains that even though South Africa and the rest of the continent has been slower in its uptake, the advent of cloud computing and testing services within the cloud is as important to the industry as the Internet milestone. It is an important steppingstone for organisations such as EOH GTS.
Key responsibilities for Hanekom include sales of EOH GTS into South Africa, Africa and Europe, business development, planning and execution, and growing a national and international database for EOH GTS.
TJ's passion for IT and testing started before his studies in engineering. "I used to test the limits of electronics, and PCs in the former DOS systems to see how to make things faster and better. Since I joined the corporate world, I have seen the best and absolute worst in IT and engineering principles."
With 15 years of local and international sales and sales management experience, and extensive knowledge in the software testing industry, he is an asset to the EOH GTS team. His experience includes a background in electronic engineering and technical design. As an engineer, he believes that testing is an integral part of the profession, whether it is for testing one's own products or engineering codes and designs of other products.
Looking towards the future, Hanekom concludes that quality and accountability to customers will be his first priority. "We have to be accountable for the quality we offer."
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EOH is a business and technology solutions provider creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large clients.
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