Name: Siphokazi Magaya
Designation: IT officer
Company: Umzimkhulu Local Municipality
1. What do you do every day?
I specialise in active directory monitoring and management of security systems. I also play a role in IP telephone management.
2. How did you get into the tech space?
I studied IT at a private college after completing matric in 2006 and landed my job in 2013.
3. What was the best advice anyone ever gave you?
Focus on growing yourself in IT knowledge. It is evolving and will never lose its credibility.
4.What advice would you give to someone wanting to get into tech?
It is the most interesting space, just your niche and flow with it.
5. What motivates you to get out of bed every day?
Solving new problems and learning new things everyday.
6.What do you want to be when you grow up one day?
I would like to be the head of security in a financial institution.
About The Author: Samantha
Samantha Perry is the owner and founder of SJ Perry PR, a small, independent agency that specialises in providing public relations and media relations services to small to medium-sized businesses. She recently served as the JHB Agency Lead for Irvine Partners, an integrated public relations and marketing agency. She has over 20 years' of experience writing for a range of media - print and online - mainly in the ICT sector including Computing SA (editor), ComputerWeek, and Brainstorm magazine (editor). In her capacity as a PR professional and consultant, she has and does work with a variety of companies including Google (South Africa & Nigeria), Salesforce, CLEVVA, Euphoria Telecom, Paymenow and Tiger Content (UK). She also has a Masters degree in ICT Policy & Regulation. She served on the IAB SA Marketing Council as the PR rep, has worked as an independent telecoms researcher for some of the analyst houses in that field and was regularly called upon to comment on telecoms issues in the press. Nowadays she can be found commenting on women in tech issues in the press and speaking at conferences on the subject and the issues women in the sector face.
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