Khomotso Kganyago
Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft South Africa
Born
in Seshego
South Africa
Amongst his many responsibilities at Microsoft, Dr. Khomotso Kganyago works closely with the sales teams, business groups, partners and media, presenting security as an enabler to the present and future technologies including cloud computing.
Khomotso joined Microsoft with a varied and comprehensive experience in the private and public sectors ranging from Academic and Research Institutions to National government and Agencies.
He is a trusted advisor to C-level executives and has established relationships with security communities and government agencies in South Africa. . He has broad experience in management of most aspects in Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Cyber-Infrastructure, Consumerization of IT (COIT), IT Auditing, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Supply Chain Management, and Asset Management incl. SAM, Operations and Financial Management, Strategy and Contract Research & Development (R&D).
Khomotso managed and implemented the following projects: Materials Modeling Centre infrastructure and operations at the University of Limpopo; Storage Area Network (SAN), Assets Register and Processes, Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) at Stats SA; and Information Security Strategy, High Performance Storage & Archiving, Network Security, Blue Gene/P 4 Africa and Sun Constellation Hybrid System (#1 HPC in Africa, 2008), Department of Science and Technology (DST) sponsored projects hosted by CSIR.
He has initiated cutting-edge, service-oriented architecture (SOA) which removed technology silos and created an integrated infrastructure resulting in the production of an impressive ROI at Statistics SA (Stats SA). He has been instrumental in the development of various operational plans, policies and business strategies. He led the team that delivered the Technology Refresh project nationally in anticipation and preparation for Census 2011.
Other fields of expertise include: education and capacity building, technology and project management, risk and public finance management (PFMA). He set-up operations at the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in 2007 and later worked in the area of research and development in Information Security and Mathematical Modeling with the ultimate goal of creating a secured CI to support science, engineering and technology (SET) base and the building of the Modeling and Digital Science (MDS) unit at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Khomotso has published several international papers in peer reviewed science and information technology journals. He continues to blog (www.kganyago.org) on different topics related to his current work and natural science. His community responsibilities involve serving as a deputy-chairperson of the National Library of South Africa Board, a Valued Stakeholder of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and in a committee of South Africa Bureau of Standard (SABS) on batteries. His PhD is in Solid State Physics. He's blessed with two boys and is a regular Jazz fan.
Business Address
Educational history
Secondary
S. J. van der Merwe Technical High, Lebowakgomo (1986)
Tertiary
Stellenbosch | 2008 - 2008
Executive Development Programme (EDP) - Strategic Leadership, Economics, Financial Strategies
Tshwane, South Africa | 2005 - 2005
Public Finance Management - PFMA
Polokwane | 2001 - 2004
Ph.D - Solid State Physics
Ph.D. is titled: “A THEORETICAL STUDY OF ALKALI METAL INTERCALATED LAYERED METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND CHEVREL PHASE MOLYBDENUM CHALCOGENIDES”
Mankweng, South Africa | 1987 - 2004
PhD - Solid State Physics
In 2000 he obtained a M. Sc. (Cum Laud) in Solid State Physics (Title “FIRST-PRINCIPLE STUDY OF THE ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF LITHIUM INTERCALATED GRAPHITE”). His first publications "Effects of Local and Gradient-Corrected Density Approximation on the Prediction of the Intralayer Lattice Distance, c, in Graphite and LiC6" appeared in Vol.1 No.1 (1999) of Molecular Simulations. He has also published in the international journal ”, Solid State Ionics, vol 159/1-2 pp. 21-23(2003), Elsevier science journal, the article titled “Ab initio calculation of the voltage profile for LiC6”, Physical. Review. B 67, 104103 (2003). “Voltage profile, structural prediction, and electronic calculations for MgxMo6S8” and Physical Review B 68, 205111 (2003) “Structural and electronic properties of lithium intercalated graphite LiC6”. His Ph.D. is titled: “A THEORETICAL STUDY OF ALKALI METAL INTERCALATED LAYERED METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND CHEVREL PHASE MOLYBDENUM CHALCOGENIDES”
Mankweng, South Africa | 1998 - 2000
M.Sc - Solid State Physics
In Solid State Physics Thesis Title “FIRST-PRINCIPLE STUDY OF THE ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF LITHIUM INTERCALATED GRAPHITE”
Mankweng, South Africa | 1987 - 1992
BSc Hons - Physics, Mathematics
Achievements
media exposure
Contributor | Overcoming Bandwidth and Satellite Communications Limitations to Accelerate Applications of Remote Sensing and High Performance | 2008
Sixty-two years after the first photos of earth taken by a camera aboard a V-2 rocket in October, 1946, and forty-eight years since the first CORONA satellite images were captured, the status of remote sensing research and applications within the African continent has made dramatic progress. Many African countries now have remote sensing research centers, within government agencies, research institutes and universities. Some countries in Africa currently have earth observing and/or telecommunications satellites in orbit and/or have such assets in various planning stages. The authors document such progress, in addition to the constraints to further applications of remote sensing for sustainable development in Africa, with special reference to data distribution constraints. Moreover, the authors address the urgency for bandwidth improvements within the African continent, so as to enable sustainable development initiatives to benefit from advances in high performance computing, required for ab initio near-real-time analysis of satellite-data. Such capabilities, it is argued, are propaedeutic for time-critical initiatives, such as vulnerability assessment, disaster preparedness and mitigation, emergency response, humanitarian assistance and post-calamity reconstruction, associated with a wide array of biogenic and anthropogenic disasters. Case studies of advances in infrastructure for satellite remote sensing and high performance computing, with implications for sustainable development in Africa, are provided from Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa.
Author | Physical Review B | 2003
Structural and Electronic Properties of Lithium Intercalated Graphite, LiC6
Author | Physical Review B | 2003
Voltage profile, structural prediction, and electronic calculations for MgxMo6S8
Author | Solid State Ionics | 2003
Ab Initio Calculation of the Voltage Profile for LiC6
Author | Molecular Simulations | 1999
Effects of Local and Gradient-Corrected Density Approximations on the Prediction of the Intralayer Lattice Distance c, in Graphite and LiC6
Other Achievements
Obtained M.Sc (Cum Laude) | University of Limpopo | 2000
FIRST-PRINCIPLE STUDY OF THE ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF LITHIUM INTERCALATED GRAPHITE
Activities
Memberships
The South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP)
Natural Scientific Professional, 2009 - present
Computer Society of South Africa (CSSA)
Member, 2008 - present
IEEE Computer Society Membership
Member, 2008 - 2009
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member, 2008 - present
British Computer Society (BCS)
Professional Member and Chartered IT Professional, 2008 - present
Materials Research Society (MRS)
Member, 1993 - present
South African Institute of Physics (SAIP)
Member, 1990 - present
community
South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)
Member - Technical Committee Alternative Fuel Vehicles (TC1091), 2010 - present
