1. Hans Michael Otto
Contact address: P.O. Box 12005
Sea Park
Port Shepstone
4241
KZN
Mobile: 073 135 7275 E-mail: mike@cornergate.com
Driver licence:Code C1 with PDP,own vehicles.
D.O.B.:1967-10-17
RSA ID: 6710175006087 Bilingual English & Afrikaans
Married 20 years with 3 children, no criminal record
Personal Profile
An adpatable and responsible worker seeking an opportunity in any field of
employment in the South Coast KZN area.
During my work history I successfully combined my skills and experience showing
myself to be self-motivated, organised and capable of working under pressure. I have a
clear, logical mind with a practical approach to problem solving and a drive to see
things through to completion. I enjoy working on my own initiative or in a team. In
short, I am realible, trustworthy, hardworking, and eager to learn and have a genuine
interest in most fields of work.
Capabilities and Experience
 I have a Code 3 Heavy Duty driver’s license with PDP for the transport of goods and
passengers with no previous traffic offences or accidents. Expires in 2019.
 Experience in operating digger loaders, graders, tractors and hydraulic tipper trailers.
 Installing CCTV cameras and DVR equipment.
 Installing and setting up remote servers, PC’s and wireless equipment.
 Installing alarms and alarm monitoring systems.
 Cutting, shaping, bending and welding steel in the form of kapenta fishing rig/boat
construction.
 Installing Hydraulic winches and pumps as well as mechanical winches.
 Installing drive motors, gearboxes, prop shafts, thrust blocks and electrical
generators on kapenta rigs.
 Installing and operating two way radios, radar, GPS and Echo sounder equipment.
 Diving and recovering nets and equipment in no visibility conditions.
 Employing and managing staff with the related labour laws and protocols.
 Experience in the housing construction industry.
 Experience in lodge management including functions, bar, stocktaking, weddings,
game drives, finances and reporting.
 Experienced boat driver and outboard motor operator.
 Computer literate Windows Microsoft Office.
 Experienced in internet advertising and research.
 Love the outdoors and am a keen fisherman and spear fisherman.
 Hunting, tracking and game driving experience.

2. Education
1. Primary School - Laerskool Mariepskop 1975-1980 (Afrikaans)
2. Senior School – Jameson High School, Kadoma, Zimbabwe – 1981-1986
3. Qualifications
O Levels – 4 A’s, 3 B’s and 2 C’s
M Level – Afrikaans
A Level – Afrikaans, Geography and Biology
Computer Literate – Excel, Word, Outlook E-mail and Internet
PADI qualified open water scuba diver
Launchmaster’s certificate (Zimbabwean) SA Skippers License equivalent
South African Drivers License Heavy Duty Code 3 or C1 with PDP
Work Experience
1. January 2015 ~ Current
Job Position: Admin Consultant
Company name: Education Matters
Location : Port Shepstone, KZN, RSA.
Main duties performed: Advertising and data base capture for a national tutoring
agency. My duties include internet marketing of our services to clients and the
recruitment of suitable tutors all over South Africa. Processing CV’s and documents
that are submitted and capturing the rellevant data on our data base.
2. November 2011 ~ December 2014
Job Position: Farm Supervisor
Company name: Chalala Farms
Location : Malmesbury, Western Cape, RSA.
Main duties performed: Construction of the biggest pig farm in Africa (50 000)
Initial duties included the establishment and improvement of access roads to the various
construction sites, trenching and installation of water supply lines (5km 110mm), construction
and installation of two 500 000 Litre and one 1 million litre panel dams together with the
pumping equipment. The establishment and development of the gravel and sand supply quarry.
Once construction on the sites commenced my duties included the extension of the water supply
lines into each of the 55 buildings and assisting with the installation of the water supply lines
within the buildings themselves. Receiving and offloading the consigned equipment due to be
installed.
Installing, connecting, operating and maintaining the waste processing equipment which
included the waste pits agitators and pumps, solid waste separators,holding dam agitators and
aerators,solid waste collection and spreading onto lands.
Servicing and maintaining the farm equipment. This included three tractors,a digger loader, a
grader, four trailers including a hydraulic tipper trailer, two tanker trailers and two farm
vehicles.
Environmental training of all new staff members on the farm.
Stock control and supplying fuel and oils to all vehicles, and monthly reports.

3. Waste control and management in accordance with environmental regulations.
Water use monitoring on a daily basis and submitting monthly reports.
Weigh bridge monitoring and recording of all feed trucks making deliveries and livestock trucks
transporting the pigs to the abbatoir.
Daily collection of mortalities from each site to the centralfreezer and weekly removal of
mortalities off site.
3. February 2011 ~ November 2011
Job Position: Technical Manager
Company name: Protrack Anti Poaching Unit
Location : Hoedspruit, Limpopo, RSA.
Main duties performed: My duties included the installation of alarms and CCTV
equipment to augment the anti poaching that the company is involved in. This included
setting up remote CCTV cameras and equipment that were monitored via a wireless
network from the company’s main office 24hrs a day as well as cameras in hotels and
lodges.
This was a new division within the company and involved research and development
into products and suppliers, training on the various installations and the actual
installation, testing and hand over. The most complex installation involved security and
access to a wildlife estate that had 70 residents. It included the installation of a gate
access system controlled via the resident’s cell phone and monitored via CCTV cameras
by our office 4km away, as well as access to the cameras by the residents on their smart
phones. This set up included the installation of the computers, software, cameras and
wireless equipment at the site and the head office.
We left the company to move to the Western Cape to build a pig farm in November
2011.
4. April 2008 ~ January 2011
Job Position: Lodge Manager.
Company name: Moholoholo Ya Mati.
Location : Hoedspruit, Limpopo, RSA.
Main duties performed: This was a very varied job, but it entailed all aspects of
the management and up keep of a 34 bed lodge, 10 stand Caravan Park, wedding venue,
Tea Garden, Year End and general Function venue, chapel and wedding services and
extensive grounds that specialized in weddings and large functions for up to 200 people.
Work performed here included front office bookings and payments, bar stocking,
pricing and operation, function preparation, wedding marquee tent erection, decoration,
tables and chairs transport and layout, grounds and chalet maintenance and upkeep.
My main reason for wanting to look elsewhere was due to the fact that the hospitality
industry does not allow much in the way of “family-time” as most of the weddings and
functions were on the weekends, 17 in a row and two on one weekend was our busiest
stretch.
5. November 2007 ~ April 2008
Job Position: Project Manager for a housing construction company.
Company name: Houze It.
Location : Hoedspruit, Limpopo, RSA.
Main duties performed: Duties included transport of staff to and from work,
supervising staff on duty, ordering, collecting and stocktaking of building supplies,
quality and standards control on the construction site.
My reasons for leaving were two fold. The company was downsizing and my wife and
kids arrived from Zimbabwe and we needed some stability and were offered a position
as a couple at Moholoholo Ya Mati.

4. 6. 1987~2007
Job position: Managing director, Kapenta fishing operation
Company name: Matmark Fishing
Location : Chalala, Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe.
Main duties performed: Day to day operations of the fishing company based
remotely 65km across Lake Kariba.
This included stocktaking, ordering, transporting, loading and offloading of all
consumable stock and dried fish across the lake. We used 30,000 litres of diesel fuel and
60 tons of salt and produced as much as 50 tons of dried fish every month. All supplies
had to be loaded on our own ferry and transported 65km across the lake.
We had a complement of 82 permanent staff and 30 seasonal staff in peak fishing
season that all had written contracts and were paid cash at the end of every month.
There were no banks in the area or cell phone banking back then.
All 13 fishing vessels had to be serviced and repaired over full moon when we stopped
fishing for 4 days every month.
We submitted weekly stock and catch reports to our distribution head office in Harare
every week via satellite broadband. We generated our own power via generator and
supplied our own water due to the remoteness of the location.
My duties included searching for and ensuring that the fleet was fishing in the most
productive areas each night, identifying and solving mechanical problems on any of the
vessels and equipment, diving and recovering nets that got hooked up on submerged
trees, theft and stock control by use of radar, GPS, radio and echo sounder equipment,
construction and refurbishment of complete fishing vessels, monthly servicing and
maintenance of the fleet, quality control of the dried fish product, data capturing of
daily catches, targeted projections of catches and lake levels, stock control levels,
projections and orders.
Skills
Technical: Computer Literate, Reporting, Stock Control, Marketing, Staff
Management, Analytical Thinker, Targeted Goals, Technically Minded, Problem
Solver.
Interpersonal: Fair and Firm manager with clear goals and target driven.
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Other: Flexibility: Flexible team player who thrives in environments requiring ability
to effectively prioritize and juggle multiples concurrently.
Hobbies and Interests
Fishing, Spear Fishing, Scuba Diving, Documentary Films, Internet Research, Family.

5. Referees
1. Will Maberly
Job position: Partner and Director
Company name: Matmark, Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel no: +263 11205931
E Mail: wm@iitrade.net
2. Peter Schofield
Job position: Owner
Company name: Houze It Hoedspruit
Tel no: 083 276 3199
3. Marisa Reinach
Job position: Owner
Company name: Moholoholo Ya Mati
Tel no: 084 511 3000
Email: marisa@moholoholo.co.za
4. Vince & Leigh Barkas
Job position: Owners
Company name: Protrack Anti Poaching Unit Hoedspruit
Tel no: 015-7932585 / 015-7933914
Email: protrack@worldonline.co.za
5. Mike Heramb
Job position: Owner
Company name: Chalala Farms
Tel no: 083 632 7515
Email: mheramb@mweb.co.za
Thank you for taking the time to read my CV.