peterw1

Experience

• Director Solwana Pty Ltd · Self-employed Jan 2023 – Present 2 yrs Gaborone, South-East District, Botswana Created company to find projects such as schools and clinics requiring solar energy. I then find investors to pay forthe solar and the project leases the equipment from Solwana which is used to repay the investors at a decent rate of return. Still getting this off the ground.
• Director BBC Land Surveyors · Full-time Jan 2019 – Dec 2022 3 yrs 11 mos Gaborone, South-East District, Botswana Joined old partner from Zimbabwe to assist him with Survey works around Botswana.
• Email Admin Southern Business Solutions · Full-time Jan 2014 – Dec 2018 4 yrs 11 mos Gaborone, South-East District, Botswana Worked with an IBM partner in IT and did some courses and assisted with running the email servers for the Botswana Police Service. Old employer, Bergstan had to lay off its engineers as they had no work.
• Senior Surveyor Bergstan Africa International Consutant Engineers and Project Managers · Full-time Nov 1998 – Dec 2013 15 yrs 1 mos Gaborone, South-East District, Botswana Worked on a number of projects including Water and Sanitation for 2 villages, upgrading a Sanitary Treatment Works as well as construction of Botswana's largest dam. Trained in and worked with AllyCAD and Civil Designer. Also worked with ModelMaker, SurveyMaker and PipeMaker on the dam project.
• Engineering surveyor Eastern Land Surveyors · Full-time May 1994 – Oct 1998 4 yrs 5 mos Mutare, Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe 2 of my Trainees became partners and formed Eastern Land Surveyors together with me. Used Surpac and Ultimate CAD mapping for most of our drawings.
• Land Surveying Africa Surveys · Full-time May 1994 – Oct 1998 4 yrs 5 mos Mutare, Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe Joined surveyor from Botswana to form Africa Surveys while still involved with Eastern Land Surveyors
• Land Surveyor PAD Whitfield & PB Whitfield Land Surveyors · Full-time Jan 1981 – Apr 1994 13 yrs 3 mos Mutare, Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe Worked with father PAD Whitfield till 1984 and then took over and ran the business until taking on some partners in 1994. Started using a package called Surpac as well as Alice and started doing CAD with a small program called Surcad.