Alexander Powell

Associate at ENS (TMT Department)

City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

About

I am a passionate and hard working individual and I strive to achieve excellence in my work. My interests/skills include: artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, network intrusion detection, database management, systems, applications and web development, and technology, media and telecommunications law. In 2017, I became a member of the Golden Key International Honours society. I’ve completed BCom Honours Cum Laude (Information Systems Management). My thesis on machine learning and network intrusion detection was accepted as a full paper at the Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR2019) and is published in the conference’s proceedings. I completed my postgraduate LLB in 2022. I am practicing as an Associate in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications team at ENS. I have experience in negotiating and drafting key IT contracts such as material outsource agreements, SaaS agreements, MSAs, SOWs, SLAs, etc. I also have extensive experience in drafting policies such as artificial intelligence, enterprise data, disaster recovery, and data privacy policies.

Experience

  • ENS (Full-time · 3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Associate
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Candidate Legal Practitioner
      Jan 2023 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Stellenbosch University (7 yrs)
    • Student
      Jan 2016 - Dec 2022 · 7 yrs

    • Student Tutor
      Jan 2019 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr

      I was a remunerated tutor for the following Information Systems Management (ISM) modules: 1. Database Management and Relational Algebra; 2. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Development (Odoo/Python).

  • Virtual Winter Vac Programme at ENSafrica
    Jun 2021 - Jun 2021 · 1 mo

  • Student Intern at GlueData Master Data Solutions
    Jul 2019 - Jul 2019 · 1 mo

    Secondary three week internship that I undertook during my 6 week vacation of my BCom Honours degree. This internship focused on exposure to the full data lifecycle before and after SAP migration. Summary of tasks completed: 1. Data migration and preparation for loading into SAP; 2. Data profiling and analysis; 3. Report writing and analysis of findings; 4. Business sales pitch for data migration.

  • Student Intern at Matogen Corporate Web Development
    Jun 2019 - Jun 2019 · 1 mo

    Primary three week internship that I undertook during my six week vacation of my BCom Honours degree. The internship focused on an introduction to the workflow of a data scientist. Summary of tasks completed: 1. Exploratory data analysis on multiple large datasets; 2. Report writing and analysis of findings; 3. Client/internal stand-up meetings and minute drafting;