Lizelle Tarboton - Personal Assistant to Andrew Patterson
Lizelle joined Texmate in April 2005 having spent ten years in the shipping industry. Lizelle holds a Legal Secretary Diploma and has attended an HR Course.
Lizelle keeps herself busy by participating in outdoor activities and enjoys reading.
Contact: lizelle@texmate.co.za
Claire Soper - Financial Administrator
Claire was born in Surrey, England and emigrated to South Africa in the mid 1970’s. She attended Ace Secretarial College and obtained her Diploma in Secretarial /Administration Skills. She has been in the textile industry for the past eight years, where she furthered her studies and graduated with a Higher Diploma in Purchasing Management from UNISA (with 7 distinctions) in 2003, and has her Business Degree.
Her interests are painting and ribbon work, for which she attends classes, and also cycles competitively. She serves on the Committee at a local Cycling Club.
Contact: claire@texmate.co.za
Clive Hartland - After-Sales Service Engineer
Clive Hartland who is our After-Sales Service Engineer, responsible for providing commissioning and after-sales technical service to our customers in both the textile and bakery/confectionery industries.
Clive grew up in Johannesburg and matriculated from John Orr Technical High School, excelling in Electronics.
He has worked in the computer industry doing customer support as well as electronic design for many years.
Previous work experience includes working for the following companies: SACO Systems, Cortect Systems Engineering, and Tecor Maintenance Services.
In the early 90s, he started his own company, Clive Hartland and Associates CC, and contracted to Perstel and FNB as an onsite system engineer on IBM. It was during this time that he also designed and developed an aircraft monitoring system which was used to monitor flight path information as well as turbine engine parameters.
He also contracted to Questek Marketing CC where he was in charge of the Barco Video Wall installation at Telkom Highveld Park in Centurion.
Subsequent to that he has travelled extensively under contract to Barco in Belgium installing and maintaining their numerous video walls internationally. He has thus travelled to 38 countries all over the World in the last 18 years.
He has also undertaken various electronic repairs within the Textile industry.
Clive lives in Randburg, Johannesburg and his hobbies include electronics, radio controlled helicopters, drones, planes, 3D printing and CNC machines.
Clive lives in Randburg, Johannesburg and his hobbies include electronics, radio controlled helicopters, drones, planes, 3D printing and CNC machines.
Contact: technical@texmate.co.za
Crystal Affat - After-Sales Service Engineer
Crystal grew up in Port Elizabeth and moved to Johannesburg in 2004. She worked in the textile industry for 12 years as a secretary/personal assistant, and for a short while moved away from this industry into the legal field for a couple of years, but found herself back on "textile home ground".
Her interest is cooking, growing vegetables/plants, walking her dog and visiting art galleries.
Contact: technical@texmate.co.za
