Prestige Technology Consultancy is able to provide consultancy service to the I.T. industry bringing a wealth of experience across multiple disciplines and specialising in Management and Project based solutions.Available for Freelance and Permanent PlacementsAn experienced professional with over 35 years of experience in the IT industry at both technical and management levels. Areas of expertise :Regional IT Management for GCC, India, African countries IT Infrastructure & Project Management, IT Strategy Development & Implementations for company growthStrong Analytical SkillsRisk ManagementManaging Client Relationships & Identifying Solutions Policies, Procedures, Governance & Compliances,Financial Management & Business Planning Incident & Change Management,Management of Personnel & Team Building,20 years Middle East experience.

Responsibility for managing, providing and maintaining excellence in IT support to the Middle East, India and Africa region. This role included support for critical IT systems, managing and promoting regional projects, helpdesk functions, staff responsibilities, budgeting and liaising with regional heads and business stake holders. Specifics include :Preparing IT initiatives and projects based on regional business developments such as acquisitions, joint ventures and geographical office expansions.Ensuring projects are properly resourced and funded through business case development.Regional project management expertise to bring in regional projects within budget and on time.UN Project experience in Kenya and SomaliaIdentifying new technologies to assist regional management profitability.Preparing and managing annual IT budgets with responsibility to meet group targets.Team building and leadership and IT engineer recruitmentMaintaining corporate IT standards adoption, and adherence.Helpdesk management to deliver quality service and support to M.E region

Principle achievement involved performing as Technical Lead in the virtualisation of UK data centres based on VMWare products and NetApp SAN appliances. This covered migration of existing systems and "straight-to-virtual" for new projects with on-going engineering support. Tape/disk based backup solutions implemented with a cohesive Disaster Recovery plan including testing of associated fail-over processes.

A variety of freelance Project, IT Management and Team Lead roles requiring a high level of professionalism, dedication and leadership to meet budget requirements and associated timeframes. Role requirements were subject to change from time to time. The key ability for meeting such requirements necessitated a degree of pragmatism. Key clients included :IT Manager (BAA airports - 2.5 years)Year 2000 (Team Lead BAA airports - 0.5 years)Project support for all organisational offices (Harvey Nichols 1.1 years), Infrastructure support specialist (NTL communications - 2.5 years)

Saudi Aramco is a world leader in provision of Oil and Gas products. Following the end of the Gulf war in 1991 Saudi Aramco underwent a rapid expansion programme to initiate new explorations for oil and gas in the southern areas of The Kingdom. Technological improvements were required to facilitate this expansion. Based in Abqaiq, my role was designated to lead the Southern Area CADD effort to leverage new technologies to improve the bringing to market of these latest products.