Cisco Advisory Services
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Cisco Advisory Services at Cisco Systems Inc
- Past
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- Governor at Longfield Middle School
- CTO - Network Architect/Consultant at LloydsTSB
- Director of ICT at Westminster PCT
- Technical Consulting at Schlumberger
- Various at Omnes
- Customer Support Operations at MicroWarehouse, MacWarehouse, LANWarehouse, Inmac, Technomatic
- Various at London Borough of Brent - Queens Park Community, BACES
- Various at London Borough of Brent - Leisure Services
- Education
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- Middlesex University
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Kamal Patel’s Summary
A self motivated senior IT professional with a wide range of experience and exposure to a variety of industry sectors and challenging roles. With a rare blend of Leadership & Management, Services and Technical skills developed over time and supported with numerous leading industry certifications. The only consistent factor in my career is continuous "Enterprise wide Change". I thrive on developing myself and what I do through challenging exposures and assignments. Some of my experiences include large scale IT change challenges:
1. Network Services Transformation/Outsourcing (>£500M)
2. Integration Leadership of IT underpinning mergers & acquisitions (100+ countries affecting over 30,000 people values up to $4.5B)
3. Management Leadership in various vertical roles to deliver significant change e.g. Healthcare, Transport, Oil & Gas etc.
My key strengths include:
1. Working with large diverse teams that are globally distributed to deliver services
2. Adaptability to deliver against numerous business challenges e.g. new business creation, people development, training & skills development, marketing etc.
3. Multi-disciplinary and cross functional collaboration e.g. HR, Finance, Legal, Engineering, Marketing, Service etc.
Kamal Patel’s Specialties:
Industry Expertise:
IT in Oil & Gas Services
Smartcards (Physical and Logical access services)
IT Service Provider (Cable & Wireless Omnes, Schlumberger, SLBSema, AtosOrigin)
Retail Mail Order (LANWarehouse, MacWarehouse, MicroWarehouse, Inmac)
UK Public Sector (UK Rail, Health & Education)
Accreditations & skills:
Enterprise Network and Security
Cisco CCIE#12448, CCNP+SNA&ATM, CCNA
Checkpoint CCSA+CCSE
Managing Successful Programmes (Practioner level)
ITIL (Foundation)
Kamal Patel’s Experience
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Cisco Advisory Services
Cisco Systems Inc
(Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Providing thought leadership and innovation to enable transformational change is core to our team activity coupled with the architectural application of advanced and emerging solutions. My role involves a number of customer, internal change and development activities.
Working with customers my roles is focused on architecture, enablement, execution and assurance of change to the enterprise. Typical challenges in the preparation and planning of significant change includes; developing sourcing strategies, architecture planning, understanding business requirements and governance in developing ecosystems.
In Cisco we thrive on ensuring continuous development of what and how we deliver to customers; as a result I am involved in a number of internal development initiatives to evolve our strategic services delivery capabilities. Additionally, to ensure Cisco is solving the business problems of tomorrow we have a number of ongoing initiatives to develop and provide thought leadership that are industry vertical specific, and I seek to actively contribute towards these innovative solutions development areas.
All these efforts are huge and challenging, thus supported and executed on a global basis with strong local teams and knowledge for exceptional outcomes. -
Governor
Longfield Middle School
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)
August 2005 — July 2007 (2 years)
Part of the Governing body for the school sitting on the main governing body and Personnel & Finance Committee.
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CTO - Network Architect/Consultant
LloydsTSB
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LLOY; Banking industry)
March 2005 — April 2007 (2 years 2 months)
I was part of the bank CTO specialising in Networks. The role supported the Programme Sponsor and CIO in a trusted advisor capacity working closely with Finance, Legal and Service functions in collaboration with the outsourced services provider (IBM). My role involved assuring the delivery of the best technical architecture for the enterprise Network transformation; voice & data capable architecture, including the deployment of 70,000 IP Phones.
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Director of ICT
Westminster PCT
(Hospital & Health Care industry)
2003 — 2005 (2 years)
Responsible for all ICT provision to PCT led health services, two Strategic Health Authorities and Information management for Service Level Management of Acute Services. The role involved a level of consolidation and re-structuring of functions, and operational infrastructure development. Also, involved in the development of NPfIT (now Connecting for Health) working with the Strategic Health Authorities and working closely with Capital Care Alliance (CCA).
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Technical Consulting
Schlumberger
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SLB; Oil & Energy industry)
1996 — 2003 (7 years)
Building, developing and leading a global Technology Consulting group - marketing collateral, recruitment, training plans, business development and delivery. Group was constructed of globally sourced diverse talent ~ 180 people across North America, Europe and Asia all accredited as CCNP's, Checkpoint, Cryptography and more as a minimum. Also included 10+ CCIE's delivering global consulting Capability.
Lead for major change programmes including:
1. Creation of WesternGeco (6k employees) through a joint venture - Role: Global IP Infrastructure Leadership
2. Sema (25k employees) acquisition ($4.5B) and subsequent divestiture by Schlumberger - Role: Global IP Infrastructure Leadership
3. Transport projects relating to network strategy, managed security services and workforce transformation requiring NISCC engagement. -
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Omnes
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
Various Operational and Project change roles within a joint venture between C&W and Schlumberger. Roles and activities included:
1. Managing Desktop, LAN, WAN, ISP Services for outsourced customers
2. Establishing the business in Holland
3. Leading the development and delivery of centralised network operations philosophy with centralised engineering and distributed service functions
4. Delivering and consolidating operations into a new Service Management Centre/Network Operations Centre (including interim management of organisation and operations) -
Customer Support Operations
MicroWarehouse, MacWarehouse, LANWarehouse, Inmac, Technomatic
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
Joined in a senior support role uniquely placed working across all divisions; PC's, Mac's, LAN (Novell and MS etc) and quickly promoted to run support operations. Support operations included Pre-sales internal/external and post sales support to customers and customer services department to ensure quality. Business grew whilst I was there from $500M to $2.2B through organic expansion and acquisitions of Technomatic and Inmac. Major challenges included growing the team, maintaining quality and consolidating acquired teams to work as one whilst working with some challenging customers.
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Various
London Borough of Brent - Queens Park Community, BACES
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Education Management industry)
1992 — 1994 (2 years)
Supporting Education services implement a successful bid to transform education with the use of Information Technology and delivering adult education as a part time tutor.
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Various
London Borough of Brent - Leisure Services
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
1986 — 1992 (6 years)
Worked in a part time capacity across all Brent Leisure services in various capacities. Thoroughly enjoyable experience and learnt a lot from helping organise for the London Youth Games, London Disabled Youth Games and World Hockey events.
Kamal Patel’s Education
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Middlesex University
BEng , Electronics , 1988 — 1992
