Kamal Patel

Current

Cisco Advisory Services at Cisco Systems Inc

Past

Governor at Longfield Middle School
CTO - Network Architect/Consultant at LloydsTSB
Head 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

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Education

Middlesex University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Kamal Patel’s Summary

A seasoned IT professional through experience and exposure to a wide variety of industry sectors and challenging roles, with a rare blend of technical and management accreditations/qualifications. The only constant in my experience is "Enterprise wide Change" and even that is not a constant! I have experience in some of the largest IT change programmes (>£500M), large scale international technology change underpinning business change and mergers & acquisitions (100+ countries affecting over 30,000 people), and have operated on all sides of the outsourcing scene.

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
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

Cisco Advisory Services

Cisco Systems Inc

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Joined Cisco Advisory Services in 2007 and I find myself challenged to learn all the time, working with talented individuals and contributing towards the success of Cisco customers and Cisco. My role is all about change and involves strategy, innovation, planning, and execution of strategy for the end customers. Providing thought leadership in the architectural and change space is core to our team activity.
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.
CTO - Network Architect/Consultant

LloydsTSB

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

March 2005 — April 2007 (2 years 2 months)

I was part of the bank CTO specialising in Networks. My role involved assuring the best technical architecture of the Network transformation for the enterprise for a voice & data capable architecture, including the deployment of 70,000 IP Phones. The role supported the Programme Sponsor and Executive function in an advisory capacity working closely with Finance, Legal and Service functions in collaboration with the outsourced services provider (IBM).
Head of ICT

Westminster PCT

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; 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).
Technical Consulting

Schlumberger

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

1996 — 2003 (7 years)

Building a global Technology Consulting group - Marketing collateral, recruitment, training plans, business development and delivery. Group was full of talented individuals ~ 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. Major change programmes included creation of WesternGeco (6k employees), Sema (21k employees) acquisition and subsequent divestiture by Schlumberger, and some public sector projects relating to security and workforce transformation requiring NISCC engagement.
Various

Omnes

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years)

Various Operational and Project change roles as a joint venture between C&W and Schlumberger. Activities included managing Desktop, LAN, WAN, ISP Services outsource contracts, establishing the business in Holland, delivering and consolidating operations into a new Service Management Centre/Network Operations Centre.
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.
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.
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.