Wayne Zakaria

Current

• Director at Edge uk

Past

• Partner / Associate at Networks Plus
• I.T Manager at GlaxoSmithKline

Education

• University of Westminster

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company

Wayne Zakaria’s Summary

Wayne is customer focused and extremely flexible professional that prides himself on providing high standards and creative thought processes in all aspects of his work whilst maintaining an old fashioned service ethos.

His experience cuts across both public and private sector enterprise.
With a rich diversity of engagements ranging from the leisure industry to manufacturing, banking, pharmaceuticals, telecomms and rail, to name a few.

Wayne Zakaria’s Specialties:

Technology related outsource Transition Management within the Public sector.
Networking with other entrepreneurs and high net worth idividuals.

Wayne Zakaria’s Experience

• Director

  Edge uk

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2002 — Present (5 years 11 months)

  Edge is a small but growing tchnology and management consultancy that is targeteing the following markets
  
  1. Project & Programme Management
  2. Transition Management
  3. I.T Support
  
  Wayne is currently completing a complex transition for the Ministry of Justice as well as focussing his attention internally, on restructuring Edge and defining its key service offerings, to ensure that Edge continues to maintain its focus on providing integrated and cost-effective solutions to its clients’ changing business needs.

• Partner / Associate

  Networks Plus

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  As a member of Networks Plus, I was based at one of their key accounts (Energis) in the UK, and helped grow the Energis Account.
  Programme Manager for large programmes of work expanding the fibre optic networks of BT, Energis, Nortel, Marconi and the BBC.
  
  Employed to develop Network Plus's service offering to increase company value for sale of business via consultancy. Initially set up Energis's Programme Library, then worked on their service offerings and transition / implementation methodologies.
  
  Networks Plus was successfully sold to Unisys Plc.

• I.T Manager

  GlaxoSmithKline

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

  June 1998 — June 2000 (2 years 1 month)

  I was a core member of their Year 2000 project team for EMEA

Wayne Zakaria’s Education

• University of Westminster

  BSC, Computer Science, 1996 — 1999

Additional Information

Wayne Zakaria’s Websites:

• My Company

Wayne Zakaria’s Interests:

Real Estate, New Technology, Travel, Investing, Photography

Wayne Zakaria’s Groups:

British Computer Society

•    Innovative-London member

Wayne Zakaria’s Contact Settings

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