Entrepreneur
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Transition Manager at The Ministry of Justice
- Owner at Edge Consulting
- Past
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- Programme Manager at Transport for London
- Education
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- University of Westminster
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Wayne Zakaria’s Summary
Wayne is customer focused and has a keen sense of empathy as to what his customers want. He is 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.
He has been involved in a diverse set of projects from large technology programmes of work for banks and govrnments, to setting up his own Dental and Cosmetic surgery in Latin America which he hopes to expand and franchise by 2012.
Wayne Zakaria’s Specialties:
Technology related programme management
Strategy & Vision leading to start ups across various industries, Change Management, Business Process re-engineering.
Wayne Zakaria’s Experience
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Transition Manager
The Ministry of Justice
(Privately Held; Judiciary industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Part of a team of 3, I was responsible for the transition of the MoJ's managed service provision from 3 suppliers down to 2.
Primarily responsible for the transfer of Inrastructure services and processes.
The contract values were in the £500 Million arena
Having susessfully completed the transition and stabilised the service, I have been retained to complete a much smaller transition of the Employment Tribunals Service from an in-house support model to the larger MoJ's enterprise, outsourced and leveraged managed service model. -
Owner
Edge Consulting
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2002 — Present (6 years 11 months)
Edge is technology and management consultancy specialising in programme management for technology projects.
We specialise in:
Business Case Development
Cost Benefit Analysis
Business Transformation Planning and Change Management
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Programme Manager
Transport for London
(Government Agency; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
June 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 11 months)
Initially brought in to manage an XP rollout for TfL, the role grew into a programme manager position responsible for:
1. The installation of TfL's SAN infrastructure
2. Messaging upgrade
Spent the last year working with the CIO on the transition of TfL's managed service from one outsource provider to another. Over seeing the entire transition from procurement and vendor selection to transition and service stabilisation.
The contract value of the managed service was circa £15 Million
Wayne Zakaria’s Education
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University of Westminster
BSC , Computer Science , 1996 — 1999
Additional Information
Wayne Zakaria’s Websites:
Wayne Zakaria’s Interests:
Collaboration on Cosmetic surgery ventures in Colombia
Wayne Zakaria’s Groups:
British Computer Society, The London Contemporary Art Society,
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Plastic Surgery Marketing
Wayne Zakaria’s Honors:
Letter of commendation received from the White House Washington DC for key role played in Y2K Programme for Glaxo Smithkline
Wayne Zakaria’s Contact Settings
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