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DAVID DAWKINS CV

David Dawkins CV Resume Profile

David Dawkins CV

Highly experienced ICT Computer & Search Engine Optimisation Consultant, with excellent Customer Support / Operational and Project Management skills. Accomplished in achieving delivery targets within budget and establishing full life cycles on various complex service models, industries and projects from initial conception, systems design, programming, testing to successful implementation. Dramatically improving efficiencies and profits through relationship building, negotiating and liaising with senior management and customers.

Experience

As an ICT Computer & Search Engine Optimisation Consultant, from May 1994 to present, I run a dynamic successful comprehensive IT consultancy service company Datadean Limited, offering fully managed IT, and business contracting services to SME, public-sector, leading multi-national and banking corporate companies, including IBM in UK, Atos Origin in Holland, Siemens IT Solutions in UK, Computacenter Plc, British Telecom, DVLA, Fujitsu Services, Lang-Bennett’s, Standard Bank Plc, Hewlett Packard, T-Mobile, Vodafone, EDS, adidas GmbH in Germany, Viag Interkom in Germany, Warburg Dilion Read / UBS in Switzerland, Perot Systems, London Clearing House, Legal & General, Rank Group Plc, Aspect Telecom UK Ltd, National Rivers Authority, London Electricity Plc, Sun Life Assurance, and Royal Mail Parcel Force.

Responsible for auditing, design, infrastructure, consolidation, relocation, build, application installation, configuration, integration, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance and support of I.T. Architecture. Working very closely with IBM, SUN, Siemens, Dell, Microsoft vendors, and third parties and system integrators such as EDS, Perot Systems, and Atos Origin.

In my role as IT Systems Engineer, from September 1991 to April 1994, I worked for leading national and multi-national IT / Petro-chemical corporate companies, Chevron (UK) Limited, McDermotts International (USA) Inc, Dubai, UAE, Van Reitschoten & Howens, Vlissingen, Holland, Shell Petroleum BV, Thayyem, Syria, British Petroleum, UK, Winchester Electronics Co., Southampton, and W. Churches & Sons Ltd., for IBM at Hursley, Winchester, UK.

Skills

Management:

Demonstrating a 29 year proven track record of participating in, and managing major IT projects to $10bn within challenging government, banking, and financial, commercial, and industrial sectors.
Leading by example, monitoring progress, and generating new ideas.
Improving IT team motivation and efforts within a very short space of time.
Influencing fellow team members, managers, and directors with IT board level decisions.
Making and standing by decisions with regard to IT support, and maintenance strategies.
Recommending hardware and software vendor solutions based on past experience, and vendor relationships.
End-to-end project management, encompassing design, installation, migration, and configuration that ensured completion within time, and budgetary parameters.
Planned initial projects and engineer assignments to ensure appropriate skill-mix, and capability level.
Researched and reviewed existing IT budgets for numerous clients, presented more cost effective plans for infrastructure, and support expenditure.
Persuaded numerous clients to utilise newer networking technologies the increased staff productivity whilst respecting pre-set budgets, and increasing bottom line.

IT Technical Design:

Delivering Web Portal, database, and system design solutions to leading multi-national corporate companies.
Managed networks from financial analysis to internal network infrastructure design, and implementation.
Liaised with third party service providers, and ensuring correct solutions delivered to pre-assigned budgets.
Adhering to defined industry, and very high personal quality standards for system architecture design
Investigating hardware and software performance problems, and evaluating the most cost-effective solutions.
Pricing project hardware and COTS software requirements by comparing vendor costs.
Identifying possible database, SQL, application, and UNIX system performance improvements.
Standardising ICT system designs to reduce costs and to simplify ITIL support methods, and procedures.
Enabling data storage expansion by estimating future system, and application capacity levels.
Developing custom made solutions for customer IT systems, and relational database application issues.

IT Systems Management:

Preventing unplanned system and application downtime by implementing effective pro-active monitoring solutions.
Stabilising applications and systems to lower IT support costs and increase up-time.
Administering Microsoft production and development Sybase / Oracle database applications, and UNIX systems to customer SLA requirements.
Securing, auditing IT UNIX Systems, and reviewing RDMS database applications to corporate and BS7799 standards.
Recovering production Sybase databases / UNIX systems at extremely short notice by working late into the night.

Communication:

Discussing SEO, Website, database and UNIX system performance improvements with development & support teams.
Explaining complex application and system issues to a broad audience to ensure quick resolutions.
Negotiating project needs, targets, timescales, resources, and costs.
Meeting people at all levels to gain their interest, trust, and participation.

Personal:

Applying a broad range of business-critical application, development, and administration technical skills.
Keeping abreast of day-to-day events and the wider picture to prioritise immediate issues.
Displaying a helpful approach towards others and having a need to “belong” to a company culture environment.
Getting to the centre of problems, by focusing on critical information, tasks and issues.
Working as part of a team or alone to ensure project objectives are achieved and that the results are excellent.

Twenty four testimonials are available for download from my LinkedIn profile page, http://uk.linkedin.com/in/davidvdawkins