CONTACTS

Azfer Nazir
Azfer@sayeds.net
+44 7977 998891 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Harrow, UK

An experienced, competent and highly organised Business Development Manager. Having a
EXPERTISE
strong technical and adaptable communication skills, with a natural ability to develop strategic
relationships with mult-cultural clients, customers and stakeholders, both in business, networking
Business Development and social environments. Excellent problem solving skills, an ability to retain clientele and active
listening skills coupled with an abilty to diffuse difficult customer situations.
Multi-Cultural
Armed with a Sales & IT career spanning UK, Middle East & Africa – I am now ready for the next
environments challenge.
Retain clientele

Project Management EXPERIENCE
Customer Service
Technical Support
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Networking and security African Satellite Systems (03b beam owner DRC Congo) / 2013 – *Present
Desktop Support
African Satellite systems, a large pan African group, owner of the O3B low orbit satellite beam
Documentation and Reports over DRC Congo. *This role is being managed within the Intersat role.

• Execute and spearhead internal and external business strategies to win customers
COURSES (pre-selling a product that had not been proven in the industry).
• Conduct high-level negotiations with O3b senior management and mobile operators.
* ITIL® Foundation • Improve internal sales processes and technology trends to streamline efforts.
• Research trends and identify new client business opportunities and markets to increase
Certificate in IT Service
sales.
* PRINCE2® Registered
Practitioner Certificate
OPERATIONS & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

LANGUAGES Intersat Africa/UK / March 2001 – Present

Intersat Africa/UK, a leading provider of satellite based data solutions in Africa offering Internet
Fluency: English, Swahili, + via Satellite connectivity to major organisations, government institutions and the private sector.
4 Indian languages • Managed Sales team for Trunk/SHARED Broadband across West Africa. Setup Intersat
Basic: Arabic
UK and developed West Africa Operations into a $3 Million operation in under 2yrs.
• Managed technical team that maintained IT desktop and servers in Data Centers at
Docklands Telehouse, Arqiva, Etisalat Dubai, Intersat Nairobi. Implemented appropriate
LOCATIONS IT systems in group offices.
• Demonstrated exceptional team building capability which ultimately lead to increased
team performance and satisfaction.
Locations Lived/Worked in
• Managed complete Organization and Event Management at global exhibitions including
United Kingdom GITEX, CABSAT and other exhibitions.
Middle East
Africa
ORACLE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT & DATABASE MANAGER
CitiBank/BACS/GETTY/AON/UBS / 1997 –2001

• Designed Architecture and Implemented Hot Standby solutions, HA, Advanced
Replication, DB.
• Created, Trained & Managed Technical teams.
• Setup 24x7 Databases, managed OLTP/Warehouse databases.
• Critical Review/Improved Database installation standards, Upgrade procedures in each
organization.
• Performance Monitoring/Tuning of Unix servers/Databases.
• Getty Images (UK) – Database Group Manager Europe, North America. Managed all IT
projects, implementations and applications.
• Design, development, and implementation of large, complex database systems
supporting one or more business and/or technology areas.

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CONTACTS
Azfer Nazir
Azfer@sayeds.net
+44 7977 998891 EXPERIENCE
Harrow, UK
TECHNICAL SUPPORT MANAGER / SENIOR DATABASE CONSULTANT ROLES
EXPERTISE Oracle Corporation (Middle East), (UK) / 1991 - 1997
Business Development Oracle Database Consultancy roles / 1984 - 1991
• UNIX Oracle RDBMS specialist and complex Database implementations at customer sites
Multi-Cultural across UK.
environments • Pre/Post-sales consultancy - RDBMS and WEB server.
Retain clientele • Expert on Oracle Database concepts, Complex Database designs.
• Conducted & Lectured Oracle courses across the Middle East – DBA/Advanced DBA I/II,
Project Management Principles of Tuning, Unix Administrator, SQL.
• Responsible for many strategic installations across the region.
Customer Service
• Developed, implemented and maintained IT policies, procedures and guidelines for
Technical Support Systems Support and Operations.
• Supervised and trained technical and administrative staff.
Networking and security • Streamlined all unresolved issues and answered all queries of external and internal
Desktop Support customers.

Documentation and Reports
PREVIOUS ROLES
Oracle Architect / Master DBA / Team leader at Premier Systems, Harrods,
COURSES Saudi-American Bank, Sandersons & Prime Computers.
• Successful Database continuity presentations to management for technology upgrades
* ITIL® Foundation with minimal business disruptions.
Certificate in IT Service • PREMIER Systems (UK) - Installation and Mission critical stock market Oracle software and
* PRINCE2® Registered at most major financial institutions in the London Wall Street area.
Practitioner Certificate • Provided a high level DBA consultancy service, performance monitoring, technical
assessment, system tuning, technical Support to in-house/Customers e.g. Salomon
Brothers.
• HARRODS - major Database and user re-organization, planning, testing and
LANGUAGES implementation of Order raising application, total 500 tables/750 indexes, including a
million row table.
• SANDERSONS (UK) - Installed RAM paging on Unix server to increase performance.
Fluency: English, Swahili, +
• PRIME COMPUTERS (UK) – Senior Operations team leader, System administration on 14+
4 Indian languages servers
Basic: Arabic • Installed ISO4002 port contention unit with complete under-floor wiring for data room.

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COURSES/CERTIFICATION
LOCATIONS

Locations Lived/Worked in • ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service - 05 Nov 2014

• PRINCE2® Registered Practitioner Certificate - 12 Nov 2014
United Kingdom
Middle East
Africa
TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Microsoft DOS, Microsoft
NATIONALITY Windows, XP-Vista-7, APPLE MAC OSX.
• Previous experience Hardware: Predominantly Unix - Sun Sparc, IBM, HP etc., PC’s
(engineer level),
British Full Citizen
• Previous experience Software: Oracle DBA Guru, Unix Administrator level, Unix shell
scripting, Basic SQL