Mike Persaud

Current

• Collaboration Product Specialist at Cisco

Past

• Head of Messaging and Directory Services Engineering at RBS Global Banking & Markets
• Head of Strategic Architecture at Dresdner Kleinwort
• VP E-Messaging at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

• Director \ Owner at Compunet Consultancy Ltd.
• Pre-Sales Consultant at Simmons Magee plc
• Pre-Sales Consultant at P&P Systems Ltd

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Education

• University of Liverpool

Recommended

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Connections

467 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Mike Persaud’s Summary

Solid background in Enterprise Technology, with strong emphasis in Messaging, Directory Services and Collaboration. Consistently exceed goals and customer service expectations. Experienced in handling international teams and local infrastructure operations across all departments (SAN, Servers, Networks, Mobility, and Desktops). Skilled in leading the development and implementaion of innovative and emerging technologies.

Mike Persaud’s Specialties:

Vendor Relationships, Customer Relations, Solutions Architecture, Innovator, Technical Manager, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft LCS/OCS, Blackberry, FAST Search, Wikis, Blogs, Collaboration, Enterprise Search, Enterprise 2.0, Mobility, Information Management.

Mike Persaud’s Experience

• Collaboration Product Specialist

  Cisco

  (Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

  January 2010 — Present (3 months)

• Head of Messaging and Directory Services Engineering

  RBS Global Banking & Markets

  (Public Company; Investment Banking industry)

  April 2008 — December 2009 (1 year 9 months)

  • Lead central engineering team responsible for global project based engineering and program initiated deliverables around:
  • Messaging and Collaboration services
  • Unified Communications including Voice and Video integration.
  • Directory and Identity Management Systems utilising SPML V2 framework.
  • Security, Data protection and Encryption
  • Mobility and Virtual platforms.
  • Assist in the development of the migration strategy and deployment process for Lotus Notes to Exchange 2007, including archive and mobile data.
  • Lead WAVE 13/14 Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Technology Adoption Program in conjunction with Microsoft.
  • Completed the migration and upgrade of MindAlign (Persistent Group Chat) onto a new hardware topology supporting 26000 users within timescales and budget.

• Head of Strategic Architecture

  Dresdner Kleinwort

  (Public Company; DKIB; Investment Banking industry)

  September 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 7 months)

  • Lead efforts to research new technologies and identify replacement strategies
  • Recommend innovative solutions producing tangible business benefits
  • Continually acquire new knowledge and skills in specialty areas
  • Develop and review systems architecture design specifications for new and existing information systems, ensuring that they meet business processes and enterprise architecture requirements
  • Direct the systems architecture requirements development for network and open systems technology; middleware including data, databases, workflow, and logical processes; and, interfaces with other systems
  • Define and documents the enterprise systems architecture blueprint
  • Participate in the evaluation and selection of new technology and provides feedback on the viability and applicability.

• VP E-Messaging

  Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 1999 — August 2005 (6 years 4 months)

  • Pioneered Blackberry, KVS Enterprise Vault, Parlano MindAlign and FAST Enterprise Search to Dresdner Kleinwort.
  • Designed, project managed and completed the migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 in the summer of 2005 including budget request and approval justification.
  • Reduced SPAM by 85% using IronPort.
  • Reduced the capital expenditure of Enterprise Search by 80%.
  • Managed operating budgets in of 3.5m GBP.
  • Reduced running costs of Messaging by over €1m.
  • Increased availability, performance and cost effectiveness of E-Messaging from 97.6% to 99%.
  • Produced Messaging ITT, distributed to market, performed vendor evaluation and conducted decision scoring process.
  • Extending existing messaging platforms to a more collaborative environment with presence, VoIP, IPT, IM, CHAT, Web-Conferencing integration.
  • Liaising with the press, manufacturers and vendors
  • Responsible for data retention policy and compliance of Messaging worldwide.

• Director \ Owner

  Compunet Consultancy Ltd.

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

  • Provide independent consultancy services for Email and Directory integration and Migration.
  • Provide implementation and deployment programs for clients.
  • Developed and implemented high availability testing and deployment solutions.
  • Served commercial customers including,
  - Dresdner Bank AG
  - Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Asset Management
  - DRCM
  - Kleinwort Benson Private Bank
  - Associated Newspapers
  - General Electric Capital Europe
  - General Electric CFI
  - Linklaters
  - Nikko Securities
  - Kingfisher plc

• Pre-Sales Consultant

  Simmons Magee plc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1994 — 1997 (3 years )

  In this role I supported business development managers across all sectors providing consultancy to all customers from Multi-National Corporations to Nationwide organisations. I was involved in presenting technical solutions to both technical decision makers and business decision makers at the most senior level.
  
  I regularly supported our marketing division in roadshows and forums to the potential new customers and existing customers.
  
  As a consultant I contributed to a bi-monthly technical newsletter that was sent out to our mailing list promoting the skills/competence/expertise and case studies of solutions implemented by Simmons Magee plc.

• Pre-Sales Consultant

  P&P Systems Ltd

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1990 — 1994 (4 years )

  Develop and maintain customer relationships at both the technical and business decision making levels. Designing, building and deploying large scale deployments as part of a team to deadlines.

Mike Persaud’s Education

• University of Liverpool

  Masters , Business Administration , 2002 — 2005

  Dissertation titled: Coping with Information Overload.
  A study to transform data into a competitive edge within an Investment Bank.

Additional Information

Mike Persaud’s Websites:

• My Blog

Mike Persaud’s Interests:

Mobile communications, travelling, golf, fencing, skiing and snowboarding.

Mike Persaud’s Groups:

FIMA

•    University of Liverpool
•    CISCO
•    Unified Communications
•    Strategic Use of Information Technology
•    UC Partner Community
•    Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (MSFT) Chat/Resource
•    BlackBerry Cool
•    Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Alumni
•    Chief Wine Officer
•    OCS Professionals
•    Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS)
•    City Infrastructure
•    BlackBerry WES Conference
•    Dresdner Kleinwort
•    Cisco Unified Communications & Collaboration

Mike Persaud’s Honors:

Fastest lap around Silverstone in a formula Ford. (during a track day) :-)

*In the Press:- *
• Financial Times Feature - From Teenage bedroom to boardroom (an article about the rise of Instant Messaging in the Enterprise)
• Iron Port case study
• Waters Online - Instant Threats (Rising usage of IM and the threats that follow).
• Email Archiving case study (KVS)

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