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Last update @ January 2008

Name                                 

Lau Wai Kin, Timothy

Marital Status

Married with 2 children

Academic Qualifications

HK School Cert., Hong Kong, 1969

Professional &
Technical Training

1981 : IBM PC training by IBM (Singapore)
1995 : HP Openview Network Manager (Canada)
1995 : Switching & ATM Network by DCS (HK)
1996 : 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders (HK)
1997 : Network Security by CEL (HK)
1997 : Internal Consulting Skill (HK)

Contact Address
Mobile Phone #
e-mail             

No. 111, Second Street, 7th floor, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
(852) 60433666
TTLL11@yahoo.com

Employment History

Burroughs Machine (HK) Ltd

Period: Aug-1976 to Aug-1983

Title    : Software Specialist

Reason for leaving:
I was invited to join Dodwell as Systems Manager

Skills & Competencies

7 Years Mainframe support experience including Operating Systems, Database Administration and & Telecommunications (WAN & LAN)

Skill :
- COBOL programming
- DMSII programming (Database Management)
- Network design & programming
- Mainframe system architecture
- O/S support & systems programming

My prime duty was to provide technical support to both internal users and customers.
I had strong COBOL programming skill where I had been assigned onsite to a customer office for 6 months to lead a software development project.

Dodwell Business Machines

Period: Sep-1983 to Sep-1990

Title    : Systems Manager

Reason for leaving:
consolidate with Gilman Business Machine & close down of business

Technical & Sales support of  IBM PC Hardware, Software, LAN & Telecommunication products

Skill:
- IBM PC system architecture
- Source new PC products (Solutions sales)
- Technical and sales support
- Staff management

My prime duty was to lead a PC support team of 7 staff and to provide pre-sale & post-sale support to the PC sales team.

Apart from the technical support duties, I had to conduct PC training for customer also organising seminar for internal staff.

In addition, I was required to assist the sales team to develop sales proposal, product presentation and meeting with the customers.

Employment History

Union Bank of Switzerland

Period: Sep-1990 to Mar-1998

Title    :Vice President,
Technology Infrastructure

Reason for leaving:
Redundant due to the merger of UBS with SBC

Skills & Competencies

7.5 Years in UBS Heading the Technology Infrastructure support unit

Skill:
- Staff management & development
- Strong negotiation & vendor management skill
- IT cost control & cost saving initiative
- Dealing-room technology
- Unix, Windows NT platform, LAN,WAN & e-mail
- Project management skill

Responsibilities (R) & Key Achievements (A)

• Overall responsible for the performance of the Technology Infrastructure unit within the Information Technology department and their support services rendered to the users of the bank (R)
• IT budget & cost control, procurement, contract negotiation and vendor management (R)
• Line reporting to Head of IT and functional reporting to the Regional Head of Technology Infrastructure in Singapore (R)
• Manage 23 Technology Infrastructure staff, duties include staff performance appraisal and recruitment (R)

·         Building up the Distributed Computing & Telecommunications unit from 3 staff (supporting 200+ staff) to 13 staff (supporting 560+ users) (A)

·         Render Support Services to bank staff covering UBINET (UBS intraNet & E-mail system), WAN, UNIX, PABX, office automation (Lotus Notes, cc:mail, MS office), audio & video conference systems (A)

• Dealing room infrastructure support for local & Global trading environment (A)
• Manage Data Centre Operations and supporting UBS Banking & Trading systems (A)
• Maintain high standard of IT security & audit clearance (A)
• Implement Help desk system from REMEDY INC couple with a 7X24 help desk support  (A)

Latest  Employment

Job Duties

ABIS systems Limited

Period: Nov-2000 to October-2001

Title    : Senior Consultant

Reason for leaving:
Close down of HK Sales Office

Take the role as Assistant to Asia Sales Director. Supporting various presales initiatives, including GAP analysis, Proposal generation, Presentation & Demonstrations, and business process consultation to Sales Director & Customers

Render consultation and support of “ABIS” Wholesales banking system to customers.

Support the PRC office in Shanghai

Personal Assessment

I perceive myself as a consistent performer especially in achieving goals as defined by the company.

I demonstrate my strong project management skill by meeting targets & deadline in all infrastructure projects including dealing room expansion and data-centre expansion, which is critical to the bank’s operations.

   I am open-minded and flexible, tactful & efficient even working under difficult environment.

I take ownership of problems and constantly explore ways to increase productivity by implementing business reengineering process resulted great cost saving and improving efficiency.

Proven from my working history, I have both solid technical skill and strong management experience.

In summary, I am entrepreneur driven and result oriented