Consultancy

Project management and design engineering resources have been provided for global, regional and country-specific projects for major international energy companies and others.                                        

Examples of some of our design and consultancy work are listed here:

• Design and implement new 3-tier LAN upgrade in business-critical site, 3,000 staff, Middle East
• Expand extranet gateway and change Internet circuits, 9 collaborative companies, Middle East

• Wireless internet and LAN design for a private school of 400 pupils, Cheshire, UK
• Full life cycle project management - new office 700 staff, West Africa
• Engineering redesign and capacity planning analysis for extranet gateway, Middle East
• Global cost comparison - new office IT infrastructure USA, UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa
• Global fiber and satellite communications design to UK from Africa, Middle East
• Global videoconferencing via leased and public internet connections - evaluation of products

• Office move, 35 staff, full IT infrastructure, Scotland
• Wireless LAN design, procure, install for 2 offices, Europe
• Telecoms review and rewrite - 75 process documents, Global
• Design and rollout of MS Enterprise Project Management, Global
• Full life cycle project management - new office 1,200 staff, Middle East
• Provision of gigabit network connectivity - UK to Norway
• Re-engineering of gas compressor control system interface, Middle East

2004

• Refinery - business case for DECT vs. VoIP telephony, UK
• Full field design and rollout of STM4 network, Middle East
• Third party VPN access for 21 third party support companies, Global
• Firewall design and rollout for control systems network offshore, Middle East

• Network integration for corporate merger, UK
• Voice services management transition, UK
• Network backbone redesign - ATM reconfiguration, Europe
• Wide area network and router consolidation - cost saving, UK
• Extranet for outsource partners - India to UK
• VPN link to Vodaphone - cost reduction of corporate mobiles UK
• Third party connection - secure financial transaction system, USA
• Application support offshoring, UK to India
• Refinery DECT radio survey, UK
• Shipping - rationalization of wide area network, Europe
• Voice switch upgrade, UK

• Internal firewall installation to protect process control network UK
• Network node and link analysis for database creation, UK
• WAN circuit upgrade Turkey to UK
• Chemical sites network consolidation and cost reduction, UK
• VPN connections, UK to four Balkans countries
• Due diligence data gathering on none-managed infrastructure UK
• DS3 circuit triangulation for cost effective failover capability UK
• Change Telecom  provider on 17 UK sites - cost reduction UK
• Metropolitan Area Network integration - 7 offices, UK
• WAN connectivity redesign for cost reduction - 17 sites UK
• Voice over managed IP trial - UK to USA, UK to Singapore
• Disaster Recovery audit and real time test - 17 sites, UK

• Pilot VPN tunnel extranet connection to corporate network, Europe
• Rollout of a global web-based project management system, Global
• Replacement of PLC circuits at 17 remote sites with ADSL, UK
• Design and provision of firewalls between two JV partner's offices, UK
• Site decommissioning - IT equipment voice, data, server services.
• Pilot webcam implementation for security services, UK
• Power down planning at small data centre, UK
• Installation of Sentry power management for remote management, UK
• Documentation of a Disaster Recovery Plan, Spain
• OSPF area redesign - 26 offices UK
• Installation of SOHO hub router for 300 home based staff UK
• Wide area network and voice services sites audit, Europe
• Hicom 2 PBX installation - small site UK
• Disaster recovery ISDN dial up for six sites - Portugal
• Failover testing of wide area network backup circuits, Global

• Design and management of a network for Big 5 consultancy 5,000 staff, UK.
• Applications support for 26 bespoke data-connector packages ERP,  UK
• Design and rollout of internet gateways in 20 countries for oil company, Global
• Rollout of ZEN Novell network to 1,500 desktops, UK
• Office move of 200 staff to new headquarters, all infrastructure,  UK

Pre-2000

• Office move - provide subcontractor resource for 280 staff move, Middle East
• Design and commission structured cabling at desert field sites, Middle East
• Provide data acquisition teams for field reservoir sizing, Middle East
• Turnkey IT support for small oil exploration companies, Middle East
• Facilities build management, desert location, Middle East
• Provision of alarm and lighting systems to desert facilities, Middle East