Omar Oufan, Pro-Consul

Omar Oufan

Pro-Consul

The British Embassy

Location
United Kingdom
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business Information Systems and Computing
Experience
14 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 9 Months

Pro-Consul at The British Embassy
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since October 2012

To provide Consular Assistance to distressed British nationals in particular:
- Detainees, including visiting police stations and prisons
- Hospitalisations
- Dealing with bereaved families
- Child custody issues
- Other sensitive cases.
- Liaison with contacts including Ministries, the courts and other local authorities
- Monitoring changes in local procedures and practices and ensuring that our information and guidance for British nationals reflects any changes and is up to date.
- Processing Emergency travel documents, birth and death registrations, notarials and other documentary services
- Draft or translate documents from English to Arabic and vice versa for official use
- Delivering consular messages to an external audience using a variety of means
- Working on projects to implement the Consular Strategy often through collaboration with regional colleagues
- Key role in Post Emergency response to crises.
- deploy on a short term basis to another post in the region as part of a regional resilience response to a crisis or other emergency scenario.

Business Development Manager at Candid Security Solutions.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2011 to November 2012

Assessing of marketing opportunities and target market, generating leads and following up sales activity. Expand company’s product reach by identifying new markets and attracting new clients and potential partners.

Relationship Manager at Bayt.com
  • Jordan - Amman
  • March 2011 to November 2011

Offering a complete range of end-to-end employment solutions and career planning tools.Dealing with clients in all levels of recruitment all over the world as well as working as part of a sales team to achieve personal and group targets.

Sales advisor at DSGI (Currys mega store)
  • United Kingdom
  • April 2010 to February 2011

This job requires me to work over a number of areas dealing with a large variety of products and electrical appliances while working amongst a highly trained and competitive team of sales consultants, working together as a team to achieve store and personal targets.

Computer Technician at DSGI (PC World)
  • United Kingdom
  • September 2009 to April 2010

Computer diagnostics and repairs by dealing with a variety of issues, both hardware and software, to locate and resolve issues within an appropriate timescale. This job required working with a small team of highly skilled technicians, keeping up-to-date with current computer issues and performing within a competitive work environment.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Information Systems and Computing
  • at Cardiff University Business School
  • June 2010

The course is designed to develop personal knowledge and expertise in the use of information systems and the importance of computing and information technology in modern business environments. Also being exposed to the state-of-the art research that is poised to shape and transform the business computing and IT industry over the next decade. The School has strong links with industry and relevant technology companies throughout the UK and Europe.

Specialties & Skills

Government Liason
Government Affairs
Security Solutions
Relationship Development
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft word
Automatic number plate recognition

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

CC3 Network Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2005
Valid Until:
October 2005
Sales & Customer Service (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2008
Valid Until:
August 2008