Freelance ITIL Consultant Redditch, Worcs, UK
16 years in IT Service Management. Mature, ITIL certified and competent manager
Commercially aware, strong and dynamic negotiator of support contracts, Service Levels and KPIs
| Rating: | Unrated (New) |
| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £66.67 per hour |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £500.00 per day |
| Available From: | Now |
| Seller ID: | 257135 |
CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé
ITIL implementation, full as-is analysis of process and planned change to ITIL framework
Matrix management of outsourced and contracted in teams to provide a seamless support model for customers
Understanding of the costs of providing service and the production of working service catalogues
Project delivery to time and within budget
ITIL Service Management trained, Service Desk and Incident Management Practitioner, COBit, CMMI, MSP and Prince experience
Employment History
(Jan 2008 to Feb 2008)
ITIL Consultant
LiverpoolBrought in to help the merged organisaion of Knowsley Council's DSS department and the PCT convince their IT service providers to provide one number and one set of procedures for the users. Extensive negotiation with IT service providers and suppliers, documentation of a shared SLA and an action plan to move forward with the integration.
Excellent references can be provided
(Apr 2007 to Jul 2007)
ITIL Business Analyst
BristolBrought in to identify pockets of Incident management throughout the AXA businesses and map the processes concerned and then make recommendations to capture best practice, merge the teams and make one incident management process for the whole organisation.
(Dec 2006 to Mar 2007)
ITIL Incident Manager
BirminghamBusiness Process review of Incident Management to include Escalation, conference call, technical ownership, resolution plans for major incidents
(Jun 2005 to Sep 2006)
ICT Contracts Support Manager
RedditchManagement of all IT contracts, including outsourced infrastructure hosting and support with Logica CMG and all Software providers, Oracle, IBM, Siebel and Microsoft. Service Review meetings, service improvement plans, contract change notes, termination of contracts, new supplier vetting and contract negotiation.
(Dec 1996 to Mar 2005)
Contracts Manager Northern Europe then Worldwide CSS Manager
FileNET Corporation, London, Los AngelesOrignially employed to review all of Northern Europe's support contracts both direct and through the support channel. Extensive negotiations with end users such as BA, Barclays, Norwich Union and support partners, HP, Getronics, ATOS, Origin.
Promoted in 1999 to Manager Worldwide Support Projects and implemented standard pricing for support contracts to fit with new SAP billing system, extracted FileNET from ALL hardware support and handed contracts to HP and Kodak worth £510 Million.
Closed service desks in Germany France and England and opened a new, follow the sun desk in Dublin. Matrix management of in-country support managers and service desk managers.
Professional Qualifications
SCP Manager
ITIL Foundation
ITIL Service Desk and Incident Managment Practitioner
ITIL Manager's Certificate (booked)
Recent Achievements
Introduced ITIL incident Management to Knowsley MBC and Axa Insurance
Cut Axa’s IVR on the outsourced service desk from 150 seconds to 21 seconds saving £70K a month in lost business. Redesigned the call handling and incident escalation processes to improve access to resolver groups and reduce down-time.
Negotiated a 78% (£194K) reduction in software licensing costs for the Law Society by renegotiating supplier contracts
Categories & Freelance Skills
Healthcare (Non-Clinical)
Categories
IT & Internet
Categories
Skills
- Analysis (IT Management - Business Process)
- Asset Management (IT Management)
- Automation (IT Management - Business Process)
- Budget Control (Project Management)
- Budget Management (IT Management)
- Business Process (IT Management)
- Call Centre Management (IT Management)
- Change (Project Management - Process)
- Change Management (IT Management - Business Process)
- Contract Management (IT Management)
- Design (Project Management - Process)
- Design (IT Management - Process)
- French (Foreign Languages)
- Implementation (IT Management - Project)
- Implementation Management (IT Management)
- Improvement (IT Management - Business Process)
- Insourcing (IT Management)
- ITIL
- Leadership
- Man Management (Project Management)
- Management (IT Management - Project)
- Managing Suppliers (Project Management)
- Mapping (Project Management - Process)
- Mapping (IT Management - Process)
- Mentoring (Project Management)
- Negotiation
- Operational Transformation (IT Management)
- Operations Management (IT Management)
- Outsourcing (IT Management)
- People Management (IT Management)
- Process (Project Management)
- Process (IT Management)
- Project (IT Management)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Management)
- Project Management (Project Management)
- Quality (IT Management)
- Re-engineering (IT Management - Business Process)
- Service Delivery Management (IT Management)
- Service Level Agreements (IT Management)
- SLA Management (IT Management)
- SLA's (Project Management)
- Software Asset Management (IT Support)
- Standards ITIL BS150000 (IT Management - Quality)
- Subcontractor Management (IT Management)
- Supply Chain (Project Management)
Management Consultancy
Categories
Skills
- Business Reengineering (Business Consulting)
- Contract Management
- Customer Care (Business Consulting)
- Downsizing (Business Consulting)
- Interim Operations Director (Business Consulting)
- Process Design
- Process Mapping

