Brian Booth Email & Phone Number

Warrington, Gb

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Global

IT Consultant, Information Technology, Project & Programme Management, Organisational Change, Transition

Project & programme manager leading a major 2 year global IT organisation transition project across 3 continents.

Program manager delivering a major 2 year global transition and organisation change (IT) across 3 continents.

IS Risk & Governance Mgr, CFS & Co-op-Brian has managed teams & delivered in:- Change Mgt & Prod'n Control- Release Mgt (OA, stress test,2nd lev support,scheduling)- IT (major) incident mgt- Service Fulfilment (commodities,small projects)- Service Level Mgt (SLA achievement,MI)- Capacity Mgt- DR & Bus. Continuity (OGC standard-exemplar rating. Move to BS25999)- Service Mgt governance (processes,Audit liaison,Risk Mgt Exec Board)- IS Risk Management f/work (CobiT model, ITIL,CMMi, IS 20001, COSO)Career Overview: Experienced Snr Mgr, 20 yrs in IT.Brian has broad experience as an IT consultant & IT Mgr. Snr Mgr roles at Vertex Data Sciences, Cap Gemini (8 yrs - outsourcing & consulting), Kingfisher Grp (4 yrs), Girobank/A&L & PO DPE in a variety of roles. Experience across UK Retail, Distribution, Finance, Telco & Utility sectors. Brings strong, practical & pragmatic appreciation of business requirements,allied with technical, management & consultancy skills.

Head of Resource Management & Business Support, Information SystemsReported to IT Director, responsible for Resource Management, Project Support & Quality Management. Additional specific responsibilities to the IT Director included organisational design & process improvements.Brian defined and delivered IS wide resource management & project office functions to support a new “Practice” based organisation model, for 650 IS staff assigned to public & private sector customer BPO projects.Additional successes include delivering a re-negotiated multi-£m outsource services contract (UK & off-shore) of c10%+ pa savings, with reduced commercial commitment, exposure & project delivery risk to the company.c£3M budget. c50 staff.

Head of Technology Consulting reporting to Director Consulting (Telco). c65 snr consultants (tech solution architects, service mgt, info security), sales support & resource mgt.International clients & assignments (BT, NTL, Vodafone, VW, Qwest).Brian’s career at CG progressed from Consultant through to Lead, Principal & Head of Dept. Experience in Finance, Retail, Distribution, Telco & Utility across UK & European assignments - outsourcing, technology consulting & process re-engineering for major clients (Blue chip banking, insurance, tour operations, retail).Tasked & delivered the development of new service lines, setting up UK Service Mgt consulting team, working with global colleagues. Received a number of commendations & assignment extensions from clients, together with internal awards.Member of UK Data Centre Strategy Team, UK Assessor International Technical Architects forum. Chairman, SunGard Advisory Board.c£10M income target (achieved), c65 staff.

Manager of Technical Operations team in Lancashire. Brian was responsible for IT service planning, capacity planning, 3rd party management, major projects assurance management and support. Directly assisted in the successful review, recommendation and evaluation to outsource specific IT service functions.

Starting as an Operational Analyst, Brian progressed through various technical and team leader roles within the PO DPE and Girobank. These were primarily in operational support, systems analysis, design & the management of technical teams undertaking service planning roles for the IBM and ICL mainframes.Directly contributed to a number of key systems and projects across the UK, working for extended periods in Edinburgh, London and Leeds.Proposed, and successfully managed, a fundamental operational processing change to move from ICL to IBM mainframes.