Leon Levy Email & Phone Number

Uk Based

Leading assignments which will help our clients to reduce their Cloud Costs and Improve the Quality of Service they offer

Daventry, Northamptonshire, Uk

Specialising in improving Capacity Management Processes within organisations and also delivering targeted Performance Improvement Programmes to Blue Chip clients throughout the UK which allows clients to leverage our experience and knowledge to implement solutions that will improve quality and reduce both risk and bottom line cost.

Performed a Business Development role for the company who were trying to establish themselves in the UK and European markets.

• Leader of Performance Management and Capacity Planning (PM/CP) function within IBM Global Services, Information Technology Services.• Developed PM/CP process consultancy practice in the UK• Engagement managed many high profile projects with clients country wide • Technical architect in the creation of the PM/CP Managed Service and successfully marketed it to a number of blue chip clients• Developed and maintained relationships with clients and provided technical sales support… Show more • Leader of Performance Management and Capacity Planning (PM/CP) function within IBM Global Services, Information Technology Services.• Developed PM/CP process consultancy practice in the UK• Engagement managed many high profile projects with clients country wide • Technical architect in the creation of the PM/CP Managed Service and successfully marketed it to a number of blue chip clients• Developed and maintained relationships with clients and provided technical sales support to ensure business targets continued to be met and exceeded• Maintained high level of Customer Satisfaction (95%+)• Became a recognised expert in successfully assisting clients to migrate to Workload Manager Goal Mode with a minimum of effort and disruption. Took an influential part in the development of this capability at IBM and bringing the service to market. Leon has spoken at a number of customer events on this subject including the Guide meetings for Large Systems and Capacity Planning. Show less

• Managerial responsibility for 6-8 professionals covering the disciplines of Capacity Planning, IT Security and Operational Support across all strategic platforms at M&G.• Negotiated with both Hardware and Software suppliers to achieve advantageous contractual terms and pricing for M&G• Produced a number of Cost Benefit Analysis documents which converted complex technical solutions into business benefits and clearly showed the bottom line cost savings.• Production of the Executive… Show more • Managerial responsibility for 6-8 professionals covering the disciplines of Capacity Planning, IT Security and Operational Support across all strategic platforms at M&G.• Negotiated with both Hardware and Software suppliers to achieve advantageous contractual terms and pricing for M&G• Produced a number of Cost Benefit Analysis documents which converted complex technical solutions into business benefits and clearly showed the bottom line cost savings.• Production of the Executive Summary report which defined M&G’s predicted hardware requirements over a five year period. This document was distributed to the members of M&G’s board.• Responsible for selecting M&G’s first Unix platform for two highly business critical applications. This was achieved in approximately 6 weeks from a position of virtually no knowledge of Unix.• Played a crucial role in the successful deployment of the first, highly business critical, applications to run on the new Unix platform• Reviewed and selected appropriate systems management tools to monitor and manage their new Unix infrastructure• Successfully Project Managed or Co-ordinated a number of projects within the IT Services Department including; Batch Containment, File Transfer, Single Logon and Password and Input/Output improvements.• Collected and analysed performance data using MICS and MXG, produced analytical models using Best/1 and performed many application tuning exercises on M&G's key financial applications.• Developed and implemented an application modelling strategy at M&G which ensured that all new applications were sized prior to implementation. A presentation was given at UKCMG Annual Conference and the BGS User Group meeting in 1992 on this subject.• Initiated and project managed a Batch Improvement Project to reduce the overall elapsed time of the batch window. This successfully alleviated batch overruns which were adversely effecting the business day activity. Show less