Provide a fully managed regular dedicated beer line cleaning service to licensed premises, including pubs, bars, clubs, social clubs, sports clubs, hotels, cinemas, bingo halls and more. Our beer line cleaning systems clean both keg and cask lines maintaining dispense quality on a regular repeat 3 weekly cycle.

Alternative Thinking provide solutions to companies whatever their size to meet their aims, ensuring whatever is produced is cost effective. Companies cannot always justify the cost of a permanent procurement or asset management professional but should not mean that you cannot gain cost effective access to those services.Assist two Northamptonshire schools in their decision making process for tablets in the school. For one of the schools a full report was produced highlighting the merits and pitfalls of each tablet type, recommending a solution and organising training sessions for the teachers and staff.Provide a systems review of a legal conveyance firms practice management system and report on its suitability for current and future needs. This included the review of current processes and their redesign to streamline and reduce cost of processing conveyancy instructions.

To provide IT procurement services including:API Management Tool RFPSitecore / Mulesoft Developer requirementsAudio visual for new ARM campus in Cambridge RFPAudio visual equipment upgrade - worldwideAudio visual global management and supportFIM to MIM upgrade RFPTesting provision contract reviewSkype for BusinessLAN monitoring tool RFP

To review the IT contracts so the company can better understand what it is spending and when contracts are due for renewal. To also look at the supplier base to ensure they are appropriate for the companies requirements. Production of an RFP for the supply of managed print services throughout the UK.

To provide interim procurement management while a permanent replacement for the role was found.Bringing the concept of IT category management to life and successfully gaining acceptance from the IT budget and service owners.Personally identified and realised savings within the IT budget resulting in £2.6m of savings over next 3 years to date,Manage the procurement and delivery of all IT kit required to bring new Israel office into the ARM family, sourcing in the UK and Israel and managing the import of goods.Managed RFPs for the source of requirements management system, privileged access management system, self-service virtualisation system, managed video conference services, testing services, automated contract management and 3rd party IT services.Producing reports of the savings made on their mobile phone contract so the business can see they are realising the benefits they were promised. Review of printer supply and management solution and negotiate new global pricing saving 30% on print costs.

To provide interim procurement management while the Trust found a permanent replacement for the role.Successfully transformed the role from one of secrecy and mistrust to a “go to” role where the procurement and contract advice and support is actively sought by the IT department.Successfully built strong relationships with the Trusts Procurement Manager and the legal team to ensure that IT contracts, tenders and agreements provided the Trust with its required SLAs, risk control and total cost of ownership understanding.Creation of a robust budget management process for both the operational and project budgets providing training to the support heads and project managers to understand their spending.Successfully manage the IT Procurement database within SharePoint to ensure that all IT contracts are recorded, reference documents and templates are available to all within the IT department.Creation of dashboard to show spend and usage of the O2 mobile devices. To also ensure that the accounts department received the transfer sheets to upload the O2 and EE bills into the accounting system.Provide advice and support in the recruitment of a new IT Procurement Manager, reviewing over 100 CVs and recommended the change to a more contracts management role. To then provide a full handover to the new IT Contracts Manager to ensure all of the benefits and gains are continued.

Following the merger of Herbert Smith LLP and Freehills LLP to create the 8th largest law firm in the world with 2,800 lawyers in offices spanning Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and the US, I was appointed to manage all commercial aspects of the IT department worldwide, except Australia.Created robust processes and agreed an events timetable with relevant parties within IT, Procurement and Finance. Creation of a simple set of spread sheets in primary element. This allowed the senior managers within IT to manage their individual budgets and consolidate into a single spread sheet allowed overall performance of the department’s £30m budget to be assessed.Successfully provided advice and training to the Senior Management Team as a key part of the budget management process. This ensured full understanding of budgets and spend. This enables rolling forecast and accruals to be accurate.Successfully assumed overall ownership of the IT assets. This ensured the CMDB and the finance asset register were synchronised for audit and depreciation compliance.

Identified by the new CIO to rationalise the procurement process and implement robust processes and systems to enable the department to evolve from the failing systems inherited.An active member of the senior management team. Successfully created of the £30m IT budget and partnered the CIO to negotiate with various Partner led committees to gain approval of the budget. Once approved successfully managed the budget below targets. Regularly met with finance and the IS committee to report on the financial situation.Consistently high standard contract negotiations and vendor management resulted in significant advantages to the firm in terms of contracts and financial savings in excess of £2m per annum.An introduction of a ceiling for consultancy saving over 30% in consultancy costs.Savings of 8% of annual Enterprise Agreement costs.£500,000 savings over 2 years on Blackberry calls and data.

Successfully managed all purchasing, contracts and assets of the IT department. Selected, implemented and effectively used new purchasing and asset management systems. These enabled the team to record, track and gain historical data of all purchases within the IT department and a more robust invoice processing process.Selection key suppliers to equip new offices in 2003. This included selection of a new VoIP telephone system and power over Ethernet network equipment.

Creation of contracts databaseNegotiation of new contracts and contract renewalsLiaison with the in-house legal team to ensure contracts protected RSDesign programme and support of electronic purchase and contracts management system, including authorisation and budget tracking

• Support of UK's 1500 Desktop devices• Pilot of Thin Client Systems• Support of UK Network Infrastructure• Design and implementation of Network Infrastructure in Italy and Germany• Implementation and Management of Internet Access for the Group.• Network Support of Design and implementation of RSWWW.COM Web site and Cyber Café within RS Components for the staff.

• Help Desk Support for a Major IT Supplier.• Involved in the reconfiguration of PC prior to PowerGen move of Head Office.• Desktop and Network Support for RS Components Limited.

• Day to day running of company.• Development of staff to ensure high customer service.• Design and produce sales campaigns.• Design, creation and support of stock control / sales system for engineering company.• Negotiate and manage customer and supplier contracts and purchasing agreements.

• Consultancy to customers in the design and implementation of PC, Server and network solutions• Integration of PC, AS/400 and Mainframe systems.• Support of System 36 systems for Major Customer.

• Training of PowerGen Computer Operators in the Use of IBM Mainframe.• Production of Computer Operators Reference Manual.• 2nd line support for VM, JES2 and MVS Technical Support.• 1st Line support for OPC/A Job Scheduling.

• Ensuring that all objectives and process are achieved.• Develop and train shift members to ensure personal objectives met and high service levels.• Ensure that all Facility Managed accounts have work completed on time and to correct standards.• Attend Management meetings regarding the running of the Mainframe systems.

• Day to day running of mainframe computer systems• Deputy to Shift leader

• Learn the process and procedures involved in supporting an IBM Mainframe• Train in the use of related applications and hardware