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Brian Rogers, ITIL Service Projectmanager from Nussloch
Brian Rogers
Brian Rogers Consultancy
ITIL Service Projectmanager
69226 Nussloch
available
Hourly-/Daily rates:
70.00 €/hour
600.00 €/day
Overtime incl.
Overtime incl.
Last update: 17.07.2010 16:52
Attachments
- none -
Language skills
german (business fluent)english (first language)french (good)
Abilities, knowledge, experiences:
Operating Systems
MVS; Unix SCO; VMS; BS2000; Windows; Linux
Programming Languages
C/C++; Cobol; RPG; Unix-Shell-Script; Assembler
Databases
IMS; DB2; Access; MYSQL; Oracle
Hardware
UNIX (Sun, HP, IBM)
Data Communication
Banyan; CICS; DCAM/ISAM; EDIFACT; FTAM; ISDN; ISO/OSI; ISPF-DMS; LAN/LAN Manager; LU6.2; Novell; SNA; TCP/IP; Token Ring; VTAM; Windows Netzwerk; X.400 X.25 X.225 X.75
Products/Standards
Core competence:
My strengths are in analysis, conception and management in the coaching and leadership of CobIT & ITIL processes (incl. Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity) in the data centre area, including system management (tools, operating systems, databases), organizational (people) analysis, development, employment and last but not least competency in outsourcing and migration (platforms, sites, organizational, i.e. SAP).
Major achievements:
Over 35 years of IT experience in different positions and responsibility areas, on both sides of the fence (IT provider and user) are the fundament of my professional career.
Tools, Utilities:
SAP MM/CO/FI; MS-Office; HP Open view; IBM Tivoli; CA /UNI; Apache; perl
Methods:
OO; ISO; ITIL; CoBit; Prince2
References:
Project Experience
2010
Saudi Arabian Airlines
Responsible for a Build-up of the IT Charge out & Pricing Department, an assignment of implementing and transform-ing the Concept and Process Build to a working and functioning unit within the Service Area within the Service Management Process. At the same time, I was responsible for the training and Concept of Performance Management, that fed the direct information to the Charge out & Pricing Unit.
EMAAR Properties, UAE
Project Manager: Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
Responsible for a 3 man team, to build up the Disaster Recovery Center from scratch, with Concept, RfP, Selection and Implementation.
Saudi Electricity Company, Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Project Director:: ITIL Assessment with Cobit Analysis
Responsible for a 2 man team to evaluate the ITIL ability with a comprehensive assessment on the basis of CMMI. Projectleader for the adaption for Service Management processes (3 Months)
06.2007 – 01.2009 with interruptions Cognis GmbH
Project Manager for Service Management (ITIL)
Responsible for the definition and selection of employees for the new Service Management group within the Outsourcing Governance. Project Manager for the Service Management Concept (ITIL Problem/Change) developed for ComputaCenter (Service Provider). Training and tool selection was a major contribution in this project.
06.2008 – 10.2008 Saudi Electricity Company, Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Project director: Assessment with a Cobit Analysis
Responsible for a 2 man team to evaluate the Cobit ability with a comprehensive assessment on the basis of CMMI. Roadmap for Problem/Change Management with Process-owner training.
01.2007 – 06.2007 SME: Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
Responsible for a 3 man team, to build up the Disaster Recovery Center from scratch.
09.2007 – 12.2007 Dubai Municipality
Project Manager: Assessment for an Outsourcing Readiness Project
Responsible for the governance structure and the training in Service Management disciplines for the selected employees. Role definitions and tool selection for the Service Management group.
06.2006 – 07.2007 RWE AG
Project consultant: RWE (German energy corporation) RfP for a world-wide Desktop Hardware ser-vice
Responsible for the strategy, selection, and governance in all methods and definitions. Role descriptions and controlling of all documents for each member of the team. Role definitions for the Service Management within the governance of the outsourcing object.
12.2005 – 05.2006 PIC (Dow Chemical Partner in the Near East) in Kuwait
Project Director : ITIL Assessment of the complete IT
Responsible for a 3 man team conducting an ITIL assessment & over all Cobit Domains with a high-level report of the CMMI level in each discipline. Roadmap for IT Steering Committee and Problem/Change Management with management coaching.
05.2004 – 05.2005 AON, Bank of America in London
ITIL Service Management Assessment
Assessment Leader for all Service Management processes:
- Responsible for all deliveries of Assessment (4-6 team members) and presentation to the subsequent Board of Directors
01.2003 – 05.2004 T-Mobile NL
Production Acceptance, Project leader:
- Interims manager for the production acceptance with the responsibility of choosing the right organisation and the right people for the process. Definition of all processes (ITIL conform) and role definitions defined for selecting the right people. Coordination with the programming department as the testing responsible unit. Responsible for the co-ordination of all Disaster Recovery processes within the IT (Business Continuity Handbook)
03.2002 – 01.2003 Siemens CIO
SAP R/3 Outsourcing, Project consultant:
- Siemens CIO RfP for a world-wide SAP R/3 hosting with responsibility for SLA/OLA and all meth-ods used for RfP with strategy, selection, and governance. Special assignment to create a Service Management group within the IT Governance
All of the above mentioned Projects were sold and described per SOW by me, direct. I was re-sponsible for my own Sales (Scoping and Deal-making) within many Groups i.a. META Group as the Practice Leader EMEA and as a Director Advisor with Experton Group and also as Managing Director (5 Years)in Switzerland of my own Firm Data Center Consultancy in Steckborn, Thur-gau. I also worked in Luxembourg for Dimension Data in a Pre-Sales and Product Conception function for 2 years in 2-3 Months engagements i.e. Dexia Bank.
12.2000 – 01.2003 Metagroup Deutschland GmbH
Responsible for the Operations Excellence Product as Practice Leader and Sales Director for a 4 man Team.
Sold in 2004 to Gartner Group
07.1997 – 12.2000 debitel AG
Director IT-Production:
- Formed a de-central data center (3 sites) into a central data center in 1 location
- Merged the existing personnel into 1 central section (Systems, Telecommunications, Operat-ing/Monitoring)
- Implemented Service Management processes with IT-controlling functions
- Project Manager for a data base conversion (DB2 to Oracle) with Tata Consulting as the Service Provider (Co-ordination of all project phases)
- Chief Negotiator for a new outsourcing contract for the Billing Process (Operations, Program Change and Printing) incl. all Service Level Agreement creation and implementation
- Managed 55 employees with € 50m yearly budget
Further Companies of Employment
1995-1997 Mannheimer Versicherungs AG
Data Center Manager IBM MVS
1993 – 1990 Compass Deutschland GmbH
Senior Consultant IT Benchmarking Host, Service Desk, Client-Server
1985 – 1990 Lidl & Schwarz Stiftung & Co, KG
Data Center Manager IBM MVS
1975 – 1985 Betty Barclay GmbH
Chief Programmer Bull DPS7
1970 – 1975 John Deere Europe AG
Organizations Programmer IBM MVS
Temporal and spatial availability.:
Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Frankfurt, Germany
Operating Systems
MVS; Unix SCO; VMS; BS2000; Windows; Linux
Programming Languages
C/C++; Cobol; RPG; Unix-Shell-Script; Assembler
Databases
IMS; DB2; Access; MYSQL; Oracle
Hardware
UNIX (Sun, HP, IBM)
Data Communication
Banyan; CICS; DCAM/ISAM; EDIFACT; FTAM; ISDN; ISO/OSI; ISPF-DMS; LAN/LAN Manager; LU6.2; Novell; SNA; TCP/IP; Token Ring; VTAM; Windows Netzwerk; X.400 X.25 X.225 X.75
Products/Standards
Core competence:
My strengths are in analysis, conception and management in the coaching and leadership of CobIT & ITIL processes (incl. Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity) in the data centre area, including system management (tools, operating systems, databases), organizational (people) analysis, development, employment and last but not least competency in outsourcing and migration (platforms, sites, organizational, i.e. SAP).
Major achievements:
Over 35 years of IT experience in different positions and responsibility areas, on both sides of the fence (IT provider and user) are the fundament of my professional career.
Tools, Utilities:
SAP MM/CO/FI; MS-Office; HP Open view; IBM Tivoli; CA /UNI; Apache; perl
Methods:
OO; ISO; ITIL; CoBit; Prince2
References:
Project Experience
2010
Saudi Arabian Airlines
Responsible for a Build-up of the IT Charge out & Pricing Department, an assignment of implementing and transform-ing the Concept and Process Build to a working and functioning unit within the Service Area within the Service Management Process. At the same time, I was responsible for the training and Concept of Performance Management, that fed the direct information to the Charge out & Pricing Unit.
EMAAR Properties, UAE
Project Manager: Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
Responsible for a 3 man team, to build up the Disaster Recovery Center from scratch, with Concept, RfP, Selection and Implementation.
Saudi Electricity Company, Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Project Director:: ITIL Assessment with Cobit Analysis
Responsible for a 2 man team to evaluate the ITIL ability with a comprehensive assessment on the basis of CMMI. Projectleader for the adaption for Service Management processes (3 Months)
06.2007 – 01.2009 with interruptions Cognis GmbH
Project Manager for Service Management (ITIL)
Responsible for the definition and selection of employees for the new Service Management group within the Outsourcing Governance. Project Manager for the Service Management Concept (ITIL Problem/Change) developed for ComputaCenter (Service Provider). Training and tool selection was a major contribution in this project.
06.2008 – 10.2008 Saudi Electricity Company, Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Project director: Assessment with a Cobit Analysis
Responsible for a 2 man team to evaluate the Cobit ability with a comprehensive assessment on the basis of CMMI. Roadmap for Problem/Change Management with Process-owner training.
01.2007 – 06.2007 SME: Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
Responsible for a 3 man team, to build up the Disaster Recovery Center from scratch.
09.2007 – 12.2007 Dubai Municipality
Project Manager: Assessment for an Outsourcing Readiness Project
Responsible for the governance structure and the training in Service Management disciplines for the selected employees. Role definitions and tool selection for the Service Management group.
06.2006 – 07.2007 RWE AG
Project consultant: RWE (German energy corporation) RfP for a world-wide Desktop Hardware ser-vice
Responsible for the strategy, selection, and governance in all methods and definitions. Role descriptions and controlling of all documents for each member of the team. Role definitions for the Service Management within the governance of the outsourcing object.
12.2005 – 05.2006 PIC (Dow Chemical Partner in the Near East) in Kuwait
Project Director : ITIL Assessment of the complete IT
Responsible for a 3 man team conducting an ITIL assessment & over all Cobit Domains with a high-level report of the CMMI level in each discipline. Roadmap for IT Steering Committee and Problem/Change Management with management coaching.
05.2004 – 05.2005 AON, Bank of America in London
ITIL Service Management Assessment
Assessment Leader for all Service Management processes:
- Responsible for all deliveries of Assessment (4-6 team members) and presentation to the subsequent Board of Directors
01.2003 – 05.2004 T-Mobile NL
Production Acceptance, Project leader:
- Interims manager for the production acceptance with the responsibility of choosing the right organisation and the right people for the process. Definition of all processes (ITIL conform) and role definitions defined for selecting the right people. Coordination with the programming department as the testing responsible unit. Responsible for the co-ordination of all Disaster Recovery processes within the IT (Business Continuity Handbook)
03.2002 – 01.2003 Siemens CIO
SAP R/3 Outsourcing, Project consultant:
- Siemens CIO RfP for a world-wide SAP R/3 hosting with responsibility for SLA/OLA and all meth-ods used for RfP with strategy, selection, and governance. Special assignment to create a Service Management group within the IT Governance
All of the above mentioned Projects were sold and described per SOW by me, direct. I was re-sponsible for my own Sales (Scoping and Deal-making) within many Groups i.a. META Group as the Practice Leader EMEA and as a Director Advisor with Experton Group and also as Managing Director (5 Years)in Switzerland of my own Firm Data Center Consultancy in Steckborn, Thur-gau. I also worked in Luxembourg for Dimension Data in a Pre-Sales and Product Conception function for 2 years in 2-3 Months engagements i.e. Dexia Bank.
12.2000 – 01.2003 Metagroup Deutschland GmbH
Responsible for the Operations Excellence Product as Practice Leader and Sales Director for a 4 man Team.
Sold in 2004 to Gartner Group
07.1997 – 12.2000 debitel AG
Director IT-Production:
- Formed a de-central data center (3 sites) into a central data center in 1 location
- Merged the existing personnel into 1 central section (Systems, Telecommunications, Operat-ing/Monitoring)
- Implemented Service Management processes with IT-controlling functions
- Project Manager for a data base conversion (DB2 to Oracle) with Tata Consulting as the Service Provider (Co-ordination of all project phases)
- Chief Negotiator for a new outsourcing contract for the Billing Process (Operations, Program Change and Printing) incl. all Service Level Agreement creation and implementation
- Managed 55 employees with € 50m yearly budget
Further Companies of Employment
1995-1997 Mannheimer Versicherungs AG
Data Center Manager IBM MVS
1993 – 1990 Compass Deutschland GmbH
Senior Consultant IT Benchmarking Host, Service Desk, Client-Server
1985 – 1990 Lidl & Schwarz Stiftung & Co, KG
Data Center Manager IBM MVS
1975 – 1985 Betty Barclay GmbH
Chief Programmer Bull DPS7
1970 – 1975 John Deere Europe AG
Organizations Programmer IBM MVS
Temporal and spatial availability.:
Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Frankfurt, Germany
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