Tony Watkins
Aberystwyth University
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Tony Watkins is a highly experienced Service Management professional with over 48 years of work experience. He has a strong background in service delivery, incident management, and IT service management. Based in the United Kingdom, Tony has worked in various industries, including banking, software manufacturing, pharmaceutical, travel, and more. He is known for his ability to recover underperforming teams and implement standards-based processes. Tony is highly organized, efficient, and skilled in various management disciplines, allowing him to effectively negotiate and negotiate with senior management and technical teams.
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Forty plus years of Service Management experience within Operations; Support, and Delivery organisations, in both infrastructure, and application solutions, specialising in recovering under performing/failing teams, on a local/global basis. Defining, and implementing standards-based processes and procedures, enabling improved delivery of IT services to business communities across a wide range of industries Strong character, professional, and dynamic, with a can-do attitude. Proven ability to hit the ground running, and deliver assignments to challenging timescales, and budgets. Highly organised, efficient, and skilled in a variety of management disciplines, Able to liaise, communicate, and negotiate, with senior management, and technical teams Summary of Experience • ITIL V1/V2/V3 – inclusive all disciplines, focused on design, transition, and operations • Application Management – defect, incident, problem, release, change, service monitoring - across banking (retail, commercial, investment), software manufacturing, pharmaceutical, travel, and other industries. Enforcing agile cultures, and lean practices across delivery platforms • Infrastructure Management – on premises (physical and virtual), and cloud operations • Line Management – onshore, offshore, matrix management, coaching direct reports • Business/Client/Customer Engagement – stakeholder management, service reviews, communications, negotiations, presentations • Supplier Management – liaising with internal, external vendor, third party operational organisations, negotiating contracts (SLAs/OLAs/Underpinning Contracts) • Contract Management – negotiation, review, cost recovery • Budget Holder – OPEX management £25m+, CAPEX approval • Communications strategy – definition, implementation, continuous improvement • Service Improvement – Assessment, definition, agreement, implementation planning and delivery, instilling culture of continuation • Project Management – requirements gathering, planning, budget management, RAID management and reporting • Business/Service Continuity – business requirements gathering, plan definition, execution testing • Outsource Service Provision – as customer, and supplier (requirements gathering, service design, bid support, transition management) • 30 years+ data centre related experience (tier 1/2/3)
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Business Consulting and Services
Tony Watkins's Professional Milestones
- Global Head Of Operations (2019-01-01~2019-06-01): Streamlined operations while optimizing efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness across multiple global locations.
- Service Delivery Director (2015-08-01~2017-03-01): Optimized service delivery processes, enhancing efficiency and ensuring seamless events.
Education
Skill
Service Delivery
Incident Management
It Service Management
Service Improvement
Service Management
Itil
Project Delivery
Sla
Stakeholder Management
Project Management
Change Management
It Operations
Data Center
Infrastructure
Management
Service Desk
Release Management
Prince2
Outsourcing
It Management
Project Portfolio Management
Governance
It Outsourcing
It Strategy
Service Delivery Management
Certification
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Daniel Brown
chief data and digital officer at pti digital
Tom McGuiness
data & digital director sport
Matthew Hicks
it manager for pti digital based at ashton gate stadium
Ben Wells
Chief Executive Officer
Chris Smith
senior engineer at ashton gate stadium bristol sport
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