Andy Savvides

Current

CIO Advisory Practice at Atos Consulting

Past

Senior Advisor - Infrastructure Directorate at NHS
Management Consultant at Microsoft Corp
Director at IT Factory Inc

Director at MICA
Consultant at Lotus Consulting
Consultant at S.G. Warburg (UBS)
Consultant at BP Exploration
Apprentice at Tektronix

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Education

University of Hertfordshire
Brtitish Computer Society
The Open Group

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Connections

90 connections

Industry

Management Consulting

Andy Savvides’s Summary

A chartered information systems professional with over 15 years experience working for world class information technology organisations (including IBM and Microsoft) in client facing consulting and senior leadership roles. I consider myself to be a focused self-starter who can quickly establish accurate and detailed business needs and who is capable of working with a number of stakeholders to achieve the successful design and delivery of effective business solutions. During my consulting career, I have gained a strong background in Microsoft and IBM platform technologies. I have the structured approach, field experience and the technical background needed to play a valuable team role during most stages of the it life cycle from solution selling, envisioning and engagement planning through to conceptual design, deployment planning and on-going operations

Andy Savvides’s Specialties:

Enterprise Architecture, Collaboration and Knowledge Management, Infrastructure Architecture, Technology Strategy, Microsoft Platform, Trusted Advisor to CTO, Infrastructure Director, IT Benefits Realisation, IT Maturity Modelling & Governance.

Andy Savvides’s Experience

CIO Advisory Practice

Atos Consulting

(Public Company; ATO; Management Consulting industry)

October 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

Management Consultant and Delivery Director on consulting engagements including:

Head of Infrastructure Architecture at NHS Connecting for Health. Responsible for developing the NHS Infrastructure Maturity Model (NIMM) and driving the adoption of infrastructure standards and best practice nationally across the NHS. Developed an Infrastructure Balanced Scorecard and self assessment methodology for the NHS so that capabilities can be benchmarked, prioritised and managed in an effective way that delivers the desired improvements in IT capability maturity.

Engaged as Program Director and infrastructure architect on a service improvement project reporting to the CIO of a major international luxury goods and fashion house. Lead a program to deliver quick wins by stabilising the infrastructure and improving IT to Business communications, as well as initiating the transformation of the service delivery function at the HQ. Also responsible for leading the creation of an IT platform to support the global transformation and technology standardisation initiative.
Senior Advisor - Infrastructure Directorate

NHS

(Management Consulting industry)

January 2006 — August 2009 (3 years 8 months)
Management Consultant

Microsoft Corp

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

March 2002 — October 2005 (3 years 8 months)

I worked as an independant consultant for the Global Offerings Group within Microsoft World Wide Services (Redmond) engaged to develop Microsoft’s global consulting offerings.

Working as part of the Microsoft Solutions for Management (MSM) product group in Redmond, I was responsible for solution architecture and the creation of service management solution offerings that Microsoft world wide services, business partners and customers can use to improve the operational efficiency and security of the Microsoft Platform.
Director

IT Factory Inc

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 7 months)
Director

MICA

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1996 — September 2000 (4 years 9 months)
Consultant

Lotus Consulting

(Management Consulting industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )
Consultant

S.G. Warburg (UBS)

(Management Consulting industry)

1990 — 1996 (6 years )
Consultant

BP Exploration

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1988 — October 1990 (2 years 6 months)
Apprentice

Tektronix

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DHR; Telecommunications industry)

1982 — 1986 (4 years )