Kevin Isbister

Current

Principle Consultant at Prime Recruitment

Past

Director and Managing Consultant at Precise Resourcing
Contract Recruitment Team Leader at Lorien Resourcing
Recruitment Consultant at Pathway Resourcing

Sales Executive at Hargreaves Limited

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Education

Loughborough University
Ingleton FC
The University of Manchester

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Kevin Isbister’s Summary

Experienced IT recruiter covering full spectrum of IT vacancies. Although I work across various industry sectors, I have a strong candidate and client base across the Education space (ICT Consultancy/Educational Design and Capital Build Programmes) supplying resource into both educational establishments and suppliers/contractors. I also work exclusiveley with a small number of leading systems integrators to source leading talent into challenging job roles.

Kevin Isbister’s Specialties:

Skills recruited:

• Business Change and Transformation, Programme Management
• Project Management and Business Analysis
• Education Consultants – ICT or Educational design background (supplier/buyer experience) BSF/PFI Bid experience
• GIS - ESRI ArcGIS, ArcIMS, MAPINFO, WebGIS
• Software Development/Web/eCommerce (Java/J2EE, .Net, VB.Net, ASP.Net, C#.Net, X++, XML, Web services)
• ERP/CRM (Axapta, Dynamics AX, Oracle, SAP)

Kevin Isbister’s Experience

Principle Consultant

Prime Recruitment

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)

Senior recruitment professional operating within the following markets:
Educational Design, ICT Consultancy and Programme/Project Management within Capital Build Programmes including BSF (Building Schools for the Future), Academies and Primary Capital Build. Education consultancy around leadership and curriculum development, federation formation, strategic change on a regional/national level and the broader ICT agenda across Education.

Roles recruited for and recent assignments include:

• BSF Programme Director – BSF Primary Contractor
• BSF Project Manager – BSF Primary Contractor
• Education Design Manager – Becta/PfS Technical Advisory
• ICT Consultant – Academies – Consultancy Services Supplier
• ICT Consultant – BSF – Consultancy Services Supplier
• Education Consultant – Academies – Consultancy Services Supplier
• Academies Bid Manager – Consultancy Services Supplier
• Project Director – Consultancy Services Supplier
• Education Programmes Bid Manager – Consultancy Services Supplier
• BSF Solutions Architect – BSF Primary Contractor
• Principle Consultant, Education and Public Services – Leading Management Consultancy
• Associate Consultants, Capital Build Programmes – Various Consultancy Services Providers
• Principle Consultant, Education – Big 4 Consultancy

I also manage the contract recruitment function for Prime, sourcing candidates for interim assignments across IT Projects, Management Consultants, Supply Chain/Procurement and Security personnel.
Director and Managing Consultant

Precise Resourcing

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

July 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 1 month)

With extensive experience understanding both clients and candidates personal requirements, we aim to meet your expectations by listening, understanding and delivering the right job or candidate to you first time, every time. Precise currently operate from our Northern Office in Leeds and operate on a national basis. We believe one size doesn't fit all, therefore we apply a tailored approach to meet individuals needs.

Precise Resourcing focus on sourcing contract and permanent candidates for IT jobs across the UK. We have a solid understanding of IT departments, technologies, infrastructures and functions and focus on the basics of matching candidates with the right technical skills, competencies and personalities to fit into your company for the long term.

Roles recruited for include:
• IT Support
• Software Development
• Web Design/Development
• Business Analysis
• ERP/CRM
• Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing
• Project/Programme Management
• IT Manager
• IT Director

We treat every job as an individual and priority assignment. We aim to fully understand every client and candidates concise needs, we listen to what they want and why, then deliver accurate and suitable candidates or opportunities to them. We are not a KPI driven organisation, but as the name suggests, an organisation that works efficiently and thoroughly to deliver a "Precise" match to what you are looking for.

We adopt a personable and where possible, visual approach, meeting candidates and visiting client sites to gain a detailed understanding of each and matching appropriately. If you would like to discuss finding a new opportunity or speak to us about hiring a new member of staff, please get in touch.
Contract Recruitment Team Leader

Lorien Resourcing

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2004 — July 2008 (3 years 9 months)

Contract Recruitment Team Leader and hands on Senior Recruitment Consultant for Lorien Resourcing managing various large accounts for Lorien covering the full scope of IT projects and departments with a focus on ERP/CRM (Axapta, Dynamics AX, and Oracle), Microsoft Enterpsrise technologies (.Net Framework, Sharepoint and Biztalk), Business Change/Transformation and Business Intelligence (Data Warehousing, ETL Tools, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Actuate) contract recruitment and opportunities. Please get in contact should be looking at contract opportunities in the following areas or require specialist staff on an interim basis.
Recruitment Consultant

Pathway Resourcing

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

March 2004 — November 2004 (9 months)

Managed recruitment of Testing professionals into SME's and Blue Chip organisations. Focus on providing full test teams or individuals to provide project based testing services.
Sales Executive

Hargreaves Limited

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Automotive industry)

July 2003 — May 2004 (11 months)

Managed vehicle sales to private customers alongside business development to corporate customers to provide company fleet propositions.

Kevin Isbister’s Education

Loughborough University

BSc , Geography , 2000 — 2003

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/gy/

Various modules related to physical and human georaphy. Specific interest in quantitative and qualitative research related to change across geographical area's. Dissertation study was on the affects of tidal currents on rivers in relation to current equilibrium.
Ingleton FC
The University of Manchester