Rob England

Current

Owner and Managing Director at Two Hills Ltd

Past

Service Delivery Manager at Health Intelligence (HIQ)
Senior then Principal Consultant at Computer Associates
Presales Manager at Computer Associates

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Education

Massey University
Victoria University of Wellington
University of Canterbury

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Rob England’s Summary

Rob's Catalogue of Services (and pricing) is at http://www.twohills.co.nz/services

I founded Two Hills http://www.linkedin.com/companies/279821 in December 2005 to develop internet-based business opportunities. This is intended to make us financially independent and able to work from anywhere.

I write numerous articles and books, listed here: http://www.twohills.co.nz/portfolio. I have some notoreity as The IT Skeptic. My blog at www.itskeptic.org was initially an experiment in internet presence. It has grown to be a page-rank-4 site with monthly traffic in five figures, and has been the reason for me to be invited to speak at several international conferences.

I also consult on ITIL and related areas, and coach and train sales and service skills. See http://www.engrok.com

I am the newsletter editor for itSMFnz, the professional body for IT Service Management (eg. ITIL) practitioners.

Previously I was CA New Zealand’s Principal Consultant, working with CA (www.ca.com) clients to understand their business issues and requirements and to develop appropriate technology solutions to meet their needs. I dealt mostly with the banking, financial, telecoms, airline, government and defence sectors. I was also a technology strategist in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (part of CA’s global research and development organisation).

I have managed a national team of pre-sales consultants, developed internal and external training (including four day professional development courses), done level one support for the entire product range, been CA Australia's year 2000 specialist, presented at many conferences, and managed client relationships.

I worked in the software industry for 20 years, 17 of them with CA, in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

I hold a BSc in operations research from Victoria University, and ITIL V2 and V3 Foundation Certification from EXIN. I have also studied Adult Education and Electrical Engineering.

Rob England’s Specialties:

Sales and service training and coaching
Open source knowledge, internet communities of interest
Business technologist (mapping business requirements to technology and vice versa)
Software sales coaching
Technical relationship management
ITIL and ITSM consulting
Website business development

Rob England’s Experience

Owner and Managing Director

Two Hills Ltd

(Information Services industry)

December 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)

My entrepreneurial vehicle company

Additional Information

Rob England’s Websites:

Rob England’s Interests:

Entrepreneurship, small business, internet Training and mentoring, especially presales (presenting, demoing, sales strategies) Railways, model and preserved Skeptics

Rob England’s Groups:

IT Service Management Forum itSMF.org.nz,
Information Systems Audit and Control Association isaca.org,
NZ Computer Society nzcs.co.nz (accredited Member),
NZ Skeptics skeptics.org.nz,
International Council of Small Business,
Small Business Entrepreneurship Association Australia and NZ,
Second Life: Twohills Scribe,
Porirua Chamber of Commerce,
NZ Model Railway Association