Mike Koessler

Background

About Mike Koessler

Mike is an IT Consultant and a Certified Management Consultant with 35 years of working experience for Large Multi-National IT Integrators, and different levels of Canadian Government Agencies (Provincial and Federal). This gives him unique capabilities for vendor management activities and a keen understanding of team dynamics in contracted services. Past engagements have included leading contract development, coaching younger project managers, strategic planning, managing technology infrastructure projects. He is looking to expand his career and cultural experiences and use his language skills in an overseas assignment in France, Germany or elsewhere in Europe. He has a keen interest in the political dynamics of the European Union in Strasbourg and Brussels. Specialties: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - Delivered oral presentations with the responsibility to fully describe the business value of a technology solution to ADM and DM level clients - Directed the development and delivery of the technology strategy for large outsourcing engagements PROJECT and CLIENT MANAGEMENT - Directed and provided executive oversight for the start-up activities to build the IT infrastructure (servers, networks, management systems) for a 10-year contract valued over $100 million dollars - Managed in various roles, four (4) + workstations deployment in a challenging multi-stakeholder environment, on time, on budget with high customer rating CONTRACT MANAGEMENT - Delivered SME negotiation services for the client on a 10 year public sector telecomm contract worth in excess of $75 million dollars - Consensus builder in multi stakeholder environment - External Reviewer of IT Service offerings for improvements