CIO Roundtable Dinner
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Morton's Boardroom
Schaumburg, IL
CIOs are invited to join their peers for an evening of dinner, drinks and discussion at our hosted dinner for local executives. Topics will include relevant and timely issues that CIOs face around managing outsourced IT projects in the current economy.
About Services Procurement Management
Given the sizeable investment companies make in outsourced IT projects, it is critical that these engagements and vendor partnerships are well managed. They need to be based on sound requirements and on vendor deliverables and expectations that are well defined and tracked to completion. While a great deal of effort has been placed on implementing project and vendor management practices to ensure clients get what they need and are paying for from their vendors, significantly less time is spent “upstream” ensuring the soundness of the vendor selection process and of the administrative support processes for managing the contract, SLAs, SLA achievement tracking, etc. Services Procurement Management provides the insight into this part of the engagement lifecycle that ultimately leads to a clients ability to effectively manage and better control the vendor selection and management process. You can download our introductory white paper on SPM.
About the Facilitator
David Gay is TAPFIN’s Director of Service Procurement Management and is responsible for the design, implementation, and operations support of TAPFIN’s SPM programs. David’s unique combination of VMS, SPM, process development, and software development and management experience ensure that TAPFIN’s solutions continue to evolve to meet client needs while ensuring that the technology that supports these solutions is also continuously meeting client requirements. David has been a key contributor in many of TAPFIN’s VMS and SPM programs, including large programs with Cisco, TIAA-CREF, T-Mobile, Amgen, and BMC.
Prior to TAPFIN, David was responsible for Spherion’s VMS programs and for their Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Consulting Practice within the Software Quality Management group, consulting with firms such as Kodak and Xerox in helping them to advance their software development capabilities. David has a bachelor’s in Computer Information Systems from SUNY Binghamton and a master’s in Software Development and Management from Rochester Institute of Technology.
About TAPFIN
TAPFIN Process Solutions is a leading business process outsourcing provider of end-to-end human capital fulfillment and management solutions.TAPFIN develops and implements customized workforce solutions that deliver streamlined and transparent processes across the fulfillment, management and optimization of direct and contingent workforce. TAPFIN's suite of solutions includes vendor management services,recruitment process outsourcing, services procurement management, human resource consulting and executive search that can be tailored to companies of varied sizes and industry focus. For more information, please visit www.tapfin.com.