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IT And Telecom Services Expert, Mike Ortega Joins The Team Of Alsbridge Consultants As Vice President
IT and telecom services expert, Mike Ortega, has joined the team Alsbridge as Vice President, Business Development, announced the global leader in data-driven benchmarking, outsourcing advisory and network transformation services.
Mike has more than 30 years of experience in the technology and telecommunications industry with Hewlett Packard, MCI and several venture backed startups. His experience includes high-performance IP routing technologies, content distribution, co-location, cloud and managed services, call center and outsourcing services. Mike has successfully development and led world-class sales organizations, joint ventures and strategic partnerships. Welcoming Mike to the team, Alsbridge Inc., CEO, Chip Wagner said, “Mike is an active proponent of the IT and outsourcing industry, helping to create professional standards and thought leadership that has shaped the industry.”
Prior to joining Alsbridge Inc., Mike was working with MCI (now Verizon), where he ran the three largest practices on the West Coast, managing the Financial, Technology and Automotive Branches, with 75 employees and $750 million in revenues. He also created and implemented MCI’s first outsourcing engagement with Microsoft creating a new outsourcing program with the development of a 600 seat Call Center for a Windows launch implementing Microsoft’s training and KPI’s. Mike was also lead negotiator on the largest outsourcing project at MCI, working with British Telecom on a $1B project to outsource the CSC infrastructure. Throughout his career Mike has held executive positions in global accounts and national accounts, as well as CEO and CMO with several startups. “We are very pleased to have Mike join our team of knowledgeable consultants as Alsbridge continues to grow through talent acquisition,” says Dieter Thompson, President of Alsbridge.
Mike graduated from the UCLA with a Bachelor of Science (B Sc.), Kinesiology.
About Alsbridge
Alsbridge is a global consulting firm that helps companies transform and optimize the way they purchase, manage and leverage technology and business processes. We have over 200 team members on 3 continents serving over 200 clients a year including more than 40% of the Fortune 500. Alsbridge has helped hundreds of companies reduce costs and get more value from their vendors. Our experienced consultants leverage proprietary tools and information databases to identify and engage the optimal vendors for your situation, negotiate best practice terms at fair market prices, and improve the way you work with your service providers. Alsbridge clients utilize the most cost effective and value added sources globally for IT infrastructure services, network carrier services, hardware and software, application support and development, business processes and cloud services.
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