Maynard Belson
Mr. Belson provides clients with extensive management experience in IT operations and
expertise in IT outsourcing. Maynard has a proven track record leading large teams, creating
and communicating strategy and vision for those teams, and guiding them through implementation.
The majority of Maynard's experience has been focused in the IT arena but also includes
engagements in finance and marketing. Maynard has been involved in sourcing engagements from a
client executive sponsor position. He has directed large sourcing evaluations involving both
outsourcing and insourcing decisions. Through his leadership, major sourcing transitions were
implemented as part of numerous merger and acquisition efforts.
A Senior IT Advisor with over 35 years of IT experience with in depth background in
managing Data Center and operations group consolidations through mergers/acquisitions and
process re-engineering.
- State Government IT Infrastructure Integration: For state government initiative,
Maynard was the primary IT advisor. He developed the data gathering approach and related
documents for IT inventories; developed the resource baselines with the financial lead;
created the statements of work for four towers along with all supporting appendices. He also
developed training materials and educated the Client on issues related to data gathering and
SOW creation. He wrote and presented various presentations for the executive oversight committee
representing the involved business units to familiarize them with the outsourcing process. As
part of these presentations developed, a series of visioning sessions to solicit their thinking
and input as to the strategic advantages a sourcing engagement could provide the business was
developed.
- State Government Data Center Consolidation: Maynard worked with a team of sourcing
advisors from assessment through RFP development for an IT infrastructure sourcing engagement.
During the engagement he was instrumental in the development of an ITIL assessment tool that
was used to provide an enterprise perspective of operational process maturity for the business
units. While Maynard lead the development of the data network RFP, he also served as the IT SME
for the computing infrastructure RFP and the overall structure of SLAs. As demonstrated in other
engagements Maynard’s ability to communicate on both a technical and senior management level
provide an effective bridge in the analysis of technical and managerial perspectives critical
to the formulation of sourcing alternatives.
- Messaging Services: Maynard worked with a large state government in revision of an
RFP already in negotiations. As part of the team he reviewed the statements of work and assisted
in the restructuring of SLAs for the final negotiations. In addition, he performed due diligence at
the service providers proposed Data Center location and provided a formal feedback report to the
client to be used in the final review and decision making.
- Large Travel and Leisure Company: Maynard was the IT lead in a sourcing engagement
which included IT infrastructure (data center consolidation, mainframe, server, desktop, print/mail,
data and voice network), call center infrastructure and application development for Finance and HR.
He developed the data gathering, development of resource baselines, statements of work, and SLAs that
formed the core of the RFP. Maynard lead the negotiations related to all technical aspects of the
engagement including development of relevant due diligence efforts for both parties and resolution of
issue arising from the due diligence. Throughout the process from RFP development through final
Board approval of the contract he assisted in the development of various levels of presentations
for Executive Management.
- Large Health Care Company: in the midst of final negotiations for an IT Infrastructure
contract Maynard joined the team on an ad hoc basis to gather data and make a recommendation on the
inclusion of a recently acquired subsidiary that was in the midst of a merger transition. In a matter
of weeks the team of two that Maynard was part of gathered sufficient breadth and depth of financial,
asset, inventory, service level and workforce information to provide senior management with viable
recommendation. The inclusion of this subsidiary facilitated additional savings along with
accelerating the integrations of technologies and standards across the enterprise.
Previously Maynard served in senior management positions at SBC. In his last role as Assistant Vice
President of Data Center Operations, he was responsible for all Data Center operations support for
SBC Communications, including technology selection for mainframes, midrange, Wintel, storage and
database management systems. In this assignment, he managed a workforce of 1,500 with an annual
operations budget of US$650 million. In various assignments throughout his career, Maynard successfully
provided the leadership for numerous organizational restructures, Data Center consolidations and
functional integrations. His responsibility included integration of various independent IT organizations
in the SBC wireless sector into a common management structure with common business processes and
technology standards. While at SBC, he also managed sourcing engagements encompassing more than
US$50 million in annual expenditures.