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July Monthly Chapter Meeting
Thursday, July 15th, 2010

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Come to the meeting and get a chance to WIN an IPOD TOUCH!!!!! We will raffle it off to a lucky HDI member. If you are an HDI member and you bring a non-member to the meeting, you will get 2 raffle tickets (i.e. double the chances to winS). If you are a non-member and you join HDI before or at the meeting, you will be eligible to win. Also we will be giving away an HDI Bronze Membership at our meeting, and that lucky winner will be eligible to win the IPOD TOUCH. The lowest level of HDI membership (Bronze) only costs $75, so what are you waiting for? Click HERE to find out how you can become an HDI member.


Re-engineering the Help Desk/Support Center

    Helpdesks today are facing more challenges than ever with lower budgets, higher costs, and more demand for their services. Bill and Sharon will share their experiences with and knowledge in reducing helpdesk costs while improving quality through process changes and optimization, pushing resolution to the most cost effective level with self-service being an integral channel.

    This session will provide you with an understanding of:

    - Why helpdesks need to be re-engineered

    - Ideas on how to optimize your helpdesk

    - Knowledge centered versus call centered services

    - How to implement effective self-service – it’s not just about the technology!

    - The benefits of a re-engineered help desk/support center


    You can not only survive the challenges of today’s helpdesk environment – you can create a support model that your end users and agents will prefer, with substantially lower costs both short term and long term.

Date:        Thursday, July15th, 2010

Place:       Compucom MAP

                 7171 Forest Lane
                 Dallas ,TX 75230
                 - Parking is available at the front of the center as well as on the West side parking lot. Look for signs to HDI event inside

Guest Speakers:    Sharon Hughes/Bill Miller 
                                
Agenda:

1:30 - 2:00  Networking, refreshments
2:00 - 2:10  Chapter business
2:10 - 2:20 
Web Page Review
2:20 - 2:30  Interactive Survey
2:30 - 3:30  Main Presentation/QA
3:30 - 3:45  Network Break / Survey / Prizes

Speaker Bio:

Sharon Hughes, Vice President of Sales

Sharon Hughes leads Sales across all ii2P product lines and services. She brings over 26 years of IT and management experience to ii2P, including running the Identity Management practice at a $6 billion/year outsourcing company. Sharon has successfully delivered IT solutions for manufacturing, retail, finance, and oil and gas companies. Her unique blend of experience as a hands-on technical developer, as management responsible for purchasing and implementing solutions, as a vendor of 3rd party solutions, and in consulting have given Sharon the insight to understand customer and product issues from all sides.

Prior to joining ii2P, Sharon has been VP of Business Development for a major identity management vendor; Director of Projects at a Sun Identity Management consulting company; and Director of Professional Services at a tier 1 outsourcing company. Sharon is proud to hold a Bachelor of Business degree from Texas A&M University.

Bill Miller, Chief Marketing and Sales Officer

Mr. Miller has 19 years in the IT Outsourcing industry, holding responsibility for all phases of the product life-cycle for helpdesk and call center support products and services including strategic vision, product design, market development and sales and service delivery.

Prior to founding ii2P, Mr. Miller held global management positions at CSC and Entex Information Service.

Mr. Miller has held responsibility for the delivery and operations management of regional and global helpdesks and call center services. Mr. Miller has developed and implemented global continuous improvement programs targeted to improve service delivery consistency and quality, employee and customer satisfaction and overall cost performance, and incorporating integrated Level 0, 1 and 2 services into a seamless service infrastructure. He is experienced in working with global multi-cultural environments. Mr. Miller has served as the primary industry relations interface for the helpdesk product line, performing executive briefings to Industry Analyst, Research groups in North America and EMEA.

Sponsor Partner - ii2P
ii2P is the only service partner today who can optimize helpdesk support to radically improve end-to-end performance, then bolt effective self-service tools onto the front end to achieve a service that both delivers the preferred user interface and lowers cost by an order of magnitude.
www.ii2p.com

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