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Director of Global Sourcing at A&E Consulting Earns Certified Outsourcing Professional Designation

Posted on: Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 07:30 CDT

GLENDALE, Calif., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Alice Khosravy, Managing Partner and Director of Global Sourcing Strategies at A&E Consulting, has recently been awarded the title of Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP) by The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), the global, standard-setting organization and advocate for the outsourcing profession. Alice now joins an elite group of individuals in the outsourcing industry with this prestigious designation. The Certified Outsourcing Professional designation, focusing on the management process of outsourcing itself, is equally valuable to individuals working as customers, providers or advisors. It promotes an environment where all parties in an outsourcing business relationship have a common and shared professional knowledge, approach and commitment to mutual success. To receive the COP title, candidates must complete an extensive application documenting what projects they have led and the results achieved. The application then goes before a peer review panel. By earning the COP distinction, Alice has demonstrated the experience and knowledge required to design, implement and manage outsourcing initiatives that have a high probability of achieving an organization's intended outcomes.

Brief Bio

Alice is managing partner at A&E Consulting and serves as the Director of Global Sourcing Strategies where she leads a team that focuses on assisting clients with Global IT Sourcing Strategies that are aligned with their overall corporate goals. She empowers her clients with implementation wisdom that allows them to avoid the pitfalls that derail most IT outsourcing programs.

Alice has 15 years of experience in system integration. She has worked with a diverse cross-section of industries. Some of the most common are banking, e-commerce, energy and natural resources, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and utilities. Her experience includes extensive work with SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel, Sales Logix, and various proprietary software. Her hands-on development experience led to a natural extension into development team lead, project management, and remote team management. She has extensive experience in hands-on development, training, production support, mentoring, and knowledge transfer. Having real-world technical knowledge, project design utilizing sound project implementation best practices and methodologies, Project Management Organization creation and governance, vendor selection and contract management, combined with her graduate studies in economics, provide a solid base for assisting companies with global sourcing IT strategies that provide her clients creative solutions, practical implementation plans, and quantifiable results.

About A&E Consulting

A&E Consulting is a full-service consulting firm that has been successfully helping clients with their global needs. The consulting firm does not offer a "one size fits all" approach when it comes to global sourcing. The experienced global sourcing strategists at A&E Consulting understand that every organization has individual requirements, which is why they customize their services. A&E Consulting's mission is to ensure their clients' access to the best outsourcing options and to enable client success through the use of proven strategic solutions.

For more information on the company and its service offerings, please visit http://www.GlobalSourceYourIT.com or contact Alice Khosravy at (661) 200-3612.

About IAOP

International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) brings together the world's leading outsourcing customers, providers and advisors in a powerful, active and growing global association to exchange thought leadership, share best practices and network to maximize their effectiveness using outsourcing as a management tool. For more information on IAOP and the COP certification, please visit http://www.outsourcingprofessional.org.

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SOURCE A&E Consulting

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