Experience & About
Craig Wilkinson
Service Turnaround & IT Operations Leader
Blue Signal Systems is a consultant-led practice. Work is hands-on, commercially aware and oriented to restoring control — not selling a fixed product stack.
Working style
Engagements follow Diagnose → Stabilise → Improve → Transfer. The aim is a trustworthy current-state view, clear ownership, practical improvement and a clean handover — whether the vehicle is an assessment, fixed-scope remediation, day-rate support, interim leadership or partner subcontract.
Advice is independent of any single reseller agenda. The emphasis is on what is going wrong, how to regain visibility and governance, and what can be sustained by your organisation afterwards.
Career themes
- Large-scale operations and service delivery leadership
- Complex multi-vendor and SIAM-style environments
- Service transformation and operational remediation
- Supplier governance, onshoring and transition assurance
- Cloud, data and platform change with operational readiness
- Independent assurance and interim / fractional leadership
Evidence themes
Planning-approved themes from CV-backed experience. Final quantified publication still requires owner and legal sign-off — see the owner decisions log.
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Large-scale service and contact-centre operations
Experience at 1,000–2,000 seat service-desk / contact-centre scale, including multi-vendor and SIAM-style environments.
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Onshoring, offshoring and cost restructuring
Led work associated with material annual cost reduction programmes (planning figure: £10m+), with operational transition discipline.
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Technology change with operational handover
Cloud and platform change spanning Azure, AWS and Microsoft 365, with service introduction, SLA/OLA design and hypercare thinking.
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Governance, assurance and standards
ISO 27001 / 9001 awareness in delivery contexts, PCI-sensitive environments, and BCP/DR considerations woven into operations.
A good fit when…
- You need senior judgement quickly, not a junior delivery factory
- The problem spans operations, suppliers, MI and ownership — not a single ticket queue
- You want diagnose → stabilise → improve → transfer, with artefacts left behind
Not a fit when…
- You only need commodity break/fix IT support desk capacity
- You want a large bench pretending to be a consultancy firm
- You need invented testimonials or guaranteed numeric outcomes before diagnosis
About Blue Signal Systems
Blue Signal Systems is the trading name for consultancy delivered by Craig Wilkinson. It is not presented as a large multi-office firm. Legal entity details for contracts and privacy notices remain [CRAIG TO CONFIRM] until owner decisions are completed.
Contact: craig.wilkinson@bluesignalsystems.co.uk · +44 7722 932672
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