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As a Consulting Director at Cognizant, Lionel directs a $15 million portfolio of enterprise ServiceNow engagements, including strategic accounts such as Coca\-Cola and FedEx, while leading executive governance with CIO and VP stakeholders\. His strengths include account expansion, delivery governance, ITIL\-aligned service management, operational process improvement, portfolio management, and scaling onshore, offshore, and hybrid teams\. Lionel delivered 15% portfolio growth over three years at Cognizant, expanded scope across 70% of accounts, and led a 60\-to\-80\-person matrix delivery organization\. Across roles at Cognizant, Insight, Infosys, CA, Primavera, Independence Blue Cross, Unisys, CDW, and earlier consulting and communications positions, he has led ServiceNow, BMC Remedy, CA Clarity PPM, ITSM, PMO, and managed\-services initiatives\. His experience spans executive roadmap alignment, pursuit and SOW support, platform implementation, service\-desk operations, client governance, and post\-go\-live support\. Lionel holds a BA in Journalism from Temple University and an MBA in Information Technology from Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business\. ## Services - Management Information Systems \(MIS\) - Strategic Account Development - Enterprise Consulting - Account Directors - Pre/Post Sales Engineers - Onboarding - Capacity Utilization - Engagement Management - Request for Information \(RFI\) - Client Requirements - Routing and Remote Access Service - Customer Success - Multithreaded Development - Employee Engagement - Streamlining Operational Processes - SAP Presales - Executive\-level Communication - Journalism Education - Coaching - Project Work ## Highlights - Directs a $15 million portfolio of enterprise ServiceNow engagements at Cognizant, including strategic accounts such as Coca\-Cola, FedEx, and other Tier 1 North America clients\. - Delivered 15% portfolio growth over three years at Cognizant\. - Expanded scope across 70% of Cognizant accounts by aligning executive roadmaps to measurable business outcomes and attaching managed services to project work\. - Expanded ServiceNow footprints from ITSM into broader enterprise platform adoption\. - Established governance, intake, funding, and pricing models that enabled predictable delivery across business units\. - Recovered a delayed enterprise platform program by resetting governance, improving delivery processes, and addressing performance gaps restored client confidence and unlocked follow\-on work\. - Serves as engagement sponsor for large multi\-workstream programs and leads steering committees, governance cadences, and risk reviews with CIO and VP stakeholders\. - Partners with Sales on scoping, SOW development, pursuit support, pre\-sales demonstrations, RFP and RFI responses, and SME engagement\. - Led a 60\-to\-80\-person matrix delivery organization across onshore, offshore, and hybrid models while scaling capacity to demand and improving utilization\. - Oversaw recurring managed\-services teams of three to 10 FTE per client, supporting multi\-year renewals and reducing churn\. - Formalized delivery processes, operating rhythms, and performance reporting to improve consistency and reduce escalations across the practice\. - Led enterprise SaaS and ITSM implementation and advisory engagements across North America and EMEA at Insight\. - Owned staffing, utilization management, delivery metrics, reporting, and executive escalation leadership for active Insight engagements\. - Managed an internal ServiceNow production\-support organization to support stable post\-go\-live operations and effective transitions from delivery to run teams\. - Built and developed teams of architects, consultants, developers, and project managers through coaching, onboarding, and career development\. - Developed an IT organizational strategy and ITIL\-aligned operating model supporting 24x7 availability at Infosys\. - Led ITIL\-aligned ITSM transformations across incident, problem, change, request, and knowledge processes using ServiceNow, BMC Remedy, HPSM, and Cherwell\. - Managed enterprise transformations, ServiceNow implementations, platform programs, outsourcing, and managed services for clients ranging from Fortune 500 organizations to SMBs with fewer than 500 employees\. - Led enterprise PPM, PMO, governance, workshop, requirements, solution\-design, and global\-rollout work at CA\. - Configured a highly complex interdepartmental approval workflow for a major financial\-services firm in CA Clarity PPM\. - Supported a staged global rollout of resource and demand management for a major software company\. - Developed demand and project\-management workflows for a hair\-care products organization when Clarity PPM lacked New Product Development features\. - Helped a global company establish common PMO processes and performance indicators in CA Clarity, enabling cross\-region comparisons of project proposals and results\. - Helped a major health insurance organization establish an Application Portfolio Management office, generating additional license, training, and services agreements\. - Helped a municipal utility establish a PMO and migrate project managers from a desktop management tool to Clarity, leading to additional training, licensing, and services agreements\. - Managed service support and internal projects at Primavera, including Active Directory, VoIP, and BMC Remedy implementations\. - Managed Service Desk and second\-level support for more than 9,000 desktops and 11,000 users at Independence Blue Cross and brought the function into ITIL alignment\. - Introduced service\-desk metrics and tooling at Independence Blue Cross to improve analytics, customer satisfaction, and resolution time\. - Created repeatable training\-material processes and templates at Independence Blue Cross and redefined document specifications to save more than 30% in printing costs\. - At Unisys, organized server\-documentation production into process\-based groups with shared illustrator resources, improving the team’s ability to meet product deadlines\. ## Experience - **Consulting Director at CDW** (2024\-10\-01–2026\-03\-01) - **Consulting Director at Cognizant** (2021\-10\-01–2024\-09\-01) — Directed a $15M portfolio of enterprise ServiceNow engagements • strategic accounts included Coca\-Cola and FedEx alongside additional Tier 1 North America clients\. • Delivered 15 percent portfolio growth over three years and expanded scope across 70 percent of accounts by aligning executive roadmaps to measurable business outcomes and attaching managed services to project work\. • Expanded ServiceNow footprints from ITSM into broader enterprise platform adoption • established governance, intake, and a funding and pricing model that enabled predictable delivery across business units\. • Recovered a delayed enterprise platform program by resetting governance, upgrading delivery processes, and addressing performance gaps • restored client confidence and unlocked follow\-on engagement work\. • Served as engagement sponsor for large multi\-workstream programs • led steering committees, governance cadences, and risk reviews directly with CIO and VP stakeholders\. • Partnered with Sales on scoping, - **Director of Consulting at Cognizant** (2021\-10\-01–2024\-11\-01) - **Sr\. Engagement Manager at Insight** (2018\-10\-01–2021\-10\-01) — I am responsible for North America for Service Management Consulting\. While the focus is primarily on ServiceNow implementations, we also do assessments and best practice process consulting for the ITIL framework\. In this role, I am responsible for setting the structure or the organization, the methodologies under which we operate and the overall management of our portfolio of clients, projects/programs and pursuits\. - **Senior Engagement Manager at Insight** (2018\-10\-01–2021\-10\-01) — Led a client\-facing services organization delivering enterprise SaaS and ITSM implementations and advisory engagements across North America and EMEA\. • Partnered with Sales, Customer Success, and solution architecture teams to scope and propose implementations and custom solutions • presented value to prospects\. • Owned staffing, utilization management, delivery metrics and reporting, and executive escalation leadership for active engagements\. • Managed internal ServiceNow production support organization to ensure stable post\-go\-live operations and effective transition from delivery to running teams\. • Built and developed teams of architects, consultants, developers, and project managers through coaching, onboarding, and career development\. - **Account Delivery Manager at Infosys** (2012\-05\-01–2018\-10\-01) — Account delivery leader for a portfolio of large enterprise clients, owning program delivery for transformations, platform implementations, and managed services\. • Developed an IT organizational strategy and ITIL\-aligned operating model supporting 24x7 availability • facilitated global stakeholder alignment and presented roadmap to executive leadership\. • Drove ITIL\-aligned ITSM transformations across incident, problem, change, request, and knowledge processes using ServiceNow, BMC Remedy, HPSM, and Cherwell\. • Supported North America pursuits through services scoping and sales support • contributed to offerings aligned to market needs and client demand\. • Managed onshore and offshore resources • ensured success of run and support delivery while coordinating enhancements and roadmap initiatives\. • Established and maintained senior client relationships, aligned stakeholders through workshops, governance, and executive communications\. - **Principal at Infosys** (2012\-05\-01–2018\-10\-01) — Account Delivery, Engagement and Program Manager for enterprise Service Management and Project Portfolio Management \(ServiceNow, Clarity PPM, BMC Remedy, CA\) I manage large enterprise accounts and oversee transformation, implementation programs, and outsourcing in the ITSM and Project Management spaces\. I work with the client to ensure the success of programs, projects and offshore work for their organizations on IT Service Management, Monitoring and Project Portfolio Management\. I help our company maintain its relationship with our accounts and understand their needs and get the right people to propose solutions\. I also outline our delivery methodology, acquire resources for delivery \(internal and subcontractors\), and provide a governance framework\. I have managed projects across all ITSM and project management processes across all industry verticals\. My clients have ranged from Fortune 500 to SMBs with less than 500 employees\. Responsible for establishing and maintaining client - **Architect at CA, INC** (2007\-10\-01–2012\-05\-01) — Collaborating with Sales team to present high level solutions to prospects Scope and write Statements of Work Build teams and project plans for solution implementation Manage and maintain client relationships Provide oversight to on\-site and remote team members during solution build and testing Lead client workshops and develop solution requirements and design Key results: Helped global company establish common business processes supported by CA Clarity for its PMO as a worldwide standard\. Resolved disparate business case and project management methodologies and performance indicators, enabling "apples to apples" comparisons of project proposals and results by portfolio managers across regions\. Worked with regional resources to establish goals, baselines, and metrics, allowing understanding of company's investments and their value to enterprise initiatives\. Worked for six months with major health insurance organization in the role of architect/ trusted advisor to create an Applicatio - **Sr\. Consultant at CA** (2006\-10\-01–2007\-10\-01) — Configure Clarity PPM according to architect's design Test Clarity PPM configuration Resolve configuration defects during User Acceptance Testing Assisting in migration to Production Provide initial post\-production support Key results: Configured a highly complex workflow for a major financial services firm\. The challenge was to account for the multiple variations possible with inter\-departmental approvals\. Worked with a major software company to configure and roll out a solution for resource and demand management\. The complexity was in the fact that the organization was global and required coordination between multiple countries\. In the end, the build was successfully rolled out, in stages, to allow for collaboration across borders\. Worked with a hair care product organization to develop workflow processes for demand and project management\. It was challenging in that, at the time, Clarity PPM did not have New Product Development features\. Most of the functionality had to be confi - **Manager, Information Services at Primavera** (2005\-06\-01–2006\-04\-01) — Managed service support/delivery operations team and internal projects\. Key results: Worked with small company \(400 employees\) to manage previously underserved service support team\. Fostered team understanding of support organization goals and internal client concerns, working together to improve service, as measured by request response time and customer satisfaction\. Brought in consultant to install Active Directory to replace unsupported Windows NT network, moving company quickly to a more modern framework with little disruption in day\-to\-day operations\. Managed implementation of a new voice over IP \(VoIP\) telephone network\. Managed implementation of BMC Remedy to manage service desk operations\. Improved customer satisfaction, response time, and mean resolution time\. - **Sr\. Solution Consultant at CA, Inc\.** (2003\-01\-01–2007\-12\-01) — The Sr\. Consultant role involves doing the functional configuration of CA's Clarity Project Portfolio Management suite of tools to support business processes\. As a Sr\. Solution Consultant, business process re\-engineering work is often required as a component of projects\. - **Technology Specialist at Earlier Career** (2002\-04\-01–2012\-05\-01) — CA Technologies, Architect / Senior Consultant: Led enterprise PPM, PMO, and governance implementations • facilitated workshops, requirements, solution design, and global rollouts\. • Primavera Systems, Manager, Information Services: Managed service support and internal projects • led Remedy implementation and VoIP rollout\. • Independence Blue Cross, Manager, Service Desk: Managed service desk and second\-level support for 11,000 users • implemented ITIL practices\. - **Manager, Service Desk at Independence Blue Cross** (2002\-04\-01–2005\-06\-01) — Managed service and support function for a major regional health insurer responsible for over 9000 desktops and 11000 users\. Key Results: Brought Service Desk and 2nd level support into compliance with the ITIL framework resulting in improved customer satisfaction and repeatable processes for service support and delivery\. Aligned Service Desk and 2nd level support to improve customer satisfaction and decrease average resolution time\. Managed implementation of a new service desk tool resulting in improved analytics, allowing for earlier problem identification\. Improved overall resolution time for organization by partnering with 3rd level \(application, server, etc\.\) areas to raise awareness and improve processes\. Formed partnerships between business area customers and the service and support organization for greater productivity and better problem identification and resolution\. Created baseline metrics for the organization allowing " apples to apples" comparisons with other org - **Supervisor \- Service Desk at Independence Blue Cross** (2000\-04\-01–2003\-10\-01) - **Lead Technical Writer at Independence Blue Cross** (2000\-04\-01–2002\-04\-01) — Led a team of technical writers producing online and print training materials for the organization\. Key Results: Identified improvements to project delivery and project quality, resulting in increased team focus and more measurable results\. Created repeatable processes and templates for producing training materials, resulting in decreased project time and better quality products\. Identified tools that would help improve products\. Introduced enterprise document management solution and other up\-to\-date desktop tools\. Re\-defined document specifications \(type of paper, binding, etc\.\) to save the organization over 30% in printing costs\. - **Manager at Unisys** (1999\-02\-01–2000\-03\-01) — Managed a team in the production and release of server documentation for various products\. Key Results: Organized team into process\-based production groups with shared resources \(illustrators\) to better meet product deadlines\. Partnered with hardware/software teams to create earlier lead on building documentation resulting in more timely completion of projects\. Adjusted design of documents to better match products\. - **Director, Marketing Consulting at CPNM, Inc\.** (1997\-01\-01–1999\-01\-01) - **Business & Economic Editor at WRTI\-FM** (1986\-01\-01–1988\-01\-01) ## Education - Bachelor of Arts, Journalism — Temple University - BA, Journalism — Temple University - Bachelor of Arts \- BA, Broadcast Journalism — Temple University - Master of Business Administration, Information Technology — Drexel University's LeBow College of Business - Master of Business Administration, Business Administration and Management, General — Drexel University ## FAQ ### What does Lionel do? Lionel Laratte is a director\-level ServiceNow and consulting leader specializing in delivery operations, managed services growth, strategic client partnerships, enterprise consulting, and account expansion\. He leads enterprise transformation, implementation, governance, and support programs across IT service management and project portfolio management\. ### What does Lionel do at Cognizant? At Cognizant, Lionel directs a $15 million portfolio of enterprise ServiceNow engagements for strategic accounts including Coca\-Cola, FedEx, and other Tier 1 North America clients\. He serves as an engagement sponsor for large, multi\-workstream programs leads steering committees, governance cadences, and risk reviews with CIO and VP stakeholders and partners with Sales on scoping, SOW development, pursuits, demos, RFPs, RFIs, and SME engagement\. ### What growth did Lionel deliver at Cognizant? Lionel delivered 15% portfolio growth over three years and expanded scope across 70% of accounts by aligning executive roadmaps to measurable business outcomes and attaching managed services to project work\. He expanded ServiceNow from ITSM into broader enterprise platform adoption and established governance, intake, funding, and pricing models for predictable delivery across business units\. ### How has Lionel improved delivery performance? Lionel recovered a delayed enterprise platform program by resetting governance, improving delivery processes, and addressing performance gaps\. This restored client confidence and unlocked follow\-on engagement work\. He also formalized delivery processes, operating rhythms, and performance reporting to improve consistency and reduce escalations across the practice\. ### What managed\-services and team leadership experience does Lionel have? Lionel led a 60\-to\-80\-person matrix delivery organization across onshore, offshore, and hybrid models, scaling capacity to demand while improving utilization\. He also oversaw recurring managed\-services teams of three to 10 FTE per client, supporting multi\-year renewals and reducing churn through operational rigor and stakeholder alignment\. ### What did Lionel accomplish at Insight? At Insight, Lionel held Senior Engagement Manager and Sr\. Engagement Manager roles\. He led a client\-facing services organization delivering enterprise SaaS and ITSM implementations and advisory engagements across North America and EMEA managed staffing, utilization, delivery metrics, reporting, and executive escalations and led an internal ServiceNow production\-support organization to support stable post\-go\-live operations and transitions to run teams\. ### What was Lionel responsible for as Sr\. Engagement Manager at Insight? In his Sr\. Engagement Manager role at Insight, Lionel was responsible for North America Service Management Consulting, with a focus on ServiceNow implementations as well as assessments and ITIL best\-practice process consulting\. He set organizational structure and methodologies and managed the portfolio of clients, projects, programs, and pursuits\. ### What did Lionel do at Infosys? At Infosys, Lionel served as an Account Delivery Manager and Principal for enterprise service management and project portfolio management accounts\. He owned delivery for transformations, platform implementations, managed services, outsourcing, and offshore work developed IT organizational strategy and an ITIL\-aligned operating model supporting 24x7 availability and presented roadmaps to executive leadership\. ### What platforms and ITSM processes has Lionel led? Lionel drove ITIL\-aligned ITSM transformations across incident, problem, change, request, and knowledge processes using ServiceNow, BMC Remedy, HPSM, and Cherwell\. He managed onshore and offshore resources, supported North America pursuits and market\-aligned offerings, coordinated run\-and\-support delivery with enhancements and roadmap initiatives, and maintained senior client relationships through workshops, governance, and executive communications\. ### What was Lionel’s experience at CA? At CA, Lionel worked as an Architect, Sr\. Solution Consultant, Sr\. Consultant, and earlier Architect/Senior Consultant\. His work included CA Clarity PPM functional configuration, business\-process re\-engineering, requirements, workshops, solution design, SOWs, project plans, client relationship management, testing, production migration, defect resolution during user acceptance testing, and initial post\-production support\. ### What notable CA Clarity PPM projects has Lionel delivered? Lionel configured a complex interdepartmental approval workflow for a major financial\-services firm supported a staged, global rollout of resource and demand management for a software company and developed demand and project\-management workflows for a hair\-care products organization when Clarity PPM lacked New Product Development features\. He also helped a global company standardize PMO processes and performance measures in CA Clarity, helped a health insurer establish an Application Portfolio Management office, helped a municipal utility establish a PMO and migrate from a desktop management tool to Clarity, and architected a global project and resource\-management solution\. ### What did Lionel accomplish at Primavera? At Primavera, Lionel managed service\-support and delivery operations and internal projects for a company with 400 employees\. He improved service through attention to support goals and internal\-client concerns, brought in a consultant to replace an unsupported Windows NT network with Active Directory with little day\-to\-day disruption, and managed VoIP and BMC Remedy implementations\. He improved customer satisfaction, response time, and mean resolution time\. ### What did Lionel accomplish at Independence Blue Cross? At Independence Blue Cross, Lionel served as Supervisor and Manager of the Service Desk and as Lead Technical Writer\. In service\-desk leadership, he managed service and support for more than 9,000 desktops and 11,000 users, implemented ITIL practices, aligned the Service Desk and second\-level support, introduced a new service\-desk tool, created baseline metrics, improved resolution time, reduced turnover, and strengthened FTE education\. As Lead Technical Writer, he led production of online and print training materials, created repeatable processes and templates, introduced an enterprise document\-management solution and updated desktop tools, and redefined document specifications to save more than 30% in printing costs\. ### What did Lionel do at Unisys? At Unisys, Lionel managed a team producing server documentation for multiple products\. He organized the team into process\-based production groups with shared illustrator resources to better meet product deadlines, partnered with hardware and software teams to create earlier documentation lead time, and adjusted document design to better match products\. ### What other organizations and roles are part of Lionel’s career? Lionel has also been a Consulting Director at CDW, Director of Marketing Consulting at CPNM, Inc\., and Business & Economic Editor at WRTI\-FM\. His earlier career also includes Technology Specialist work spanning CA Technologies and Primavera Systems\. ### What are Lionel’s professional skills? Lionel’s listed skills include management information systems, strategic account development, enterprise consulting, account direction, pre\- and post\-sales engineering, onboarding, capacity utilization, engagement management, RFI support, client requirements, routing and remote access service, customer success, multithreaded development, employee engagement, streamlining operational processes, SAP presales, executive\-level communication, journalism education, coaching, and project work\. ### What is Lionel’s education? Lionel holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Temple University, also listed as a BA in Broadcast Journalism\. He also holds an MBA in Information Technology from Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business, with an additional listing of an MBA in Business Administration and Management, General from Drexel University\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/lionellaratte