Howard Grandon

IT Portfolio Management - Governance Managed operational team of 3 and development team of 8 for approval and prioritization of projects using PMBOK and PRINCE2. Annual budget is $725M. Developed automated project dashboards for ~ 3000 projects aggregated to program level. Developed ISO9000 documentation and nomenclature to classify all work into 9 types for prioritized staffing. Developed metrics to measure the value of projects to the corporation and throughput of governance process.

IT Manager, Distributed Systems Engineering, managed a 5-person team and $9.8M budget, requiring the formation and implementation of a new department that provided technical consulting services for the design and implementation of client/server projects. Other positions included: Senior Project Manager, Specialized Development Services worked with multiple vendors to install SP2 nodes and DB2/PE with VB front-ends.

IT Manager, Distributed System Engineering, managed a 5-person team and $9.8M budget. This required the formation and implementation of a new department to provide technical assistance and consulting services. Senior Project Manager, Specialized Development Services managed a 12-person team, $3M budget. This included the installation of SP2 nodes with DB2/PE and VB front-ends as proof of concept. Presentations were made to the Executive Management Team, financial analysts and the Operations Steering Comm

Worked in the operations department. Other positions included: Lead analyst on the installation of a document management system for medical records and a network to support a new radiology imaging system. Lead analyst and implementer of a QA and scheduling system for the operating suites.