William (Bill) Howey Email & Phone Number

Group 1 Automotive and other accounts• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives. • Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization. • Define and initiate projects, and assign coordinators to manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program. • Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent. • Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team environment. • Present periodic Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities and client issues. Write or supervise creation of technical manuals documents and presentations as needed.

Senior Tier 1 Manager National Deployment Projects, Pomeroy IT Solutions 2004 – 2007• External project team lead to deploy multiple national projects• Write documentation as need is discovered and publish to all Sharepoint portals• Manage the Define, Design, Develop, Deploy and Transition phases of an Enterprise system rollout in 50 states. • Called in to save Hewlett Packard national infrastructure upgrade and deployment project.• Manage HR hiring for 150 Just in Time technicians for 48 state rollout• Development of SharePoint document portal for customer reporting/feedback; PMO repository.• Built Client/stakeholder relations through internet dashboard reporting/ weekly conference, Executive briefings with PowerPoint presentations.• full project Financial Responsibilities Client Relationships and Senior Management Presentations• Project Manager for the Define, Design, Develop Deploy and Transition phases of managed client engagements, services, and solutions implementations.

• Established Project Management Office at client site. • Responsible for the development of new services and license business opportunities in the assigned region. • Responsible for the recruiting, management and career development of consulting staff, • Provided project turn-around expertise at the customer site with emphasis on regaining customer confidence. • Responsible for staff/account management and prioritization and forecasting. • Met professional services revenue and profit quotas while managing regional P&L. • Provided delivery management to ensure customer satisfaction and reference-ability • Developed project plans and assumed responsibility for project profit and loss. • Monitored project activities and advised staff of issues due to resource availability.

• Increased the company’s growth by securing new partners, consulting engagements and by delivering new projects. • Responsible for program and portfolio management activities within the Sales and Marketing divisionwith regard to K-12 and higher education.• Front facing K-12 Administrators, teachers, stakeholders as pre sales engineer teamed with an Education Account executive for Software, systems and hardware sales, topping Gatewway sales records in the educational sector. • Executed and maintained program management processes and disciplines in the areas of: program schedule and quality management; communications management; human resource management; cost management; procurement management; risk / issue management; change management. • Mentored staff in methodology and consulting excellence and encouraged best practice in project management and project planning. • Managed budget for the organization to influence organization's financial profitability. • Managed and perform the process of Statement of Work and contract creation to secure new and follow-on work. • Proactively managed systems development, implementation and risk via the use of SDLC.• Fostered Customer loyalty by ensuring that customers fully utilized the value of our solutions and services.

• Developed business cases with emphasis on internal programming, 3rd party provisioning • Managed cost budget to allocate overall cost estimate to individual tasks• Manage offshore development to internal programming cycles. • Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-day issues with emphasis on SDLC.

Mpa, Public Administration

Masters, Project Management

Ba, Communications