Leads the Customer Project Management Organization.Responsible for Establishing the Customer Project Management and Phase Gate Reviews.Responsible for creating the PMO that provides templates for Customer Project execution.

Program Management Leader/Author/Subject Matter Expert that is focused on implementing business optimization programs that improves stakeholders revenues and margins.Dr. Howes is an speaker, author, scholar, and consultant who is applauded for his dedication to helping individuals enrich their lives and organizations optimize their performance. He is recognized worldwide as a leading expert in business optimization to include strategic and operations management, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, and organizational change methodologies. Dr. Howes is referred to as "the change expert" by executives struggling to get their organizations pulling in the same direction and by managers and employees at all levels careworn in safeguarding organizational excellence. He believes "individual fear of the unknown is the chief forbidding characteristic that prevents change efforts from succeeding. Remove the ambiguity by frequently and candidly sharing the need for the change and forecasting the desired future state and you improve your chances of success ten-fold—Guaranteed!" Dr. Greg believes systems create their own problems and focuses his efforts on system optimization and on BlameBustingTM.

Led the Program and the Project Management Office of 100+ Program and Project Management personnel in a global satellite and support infrastructure system that spans every region in the world, and provided thought and execution leadership for strategic operational, integration, and business process projects.

Program Management Leader that is focused on implementing business optimization programs that improves stakeholders revenues and margins.Successfully provided business optimization consultation services to include road map conception of organization redesign for a $250M+ energy client; developing and delivering several 40 hour Project Management Professional (PMP) training courses, providing supply chain and inventory stocking level consultation to a chemical supplier; assisting in product engineering and product to market efforts for an innovative electronic assembly; developing and delivering several 3 day workshops on process improvement and team building; researching, creating, and delivering white papers on subjects of unionization efforts, systems thinking, communication, ethics, etc.; and participating in several other engagements to improve bottom-line and top-line performance by sucessfully executing Business Optimization Projects.

Reporting to Presidents, Maritime & Energy Solutions, established the program management office and coached program managers in APAC, EMEA, and the Americas as well as established policies and procedures for Harris CapRock. Lead $120M/year in business while increasing revenues by 14% & margins by 18%.

Directly contributed to significant synergies by leading the integration of Program Management, Project Management, and 3 Engineering disciplines of $1B+ in acquisitions. Developed common understanding and established company policies and procedures by leading numerous workshops with cross-functional teams from diverse departments (operations engineering, sales engineering, project engineering, program management, project management), different acquisitions (CapRock, GCS Schlumberger, Core 180, and Maritime Communication Services), and divergent cultures (APAC, EMEA, and the Americas) and assisted in $40M in realized synergies.

Increased revenue by 32% and margin by 23% by establishing program execution policies and a results oriented culture in the development, test, and deployment of a $100M subsea network. Awarded Program Manager of the Year and Development Program Manager of the Year.

Won GSA’s $50B Alliant Government Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) by developing the Basic Contract Plan & Proposal that used an innovative approach of presenting highlights instead of details, and focused on Harris’ ethical standing, career opportunities, global presence, and user friendly website for contract execution.Obtained Harris’ first contract with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and facilitated the agreement to acquire a small business with an acknowledged DIA business base by developing Harris’ business and corporate level strategies for the $1B DIA market.Submitted a fully compliant $600M cost proposal to support rebuilding the U.S. Air Traffic Control system by developing a practical WBS, leading a team of 30 engineers in developing detailed bases of estimates, and constructing a leasing strategy that matched the customer’s funding profile.Developed the foundation for Harris’ Price-to-Win (PTW) and Independent Cost Estimate (ICE) procedures by working with 3 different consulting agencies and performing individual research.

Increased internal customer satisfaction of Operations and Business Development units by re-engineering several departments including: Human Resources, Contracts, Subcontracts, Purchasing, Facilities, Security, and Technical Publications & Graphics.Improved efficiencies 7% by clarifying roles and identifying cross-functional alternates.Enhanced employee moral significantly by implementing communication plans and team building events.Won a $25M program by facilitating interdivisional cooperation and developing efficient collaboration methods.Reduced effective costs $1.5M by changing the Technical Publications & Graphics department from a cost center to a profit center.

Decreased time to market by 12%, reduced quality defects by 23%, and improved margins by 6% by leading a change management effort and establishing ISO9000 and CMMI processes based on disciplined, yet practical approaches.

Increased overall program margins by establishing detailed program management policies, and creating program educational material.Improved margins 100% on a major weapon system program by implementing functional and cross-functional employee involvement teams.

Productized Video Trackers and Satellite Imagery Products for medium scale markets and production.Developed Video Tracking algorithms and Optical Transmission Products.

Developed Test Procedures and test software code, troubleshot and repaired digital, analog, RF, and stabilized and polar tracking antennas to component level. Tested and installed these systems of Aircraft Carrier Ships.

Performed preventive maintenance and Troubleshot and repaired Mainframe Computers and Network Switching Systems to component level.