Ellison Williams Email & Phone Number

Principal, State & Local Practice

Austin, Texas, United States

• Leads and organizes internal and external business development teams in building and delivering responses to expand Greentree’s state portfolio, usually 10-15 annually• Deeply familiar with the proposal development lifecycle from procurement opportunity (RFP, RFI, IFB, etc.) to proposal submission

Austin, Texas

• Project Manager (PM) of the IV&V project team overseeing development and maintenance of the largest integrated eligibility benefit system in the U.S.• Point of contact for client management and executives and ensures the IV&V activities and reporting tasks are synchronized with the overall project schedule• Coordinates status meetings and risk/issue response discussions across multiple internal and external teams• Organizes communications and finalizes all written assessment reports developed by the IV&V team• Identifies performance measurement development, analysis, and reporting to capture HHS’ overall success in their Agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) transformation efforts• Highly experienced in reporting and presenting to all levels of management including executives and external, third-party entities

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Lead project manager within the organization’s Project Management Office (PMO) for the agency’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) application modernization efforts• Led project team in design validation and functional testing, culminating in deployment of the new, web-based state-wide UI system• Supervised testing teams, developed test plans and scripts, and conducted defect triage during User Acceptance Testing (UAT)• Developed and conducted state-wide training for LWC staff on the new application, organizational change, and policy changes• Spearheaded the PMO to triage defects and resolve production errors with the software development vendor• Served as the legislative liaison between the state agency and Governor’s Office, House of Representatives, and Senate