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