CPIC and Portfolio Management Training Workshop III: Leading to Success for PortfolioStat2.0

This event qualifies for .7 CEUs

This event qualifies for 7 CPEs

This event qualifies for 7 CLPs

This Workshop is Limited To Government Employees Only to Permit Candid Discussion. The Press and Industry are NOT invited to register for this workshop.

Government in today’s business environment is facing new management challenges. Agencies are facing concurrent demands to reduce IT costs, shorten deployment cycles, and respond to increased scrutiny of capital investments by OMB. The federal Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process must overcome these challenges to enable the successful delivery of new IT capabilities and services. The “new CPIC” must also address the evolving pressures of regulatory requirements including the latest PortfolioStat requirements for completing a high-level IT portfolio survey, establishing a commodity IT investment baseline, submitting plans to consolidate commodity IT and to migrate at least two duplicative commodity IT Services including the use of Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI) solutions such as print management, telecommunication expense management, and wireless devices and services. At the same time, the growing maturity of the cloud encourages us to use CPIC not only as a process for optimizing investments, but for understanding how investments can be minimized through innovative sourcing strategies. If executives and IT managers are to meet these challenges, they need to analyze and prioritize their enterprises’ IT investment portfolios differently than in the past. This course explores such differences and provides a structured guide to modern investment and value management with updates on what has changed in PortfolioStat 2.0

The portfolio management approach presented in the training workshop can assist agencies in successfully managing their IT investments and getting ready for their agency’s PortfolioStat. Major aspects of the portfolio management life cycle from pre-select to evaluate are discussed, as well as the importance of governance and oversight to empower executives in planning, monitoring, and tracking investments in a strategically targeted and cost-effective manner. PortfolioStat will be a new tool that agencies use to assess the current maturity of their IT portfolio management process, make decisions on eliminating duplication, augment current CIO-led capital planning and investment control (CPIC) processes, and move to shared solutions in order to maximize the return on IT investments across the portfolio.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Instructors:

Giovanni Leusch-Carnaroli

Director

Grant Thornton LLP

Giovanni recently joined Grant Thornton's Global Public Sector Practice. For the past three years, he was the Associate Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Business-Technology Alignment and Governance and Senior Accountable Official for Open Government at the U.S. Department of Transportation. In this position, he was responsible for the strategy, policy, implementation, and oversight of the following IT areas: business planning and governance (which includes investment management, Enterprise Architecture, governance, and policy) and project management and performance (which includes portfolio management, information/knowledge management, continuous service improvement), and more. Giovanni was previously the Program Director, IT Project and Portfolio Services in the Office of the CIO at the Federal Aviation Administration. In this position, he was responsible for all aspects of IT capital planning and investment management; overseeing the development of the agency's IT business cases and IT portfolio; and implementing Earned Value Management and other program management best practices and processes.

Giovanni has an undergraduate degree in agricultural economics, multiple master degrees in business administration, IT project management and security management. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and also completed the CIO, IT Project Management, Information Assurance, Enterprise Architecture, and E-Government Leadership Certificate Programs at the National Defense University.

Sairah R. Ijaz, CISA

Manager

Grant Thornton, LLP

More than ten years of experience working in the federal information technology sector. She recently joined Grant Thornton LLP from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, where she gained extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing IT processes and procedures including, enterprise architecture, capital planning and investment control, portfolio management, investment management, and IT governance. She has led teams in effectively assessing these processes and procedures against best practices in both industry and the government, and developing timely and actionable recommendations and solutions to assist in the reduction of redundancy and ultimately improve efficiency. Sairah is a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) and holds a bachelor's degree in Decision & Information Systems and Operations & Quality Management from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Nick Pavski

Director

Grant Thornton

Nick has over 20 years of information technology management experience in federal government and the private sector. Mr. Pavski has led the development of IT performance management frameworks, IT portfolios as well as enterprise and system architectures, including IT operations architectures based on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices. He is also engaged as a technology consultant in support of large system development and integration projects as well as IT and business performance management assignments. His business application experience includes integrated financial and clinical care systems, workforce management and labor forecasting solutions as well as enterprise portal applications and business intelligence. He is currently engaged in supporting the enterprise architecture and service management functions of a major infrastructure services PMO at NOAA, an efficiency and cost-savings program at DOI, as well as a variety of architecture and performance-related assignments that focus on enhancing the business value of information technology investments. He holds a diploma in Engineering Technology from Mohawk College, an IT Service Management (ITSM) certification, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Binta Diatta

Manager

Grant Thorton, LLP

Binta has more than 16 years of experience in delivering IT management services to Federal Government clients and Commercial Sector entities such as MCI/WorldCom acquired by Verizon. She is currently the Program/Project Manager for EA and IT Strategic Planning for the US Department of Commerce (DOC) International Trade Administration (ITA), and acted on behalf of the Director in periods of absence. Since 2003, Binta is recognized by her Federal clients, like the US Department of Labor, DOC and its ITA, for her expertise in EA, IT Strategy, Governance, Policy, IT Portfolio Management, IT Service Management (ITSM) and Information Systems Development. She collaborates with and advises executives at the levels of CIO, Deputy CIO and other senior leadership. She leads the development of enterprise architectures, strategic plans and IT governance processes, as well as critical enterprise initiatives for CPIC, IT Portfolio Management, PortfolioStat, Digital Government, Cybersecurity, ITSM, Cloud Computing, Mobility and Shared Services.

Binta holds an Executive Masters degree in Information Systems and Technology from The George Washington University (GWU), and Bachelors degrees in Computer Information Systems and in Pharmacy. She also holds multiple professional certifications such as the Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI, IT Infrastructure Library (ITILv3), The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF9), and Federal CIO from U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). She is currently preparing for the Cloud Computing Professional (CCP™) Certification.

Relevant Government Agencies

Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, Intelligence Agencies, DOD & Military, Office of the President (includes OMB), Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Dept of Health & Human Services, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of Housing & Urban Development, Dept of the Interior, Dept of Justice, Dept of Labor, Dept of State, Dept of Transportation, Dept of Treasury, Dept of Veterans Affairs, EPA, GSA, USPS, SSA, NASA, Other Federal Agencies, Legislative Agencies (GAO, GPO, LOC, etc.), Judicial Branch Agencies, State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, CIA, FEMA, Office of Personnel Management, Coast Guard, National Institutes of Health, FAA, Census Bureau, USAID