Garry Devinger

703-***-**** adbi73@r.postjobfree.com

Arlington, VA linkedin.com/in/garry-devinger

TRANSFORMATION & INNOVATION INITIATIVE EXECUTIVE LEADER

A strategic and innovation leader with long history of success developing, leading, and executing critical transformational efforts for commercial and government entities. Demonstrated success leading and managing diverse and distributed teams and key stakeholders to help companies execute business strategies across the organization. Effective and persuasive Global team leader and communicator recognized for building collaborative relationships and high performing teams. Champions exceptional results in fast-paced, challenging environments. Self-initiated thought leader who thinks innovatively and strategically leveraging deep consulting background and program management experience.

Executive and Team Leadership Innovation Strategy and Methodology Strategic Planning & Execution

Strategic Initiatives Project & Program Management Change Management

Partnership Development Emerging Technologies Digital Transformation

Product and Solution Management Integration Planning Corporate Responsibility

CAREER EXPERIENCE

Ernst & Young, LLP (EY) 10/2009 – Present

PRACTICE INNOVATION LEADER

Selected to pioneer and lead new innovation program for EY’s fastest growing service line focused on driving revenue growth and margin improvement via the development of new emerging technologies, innovative service offerings, solutions, capabilities and internal opportunities for automation.

Designed and launched Americas Innovation Center of Excellence (COE) generating new service line capability to engage and monitor all internal innovation efforts across the business.

Authored formalized innovation processes methodology which was adopted by firm leadership and led to creation of $1 million budget to support service line innovation efforts.

Managed incubation and activation of 4 new service offerings incorporating Blockchain, AI and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions leading to an additional $45 million in revenue.

Launched and led Americas Innovation Council and Innovation Ambassador Program resulting 35% increase in employee participation in idea generation.

Recipient of EY Vice Chairman Award for efforts on innovation.

STRATEGIC INITIATIVE LEADER

Selected to lead 15 geographically dispersed resources responsible for embedding and activating firm-wide Corporate Responsibility (CR) strategy portfolio. Charged with the strategic prioritization, planning and operational management of team and execution of initiative portfolio roll-out.

Developed and implemented new team governance structure and support model, resulting in improved ability to deploy initiatives to over 28 countries and over 75,000 EY employees.

Expedited partnership relationships and agreements with third party collaborators (TPC) participating in CR program initiatives, leading to 5 new strategic partnerships and initiative opportunities for over 250 people.

Developed global portfolio operating and cost model resulting in deployments 2 months ahead of schedule in both Europe and Asian regions.

Led project for a social impact company (Live Clean) from Lusaka, Zambia which enabled the business to drive progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development (UNSD) Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO) LEADER

Hand selected to create, launch and lead PMO for a complex 3-yr $54 million engagement with the Air Force client. Directed program management and business development efforts focused on growing firm presence within Government and Public Sector (GPS), while supporting existing DOD and Federal Government clients.

Developed team governance structure, quality assurance, and risk management processes which resulted in highest service quality score of all GPS engagements in the firm.

Launched business analytics reporting dashboard leveraging time and expense data from 3 different finance systems resulting in improved engagement margin of 9%.

Integrated firm-wide Highest-Performing Team (HPT) methodology on existing AF project team resulting in diagnosis and key actions to improve engagement and account team performance.

Led strategy session with solution executives to identify and incorporate emerging technologies into existing GPS client accounts, resulting in 3 new service offerings and $11 million of additional annual engagement revenue.

Coordinated implementation of commercial firm-wide digital transformation strategy for existing and prospective DOD-Federal accounts leading to a $15 million pipeline of potential client engagements.

STRATEGIC ADVISOR

Operations consulting professional within EY’s Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) practice providing a full range of hands-on, operationally focused strategy and advice across deal transaction life cycle to include: carve-out readiness, operational due diligence, synergy assessment and delivery, day-one readiness assessment and post-merger integration.

Launched operations PMO and IT functional team for Fortune 500 company during the divestiture of their external logistics business ($700 million revenue) leading to $5 million savings in cost synergies for IT systems.

Developed IT functional synergy capture plan for technology and engineering firm’s acquisition of DOD technology and engineering firm which resulted in realizing $13 million in IT cost savings.

Developed integration planning and risk mitigation strategy for a Fortune 500 global biopharmaceutical joint venture in their acquisition of a biopharmaceutical diabetes drug producer leading to deal close 1 month ahead of schedule.

Booz Allen Hamilton 04/2004 – 09/2009

PROJECT MANAGER

IT professional charged with managing a team of 20 resources responsible for delivering accurate and timely portfolio of IT systems integration projects for over 16 agencies within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) CIO organization.

Delivered over 10 projects under budget saving the government over $750,000 of allocated costs for budget funding.

Implemented portfolio management solution used by team resulting in 15% decrease in project delivery costs.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

IBM Global Services, Bethesda, MD

Program Manager

KPMG Consulting, Arlington, VA

Project Manager

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Georgetown University, Washington DC

Master of Science (MS) in Computer Information Systems

Boston University, Boston, MA

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI)

Master’s Certificate in Project Management, The George Washington University

Information Technology Information Library (ITIL) v2 Foundation Certification

MILITARY

Captain – United States Marine Corps (USMC)

Security Clearance: Top Secret (TS) – active

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