Howard Lee

About Howard Lee

Trusted and skilled technology professional with proven ability to lead a large technology organization and drive value through the portfolio management, program management, and chief of staff leadership roles. Demonstrated results leading strategic teams, tactical implementation teams, large IT transformation programs, and full project lifecycle deployments. Experience defining and leading initiatives, project delivery, and adapting process improvements at all levels with forward thought leadership. Strengths include highly effective interpersonal and communication skills and strong strategic/business/technical understanding.Specialties: Portfolio Management, PMO, Chief of Staff, Digital Strategy & Management, E-Commerce, Creation and Evaluation of Go-To-Market Strategies, Technology Sourcing Evaluations for various Industry Sectors, Agile Delivery Methodology

Experience

1. Vice President

   Scholastic

   Aug 2021 — Present · NY, US

   Serving as Technology Portfolio and Program Management Lead for a large technology organization. Directly responsible for working closely with business unit senior executive leadership to align strategic and corporate goals to the technology portfolio of projects. Also responsible for the execution of this portfolio and leading the program managers to track and deliver on roadmaps.• Responsible for the delivery of projects in the eCommerce, master data management (product/customer), Salesforce, backend ERP (order management, warehouse, and financials), infrastructure, security, and content management domains.• Serve as Chief of Staff to the CIO across the entire technology organization to manage talent and org initiatives, coordinate technology Town Halls, and prep/attend technology steering committees and company Board of Directors meetings• Lead talent and organization development initiatives to improve retention, continuously train and improve resource skillset, and cross pollinate skills for redundancy• Managed a team of program managers responsible for the delivery of cross program and key strategic initiatives for the company. Worked closely with business unit presidents, CIO, CFO, and CEO in this role to ensure successful delivery of these high value projects • Created the technology associate program that is running strong for 8 years now and continues to bring strong entry level talent from top tier universities to fill critical roles• Responsible for leading the Data and Analytics group in technology that was comprised of separate Data Science, Data Products, and Data Visualization teams. These groups work closely with business to understand issues that can be solved with data, source that data, and then build interactive reports for business

Education

• Rutgers University

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Sdlc
• Enterprise Architecture
• Requirements Analysis
• Architecture
• Budgets
• Web Applications
• Business Process
• Process Improvement
• IT Strategy
• Strategy
• Project Management
• Integration
• Business Process Improvement
• Testing
• Sharepoint
• Management