Van Howard

Driving Insights & Data growth strategy initiatives at three major hospitality & tourism clients to a $10M 2026 target with a clear roadmap to continued growth.

Founded, staffed, and managed the Data & AI Solutions domain within the Cloud, Data, AI & Applications practice, empowering $94M in revenue and hydrating a $65M sales pipeline. Managed a $200M segment of a $650M professional services line of business.

Authored over $23M in proposals, staffing effort models, and statements of work; ensured contract compliance. Managed green-field Azure cloud adoption and drove architecture for a $6M sales recommendation engine project.

Led a wholesale billing audit team at Verizon-NY on behalf of AT&T resulting in annualized findings of over $1M. Managed a test team completing 150 test cases in 16 weeks for the Frontier Communications acquisition of Verizon West Virginia properties.

Recovered $300-$400K per year in revenue/cost mitigation by establishing routine and ad-hoc forensic revenue assurance reporting and data integrity measures across 35,000 access lines. Increased annual revenue by ~$500K by managing a multi-vendor team to implement FCC-compliant automated carrier access billing.

Hired and trained a specialized 15-member team to administer new software and decompose Assembler and PL/1 legacy message processing systems. Directed dispersed implementation teams to install usage processing software across the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX footprint.

Directed a three-year phased national implementation and ongoing support of a custom retail telephone billing system (CBSS) on a mainframe COBOL/DB2/VSAM platform. Achieved CMM Level 2 compliance leading the architecture, development, testing and implementation of 16 COBOL legacy revenue interfaces into SAP FI/CO modules.

Hired, trained, managed and mentored an 18-member team to perform regulatory-compliant OSS 271 testing. Saved over $500K by reducing client travel expenses by 66% and analysis time by 25% through process improvement and automation.

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from Valdosta State University.

Training in Consumer Products & Retail Level 1 and Level 2.

Certification in AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals.

Training on transforming business with AI.

Certificate of Completion for the Connected Manager program.