Talk:LaVerne H. Council

Requesting an update to LaVerne Council's bio
I wanted to request an update be made to LaVerne Council's page, given her new role at The MITRE Corporation, as Senior Vice President and General Manager of MITRE Public Sector. She joined MITRE on April 3, 2017. Her full bio is below.

The Honorable LaVerne H. Council is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of MITRE Public Sector (MPS). Ms. Council is responsible for setting strategy, direction, and priorities and engaging with key senior sponsors for MITRE’s federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) for civilian agencies. These include the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service, and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. She also oversees MITRE’s international program.

Ms. Council was a confirmed presidential appointee and served as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Information and Technology (OI&T) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Veterans Affairs. She was responsible for VA’s 16,000 OI&T employees and contractors and an IT budget exceeding $4 billion. For her service to Veterans, Ms. Council received the employee Meritorious Award, which commended her for leading the largest transformation in OI&T’s history.

As the Chief Executive Officer of Council Advisory Services, LLC, and the Chairperson of the March of Dimes National Board of Trustees, Ms. Council lobbied for baby health initiatives (i.e., Preemie Bill, ACA), and guided rollout of 132 Neonatal Intensive Care Family support teams nationwide. In addition, she supported the development of The March of Dimes Trans-disciplinary Prematurity Research Centers at Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, Washington University and the Ohio Health Consortium.

As the Corporate Vice President and first global CIO for Johnson & Johnson, Ms. Council managed IT and related systems for the $61 billion worldwide enterprise that included more than 250 operating companies in 57 countries. She was responsible for Health Information Technology Business (HIT) Strategy for the enterprise, including reviewing and understanding the potential and use of Electronic Health Record Technologies (i.e., Cerner, Epic, Eclipsys, VISTA).

Ms. Council is listed among Healthcare Data Management’s Most Powerful Women in Healthcare Information Technology. Fedscoop named her one of the Top 50 Women in Information Technology. She was twice named GoldenGov Federal Executive of the Year. Under her leadership, the VA OI&T received a Project Management Excellence Award from GITEC (the Government Information Technology Executive Council), and was honored twice with an ICARE Award by the secretary of the VA. Business Trends Quarterly named her one of the top four CIOs in America. The New Jersey Technology Council inducted her into its CIO Hall of Fame, and the Global CIO Executive Summit awarded her the Top 10 Global Leaders & Change Agents Award and the Top 10 Global Leaders & Innovators Award.

Ms. Council holds a doctorate in business administration from Drexel University, a master’s degree in business administration, operations management, from Illinois State University, and a bachelor’s degree in business from Western Illinois University with High Honors.

Llibitz (talk) 14:22, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

LaVerne is no longer a consultant for MITRE
LaVerne no longer serves as a consultant for The MITRE Corporation. She now works for Grant Thornton as Enterprise Digital Strategy & Innovation Lead:


 * https://www.govconexecutive.com/2017/12/laverne-council-joins-grant-thornton-as-enterprise-digital-strategy-innovation-lead/
 * https://www.grantthornton.com/library/press-releases/2017/december/enterprise-digital-strategy-innovation.aspx

Flamableconcrete (talk) 20:47, 14 December 2017 (UTC)