Fox IT Award for Distinguished Alumni

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Mr. Garrett is currently consulting to PWC and the industry and working with them on a national health data steward project that will measure quality and performance in the US healthcare industry. Mr. Garrett was previously vice president and managing partner of Computer Science Corporation’s (CSC) Global Health Solutions (GHS) practice, a division within the company’s United States Consulting Group. He is responsible for leading all healthcare activities across CSC worldwide.

GHS provides consulting and information technology (IT) services to leading life sciences, pharmaceutical, health provider and health plan organizations. GHS serves the industry with consulting and system and data integration services that increase patient safety and value for consumers and employers, get drugs and devices to market quicker, and reduce waste and non value added costs across the Healthcare vertical. The GHS group works with CSC’s Federal Sector business unit to support similar efforts on behalf of the company’s civil and Department of Defense healthcare clients. GHS also collaborates with CSC’s Technology Management Group and local operations in Asia, Europe and Australia to support national and global outsourcing and systems integration engagements with healthcare organizations.

Mr. Garrett has more than 27 years experience in consulting and IT services. He joined CSC in 1995 as director of one of the regional practices and grew the organization to one of the largest practices in both the company and country. Prior to his current position, he served as vice president, healthcare solutions for CSC’s Consulting Group. Previous management responsibilities include directing national professional services and systems integration organizations; managing large applications development groups; program and project management of multi-million dollar global initiatives; and leading corporate marketing organizations.

Under Dan’s leadership CSC’s Healthcare team has successfully delivered some of the largest and most complex Healthcare IT initiatives for Governments (NHS/UK, HHS,NIH,CDC) and leading commercial Provider, Payer, and Pharma enterprises. Mr. Garrett is known for his healthcare industry leadership in health information exchange programs, Regional, State and Country Healthcare transformation initiatives, and functional process, technology and organization deployment programs in R&D, sales and marketing, manufacturing, healthcare delivery, membership management, and financial/supply chain management. Mr. Garrett is a frequent featured speaker at leading business, industry, and government forums and has recently spoken at the Council for Logistics Management Forum, HIMSS’s national event, Health and Human Services Secretarial NHII summit, Connecting Communities for Better Health Conference, MIT’s HIT Symposium, FCW’s Government Health IT event, and the National Health Information conference.

He was a founding member of the Interoperability Consortium, an alliance between Accenture, Cisco, CSC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle. He is currently serving as executive vice chairman of the Markle Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Connecting for Health” initiative. Mr. Garrett is also on the board of directors of eHealthInitiative and is a founding board member of NAHIT (National Alliance for Healthcare Information Technology), as well as a member of the executive committee of NAHIT’s board of directors. Mr. Garrett is a member of the Council for Logistics Management and is on the board of trustees of the Malcolm Baldridge Foundation. Mr. Garret holds a bachelor’s degree in computer and information science from Temple University’s Fox School of Business and is certified as a CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management) by APICS, the association for operations management.

SEVENTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Ben Hasan serves as Vice President of Corporate and Product Group Information Technology for Dell. Hasan directs the development, deployment, operation and support of the information systems supporting Human Resources, Facilities, Legal, Environmental Safety and Product Group, as well as support for the World Wide Financial Systems. In addition, he directs the global IT application development and support for the Product Group’s design centers in Shanghai, Taipei, Singapore, and Bangalore. Hasan also serves as executive sponsor for the Diversity efforts in Dell’s Information Technology organization.

Hasan has served as director of Shared Infrastructure Services at Dell, where he was responsible for Network Support, Global Messaging support, Data Center Operations, Server/Desktop support, Help Desk support and Intranet Services. Additionally, he has held responsibility as Director for Finance systems development and support.

Prior to joining Dell in 1997, Hasan worked for ENSERCH Corporation, an Oil and Gas Exploration company in Dallas, Texas. During his 14 years at ENSERCH, he worked in several areas including Information Technology, Human Resources, Rates and Regulatory Affairs, and Customer Service.

Hasan serves as the chairperson for the Strategic Planning Committee of the Information Technology Senior Management Forum, a group of Fortune 500 I/T senior executives. Hasan graduated from Amber University in Dallas, with a master’s degree in business administration and also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Temple University.

SIXTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Sondra Barbour is the CIO and vice president of Operations for Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions (IS&S), a $4 billion business area of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md., IS&S employs over 15,000 people with key locations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Arizona, California, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Ms. Barbour is responsible for the operation, maintenance, and future directions of IS&S technical infrastructure, enterprise applications, facilities, support services, publications, employee health & safety, and supply chain. She is also responsible for IS&S activities under the Lockheed Martin LM21 Operating Excellence initiative.

Most recently, Sondra had served as director of the IS&S Transformation Program, orchestrating efforts to re-engineer business processes and leverage technology to improve productivity, saving the company more than $220 million over the last four years. She also managed the development of the IS&S employee portal.

She has 19 years experience in the design and development of large scale information systems. Her background includes management roles in engineering, functional and program operations areas for large software development systems (1+ million lines of code) with engineering and operations staffs of 1000 or more professionals.

Sondra is a volunteer with Lockheed Martins’ Network of Volunteer Associates, an organization volunteering time and resources to give back to the community. She also is a member of the steering committee for the Pennsylvania Eastern Technology Council’s CIO Institute and sits on the advisory board for the Math Options program for young women at Pennsylvania State University Delaware County. Within IS&S, she acts as the Executive Sponsor for the Delaware Valley Diversity Council.

Sondra is a graduate of Temple University with a double major in Computer Information Sciences and Accounting. She is also a graduate of IS&S’ Program Management Development Program.

She and her husband, Ron, reside in Collegeville, PA. They are the proud parents of 2 young children.

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