Grant Sullivan - Rural Sourcing - A model for economic expansion and wealth distribution
Grant Sullivan leads the Atlantic Global Delivery Center for CGI with over 400 staff serving global clients in Canada, US and Europe delivering critical IT support and new application delivery. Prior to this role Grant was the Service Delivery Manager for the Bell Canada account in Atlantic Canada servicing nearly all applications for Bell Canada to stringent service levels. Grant has several years experience selling and delivering large scale remote delivery engagements and has also held several account management and business development roles since joining CGI. Prior to CGI, Grant was a Director at Keane with responsibility for several large outsourcing teams. In 2003 Grant led a team to achieve a CMM Level 5 assessment – the first IT services group to accomplish this in Canada. In 2001 Grant owned and operated his own software company building software for the utilities industry. Grant has held roles as a Senior Project Manager with MacDonald Dettwiller developing advanced prototypes for emerging defense technologies and has served in Canada’s Navy as a Combat Systems Engineer. Grant is active in the community serving on several boards and as a part time Faculty member at Dalhousie University, having instructed courses in Project Management, Electronic Commerce, and Information Systems. Grant is an Industrial Engineer and a Project Management Professional with an MBA and a Masters in Electronic Commerce.
Grant Sullivan leads the Atlantic Global Delivery Center for CGI with over 400 staff serving global clients in Canada, US and Europe delivering critical IT support and new application delivery. Prior to this role Grant was the Service Delivery Manager for the Bell Canada account in Atlantic Canada servicing nearly all applications for Bell Canada to stringent service levels. Grant has several years experience selling and delivering large scale remote delivery engagements and has also held several account management and business development roles since joining CGI. Prior to CGI, Grant was a Director at Keane with responsibility for several large outsourcing teams. In 2003 Grant led a team to achieve a CMM Level 5 assessment – the first IT services group to accomplish this in Canada. In 2001 Grant owned and operated his own software company building software for the utilities industry. Grant has held roles as a Senior Project Manager with MacDonald Dettwiller developing advanced prototypes for emerging defense technologies and has served in Canada’s Navy as a Combat Systems Engineer. Grant is active in the community serving on several boards and as a part time Faculty member at Dalhousie University, having instructed courses in Project Management, Electronic Commerce, and Information Systems. Grant is an Industrial Engineer and a Project Management Professional with an MBA and a Masters in Electronic Commerce.
Nova Scotia has been a leader in offering access to a talented workforce for global work for decades. Hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth have been created in the region through innovations for distributed team management on behalf of global firms. Further innovations offer opportunities to extend both the volume of work produced and also the distribution of its impact across Nova Scotia. In this presentation Grant will present some approaches and challenges towards realizing these objectives. Grant is Vice President of the Atlantic Global Delivery Center for CGI and has spent more than a decade leading distributed teams in our region delivering IT services to global clients.
