ThirdWave Provides Interim CTO for IT Organization Transformation

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December 15, 2015

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The Port of San Diego reselects ThirdWave to provide an interim CTO reporting to the Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer (CFO). The interim CTO will be onsite two days a week providing leadership and direction to the Port’s IT organization. The Port’s Executive Team and CFO will provide direction to the interim CTO. Tasks include the review of the Business & Information Technology Services (BITS) department’s project work breakdown structures, provide BITS supervisors mentoring, adoption of best practices, and operational improvements. ThirdWave will provide IT organization transformational services including the following:

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• Aid the Port in identifying and retaining a new CIO including resume reviews and comments, onsite CTO interviews, and a CIO recommendation.

• Making an analysis of BITS staffing by classification and producing a base line of available resources by comparing staff availability to currently projected work and projects, staff classification analysis, capacity assessment, and BITS stabilization recommendations.

• Review the BITS staff classifications and compare them against the BITS study and assessment. The assessment will include KSA deficiencies by BITS business unit, and deficiencies by staff.

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Finally, the engagement will produce a BITS training plan, which may contain in-house or external training.

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