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Larry
Calter

Larry Calter: Director of Information Services @ Snohomish County Government

Seattle, Washington

Larry Calter leads IT operations for the third-largest county in Washington State as Director of Information Services of the Snohomish County government. Larry Calter oversees all corporate technology operations, from supporting a $50 million infrastructure to supervising a staff of more than 100 employees in 9 divisions. Larry Calter also serves as the Snohomish County’s Public Disclosure Officer and HIPPA Compliance Officer. Previously, Larry Calter served as IT Manager at King County Metro Transit in Seattle. In his capacity as the organization’s most senior information officer, Larry Calter restructured project and program management procedures and led the construction of new corporate data and network operations centers. Moreover, Larry Calter has garnered experience in the private sector through his time as a Program Manager with T-Mobile in Bellevue, Washington. Larry Calter spent an additional year as Director of Information Technology for Conversay Inc., and he also held the position of Director of Information Technology at Saflink Corp. in Redmond, Washington. Educated at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and the University of Maryland, College Park, Larry Calter holds a Master of Science in Management of Information Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Management and Computer Science. In his spare time, Larry Calter enjoys reading, and he is particular fond of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Jeanne W. Ross.


Larry Calter's Companies

  		•  SNOHOMISH COUNTY GOVERNMENT 2007
    Director of Information Services
    Oversee all corporate technology operations for third-largest county in Washington State. CIO-level position directing $50M infrastructure, licensing, vendors, HR, budgeting, financials, application development, business analysis, project / program management, security, enterprise architecture, servers, routing, switching, circuits, telephony, electronic document records management, and more. Supervised staff of 107 across nine divisions. Administered $20M budget. Public Disclosure Officer and HIPAA Compliance Officer. -Saved >$2M by streamlining project portfolio 75% and prioritizing projects to achieve maximum quality and on-time delivery. Implemented structured project delivery methodology and standardized Project Portfolio and Program Management Portfolio. -Cut project costs 20% by implementing management checkpoints and communication plans. -Successfully took over stalled (18-month) job reclassification effort and negotiated agreement with union in only one month. New agreement saved County $500K. -Achieved $91K in annual savings by creating ITIL v3 service desk that identified and resolved Top 10 repeated trouble tickets. Created program methodologies and selected ITIL software. -Reduced development costs $1M by eliminating under-performing projects and rebuilding sub-standard development team into state-of-the-art development and business analyst team. -Realized millions of dollars in savings for county by working with multiple safety agencies to purchase one standard automated field reporting/records management system rather than individual systems for each agency. -Led implementation of federally-mandated pollutant discharge monitoring system. -Spearheaded major improvements for county by introducing business process re-engineering.