Mr. Henry (HP) Payton

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HP Payton currently serves as the acting product director for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services (ALTESS) at U.S. Army PEO Enterprise. He brings to the role over 20 years of experience in information technology across both private industry and the federal government.

Prior to entering the federal civilian workforce, Payton served as vice president of operations at a defense firm in the Washington, D.C. metro area. He began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton and later held leadership positions at Northrop Grumman, where he served as a program manager for the Joint Strike Fighter and Wedgetail programs.

At KPMG, Payton led the development of the DOD’s first business enterprise architecture for asset management and accountability; authored the Navy enterprise financial feeder system interface strategy; and designed and led the implementation of more than 100 system interfaces for the Navy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

At PricewaterhouseCoopers, Payton led an account team responsible for the modernization of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) medical scheduling system interfaces and managed the delivery of the organization’s OneVA EA business enterprise architecture and the supporting segment architectures for the various VA components.

A long-time entrepreneur, Payton co-founded and operated an IT consulting firm for nearly a decade, supporting many federal clients. He authored the DOD Asset Accountability guidance, which was adopted as policy across the DOD and served as guidance for the future implementation of all ERP systems.

In the public sector, Payton led the deployment of General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) - Sensitive Activities, delivering the first Army national security system of its kind on DOD’s Impact Level 6 cloud across three continents. He also authored the Data Migration Strategy for the shared services organization following the implementation of an Army-wide initiative and authored the data archival strategy for GFEBS in line with federal and auditing requirements and guidance.

Payton earned a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina Central University and an MBA from Morgan State University. He holds an advanced Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act certification in Engineering and Technical Management, and a practitioner-level certification in Program Management.

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