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Enterprise Project Management, Leading and Mentoring Cross-Functional Teams, Employee Engagement and Adoption
Work Experience
I am passionate about delivering for my clients, and I genuinely enjoy partnering with all functions – from the C-Suite to align the strategy and the business need, to the front line to ensure the solution functions as needed (not just as designed) and is adopted by the teams.
I have more than 20 years of experience supporting organizations through significant transitions and major technology implementations. While I have successfully worked on many roles on projects, I always gravitate to and specialize in enterprise project management.
Throughout my career I have helped organizations with IT strategy development, program and project management, risk management, business process improvement, and focusing on the people side of change.
Education
I graduated from Ohio University (Ohio’s first and finest) with a degree in Marketing. While interviewing, the CEO of a business and technology consulting company told me, “It’s a lot easier to teach someone with the business mentality the technical skills than it is to teach someone with the technical mentality the business skills.” It resonated with me and convinced me to take the plunge.
So like many college graduates, I found myself at a job doing something completely different and started my career as a junior programmer. This was NOT what I had in mind. I was fortunate to have some pretty amazing mentors, and it didn’t take too long to appreciate the blend of logic and creativity involved in programming.
The code does exactly what you tell it to do – not what you want it to do. Applying that logic to understanding a business process is key. When understanding a business process, we’re often initially told by the client what the business process should be – not what really happens on a day-to-day basis. Knowing how to dig deeper to get to the heart of the issue is what truly helps make an impact.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
Answer the question that was asked. And ask the question for which you want an answer.
