UW Medicine

Director, of Enterprise PMO at UW Medicine

Director, of Enterprise PMO

Bellevue College

I currently teach several courses at Bellevue College in the project management certification program. 

1. Project Communication Skills class
2. Managing Virtual Teams.
3. Project Execution & Control
4. The Tactical Guide for Building a PMO

Adjunct Professor

Microsoft

PMO Manager - Digitial Experiences & Engagement (DE&E) organization - Microsoft Services

Responsible for 
Establishing a PMO
Developing PM Framework, Adoption and Training
Developing and Reporting on KPI's for strategic initiatives
Establishing & running org's rhythm of business (ROB's)

PMO Manager

Defining and Implementing a PMO Office
Creating a Prioritization Framework
Implementing Governance and Change Management Standards
Defining consistent processes and deliverables
Business Process Improvement efforts
Development of execution of the Training and Implementation plan(s)

PMO Lead - Marketing Operations 

As a Sr. Program Manager on the Planning and Launch team(Microsoft Operations), my main responsibility is to act as Product Owner for the internal implementation of Microsoft's Project Service Automation(PSA) on Dynamics 365. As Product owner in this Agile effort, I produce the business scenarios, write user stories, groom the backlog, and drive UAT for monthly implementations of the product. I work closely with the product team to provide feedback on the product and document how we are using it within Operations. In the Agile model, my experience now ranges from Scrum Master, Product Owner, and end-to-end Project Manager over the course of many years. 

Another one of my functions is to drive Project Management best practices and maturity into the organization. I am currently focusing running PMP training sessions, MS Project training sessions, and ad hoc PMI best practices training across tools and processes.

Sr. Program Manager - Microsoft Operations (Agile Product Owner/PM Methodology)

Microsoft is embarking upon a multiyear journey transformation project. I am leading a PMO responsible for implementing process and tools in the Global Resource Managment space. 

My role on this program will be to drive the Program and Project Management. My responsibilities will be to drive on-time delivery, high quality and customer satisfaction.

As Project Management Discipline Lead, I owned and drove everything related to project management across Microsoft IT department. I have influence and set direction in the area of project management for MSIT. 

My accountabilities and responsibilities include:

-- Drove Agile Methodology into Microsoft IT's Lifecycle. Working through process changes, setting up training classes, and driving methodology acceptance into development environment.

-- Developed MSIT wide Project Management Processes (including the incorporating of all areas --of PMI ® at the end-to-end project level)

-- Developed MSIT wide Program Management Processes.(including the incorporating of all areas of PMI ® at the end to end project level)

-- Developed Yearly MSIT wide Project Management Training Plans including budget ask

-- Developed & Provided Project Management Training classes, including MS Project, Risk Management, Project Planning. I had over 20 Project Manager courses that I have developed and trained the MSIT project managers.

-- Drove bi-weekly Project Manager round table where I coordinate and bring in Project Managers performing best practices and sharing it with other project managers across the company.

-- I drove the role framework for Project Management within MSIT and developing career paths and career models for project management.

-- I drove Project Management processes within software development (Waterfall, Agile, Infrastructure) methodologies.

Project Management Lead, Supportive PMO

PMO Lead -- As Project Management Office Lead, I am responsible for bringing project management standards and best practices across a large organization. I have people responsibility (FTE & Vendor) and driving a large portfolio of projects.

PMO Manager - Solution Delivery Organization

Sr. Solutions Manager

MPUG

I drove the local Puget Sound Chapter Meetings. I organize the speakers, obtain the food, approve the meeting content, work with PMI on PDU's, Registration, handle the Prizes...etc.

President Puget Sound Chapter

City University

In this role, I brought my industry experience and provided direction on the course offerings for the Project Management Master's program.

Advisory Board Member

Cingular/AT&T Wireless

Directed all activities in DWO PMO office.

Cingular Wireless

As the Program/SR. Manager of Project Management, PMO, Data Warehouse, I was in charge of the Project Management Organization within Cingular’s Enterprise Data Warehouse. This role, equivalent to a Group Program Manager here at Microsoft, I had 22 direct staff (18 project managers, + 4 Admin) for the PMO organization of Cingular.

-- Provided leadership, strategic direction and ongoing operations to the Project Management Organization.
-- Participated in overall Data Warehouse strategic planning sessions.
-- Established Corporate and Strategic plans and objectives for PMO Organization.
-- Developed Mission Statement, goals and objectives for PMO organization.
-- Implemented new Project Initiation process and methodology, saving one FTE position, by providing a dynamic web front end to customers to obtain information.
-- Developed PMO staffing plan, including Plan, Build, Run components factoring in both FTE and contractor staffing.

PMO Manager - Data Warehouse

Kanbay

Sr. Consultant - Kanbay Information Systems.
Y2K Non-Mainframe Project Manager
Oracle DBA
SQL Server DBA

Sr. Consultant

Ministry of Transportation and Highways

Project Manager on Oracle projects. I handle all the end to end project management work for a number of projects.

Sr. Business Analys

Director of Enterprise PMO, University of WA, Keynote Speaker

My goal is to improve project delivery excellence, create, run or shut down PMOs, mature processes such as governance, project portfolio management, program, project...etc. 

I can use my skills to help plan on the strategic level and deliver on the tactical level and add to company profits through leadership, standards, coaching, and training. 

I have a strong aptitude for business strategy and strategic thinking, years training and developing others; and excellent organization, project/program management, negotiation, problem-solving, and communication skills.

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