Massachusetts, United States
Focused on Agile Transformation, Program/Project Management, Product Management, Portfolio Management, IT Strategy, Workforce Strategy, Metrics, Business Planning, OKR Development
Lead the Portfolio Management function for a technology organization delivering next generation Risk Management applications Lead portfolio status reporting efforts to bring transparency to impediments and roadblocks and facilitate prioritization and trade off decisions Lead efforts to establish organizational OKRs and KPIs Established scorecard to monitor organizational KPIs and ensure alignment with budget, talent, operational and product delivery objectives Established portfolio delivery metrics Ensure organization is well managed and delivering on commitments Established Agile Practices and Processes, including: A horizon based Planning and Delivery Framework based on SAFe and Scrum and leveraging Jira/Jira Align/Jira Portfolio Cross program planning and dependency management framework Program level RAID tracking process built in Jira/Confluence SAFe Release Train Engineer for a 10 team Agile Release Train building a next generation Governance, Risk and Control platform. Included leading an organization of 7 Agile Delivery Leads Performance Management Champion, facilitating talent and performance management practices and evolving organizational practices on performance calibration
Led Transformation Management Office for a cross enterprise initiative to drive strategic alignment and operational efficiency in excess of $30 Million in run rate savings. Established the governance model, coordinated cross organizational dependencies, built program reporting and metrics, and developed program change management strategy and plans Established SAFe LPM based governance, prioritization, and intake process for a program to automate key business processes for major business lines. Program focused on Business Process Management, Robotic Process Automation and building consumer facing portals Led the Cloud Products PMO delivering on a portfolio of cloud based software development projects for Loan Origination, Real Estate, Data Management, and Document Solutions software platforms Established Agile based governance, planning, software development and solution delivery framework leveraging practices from Scrum, SAFe and Disciplined Agile Delivery Led the Enterprise Solutions Product and Program Management organization which provided software solutions to corporate functions including Finance, Human Resources, Information Security, Sales and Marketing Led a team of Product Managers, Program Managers, Business Architects, Business Analysts, Product Owners and Scrum Masters
Transformed a traditional PMO to an Agile based PMO with SCRUM, Kanban and SAFe expertise. PMO led large cross organizational programs and established project management best practices for the organization Provided leadership for ongoing planning and business reporting cycles including annual budget and multi year plan refresh, quarterly business reviews, bi-weekly program and product reviews and weekly executive scorecard reviews Drove a program to accelerate product management maturity allowing for enhanced customer engagement, product delivery and reduced total cost of ownership. Established Product Management Community of Practice to support ongoing maturity and improvements Built an executive scorecard and KPI monitoring process to mitigate operational and delivery risk. Scorecard helped align the organization on priorities, brought transparency to at-risk items and ensure alignment with financial, talent and operational targets Delivered multi million dollars in annual savings through management of efficiency and workforce optimization efforts Managed a 10 site real estate portfolio. Increased space utilization 25%, while driving down overall cost by 20% Led a program to drive better alignment of the real estate and technology organizations to more efficiently deliver IT services driving higher business partner satisfaction Led an Agile based strategy development effort to address an organization's data analytics needs. Effort resulted in establishing a multi-year roadmap, organizational changes for ongoing development and release planning for building improved lifecycle management capabilities Steering Committee member for Fidelity’s Women in Technology Special Interest Group
Led an organization with project management accountable for up to 30 projects each with multi-million dollar budgets ● Managed a team of 10 senior project managers with responsibility for annual budget in excess of $30 million ● Deployed IPads and wireless networks to the company’s 163 branch offices enabling customers to perform eSignature ● Program managed a company wide architecture council commissioned to drive architecture standards across the entire organization ● Developed and executed end-to-end migration process and plans for transitioning an IT organization to become a global service provider. Efforts resulted in millions of dollars in annual savings
Program managed large, complex, global initiatives