Canada
Professional Profile I am an Associate Manager and a senior program manager with over 17+ years’ experience covering Lean/Agile and Waterfall projects. She also has significant experience in quality improvement/Lean Six Sigma (7+ years), Change Management (7+ years), and Strategic Planning (10+ years). •Strategic planning expert, innovative thinking, systems thinker, framework development, measurement analysis and reporting. •Empathetic leader who strives to bring out the best in every team member and to remove barriers in order to provide a safe and inclusive environment so they can all be their selves and do their best work. •Expert in current state analysis and gap analysis with a system's approach to developing solutions with right-sized change management supports to support the change. •Strong collaborator with a desire to bring together and enable multidisciplinary teams together to identify and realize the best solution. •Specializes in identification of project and program issues and troubleshooting root causes in order to deescalate risk, stabilize the project/program, and ensure successful delivery of objectives, deliverables, and identified outcomes. •Industries include financial, agricultural, technology, healthcare, and post-secondary. •Energetic, positive thinking, highly motivated, goal-oriented, and creative and innovative problem solver. •Organized and forward-thinking team and program leader with superior communication skills. •Accomplished and detailed-oriented with a focus on business, data, and document analysis; forecasting; strategic planning and development; and decompressing and disseminating high-level information. •Adept at identifying business opportunities and providing solutions, including navigating substantial operational change and implementation procedures. •Experienced in strategic business analysis, negotiation and value creation, human resource management, change management, conflict resolution, and strategy implementation. •Strong analytical, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Supported the integration of Solvera Solutions organization into Accenture with Change Management support within a specialized team. • Completed professional development requirements to continue to expand program and product management, as well as Microsoft Azure Foundations work. • Undertook specialized security training to enhance risk management analysis.
• Developed and project managed multiple programs including the new onboarding program with the sponsors, performed continuous improvement after launch, trained the incoming team, performed data analysis, reporting, project management scheduling, change management analysis and implementation quality management support with continuous improvement techniques. • Part of team redeveloping the Change Adoption team consultative processes and templates to support the changing needs in the organization, utilizing quality management approaches. • Developed the change management approach and supporting the project management work in multiple regulatory projects, including running agile project management tools, agile change management tools and planning techniques, providing strategy framework planning and support. • Supported multiple technology projects and supported the specific go-live activities within the projects using both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Performed RFP analysis and response, including project costing, project approach, project scoping, project scheduling and Gantt creation, requirements gathering, project decomposition, proposal amendment analysis, proposal solution development, project construction, project component delivery models, project resourcing, risk management and mitigation, and change management support.
• Managed a program of projects with budgets over $500 thousand, including successful upgrade to vital software. • Worked closely with multi-disciplinary teams to develop scope, confirm project plans, implement projects, analyse budgets, and close projects • Developed and implemented project disaster recovery work for projects to close successfully (projects were delivered within budget). • Built relationships and liaised with senior leaders on a regular basis to support project progress • Designed presentations, performed data analysis, developed databases, and worked closely with vendor on solution delivery. • Mentored colleagues on project management best practices.
Created and developed multiple project management course offerings based on (PMI) best practices and project processes; developed PowerPoint presentations and related educational support content; enhanced course content based on peer feedback; provided PMP education support and other consultative services; logistical support for courses; created organization-wide communications and marketing.
Served as Project Manager for multi-million dollar provincial projects as well as multi-million dollar zone-centric and provincial IT projects; developed and maintained all project management documentation and project management-related processes, procedures, and practices for projects; built relationships and liaised with senior leaders on a regular basis to support project progress; managed projects through project life cycle to successful completion; designed presentations; data analysis; database creation; communications development; SharePoint development; supported projects through transition phase.