Empowering organizations to achieve their strategic aspirations drives us. We prioritize collaboration over egos and preconceived notions, mindfully calibrating our approach to your needs while designing tailored solutions that yield meaningful results. We believe in the expertise of your people and work alongside them to amplify their value–ensuring quality, alignment, and timeliness, without hindering their capabilities. Whether it’s building your PMO from scratch, providing on-demand delivery leadership flex capacity, or something in between, our deep functional expertise and broad industry experience allows us to offer valuable perspective to help you see around corners, avoid missteps, and enable sustainable change.How we help our clients:• Address capacity gaps with flexible, expert project leaders• Solve misalignment issues by building or optimizing your PMO• Resolve project inefficiencies to boost execution success• End chaotic project tracking with tailored PPM system setups

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• Created and operationalized an Executive Project Management Office (EPMO) that incorporates the Project Management Office (PMO), Strategic Solutioning, and Business Analytics teams, driving a comprehensive portfolio of corporate strategy-aligned projects and benefiting the entire organization• Led executive-sponsored strategic initiatives that have improved profitability through growth, efficiency, and scaling operations while successfully integrating all business function areas during continuous organizational change, creating a strong foundation for long-term success• Proactively sourced and developed top talent to create a high-performing EPMO, comprising 10 external hires, five resources upskilled from unrelated industry-specific roles, and one team lead promotion, creating a diverse and talented team• Optimized EPMO delivery approach by formalizing project intake and prioritization processes aligned to corporate strategic objectives, including change management, process improvement, operational efficiency, tech adoption, and reorganization, leading to successful project execution and business growth• Co-led the company's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee strategy and execution as a charter member, including leading the creation of multiple employee-led ERGs, resulting in higher accountability and attention paid to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that attracts and retains top talent

• Successfully established and refined an internal PMO that transformed the management of $10M+ in annual budgets across 4 unique practices. Through strategic hiring and leadership, built and led a team of client-facing delivery resources that maximized efficiencies and productivity, resulting in significant cost savings for the organization• Pioneered a new strategic delivery leadership service offering by leading the discovery, proposal, negotiation, and management of client relationships. This effort not only increased revenue streams but also expanded the organization's offerings, making us a more attractive partner for clients seeking comprehensive solutions• As the acting PMO Director for a client, I took charge of standing up and operationalizing the PMO, realigning and developing a team of direct reports, and aligning over 20 delivery resources and stakeholders to streamline project intake and delivery. Successfully delivered on project portfolios while reskilling PMO delivery resources, resulting in improved project outcomes, increased efficiency, and ultimately, greater customer satisfaction• Redesigned and implemented a comprehensive end-to-end contract approval process that included rewriting the SOW template. This resulted in more accurate reporting, forecasting, and timeline and budgetary adherence, enabling the organization to make more informed business decisions that positively impacted the bottom line

Responsible for establishing and delivering on strategic roadmap on behalf of executive leadership. Managed department of Data Center Operations resources through an agile transformation, enabling the organization to iteratively migrate on-prem services to the cloud. Enhanced Business/IT efficiencies by assessing current-state gaps and implementing improved processes and tools. Lead management team through vendor selection, leveraging interviews, workshops, and a proof of concept to determine preferred tool and establish implementation timeline.• Developed and executed roadmap for strategic technology enhancements initiative established by executive leadership• Drove the Agile framework adoption for team of Data Center operations resources responsible for migrating on-premise services to the cloud• Led a team of 7 resources through an Agile transformation while executing on strategic initiatives for enhanced security and delivery, including tool and vendor selection, and resource alignment for $3M+ in department

Designed and developed custom end-to-end solution for customer portfolio which led to improved automation of business processes, enhanced business efficiencies, and increased customer satisfaction. Initiative entailed coordinating all internal IT function areas to enhance data availability, storage, and transmission; modernize infrastructure; successfully integrate with partners; and execute on change management with impacted end-users.• Led a team of 20+ and $3M budget through an Agile transformation while delivering on an inter-departmental business-critical process and technology enhancement• Collaborated across various internal functions including Engineering, Platform, Dev Ops, Infrastructure, Integrations, and end users to manage custom web application development initiative• Served as Scrum Master for all scrum rituals, including daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, grooming, and planning sessions• Drove the long-term planning for product backlog aligned with multiple releases through various methods, including tracking burndown and velocity charts to estimate and manage team capacity

• Oversaw teams of 10+ and $2.5M+ in budgets across multiple projects and clients.• Streamlined process for resource allocation, project forecasting, and employee engagement to ensure projects and the organization are properly staffed and resources are utilized efficiently. • Redesigned organizational processes including implementing measurement of change and learning programs. • Prepared and delivered client presentations and work products/prototypes by demonstrating a logical, rigorous, and analytical problem-solving approach.

• Responsible for portfolio of client commitment projects geared towards integrating services and data from multiple vendors, leading to improved member experience through enhanced accessibility and better quality data.• Controlled program of 20+ resources through $4M+ in budgets and managed critical business projects by collaborating with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, vendors, and project resources through both Waterfall and Agile framework. • Held requirements gathering and project planning sessions with project resources and stakeholders and drove daily status meetings through project completion by maintaining transparency and escalating risks when necessary.• Co-chaired internal Experience Talent Team – overseeing employee onboarding, retention, and feedback initiatives.

• Owned business analysis and project management for strategic Chicago office clients, including coordinating with stakeholders to identify, understand, and enable enterprise technology improvements• Facilitated requirements gathering sessions for projects ranging from data integration to data visualization• Served as leader on Slalom Experience committee – contributing to top 10 rankings by Glassdoor and Chicago Tribune for Chicago office workplace culture• Contributed to Slalom’s national thought leadership by publishing blog on the need for combining best practices around both people and technologies• Nominated for Slalom Freestyle Award for thought leadership contributions to the Slalom Chicago Practice

• Owned relationships for client-facing data reporting system, utilizing SAS programming language to maintain business analytics relationships for major hospital and physician group clients.• Collaborated across various internal functions to implement company-wide technology enhancements to enable improved client experience.

-Attained the top sales production in the history of Michigan Avenue Mega Branch, realizing over 20% growth, year-over-year, in both sales production and new household acquisition -Lead Michigan Avenue Mega Branch, with over $700MM in total deposits and investments, to its first successful annual sales campaign in over five years, with over 2,000 newly acquired households-Simultaneously managed two branches, with over $1.1B in total deposits and investments, and over 40 retail employees and integrated business partners -Responsible for overall branch performance by acquiring market share, building relationships with business and personal clients, integrating branch partners, and hiring and developing employees-Branch profitability realized unprecedented growth through teaching proven sales and services techniques to teams of personal bankers, bank tellers, and customer service specialists

-Developed a network of clients and established personal, consultative relationships -Assessed clients' personal, professional, and financial goals in order to recommend and implement long-term savings and investment strategies

-Utilized interpersonal skills to initiate contact and establish relationships with business owners -Developed directional media advertising campaigns to promote revenue growth for clients

-Responsible for $2MM in inventory, generating over $1.5MM in annual revenues and over $300,000 in profit -Accountable for total operational success of office including branch profitability; marketing initiatives; seeking new business opportunities; and employee management and development-Learned Enterprise business model, profit/cost analysis using GAAP Principles, and effective sales and marketing techniques from industry-leading program