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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Accomplished enterprise project manager with a proven track record of successfully leading and executing complex projects, optimizing resources, and driving strategic initiatives to fruition within diverse organizational landscapes.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Standardized practices for enterprise program management in various product areas, as small Australian company expanded via organic growth and strategic acquisition into United States technology leader with 500+ employees. Supported asynchronous and geographically diverse engineering and product teams in US, Europe, and Australia, working toward corporate goal of unifying culture with strategic program management oversight.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Building on my prior experience as an Agile Scrum Master, I promoted the agile strategy for a rapidly growing IT program that nearly quadrupled to 400+ resources by the end of 2021. My own position was very broad and touched all aspects of the program, from KPIs to planning to on-the-ground Agile transformation.To mature the organization into the Agile way of working, I proposed and delivered a division-level approach for the Platform Engineering portfolio, which itself represented a portfolio of 10 teams. Connecting with the IT teams and their internal leaders matured our Agile journey and enabled us to prioritize and organize our data health and operations for scenario building and budget management in a new way. We thus applied the principles of Agile transformation to Cloud and locally hosted technologies.Also, as a Scrum Master, I inspired the teams understand the value of a true return to vital Agile processes. The Agile Maturity Plan we put into place illuminated dependencies, controlled our costs, and measurably improved our communication, collaboration, capacities, and recordkeeping, as revealed by our Agile Health Assessment surveys. Overall, processes smoothed out, and the quarterly reviews showed the benefits of more powerful controls and unified trajectories.The Agile journey became my centralizing principle in the organization, and I was proud to share my knowledge and leadership with my colleagues and to mentor new Scrum Masters as well. I pioneered our company’s Scrum Master Community of Practice, which gave us a safe space to discuss our challenges and celebrate our successes. This, plus my contributions to recruiting for various teams, has become an important piece of my legacy from my deep and influential career with Fidelity.

Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States

By 2016, I became the director of program management in the same group for which I had been leading project management. From this broader perspective, I could see that we clearly needed to improve our overall operational and financial structures to make our entire delivery team more efficient. I put together broad financial and operational plans into repeatable strategic processes. At the same time, I initiated certification as an Agile Scrum Master to transform our way of thinking into a true Agile process as well as ensure we worked within a capacity-based model. Through strong communication and emotionally intelligent conversations, I brought along our chapter and squad leaders. These relationships gave us the platform to make sustainable change.My most impactful project during this almost two-year period was development of a model to analyze and support more than 2,000 resources, which was our budget’s largest line item. To capture all the data was challenging; however, once we had all of the information in place, we had powerful accuracy and compatibility across teams, and the model became relatively straightforward to update. This streamlining and consolidation across silos encouraged the planners to understand how best to predict and model future needs and to account for our largest expenses.As always, I relied on the best of my cross-functional relationships to ensure we controlled our costs effectively. In one case, for example, I collaborated with our procurement team to standardized software license renewals and save significantly on an expense in the tens of millions of dollars.

Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States

As with my earlier vice president position, I was balancing operational and budgetary support for all of our program managers. Focusing largely on financial accountability for the team, I helped them manage costs related to staffing. In doing so, they learned new skills and accountable behaviors.We organized staffing projections and models, managed our workforce planning, and made sure our other budgetary items were in alignment to our overall goals. This was especially important because our group was growing so fast. Through coaching senior members of our teams to own their own budgetary processes for each month's budget. Many of the managers had never done budget forecasting before, so I stepped in to mentor them on devising and maximizing their resources.As well, I strove to look at our budgets across our projects to make sure that we were using our resources effectively. One of the ways I contributed to reducing costs and ensuring project continuity was through development of master service agreements with various vendors. We avoided duplication of efforts while creating positive negotiating positions with our partners.

Smithfield, Rhode Island

As Vice President for the Personal Investments team of 10 within the IT Program Management Office, I led a team that enabled the work of 500+ associates split between two Chief Information Officers (CIOs). The most rewarding part of this job was cultivating key relationships on the front lines and at the strategic level, and hearing even lately that they appreciated working for and with me. Relatedly, the most significant challenge was ensuring that the CIOs had the strategic finance and budget support they needed to lead their various programs effectively.One of my biggest successes was creating and instituting program health checks. The Chief Information Officer would review these health checks to ensure that our implementation of project and program health standards were consistent across all of our work as well as to make changes to meet shifting market requirements. This standardized project review process and others that we put together as well help us flexibly meet our program goals through modeling possible scenarios with respect to potential changes in the market, our sponsorship, and funding.

Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting