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• Program / portfolio metrics – Created program and portfolio level metrics with Smartsheet and Power BI for client, account team & senior leadership, pulling from multiple sources to single dashboard. Managed combined portfolio of customers in oil & gas, food production and finance with revenue over $50m.• Program / portfolio planning - collaborating with other company program managers to create standards for program and portfolio operations.• Program leadership - review project level activities with assigned project managers to rollup RAID items, project progress and budgets to client and company leadership. Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timelines and deliverables are met.

• PMO creation – Built initial company PMO to manage Cyber Security projects across multiple clients/industries. Created policies and baseline templates for use by all project managers to create consistency. Utilized Power BI and Smartsheet for reporting and metrics. Setup Jira for first time company use.• PMO leadership – lead a team of junior and senior project managers. Reviewed project metrics, progress and RAID items for leadership rollup.• Managed partner channels – Worked with multiple hardware (Ingram Micro) and software partners (Crayon and CloudIQ) on procurement and invoicing to streamline customer engagements. • Program Management – Created program management offering to clients as they expanded services offerings within the company. This allowed for efficiencies with fewer meetings and concise reporting.• Successfully led pharmaceutical client divestiture that focused on transitioning security tools to Microsoft Cloud Security / Azure while assisting with creation of security awareness program.• Led security program at global Fortune 100 company with over $1m internal revenue utilizing dozens of resources (internal and client) that implemented threat hunting activities, regular reporting and remediation efforts of findings. Client focused on 100% cloud first philosophy. Engagement with client include up to and including CISO and CIO.• Microsoft Business Central program management – took over program management of Microsoft Business Central deployment and enhancements. Managed approximately $2m budgeted portfolio of projects with over three dozen resources (internal and client) across agriculture and manufacturing spaces. Deployment of business central eCommerce and CRM were succeeded by additional statements of work for add-ons and feature enhancements. Engagement with client included C-Suite presentations and regular interactions.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

• Project Leadership - Led a team of 12 developers and engineers through daily task assignments via Agile Scrum. Provided periodic performance evaluations and worked with people managers to provide feedback for reviews/performance based awards. Projects focused on internal develop with Salesforce to help manage customer intake.• Vendor management – Worked with multiple vendors on projects to achieve project / program objectives. Synced vendor and team availability for maximum effectiveness during in-person sessions.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

• Program management – Hired to help manage Cyber Security program with over 10 active projects. Helped IT staff and security team align on overlapping requirements to maximize people availability. Projects included data protection implementation, security awareness, wireless security and initial cloud security assessments. Total project budgets were between $2-$3m over 2 years. Engaged with all levels of the organization with these projects/programs.• PMO – Helped IT leadership form the base for a companywide PMO. Used previous PMO experience to help create metrics and standardization of processes. Worked with development and engineering team leaders to implement sprint cycles for work via Scrum methodology.• Process improvements – revamped entire project process for IT projects from intake to closure. Leveraged working relationships with engineers, developers and leadership to streamline and provide ease of use for projects. Focused on integration of waterfall and Agile methodologies.• Software implementation – took over project mid-way through implementation to change petroleum software from home grown to off the shelf software. Completed implementation within schedule and budget. Multi-year project was budgeted between $5-$7m and involved team members across multiple departments with weekly interactions to C-Suite

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

• Program management – Oversaw Cyber Security SIEM product transformation program valued at $10m from enVision to ArcSight after HP acquisition of ArcSight. Worked with dozens of global clients and internal teams to move platforms including members of executive teams (internal and clients).• Project management – managed anti-virus projects for clients with over 30000 endpoints. Successfully completed migration of Symantec to McAfee within schedule and budget for global food manufacturing client.• Remote access – managed multiple national and international clients remote access system. Successfully deployed tokens to over 20000 users. Worked with clients and account teams to manage usage of ISP allocation.• Process improvements – worked with leadership teams to help re-design workflow of multiple client intake processes. This allowed team members to manage higher capacity of new clients.• Government clearance – worked with US government agencies on secret level projects for Department of Defense and other government contractors.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration

Mba, Ebusiness