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Seattle, WA

• Enhancing Project Management Office capability for UW Continuum College (UWC²) including establishing and facilitating portfolio management processes, coaching stakeholders on portfolio management practices, developing.
• Launch of new Career Accelerator line of self-paced, online courses and certificate programs based on Open edX LMS and e-commerce platform (winner 2018 UPCEA Outstanding Program Award: Noncredit award).
• Content Management System (CMS) replacement and web site redesign (UPCEA 2016 Marketing Silver Award winner)
• Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system replacement and enhancement of student engagement processes
• Integration, deployment, adoption and migration to the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS), governance of LMS policy changes
• Specification, development and implementation of consolidated course registration process across all types of courses and programs

Seattle, WA

• Initial startup and building out of Project Management Office capability for UW Educational Outreach (now UW Continuum College) including establishing portfolio management processes, developing project manager.
• Requirements development and planning for product version upgrade of Ektron Content Management System (CMS)
• Deployment, adoption and migration to the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS)
• Charter, requirements development and planning of consolidated course registration process across all types of courses and programs

Greater Seattle Area

Consulting as a Supportability Program Manager for a Fortune-100 software products company.Consulting on approaches to managing and communicating status for a continuously evolving portfolio of more than 50 small, cross-organizational projects. Projects prepared engineers to support billing queries on releases of new and enhanced cloud services built on.

• Managed end-to-end program to plan, deliver and operate an integrated workflow management and business process management solution for an online contact center business. Drove program structure, governance and systems.
• Analyzed business drivers, mapped their impacts to existing capabilities, and forecast the expected impacts of planned strategies. Played a key role in driving significant shift in strategy to enable successful system.
• Instrumental in aligning business team strategies to divisional strategies to support funding requests. Developed and presented ROI model and business case for capabilities investment.

Managed teams of 5 to 40 employees and contractors, engaged in product and project management plus the analysis, development and system testing phases of the software development lifecycle. Responsible for annual budgets of $1.2 to 5 million. Working on 2 to 6 projects at a time, my teams delivered dozens of releases of systems for the channel marketing.

Redmond, WA

• Managed project teams to successfully complete annual program renewal launches for the Certified Partner program from 1999 through 2002.
• Established the standard of “perfect launches” in 2000 and 2001.
• Team won a division quarterly performance award for the 2001 launch.
• Received a 4.5 of 5.0 annual review score for completing the project without having a direct manager, placing in the top 5% of Microsoft employees for that review period.The Certified Partner system has been worldwide.