Deanna Landers, Mba, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Developed and improved the processes, tools, and techniques used to make the world a better place through project management, by connecting non-profit organizations with project management expertise and methods.Provided PMO maturity and development consulting, project management training and consulting, project management and business leadership coaching.

Greenwood Village, CO

• Lead a high performing team of project and program managers delivering network and data center infrastructure projects for all service lines interfacing with customer networks. Projects include connectivity and.
• Improve project and organizational performance through standardized and continuously improving project management methodology, templates and tools.
• Drive and support consistent, effective approaches to project initiation, planning, execution, control and closure, ensuring successful project delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-organizational leadership on larger business objectives in order to gain alignment on project priorities.
• Represent Network Operations and CBO within corporate-wide Project Management leadership team, bringing more awareness to these groups and sharing organizational best practices.
• Served as departmental representative for SAP implementation planning and release team.

Greenwood Village, CO

• Built and grew a process improvement and portfolio management team to develop products, define and disseminate organization-wide processes, tools, key performance indicators (KPIs), and standards.
• Identified and implemented organization-wide process and tool improvements, reducing self-inflicted outages, meeting SLAs, and maximizing knowledge recycling.
• Directed the project management tool evaluation and development effort.
• Directed the review and integration of a hybrid agile approach for managing projects and operational activities within the Advanced Analytics team, allowing for improved execution and prioritization of frequently.
• Created and supported business case for expansion of Jira administration resources, resulting in appropriate focus on organizational workflow changes and alignment.

Greater Denver Area

• Aligned portfolio with strategy through development of the Program Management Office, driving project performance through the entire lifecycle, and improving project management maturity.
• Defined the strategic value of the PMO, and communicated this as well as plan throughout organization.
• Collaborated with others in the Charter PMO director role to validate value versus cost of PMO.
• Defined scope of organizational PMO, gained executive acceptance, and developed path to success.
• Developed training plan for PMO and provide mentoring and team training sessions on various leadership, project management, personal growth and organizational topics.
• Developed and maintained project intake process and tool, providing a consistent set of information for organizational requests, and a method to support escalations and track progress at the request level.

Denver, CO

• Portfolio Manager, Global Technology Services (2012 to 2016)
• Oversaw financial performance and customer satisfaction for $250M-$350M portfolio of IT infrastructure services projects, focused on data center construction and relocations, network implementations, and IT strategy..
• Consistently maintained excellent customer satisfaction ratings for projects in portfolio by developing strong internal and external relationships and supporting the team.
• Mentored team of project executives and project managers on organizational goals, facilitating achievement of optimal business results.Project Management Profession Leader, Project Management Center of Excellence.
• Represented IBM Global Technology Services to guide internal PM profession on global initiatives: 1) PM Development Team, focused on certification and metrics within PM community, 2) Project Management Certification.
• Promoted and enhanced collaboration using best practices, driving business and customer-valued results.

• PMI’s Board of Directors sets and executes PMI’s core ideology and values, the essential and enduring principles that guide PMI and the profession.
• Contributed to Board’s setting and implementation of PMI’s core ideology and values. Identified potential issues that warranted strategic action through continual review of strategic plan and world market and.
• Piloted flexible board working group structure, allowing greater director engagement and quicker results. Led successful international team, recommending strategic changes related to online social markets.
• Headed initiative to measure PMI’s progress against strategic plan, managing team in creation of process to measure and monitor results.

• PMO Manager, Global Technology Services (2006 to 2012)
• Developed project management and program management offices (PMOs) for medium to large projects ($4M-$120M), implementing and developing project and program governance for improved and repeatable services performance.
• Formed and managed several PMOs where PMO was accountable for governance of project or program, creation and integration of various PM processes, performance tracking, improvements, and reporting.
• Spearheaded effort to implement agile / iterative methods of project management on $12M project with geographically-distributed team of 70+ (employees and vendors), leading to benefits recognized in time frame required.

Project Management Institute, Mile Hi Chapter leadership (VP of PR, VP of Communications, Chairman of the Board)

• Program Director, Global Professional Services
• Led initiative to migrate client business computing to newer platforms.
• Directed delivery of legacy renewal and modernization services, allowing customers to harvest business processes from legacy systems and generating tremendous cost savings.PMO Manager, Global Professional Services
• Developed enterprise PMO structure, staffed new roles, and led effort to manage and expand within North and South America.
• Instrumental in defining and creating enterprise PMO for CA’s Global Professional Services group as well as Project Management Methodology (PMM) and PM best practices, including process improvement strategy. This.
• Served as North American representative on PMM Change Control Board, Global ISO Team, and Global Training Team, overseeing and coordinating efforts leading to achievement of North American ISO 9000.

Program Manager; Group Manager, Health Care and Public Sector Practices

Mba

Executive MBA program

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: IEEE, ACM, Women in Science & Engineering, Engineering & Computer Science Inter-club CouncilReceived the Litton.

Proficiency Certificate, Spanish

Education record