Time away from work to manage multiple elderly family member health crises, now fully resolved.

One common thread unites my experiences in many excellent years at Avanade: in every role, from Product Owner and Program Manager to Business Analyst, my ability to listen to the business and understand how to translate what they truly need into requirements, user stories or specifications has enabled the transformation of business needs into technical vision. My experience has helped my clients repeatedly create software that delivers real, meaningful and impactful functionality, delivering solid business value. Whether working in an innovative agile methodology integrated with DevOps and automated testing, a more traditional waterfall environment, or a hybrid custom iterative model, I have succeeded in helping clients define their requirements, document them successfully, manage change, and ultimately deliver the business functions they need to their customers. In my customer facing roles, I have worn many hats, including Program Manager, Business Analyst Lead, Product Owner, Delivery Manager, and Proposal and Opportunity DevelopmentI have also filled many internal Avanade roles over my career, including: North American Business Analyst Practice Lead, Assistant Regional Delivery Executive, and Client Executive,

GA Sullivan was a premier boutique Microsoft-oriented software development firm headquartered in St. Louis which was acquired by Avanade in 2003. I served an excellent team of developers at GA Sullivan as a Program Manager and Software Practice Manager. I was responsible for scoping projects, developing proposals with the team, managing clients, and managing/delivering successful projects.

Infrastructure Consultant, Project Manager and Software Practice Manager