Program Management Lead
Current• Serve as project or program manager as a consultant for a state agency and a value-added reseller to work on digital transformation and Environment Management software for the VA. • Work within constraints of relevant PMO structure to deliver positive results on time and budget. This includes recording relevant meeting minutes, communication plans, project plans, and establishing guiding principles for Agile methodologies when needed. • Communicate with senior executives in technology and the business to align outcomes to fit within their often divergent agendas. • Oversee and delegate to Project Managers within a program to ensure the program goals are recognized and assimilated into each project, as well as ensure consistency and standardization across program.• Monitor and author documentation of project requirements, outcomes, and technical playbooks to ensure future resources have a basis from which to maintain the systems. - Tasked to lead a floundering project that had been paralyzed by poor technical decisions and paralysis through constant over-analysis. Within four weeks the project was on track and making actual strides to completing the beta test of upgrading and migrating database servers. This was achieved by ensuring technical and business resources were aligned in outcomes and by establishing a strong program management plan and strategy. - Earned additional work overseeing additional programs for Windows 2008 and Windows 2012 upgrades.