Lara Grant Email & Phone Number

Eugene, OR, US

Remote

Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering Tanzu R&D, I serve as a leader for Tanzu R&D and am responsible for RM/TPM for Tanzu cross functional programs/products. I manage all personnel responsibilities of a co-located team of 12, created the Tanzu R&D TPMO, with a focus on trust, team building and business continuity.I understand the needed Objectives.

Remote

As a Technical Project Management Subject Matter Expert I worked with a team to create an asynchronous TPM course for MIT. Creating scenarios and learning objectives to add to the course.This required creativity, storytelling and industry and process knowledge to create scenarios that could be used for this degree program.

Remote

As the first Instructor hired for this 13 week boot camp, Technical Project Management Immersion program, I have worked closely with several departments to assist in the design, building and energetic delivery of an immersive course that enables students to transition into Technical Project/Product & Program Managers from various backgrounds.As a part of a.

Eugene, Oregon Area

I worked within the City of Eugene's Information Services Department (ISD) Leadership team to drive production of applications and collaborate with department customers for the City's government entities (Emergency Services, Planning, Public Works, Library, Recreation & Cultural Services departments). As a leader in transforming the workflow of ISD from a.

San Jose California

• SIG is an Agile software development group. We run very much like a start up within this large company, as we are 100% client funded. We pride ourselves on quality and agile delivery, with high customer intimacy. I.
• Grew current program from 1 client to 7 program clients, each with various projects included
• Responsible for the growth of this team staff by 63% in the last 4 years
• Lead, drive and consistently refine a SDLC Agile program, which I transitioned from waterfall, almost two years ago
• Managed the successful completion of our program to become Agile/Continuous Delivery Gold Certified by Cisco IT
• Agile benefits for the team included bringing cost per enhancement down by 47%, cost per resource down by 36% and deployments up by 33% within just 2 quarters

San Jose, CA

• ACE is built as a global CUCM, VSC and VXI infrastructure peered to the Production Cisco network. ACE offers "beta" services to 12,000 Sales users globally, with a unique blend of speed of delivery, personal customer.
• As one of the first hires, set up ACE is an internal beta network for 12k Sales users, peered to the Production Cisco network, but for early adopters.
• Facilitated release planning, prioritization and worked on resolving impediments for the teams
• Built the team from 10 people to 53, and managing vendor recruiting and interviews.
• Created communications and marketing strategy for this growing service
• Excelled at actively mentoring and coaching, managed issues within the team

San Jose, CA

Sr. Project Manager for the Advanced Cisco Experience (ACE) group We are the bleeding edge of integrated work environment technology. We work with Cisco products including the UC suite, Video and virtualization deploying the latest Cisco products to 7k sales users in the EFT time frame. This client funded group focuses on internal support and high speed.

Worked 3/4 desk. Source, recruit, interview, preform technical pre-screens, coordinate phone screens & interviews with engineers & managers. Provide follow up and some offer negotiation with candidates & managers.

Account Manager/Senior Recruiter focused on Direct Hire only. While at Kforce, I was ranked as the top performing recruiter within my peer group for all of our national offices. I was also within the top 20% of that group for the last 6 months of my career there. We specialize in the area of multimedia, wireless, VoIP, security and networking technologies..

District Recruiter, Retail Store Manager, Certified Classroom Trainer.Established Open Interview days at the locations in my district to keep the hiring pool flowing.The store I was giving had not ever turned a profit (it was a 12 year old location) and by the time I left had been profitable for 11 months.

Recruiter for 18 stores from Milpitas to San Bruno for all levels of team member. Established hiring standards for the region. Worked closely with the District Manager to create/coordinate/attend Hiring events for the talent pool. After 9/11, I was transitioned to Store Manager after the department was cut, and then went on to be promoted to Sr Hub Manager.

Started out as the On-Site Clerical Contigency Staffing Manager for Cisco Systems, and then moved into direct hire recruiting for general office positions.

San Francisco Bay Area

During this time, I worked for RSI/Lanier, PBMS & Danka Services. These companies provided on site services managing Copy/conference and mail services within technology companies and Law firms. I started as a Reprographics Operator, then promoted to Center Manager and was moved up through to an Area Manager, overseeing 5 accounts with over 50 employees.