Elizabeth Englert, Pmp,Pmi-Acp Email & Phone Number

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

As the Program Vice President/Head of PMO, I ensure predictable, consistent, and successful program delivery. In this role, I manage a large team of project management professionals, while formulating and supporting the vision and strategy of the organization. • Lead the PMO, program/project management functions, processes and reporting with little direction. Ensure projects are properly resourced and structured and establish partnerships with multiple technology and business leaders. • Manage a team of project managers, program managers and analysts and ensure project management policies, standards and procedures are consistently followed. Provide regular reviews, advisement and consultation to the team and to my peers. • Drive the project management strategy within the team. Communicate the strategy across stakeholders, leading the improvement and advancement of the project management function across the organization. • Plan, track and report on all initiatives and processes lead by the organization. Create transparency and provide clear and concise communications at the executive level. • Collaborate with stakeholder teams to resolve issue and deliver on commitments. • Responsible for staffing and managing performance for a team, including mentorship. Set clear expectations and communicate continuously regarding performance throughout the year. • Provide a holistic view of a solution by coordinating with and monitoring all impacted business processes from initiation to delivery and to understand and take action when changes in programs impact other business priorities.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

• Leads a product team to develop an enterprise payment gate platform while partnering with technology to build from ground up• Leads cross functional strategic initiatives, support and engage with internal teams to delivery on objectives, develop core product and maintain a roadmap of product delivery plans• Owns Product Execution of product delivery roadmap, based on product strategy vision• Provides leadership, oversight and inspiration to a team of product managers to plan, develop and deploy new product/ features and enhance existing capabilities in accordance with product strategy• Defines delivery performance metrics and monitor success of product program in real time• Drives coordination and results with business and technology teams to delivery to production live features• Manages the professional development and growth of direct reports, coaching for a higher degree of performance and creating a culture of achievement• Drives continuous process improvements in agile delivery, along with coaching newer agile practitioners• Provides governance on epic, feature and story writing across team of 20 product managers for consistent performance .

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

• Responsible for the overall success of all client program portfolios • Compose and convey status reporting on entire portfolio for internal and external client C-Level leadership• Cultivate and assign projects to client facing resources that are responsible for successful implementations• Ensure entire portfolio of projects and project managers follow project management best practices and focus on continuous improvement of delivery• Developed a baseline PMO project management template toolkit and responsible for continuous improvement of project management process to show value to organization• Provide leadership support, direction and escalation on projects for project managers• Manage and inspire geographically distributed project management team of 5-7 project managers and program managers• Leverage agile methodologies to blend internal product teams work with clients’ needs, using JIRA, Smartsheet and Confluence

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

• Responsible for developing and delivering critical, complex system programs to ensure continued success and profitability of the enterprise• Managed overall success of client delivery program and day to day operations by coordinating with cross functional stakeholders in the development and execution of client delivery programs • Worked closely with the PMO Managers in Metrics & Reporting as well as maturing Project Management practices within the organization

Buffalo, Ny, Us

• Shaped and provided oversight to projects within portfolio and cost center budgets, including projects, enhancements and vendor maintenance agreements• Restructured with Enterprise Architecture to develop and oversee execution of 3 year Cognizant product portfolio roadmap. • Refined Benefit Realization Effort companywide to provide more value to Project Delivery Lifecycle.• Fostered a cross-functional and geographically distributed team of IT Development, Quality Assurance, Business Analysts, Configuration and Project Management that developed and delivered critical business and IT processes for Enterprise Systems, including corporate core claims system (Facets) and Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform • Developed, mentored and educated PMO team on project management life cycle (waterfall and agile), resolve conflicts, and manage/allocate resources.

Buffalo, Ny, Us

• Directed a cross functional business team of 15 business units to determine technical functionality to be delivered on a quarterly basis.• Managed largest 2014 project initiative. This project was 14 months, 250 resources (combination of IT and business), $3.6 million budget that came in on time, within a 2% budget variance and the highest customer satisfaction of any project delivered in the last 2 years.

Buffalo, Ny, Us

• Served as the Technical Program Manager for a 2-year effort to replace the core claims processing system. • Coordinated and delegated all technical efforts for 6 project teams and oversaw all program level technical decisions.

Buffalo, Ny, Us

Buffalo, New York, Us

Brentwood, Tennessee, Us

Bachelor'S Degree

Bachelor'S Degree