Laurie Tonnesen Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Atlanta, GA, US

• Collaborate with clients to lead full lifecycle, cross-functional projects from initial concept through handover to operational teams
• Expertise includes application development and deployment; system selection; product development; and business-facing projects such as compliance / regulatory initiatives
• Industries include, oil & gas, financial services, healthcare, utilities and retail

Irvine, CA, US

Project management for a financial services client as part of PMO focused on regulatory compliance

Irvine, CA, US

• Strategic and tactical partner with account teams to clarify project requirements and identify best-fit consultants, based on client culture and required skillsets
• Collaborated with account manager to grow key account for the region from 1 to 12 consultants and $4MM
• Built relationships with consultants at key accounts to identify additional revenue opportunities and proactively offer client appropriate resources

Irvine, CA, US

• Led 2 multi-year projects with budgets up to $10MM as part of cybersecurity program at an oil & gas client
• Selected and deployed tool to monitor use of cloud-based services; and developed business unit specific reports across the enterprise
• Managed team of 15 people spanning lifecycle from initial project formulation to design, deployment and handover to operations teams
• Developed resourcing plan, selected and onboarded team members. Established work direction for team and interfaced with client leadership and key stakeholders
• Responsible for budget, stage gate meetings and oversight of team deliverables

Houston, Texas, US

• Led product line strategic initiative focused on understanding reasons for customer loss.
• Designed and facilitated 3-day team offsite resulting in development of a proposal for a customer-facing self-service portal.
• Defined program of customer-facing initiatives designed to deepen relationships with customers and decrease customers’ time-to-value realization.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Served as Communications Lead for 7 U.S. Downstream business units at a major oil & gas client. Created communications strategy and plan, developed leadership engagement activities and collaborated with change.
• Developed change management strategy and recommendations for a large retailer, as part of a shared services strategy

• Managed, simultaneously, multiple projects teams through rigorous project methodology on a variety of initiatives at a large oil & gas company
• Led project responsible for ensuring readiness of Upstream business units at major oil & gas company for internal audits. Coordinated and monitored pre-audit readiness activities. Created and maintained dashboard for.
• Served as Project Manager on global forum for global IT professionals at major oil & gas company. Developed forum theme, reviewed and provided recommendations to enhance speaker presentations, coordinated logistics and.
• Co-created and co-facilitated organizational capability workshop to ensure upstream group had the appropriate resources and skills to support application post-deployment
• Conducted full range of change management activities for Change Management Organization supporting Real Estate group at major oil & gas company to increase awareness and adoption of change. Developed proposals for.
• Identified opportunities and interfaced with client and firm leadership to develop scope and budget for staffing new project opportunities up to $1M. Served as mentor to junior colleagues

Managed project teams developing and deploying illustration software for all insurance product lines in time for market launches. Managed large, cross-functional product development teams comprised of marketing, operations, IT, actuarial, and legal/compliance groups to ensure products were developed in time for market launch and met requirements..

Operations and strategic internal consulting and cross-functional project team management focused on process improvement and technology implementations.Managed project of actuarial resources deploying a new system to facilitate regulatory reporting and rationalize multiple systems into a single system of record.Streamlined agent licensing process by.

Houston, Texas, US

Houston, Texas, US

Mba, Business

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)