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 champions within business units to ensure business readiness• 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 leadership team• 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 managed timeline and budget• 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 change activities including stakeholder analysis, and change management and communication plans. Oversaw communication resources’ deliverables• 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. Collaborated with third party vendor to ensure rate increases on multi-million dollar block of in-force business filed on time, increasing premium by almost $2MM. .

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 reducing multiple touches, setting timeline targets by phase and introducing communication touchpoints to decrease time to complete licensing. Also improved mailroom process to reduce number of returned mail pieces and reduce costs by $0.10 per piece

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Mba, Business

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)