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Directing business functions and playing a key role in shaping and setting up the backbone of Bravo17's operational tools and policies.

In the Director of Business Operations role for Akamai Defense, implemented program management, strategic planning, resource management, and communication best practices on the team. Enabled the team to run more efficiently to delivery, grow, and scale more effectively.-Designed and orchestrated planning and strategic business direction to align all team disciplines; led several strategic project initiatives -Aligned daily operations of the team by establishing a framework of agile… Show more In the Director of Business Operations role for Akamai Defense, implemented program management, strategic planning, resource management, and communication best practices on the team. Enabled the team to run more efficiently to delivery, grow, and scale more effectively.-Designed and orchestrated planning and strategic business direction to align all team disciplines; led several strategic project initiatives -Aligned daily operations of the team by establishing a framework of agile processes, procedures and templates to optimize effectiveness and to enable us to grown and scale our Defense business through consistency and best practices-Streamlined a cadence of team communications to promote team unification, successes, direction, and feedback-Improved formal cross-functional team collaboration through weekly core team planning and coordination updates-Developed and executed a hiring process to prioritize, track, and hire skilled candidates leading to a 33% team size growth in 2023 (75 to 100 team members) Show less

Greater Chicago Area

A results driven Public Sector Engagement Director with Secret Security Clearance leading the program management, resource management, and project delivery of the Isobar team-Led team of developers, designers, functional analysts, user experience, and quality assurance testers designing and delivering a variety of software solutions to better enable faster and more effective decision making for the US Air Force war-fighter-Directed the Isobar team on the first ever successful cloud… Show more A results driven Public Sector Engagement Director with Secret Security Clearance leading the program management, resource management, and project delivery of the Isobar team-Led team of developers, designers, functional analysts, user experience, and quality assurance testers designing and delivering a variety of software solutions to better enable faster and more effective decision making for the US Air Force war-fighter-Directed the Isobar team on the first ever successful cloud computing platform for digital transformation for the refactoring, migration, and deployment of the US Air Force Portal (first product application launched) and the US Air Force Data Services domain (largest domain of applications and services launched) into the Air Force Cloud One platform.-Oversaw cross-functional Isobar teams in conjunction with other consulting agencies to deliver cross-company team holistic solutions for the DoD customer-Managed software projects that are driven by user experience needs that leverage agile development practices and user-centric design-Coordinated team resource allocations and mentored junior project manager and functional analyst resources across the team Show less

Chicago

Harpo Studios recorded the television shows and the oprah.com website provided the resources and interactive content to support her shows, magazines, book club, XM radio, and other initiatives. As Project Manager, directed a cross-functional team and project plan for the successful implementation of a redesign and new platform launch for the Oprah.com website featuring a new content management system and new Java EE Oracle framework.-Collaborated with stakeholders and executive… Show more Harpo Studios recorded the television shows and the oprah.com website provided the resources and interactive content to support her shows, magazines, book club, XM radio, and other initiatives. As Project Manager, directed a cross-functional team and project plan for the successful implementation of a redesign and new platform launch for the Oprah.com website featuring a new content management system and new Java EE Oracle framework.-Collaborated with stakeholders and executive management to develop the project plan, manage and mitigate risks, and manage resource allocation -Directed and managed the development team for their work efforts and deliveries, and the integration tasks related with the testing team and content migration team -Supervised the quality assurance testing tasks through a bug tracking system and issue resolution process becoming the subject matter expert in Jive community platform and Autonomy search engine Show less