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Lake Villa, Il, Us

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

As a senior leader, I manage a Project Management Office (PMO) within the EPMO supporting five global business partners: Finance, Legal, HR, Communications and IW COE. Leading a team of project managers, consultants, business analysts and third-party resources as needed, I serve as a portfolio and product manager overseeing full lifecycle IT and operational programs, including centralization, software deployments, digital transformations, automation and IT enabled business process improvements.In this role, I focused extensively on building improved collaboration and partnerships with business teams, as well as optimizing the Global Functions IT PMO, including standardizing tools, budgeting, legal review process, reporting, capacity/resource/portfolio planning, prioritization and strategy. As a member of the IT leadership team, I have been involved in numerous critical, large-scale enterprise initiatives, including:Global functions SME and workstream leader for multiple acquisitions and divestitures.Member of the IT transformation steering team partnering with IT senior leaders to reorganize, centralize and standardize global IT across the enterprise.Program manager to develop and launch IT Career Framework uplift initiative to simplify and standardize career development for global IT organization.

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

Leading a team of eight IT project managers, consultants and analysts, as well as IT Legal and Finance teams, we oversaw full lifecycle projects for Legal, HR, Finance, Communication and IW COEs globally. In addition, I led a change management team directing IT digital transformation initiatives enterprise-wide. I partnered with business leaders in strategic and advisory capacity to plan and direct projects and guided solution design, development, deployment and adoption.I led a team focused on becoming strategic business partners to the global business units to drive new solution innovation and provide insight into strategic IT roadmaps. We focused on optimizing and streamlining project deliverables to global business units and improving portfolio management across resource management & planning, forecasting, standardized reporting, schedule management, milestone management and project management.As Program Manager, I led the Legal IT team through the first records management and contract lifecycle application deployments. As Project Manager, I launched an enterprise e-signature solution within three months in response to remote work mandate.

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

Technical Project Manager leading global projects in enterprise digital transformation and workplace innovation initiatives. In this role, I leveraged my business and technical expertise for strategic planning and project definition partnering with business stakeholders, and I led teams of business analysts, consultants and cross-functional IT resources for end-to-end solution development. Also, managed Office 365 deployment impacting all global users, including new collaboration solutions, custom apps for business teams and global communications solutions. I served as a change leader and evangelist companywide, including engaging and influencing leaders and teams to facilitate digital transformation, as well as culture change focused on innovation and creative solutions at all organizational levels.

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

IT and digital SME for a global, cross-functional team of VPs, directors and specialists, where we directed full lifecycle conceptualization, design, development, deployment and evaluation of process improvement initiatives across the enterprise. I developed a continuous improvement dashboard for senior leaders providing increased data analytics and business intelligence.

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

I led teams of internal and external IT resources for design, development, testing, deployment, post-implementation support and administration of internal and external global websites, including global customer facing websites, intranets and customer extranets. During this time, I served as an IT digital SME for planning, requirements analysis and long-term strategic planning for transformation of UL from nonprofit organization to for-profit with multiple entities.

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

Led digital content management projects for internal Marketing and IT teams; managed development of online tools and products to support internal partners.