Tanya Roberts, Mba, Pfmp Email & Phone Number

Chicagoland

Greater Chicago Area

Leads strategic level consulting service delivery teams in multiple industries including consumer products, life sciences, healthcare, industrial, and government. Leader of IPM’s Project & Portfolio Management Center of Excellence.

Greater Chicago Area

Principal consultant with expertise and leadership in the areas of Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Project Management Office (PMO) engagements, and business process improvement initiatives. Focused to driving improvements that increase organizational project & portfolio management maturity, linking corporate strategy to predictable execution. Experience includes multiple service industries, including consumer products, life sciences, healthcare, and industrial.

Greater Chicago Area

Senior project management consultant with proven experience in organizational PMO leadership and project portfolio management within multiple industries, including consumer products, life sciences, healthcare, and industrial. Experience includes project management standardization, development of key tools and templates, and providing project management training and coaching. Onsite leadership includes complex global product development projects.

Greater Chicago Area

Professional project management consultant with on-site experience in the life science and healthcare markets. Provides on-site PMO and portfolio management leadership. Expertise in the areas of project planning, risk management, communication, resource and cost management, issue resolution, project scheduling, as well as tool and template development. Consultation services include detailed assessments, training, and roadmap development for project, program, and portfolio management improvement.

Naperville, Il

Managed commercial deployment integration portfolio of projects for 4G/LTE product offerings across North America. This included technical planning, prioritization, coordination of staff resources, complex schedules, contracts with vendors, communication/meetings, cost/budget analysis, and customer relationship management. Ongoing stakeholder engagement with various management levels.Internal strategy consultant role, after competing in the 2012 Americas Entrepreneurial Boot Camp at Alcatel-Lucent. Full business plan for an operations model change to capture market segment, while also increasing portfolio profitability and lowering cost structure. Team presentation to company-wide executive council. Plan chosen by CFO. Guided the implementation of the plan through a pilot project using Lean Six Sigma.

IT Knowledge Management senior project manager for the Genesys Laboratories business of Alcatel-Lucent. Worked on complex technical operations projects spanning organizations in US, Canada, France, and Australia. As part of the organization's PMO, authored project management processes and templates for operational business improvements across the global organization.

Naperville, Il

Release Manager / Program Manager for an international program of software development projects, across US, China, and India. Planned the release program with all network element teams, coordinated budgets, led global status meetings, and communicated issues/status with the management team. Additionally worked on the organizational PMO core team, authoring processes and training teams on many areas including New Product Introduction, Risk Management, Project Close-Out, and a Retrospective Process. These PMO activiites led the organization to CMMI Level 3.

Bs

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)