Yvonne is a thought leader in social innovation and community engagement. She brings a talent for strategic execution to the The Changemaker Initiative. Her skills, honed by 20+ years as a leader in the technology space, combined with a strong sense of purpose, and a talent for collaboration, help translate strategic initiatives into action and measurable results. As Community Engagement Strategist, Yvonne is building a play book for building collaborative grassroots community coalitions to drive social innovation and meaningful change. As Program Manager, Yvonne is responsible for working with the leadership team to develop strategic initiatives, and then translate those initiatives into action and measurable results.

The Grateful Garment Project provides victims of sexual violence the clothing and other resources they need to reclaim their dignity and begin the healing process. We work with hospitals, shelters, law enforcement and other nonprofits to meet victims’ immediate needs after a crisis, and support their ongoing needs along their road to recovery.

Lead group responsible for planning and execution of business solutions for Lab126. • Manage team responsible for driving design, implementation, and adoption of systems to support Operations and Supply Chain organization.• Introduced roadmap and portfolio planning processes to provide visibility and accountability• Launched Executive Dashboard program to give visibility to key business metrics across Operations and Supply Chain leadership team • Refined system implementation processes to remove inefficiencies and improve cycle time for system delivery• Built high impact, high performance program management organization, enabling efficient, on time delivery of complex programs

Led Operational Excellence improvement projects for Lab126 Operations & Supply Chain team. • Drive Management System improvement projects • Build business cases for strategic initiatives, communicate and gain executive support, and drive initiatives to successfully deliver business results• Analyze operations and supply chain relevant metrics and drive to continually improve business effectiveness• Drive complex cross functional initiatives that include Technology Systems, Logistics, Lean and Finance

Led group responsible for planning and execution of the Technology Group’s portfolio, including Product Development, Enterprise Applications, and IT.• Revamped the strategic planning and governance process, eliminating over commitment of resources and significantly increasing on-time project delivery by focusing on key priorities. • Developed portfolio and resource management capabilities which improved on-time project delivery through efficient resource management and effective risk mitigation.• Established professional services (PS) project management team responsible for deploying eLearning platform to other educational institutions, enabling new SaaS product line• Launched dashboard and metrics to report achievement against objectives and identify gaps in execution. • Built high impact, high performance program & project management organization, which enabled efficient, on time delivery of complex programs

Led group responsible for planning and execution of product development plans for Creative Suite. • Managed on time delivery of Creative Suite 5.5 across 10 product teams and 2500 people• Refined processes to remove inefficiencies and improve cycle time for new product releases• Drove strategic initiative to align metadata strategies and practices across products and BUs• Fostered a tight knit, high performance team with focus on execution and outstanding customer experience

Led program management team responsible for developing mobile products and services • Unified Communication Hub established to provide consistent, accurate program information• Drove execution of strategic and tactical objectives, working with other business units to insure that strategic objectives were aligned across the company. • Built a professional services program management team responsible for driving joint development projects with mobile carriers

Led 6 program management team responsible for Adobe’s digital imaging product line.• Drove project prioritization, project planning and execution across digital imaging product line• Achieved on-time, simultaneous shipment of product portfolio in multiple languages• Managed cross-functional interdependencies and deliverables• Drove strategic technical initiatives across multiple business units• Implemented process improvements to increase efficiency and predictability across product teams

Program manager responsible for Adobe Illustrator 10 and CS (11) releases.

Responsible for managing Americas-wide IT initiatives for the Agilent field organization.

Engineering manager of software development team for various business graphics products. Managed multiple releases of four software packages, including definition of specific upgrades, cross-functional program management, and engineering team management. Implemented software development process improvements for the R&D lab that increased quality and decreased time-to-market. Implemented metrics-tracking system to assess software development process.

Developed graphics library routines for HP proprietary products.