Background

Experienced senior leader with 30 years of line management, program management and operational experience in insurance, manufacturing, retail and non-profit sectors. Demonstrated success in establishing new business functions, including Project Management Offices (PMOs), service offerings and IT functional groups. Experience managing multi-million dollar budgets and large teams. Specialties: Delivery Effectiveness, Business Program/project management; establishing Project management Centers of Excellence (PMOs); creating Goverance processes; process analysis, improvement and redesign

Job experience

• April 2024 - February 2025
  Manager, Enterprise PMO
  Milliman
  

  Barrington, IL, USA

  I led the GCS PMO helping to ensure delivery of initiatives for Accounting & Finance, IT, Legal, Marketing, HR and several other organizations internally. I also led the Business Transformation Program Office, driving the multi-year enterprise change in process, methods, and software across the company.

• March 2021 - March 2024
  Senior Consultant
  Transforming Solutions, Inc.
  

  Barrington, IL, USA

  As part of TSI’s core team, I help to expand our market, to enhance our client solution suite, to grow and mentor our consultant team, and to dazzle our clients with delivery that exceeds their expectations. We focus on process improvement, project/program/portfolio management, organizational change management, software research and evaluation, and PMO improvement (from strategy to implementation).
  

• August 2016 - December 2019
  Vice President - IT
  Ameritas
  

  Lincoln, NE, USA

  Reporting to the CIO, held a position of leadership and direction setting to improve the support for Shared Services business partners. Engaged regularly with C-suite executives in the solutioning and delivery for accounting/finance, human resources, marketing, audit, legal and Ameritas Investment Partners.

Education

• Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame
  MBA
  

  1987 - 1989

  Finance and MIS
• University of Michigan
  BA
  

  1982 - 1985

  Political Science

• Project Management Professional
  PMI
  

  October 2005 - present