Linda L.

Currently focused on implementing strategic planning to achieve organizational growth for small businesses. 25 years of diverse experience, including 19 years of project management, 16 years of process engineering, 5 years of performance engineering, and 12 years of consulting. Delivered 23 major business systems. Consistent results in technical documentation and communications. Expert on complex project management methods and practices • Led adoption of project success management practices at IBM by coaching and teaching over 200 engineers and managers. • Served as process and method auditor for green projects, red projects, and crisis management for critical situations. • Created and maintained all project documentation (schedule and budget adherence) and managed progress reporting, change requests, and risk and issue mitigation. • Used success project management methods in leading my programs to improve on time delivery by 35% and quality by a factor of 3. Experienced business analyst and process engineer • Strong skills in documenting business objectives, process and needs, performing requirements analysis (use cases, user stories), creating novel solutions designs. • Mentored others in preparation of proper documentation of current and future system states. • Technical. Managed code development for business applications and systems in Java, JavaScript, J2EE, XML, Ant, Perl, JSPs, HTML, CSS, Eclipse, C, C++, Basic, SQL, assembler, and legacy host languages on Windows, Linux, OS/2, and MVS, and Unix systems. Strong leadership skills • Proven people skills with over 16 years of management and cross functional team leadership. • Managed vendor relationships and contractors. • Customer facing experience has included resolving critical situations and training customer departments and executives for financial services, communications industry, government, and medical clients. • Experienced with MS Project. Taught PMBOK to groups of new PM’s.