Teaching at Lone Star College
Encouraging students to adapt critical thinking and life-long learning identities through teaching art appreciation classes at Lone Star College; with investigation of art as social expression, focus on creative and functional processes, and learning to critically review works of art, artists and their context in world cultures.
Scrum Management for IT Infrastructure Build
Managed client business and internal technical teams to deliver new infrastructure for a client’s go-forward IT simplification program; team members were located globally, held daily scrum meetings; pulled outside teams together to resolve blockers.
Leading Project Teams
Directed a team of ten project managers for project readiness including scope, test plans, and schedules; oversaw the team through the program’s design, build, testing and go live phases.
Participating in Change Management
Participated in and lead business and IT teams through company splits, mergers and spin-offs during periods of significant transformation. Oversaw the split of 30 software applications between spin-off companies.
Improving Project Reporting
Managed improvements for QlikView reporting for key business areas: finance, sales, marketing and HR. Implemented daily dashboard reviews for compliance to company reporting standards, quality checks, and move to production.
Working with Consulting Firms
Engaged and co-worked with consulting firms helping internal and external clients. Established excellent working relationships for the benefit of the client, while respecting each other as competitors.
Managing Teams
Responsible for managing team members, staffing, assigning goals, conducting performance reviews, managing the budget for market research and consulting firms and recommending professional certifications.
Industry Association Engagement
Represented and led 15 personal computer companies in self-reporting shipments with the goal to size and track industry size and growth projections.
Certifications
• Lone Star College adjunct and D2L online teaching certification
• Professional Scrum Master I, (PSM I) February, 2018, through Scrum.org
• Project Management Professional (PMP), December, 2015, through PMI
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), July 2013, through Scrum Alliance
Education
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
MBA, May 1981, Marketing
• Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Bachelors (BA) January 1977, History of Art
Masters (MA) May 1979, History of Art
• Member, Phi Theta Kapa Honor Society, 2019
Work Roles & Duration
• College Teaching: Lone Star College, adjunct lecturer for 18 years in art appreciation/history
• IT Project Management – fifteen years of experience
• Management Reporting & Business Analysis – fifteen years of experience
• Market Sizing & Forecasting – five years of experience
• Field Sales support – five years of experience
• Industry Consultant Management – five years of experience
• Advertising Management – three years of experience
Approach to Teaching and Working
• Leading students to understand the visual arts as a creative process and production to express personal, social and historical perspectives; leverage hands-on learning through group projects involving iconography, photography, film as art and architectural and environmental awareness of our surroundings
• Engaging with many different client teams, capturing their project needs, organizing the project team to take on the work and deliver results
• Proactively anticipating project challenges, work with teams to resolve, share the lessons learned, and exercise good judgement
• Recommending departmental direction, goals, staffing and project methods, support and analyze budgets, contracts with suppliers as needed
• Reporting to management current status, forecasts, key challenges and recommendations for resolution; assist in dashboard design and reporting
• Enjoy working with teams from all areas of an organization and roles; mentoring team member skills, growth and pursuit of professional certification