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Senior Director, Fannie Mae, PMO Lead

START Date: 
June, 2006
END Date: 
March, 2017

Fannie Mae

Senior Director, Project Management

Led a large, centralized, project management services organization supporting over 80% of Fannie Mae’s software development projects:

  • Managed an organization of eleven managers and 150+ project management professionals responsible for delivering over 250 releases per year, with a $30M departmental development budget
  • Delivered bundled development services including: Portfolio and Project Management, Agile Transformation, Scrum, DevOps Engineering, Functional Testing, and Test Automation
  • Led an Agile transformation.  Over an 18-month period all projects embraced Agile principles and accelerators and 50% adopted Scrum or Kanban methodologies
  • Created a mission statement that focused on ‘project execution excellence’ and ‘project leadership’. Established performance metrics to support these goals
  • Established knowledge management and development programs resulting in over 75% of the resources being PMP and Scrum certified

Managed large programs with budgets up to $125M and over 600 resources, spanning multiple business and technology organizations