Strengths

• Communication
• Focus
• Input
• Activator
• Input

Professional Background

• Masha is a strategic thinker and technologist with more than 20 years of an overall work experience in Software Product Development and Implementation, IT, Retail, Healthcare, Airlines, Government, Finance/Banking Industries, including:
• Strategic management
• Organizational transformation
• Global team management
• Portfolio and program management
• Organizational agile transformation
• Change, delivery and release management
• International and US based consulting
• Public sector experience
• Application and infrastructure development
• Process Re-engineering
• Financial planning
• Undergraduate and graduate teaching

Professional Experience

Major Projects, Teams and Budgets Managed

Information Technology

• Confidential Sr. Delivery Manager responsible for Agile process transformation, testing, documentation, quality, build and release management, continuous integration technical global team of 20 , budget 3M, matrixed responsibilities for a team of 50 .
• Confidential Sr. Consultant/ Program Manager responsible for 3 workstreams, technical team of 12, budget of 1.9M and all aspects of program delivery, including change and release management
• Confidential. Sr. Consultant/ Workstream Lead in charge of an overall project methodology, risk and requirements management
• Confidential. Chief of Staff and Sr. Manager with direct responsibility for 1.5M budget, accountable for 65M departmental budget and project portfolio. Directly managed 2 teams of 11. Matrixed supervision of over 20 project managers. Projects: Infrastructure strategy development and department re-organization computer services assessment and outsourcing demand and portfolio management processes design and implementation
• Confidential. Program Manager. Supervised PMO staff of 5, matrixed managed over 150 consultants from 4 different vendors. Budget - 80M. Responsible for development, change, QA, testing and release management.
• Management Consulting and Process Re-engineering
• Confidential Principle Consultant and initiative lead. Led a team of 4. Re-designed and implemented a new process for a large agency of over 200 staff and 250MM budget.
• Dashboard build-out based on Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform and SharePoint 2010 for a healthcare client. Principle Consultant and initiative lead. Managed a team of 7. Matrixed managed client team of 10 SMEs spread across 5 organizational units.
• Corporate Strategy Analysis for a retail entity. Manager of Strategic Planning and Development. Directly managed a staff of 2, matrixed managed team of 12. Projects: Store performance analysis, warehouse space planning, service strategy and enterprise governance development.

Confidential

• Testing, Documentation, Processes, Quality, Release and Build Management
• Directly managed 3 global teams spread across US, France, India : testing technical documentation and quality compliance processes, tools and project management
• In charge of defining and implementation of development, testing, release methodology, and approach to quality compliance
• Responsible for quarterly release cycle and product delivery to 42 major Hospitals across US and Europe
• Led global organizational transformation to Agile and Test Driven Development.
• Led team's re-structuring, build-out, acquisition of new teams and ensure organizational cohesiveness
• Confidential Establishment and management of Project Management and Chief of Staff Offices
• Established Local Project Management Office and Operations Oversight teams. Managed groups' day-to-day operations 1.5M annual spend, 11 positions .
• Launched and ran Program and Project Management coordination of 2 major programs and over 25 projects with total budget of 273M .
• Implemented Demand Management Process. Improved departmental coordination and project estimation quality. Increased number of projects simultaneously delivered by Infrastructure.
• Tracked and analyzed Departmental Portfolio. Increased visibility into department's workload, project status and resource availability. Enhanced relationships with external customers.
• Confidential Design, development and implementation of the new Point of Sale System
• Developed, reviewed and approved fixed-price and time and material Statements of Work
• Managed all phases and aspects of the 80M project's Software Development Life Cycle with over 150 domestic and international developers.
• Ensured alignment of vendors' project management practices with Circuit City's PMO methodologies.
• Defined Business Governance processes and escalation procedures. Managed change management process.
• Confidential Analysis of corporate strategy, assessment of programs and initiatives, research and justification of new ventures
• Led highly sensitive and multi-faceted projects in the areas of Operations, Merchandising, Marketing, and MIS.
• Managed cross-functional teams charged with making recommendations on business proposals. Evaluated initiatives based on pre-established criteria IRR, NOP, strategic alignment . Introduced detailed Business Case Analysis as a part of required business justification. Approved initiatives totaled 30M.
• Confidential Design, implementation and enhancement of the web-based enterprise reporting system
• Defined functional requirements and project schedule. Ensured timely execution. Created project documents used as departmental templates. Managed three cross-functional teams.
• Coordinated pilot testing, design and development of corporate-wide training and training materials.
• Managed system's roll-out to 5000 users.
• Confidential Cross-functional and departmental consulting services
• Led re-engineering efforts in process re-design and development for 4 City Departments.
• Facilitated development of a highly successful Real Estate program City Sells including web presence .
• Performed best practices and benchmarking analysis, staffing and compensation studies
• Confidential Managed a variety of client engagements from IT technology delivery to process re-engineering and Independent Validation and Verification of complex state projects
• Worked on a development of a talent management and assessment approach for Impact Makers
• Mentored junior staff members and take an active part in talent acquisition
• Coordinated relationship with one of Impact Makers charity partners, Future Leaders in Project Management FLiPM
• Confidential Bank Compliance Program Initiative
• Served as a Program Manager for the Bank Compliance Action Capital One and Chevy Chase Banks Initiative.
• Responsible for creating a Program Management Office and the Governance Oversight for the program.
• Confidential Third party vendor remediation project
• Brought in to get the initiative back on track after a number of lengthy time and legal delays. The project has been completed on schedule and within defined budget.
• Responsible for project planning, execution, testing, change and release management and documentation.
• In charge of a remediation effort to bring 56 back-office applications into audit compliance.

Confidential

• Enterprise-wide system and process integration project
• Conducted in-depth As-Is analysis of current source systems, existing processes and tools.
• Analyzed sales notification, client implementation and data transfer processes used across WellPoint, HMC and other Ancillary Vendors. Researched industry best practices.
• Designed short- and long-term approach/recommendations to support WellPoint integration vision and strategy.
• Design, development and Implementation of company's client implementation process
• Managed implementations for over 40 HMC clients with a total of 350K covered lives.
• Identified process gaps, drafted and implemented pipeline and workload management for 13 member impl. team.
• Implemented an integrated change management process.
• Confidential Agency-wide process re-engineering effort
• Developed a project framework and methodology from process analysis, modeling and decomposition to development of use case diagrams, use cases and requirements .
• Prepared and delivered training on project approach and tools to 20 DMV analysts and executives.
• Led requirements and risk management work streams.