My career is a fusion of management experience enabling me to move adeptly through project delivery issues while facilitating strategic alignment and growth/transformation. Here's how I phrase it:
Dori's versatility energizes optimal project delivery in shifting business contexts.
I have a unique blend of change management, project governance and executive communication skills to help establish, grow, and manage an adaptable project management delivery function. I was a project manager in my early career and have grown my leadership skills and strategic thinking strengths.
I addition, I have managed:
I define Project Management as encompassing project day-to-day or weekly operational tasks.
Project Delivery Optimization (PDO), on the other hand, aligns project operational standards and business objectives in weekly to quarterly oversight tasks. It's a different skill set from Project Management.
My skill in optimizing project delivery may facilitate integrating change management, developing ongoing relationships with teams/business units, and ensuring a robust, responsive, and flexible project delivery function to close the strategy-execution gap.
In my first assignment as a project manager, I had to complete customizations on top of a base product that wasn't complete yet. The project was to serve as a catalyst for winning the contract. I optimized relationships with the base product team and supporting internal partners to facilitate trust and clear communications. While there were challenges and mild delays, my project was delivered within 15% of baseline timeline and budget. I was awarded the original letter of contract by the customer and account team for excellence in project delivery.
Over the span of my career, I've learned how to deliver end-to-end systems that fulfill the execution promise. I also accept that change is a normal part of doing business, and that it's best to use resources for projects that bring the most value, even if that means putting one on hold.
With project and product delivery management as a foundation, I integrate change management and user adoption along with superb communication skills - speaking, writing, and listening.
Bonus: I learn from multiple sources, even through the experience of others, and I'm an autodidactic learner. This means I ease into learning business environments.
I align with stakeholder needs that I learn from listening to key staff, partners, executives and peers. I naturally want to continuously improve to make processes and interactions more efficient and responsive to change.
In this Zoom story I facilitated customized solutions for specific stakeholder groups like executive assistants, the marketing team, and the regional CIOs. I also created a knowledge hub on an accessible platform with guides for stakeholder groups, tip sheets, training recordings, and the calendar of live training sessions.
Project milestones and product tips were communicated through various newsletters, cascaded through leaders, and shared with key stakeholder groups.
Most of these talents were used in a project where I led adoption efforts in collaboration with an adoption project manager and a trainer. We onboarded about 30,000 people to the Zoom meeting platform in 60 days.
I utilized a change management approach, filling in stakeholder needs for data, dashboards, and specialized training.
People
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Organizational/Management
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Any industry that is highly regulated and/or undergoing transformation in ways of working, like:
Aerospace*
Defense
Finance
Energy
Healthcare*
B2B Professional Services*
Consumer ok for wellness technologies
*Industries with previous experience
B2B Professional Services/Software
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Download the Case Study - a story of accomplishment "Upleveling Project Delivery with Excellence in Adoption Strategy."
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