DANIELLE GERBER

Guided change initiatives with financial services, insurance, SaaS, and pharmaceutical (via Insight Global) client partners, enabling teams to achieve 80-100% predictability in outcomes and improve team collaboration by coaching / training / mentoring Project Managers, Product Managers, and partners in enterprise shared services.
• Implemented and governed multi-million-dollar agile portfolio governance structures in partnership with CFOs, HR, PMs, and technology leaders, optimizing strategic alignment across 8 domains, optimizing time-to-market by 33%.
• Designed and implemented a strategy to measure continuous improvement and analyze performance and flow metrics, which aligned execution to strategy, reduced flow time and improved utilization of capacity by over 20%.
• Engineered lean portfolio budgeting frameworks incorporating AI/ML models across SaaS product lines, enabling a 15% improvement in resource allocation, and 20% faster time-to-market.
• Led a lean-agile transformation across the company's financial services B2B SaaS product, leading to a tripling of release frequency
• Advised CIO and executive leadership through the establishment of strategic lean product portfolio governance.

Drove technology transformation and agile program delivery for public and private sector clients. Defined KPIs and dashboards for tracking technical and business performance. Mentored, led and advised engineering leaders to implement strategies and process enhancements across cloud, infrastructure, and application platforms.
• Built KPI/OKR dashboards and value realization frameworks to increase accountability across a $20MM+ transformation portfolio of 22+ services increasing delivery forecast accuracy and predictability to 90%.
• Led IT Services Operations reorganization of 500+ into cross-functional teams-of-agile teams into value-based services, reducing dependency management, and improving flow efficiency by 25%.
• Facilitated cross-functional alignment through collaborative sessions, integrating customer feedback directly into the product development cycle; shipped features 2x faster, exceeding quarterly goals.

Championed the implementation of lean-agile principles across product teams for telecommunications client, directly training 200+ employees and achieving improvement in value delivery flow; reduced operational costs.
• Instituted governance frameworks across 15+ product/infrastructure programs within telecommunications, enhancing alignment between business and technical teams, and accelerating project delivery by 20%.
• Guided reorganization from project to product-centered enterprise, interviewing 25+ stakeholders, facilitating cross-functional workshops, and aligning 20+ product teams to focus on continuous delivery.
• Developed, led, and mentored Product Managers – biggest success in growing Product Manager from overseeing small product into Product/Solution Manager over biggest national product line.

Devised and executed comprehensive transformation strategies in medical devices, business solutions, government subcontractor, banking, and defense aerospace enterprises. Led change management to ensure smooth transition, minimize resistance, and track progress to measure effectiveness and make data-driven decisions.
• Championed agile transformation of ERP, integrating stakeholder feedback and change governance while also playing Product / Project Manager roles for client, including financial reporting and planning cycle collaboration.
• Led implementation of Agile at scale in government subcontractor client, improving release frequency 20%.
• Designed initiative planning frameworks to identify risk, optimize scope, and align execution with operational goals.
• Drove product strategy and roadmap development for client, incorporating data user and market analysis reports.

Technical Program Manager and Agile Coach in healthcare, security, retail, and pharmaceutical enterprises. Evaluated existing product development processes to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Partnered with commercial and investment bank client on discovery and architected enterprise transformation.
• Led global portfolio at scale as Program Manager and Agile Coach of successful $15MM HR SaaS product launch.
• Led successful Agile delivery of ServiceNow implementation, aligning Scrum teams to ITSM disciplines to optimize service operations and ensure adoption of platform and new ways of working.