Geraldine Canty

Using Science, Technology & Coaching:

• Improving team cohesion, team effectiveness, and team leadership for high-performance.
• Helping cross-functional leaders foster positive, proactive and integrated relationships to achieve organizational business goals.
• Coaching to improve leadership effectiveness by increasing self-awareness, aligning personal and professional goals, reducing stress, improving tolerance for uncertainty, and practicing inclusion and empathy.
• Providing career and leadership development assessments that identify employee potential to climb ladder.

• Engaged by Business Transformation Office, to manage program project workstream. Conducted project review and worked with Director of BTO to implement recommended changes to improve deliverables and outcomes.

• Drove Sharepoint 10 migration to SharePoint Online for Communication and Public Engagement Team (CPES) at FDA.
• Recommended digital tools to support workflows, drive efficiency, and improve integration with other units within CFSAN.

• AARP: Provided program management expertise to business development team marketing and selling digital products to health-care organizations.
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting – Managed Digital Culture Acceleration Project for three pilot radio stations.

• Built IT PMO, hired diverse team of Business Analysts/Project Managers, Improved vendor accountability, and partnered with P&L leaders to delivery greater business value to customers.
• Implemented Project Portfolio governance reducing 100 project requests to 12 strategically aligned by requiring business cases for C-Suite approval.
• Improved Project execution rates and cleared 3-year backlog of product enhancements in 1 year.
• Optimized testing by increasing configuration management rigor, and establishing onshore offshore testing model.
• Prioritized career development by helping team members acquire additional credentials, CAPM, PMP, CSM, and CBAP.
• CEO elevated IT PMO to enterprise wide based on project successes delivering benefits to business.

• Recruited to lead, coach, and mentor project managers, along with managing complex, large-scale, high-risk projects.
• Directed implementation of Agile Scrum/Kanban/TDD bringing products to market faster while increasing customer satisfaction.
• Proposed and led Enterprise-wide IT Assessment/Audit on behalf of CFO, resulting in infrastructure improvements, reducing costs by $200K+.
• Successfully led large-scale, multi-vendor onshore/offshore teams in implementing, Salesforce, eCommerce solution, website redesigns, and automation projects.