HOLLY BLAICH

Project Manager with 20 years of IT experience in diverse sectors including manufacturing, supply chain, and healthcare. Demonstrated success in leading projects using agile, lean, and waterfall methodologies, consistently delivering on time and within budget. Strong skills in customer relationship management, business analysis, and quality assurance, ensuring project requirements align with functionality. Recognized for fostering team collaboration and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

• Lead Project Manager for lean manufacturing efforts, ERP implementation/data migrations, product line management.
• Align development deliverable expectations with leadership, customers, and resource teams, both internal and external, from project kickoff to project signoff.
• Creating a strategy allowing for 99% success rate of project delivery being in scope, on budget and on time.
• Vigilant in understanding a client’s industry and the nature of their business, providing professional services and guidance to mature their technological landscape while establishing healthy relationships and earning trust with integrity.
• Creating an atmosphere for all players on the team not to succeed but to thrive.
• Managed milestones, timelines, and burn-charts with excel.
• Ensure the budget is managed and maintained throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Managed development team with a hybrid of agile and waterfall methodologies with Microsoft DevOps.
• Analyzed, structured, organized and presented information provided by diverse audiences of key players.
• Responsible for eliciting the actual needs of stakeholders, in comparison to their expressed desires.
• Facilitated communications between organizational units.
• Aligned needs of business units with information technology.
• Able to accommodate, develop and apply methodology to projects.
• Utilized business and industry knowledge to analyze customers to create an approach for eliciting requirements.
• Identified, improved and modeled process requirements and then managed, documented and communicated information, presented at various velocities and sizes, using general diagramming and business process modeling.
• Assisted in scoping projects with the spirit of improving business processes.
• Managed and facilitated requirement, testing and training sessions.
• Assisted in installations of software packages at client sites.

• Developed an organizational change management strategy for 20 employees as a Lead Analyst.
• Process Improvement - Achieved revenue objective by implementing cost-cutting measures.
• Coordinated cross-functional teams and provided business analysis for multiple projects totaling $3 million.