Kathleen A. Oehme
Medina,Ohio
Summary
Results-driven Senior Project Manager with extensive expertise in cybersecurity and healthcare, adept at steering complex initiatives to successful outcomes. Demonstrated capacity for stakeholder engagement and strategic planning, consistently delivering projects on time and within budget. Key achievements include enhanced operational efficiency and the development of high-performing team dynamics. Focused on leveraging technical leadership to drive innovation and growth in future projects.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Cyderes
Kansas City, KS
01.2022 - Current
- Experience with digital and social projects and deliverables ranging from $10k to $2m
- Strong ability to manage account, strategy, creative, analytics, and technical teams, and manage direct reports
- Understanding of, and experience executing projects that adhere to platform guidelines, legal considerations, advertising regulations and social/digital best practices
- Experience in the digital space, specifically as it relates to the digital and social creative process
- Highly motivated, innovative, and results-oriented individual with excellent analytical skills
- Strong influencing skills with excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills to build consensus and obtain co-operation
- Management skills to manage one or more large, complex projects simultaneously
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Responsible for planning and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion and within budget
- Perform the relevant project management processes - i.e., initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and close, and the supporting processes e.g
- Scope, cost, time, issue, risk, resource, communication, stakeholder management
- Reports on variances to the approved project baseline
- Interface and communicate with the project team, management, and stakeholders
- Performs gate reviews and quality assurance reviews with all aspects of IT organization and business sponsors
- Manage external contracts and suppliers where required
- Lead the development of the project charter and scope, and ensure delivery of the solution to schedule, budget, and scope
- Ensures that quality project standards are met as prescribed by IT Services through the effective implementation or use of approved processes, methodologies, and deliverables
- Work independently to deliver projects to schedule, budget and scope; support provided as required and requested and is self-driven and motivated
- Experience of managing IT Security projects with personal accountability for delivering to time and cost for large, complex projects typically up to $5m in value and 12 to 18 months in duration
- Knowledge of Cyber Security
- Extensive experience of delivery that includes the use of supplier and offshore resources
- Experience across packaged and bespoke systems and infrastructure, ideally on an international basis
- Management skills to manage one or more large, complex projects simultaneously
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Responsible for planning and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion and within budget
PMO Manager
Hillrom Inc.
Cary, NC
01.2017 - 01.2022
- Collaborating with other department leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects
- Planning project management, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables
- Analyzing financial data, including project budgets, risks, and resource allocation
- Overseeing the development of the project and ensuring that team members are carrying out their tasks efficiently while upholding the company's standards
- Continuously evaluating projects to ensure they are meeting company standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines
- Accurately documenting the project's creation, development, and execution as well as documenting the project's scope, budget, and justification
Sr. Project Manager
Hillrom Inc.
Cary, NC
01.2017 - 01.2021
- Recipient to Presidential Award for Project Manager excellence
- Proactively identify, communicate, and resolve customer issues that threaten the success of the project both internally and at the customer site
- Ability to manage customer issues in a proactive manner and provide customer-focused solutions that meet or exceed customer expectations
- Ensure that customer configurations conform to product design principles and standards, are logical, and model the customer’s needs
- Utilize effective change management best practices in leading product implementation projects
- Follow established internal implementation standards and best practices in the conduct of assigned projects, including design standards, communication standards, and scope management standards
- Manage performance and lead individuals in the department
- Ensure continued development and education of self and staff
- Ensures excellent open communication within the department through regular staffing meetings
- Establish PMO metrics including revenue forecasting, assigned project reporting/deliverables, customer revenue/project count loads, and customer satisfaction reporting
Sr. Clinical Analyst/ Project Manager
Summa Health System
Akron, Ohio
01.2009 - 01.2017
- Responsible for project managing, enhancing, supporting and maintaining an application(s) within the Health System with an emphasis on patient care impact, clinical outcomes and quality improvement
- Optimizes the application through development of new clinical functionality, testing and implementing scheduled vendor releases
- Serve as the resource for other application team members on technical and functional application analysis, defining system requirements and developing models using best practices for build and configuration, cyber security, maintenance and data integrity
- Work with cross functional teams and clients by providing education on system functionality and configuration of new tools to increase end user productivity within the application
- Ensure system changes follow clinical workflow, change management procedures and protocols, create, and maintain all documentation for all assigned applications and develop, plan and execute testing for supported applications
- Communicate all necessary application changes, enhancements, and procedures to all necessary internal and external department teams
Manager of Applications
Summa Western Reserve
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Lead installations and project management of applications
- Identify, recommend, implement, and support cost effective technology solutions for all aspects of the business needs
- Collaborative, effective interaction with vendors, department directors, physicians, and executives of the organization
- Manage performance and lead individuals in the department
- Ensure continued development and education of self and staff
- Ensures excellent open communication within the department through regular staffing meetings
- Support ancillary departments and technical staff in defining meeting application software projects
- Lead process analysis, documentation, problem solution, and recommendation phases of developing projects related to clinical and business departments
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Business Information Systems
Indiana Wesleyan University
Master’s Degree - Health Care Management & Project Management
Indiana Wesleyan University
Skills
- Project Management
- Healthcare
- Cybersecurity
- Technology
- Operations
- Interpersonal communication
- Scope implementation
- Business case development
- Strategic planning
- Multi-stakeholder asset management
- Project lifecycle management
- Workflow Analysis
- Process improvement
- Stakeholder management
- Information technology management
Certification
Certified Dental Assistant, Ohio
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Cyderes
01.2022 - Current
PMO Manager
Hillrom Inc.
01.2017 - 01.2022
Sr. Project Manager
Hillrom Inc.
01.2017 - 01.2021
Manager of Applications
Summa Western Reserve
01.2012 - 01.2013
Sr. Clinical Analyst/ Project Manager
Summa Health System
01.2009 - 01.2017
Bachelor’s Degree - Business Information Systems
Indiana Wesleyan University
Master’s Degree - Health Care Management & Project Management
Indiana Wesleyan University
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