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KRISTIN TAKASUGI LIU

San Diego,USA

Summary

People and detail-oriented IT Project Manager with 5 years of experience managing Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid IT projects. Experienced with various PM tools such as Smartsheets, Microsoft Suite, Jira etc, to ensure efficient project planning, tracking, and execution. Focus on risk management, stakeholder communication, and process improvement to drive successful project outcomes.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Events Coordinator

ISMP Japan
03.2024 - 01.2025
  • Career break to focus on mentoring and people skills.
  • Coordinated schedules and timelines for events.


IT Project Manager

Axos Bank
01.2023 - 02.2024


  • Led 4 enterprise-level IT projects with budgets of up to $50K, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and stakeholder expectations.
  • Developed project roadmap to define project objectives, timelines and milestones
  • Manage Sharepoint sites for project documentation, ensuring up-to-date records.
  • Generated reports for stakeholder communication, providing executive-level status updates.
  • Conducted risk assessments, escalating issues as needed to maintain project timelines.
  • Improved and updated PMO workflow and documentation to standardize PMO best practices.
  • Supported sr. project managers with administrative tasks, and budgeting projections for larger projects.

IT Project Manager

Petco Animal Supplies Inc.
06.2019 - 01.2023
  • Acting Scrum Master for 8-person team, improving cycle time by 27%.
  • Supported integrations of third-party SaaS products into AWS-hosted mobile platform, contributing to a 30% increase in app engagement.
  • Maintained Trello, Jira, and Agile dashboards to track work and lead Agile ceremonies.
  • Developed relationships across 10 systems/dev teams to deliver strategic business initiatives.
  • Assisted in development and QA of an in-app rewards system, managing monitoring phase to align to project KPIs.



Education

Bachelor of Arts - Environmental Policy

University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA
06.2019

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Risk Management
  • Budget Management
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • PPM Software - Planview, Smartsheets
  • Mobile application development

Certification

  • Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I), Scrum.org
  • PMP (In Progress), 07/01/25

PMP (In Progress)

  • PSM I - Scrum.org
  • PMP - Expected August 2025

Timeline

Events Coordinator

ISMP Japan
03.2024 - 01.2025

IT Project Manager

Axos Bank
01.2023 - 02.2024

IT Project Manager

Petco Animal Supplies Inc.
06.2019 - 01.2023

Bachelor of Arts - Environmental Policy

University of California, San Diego

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