Penny
plester57@gmail.com
678-360-1740
560 Grovsner Terrace
Alpharetta, GA 30005
Vice President (VP), Product Project Management Office
20 years experience W2
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Summary

  • Innovative leader with proven success building and leading software engineering teams, providing strategic and tactical digital solutions for federal, state and local government agencies, privately held, and publicly traded companies.
  • An energetic leader, a strong innovator, and an exceptional motivator of teams through empowerment, transparency and inclusion, resulting in highly productive software engineering teams.
  • Provided leadership to diverse, distributed teams using the latest techniques and technologies, while ensuring the teams are following best practices in secure software development for 16+ years.
  • Collaborates with Technology leaders, Business Executives and the C-Suite, relying on an ability to translate even the most complex technical topics to non-technical executives.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Digital Transformation | Leadership | Communication Skills | Mentor & Coach | Executive Presence | Collaborative | Project & Program Management | Data and Analytics | Secure Coding Best Practices| Continuous Improvement | Agile | Compliance & Governance | Innovative Technologies | Customer Satisfaction | Cloud Technologies | Strategic Partnerships | Business Relationship Management

Experience
Education
Bachelor's in Psychology
Florida State University
Minor: Social Work
Attended in One Year Degree - Computer Programming
Lively Area Vocational Technical College
Scaled Agile, Provider of SAFe
Project Management Institute
Certifications
PMP (Project Management Professional), # 1388079
Skills
Project Management
2020
16
Quality Assurance
2013
8
ERP
2004
1
Agile Methodology
2020
5
Application Development
2017
4
Continuous Improvement
2020
1
Auditing
2020
3
Budget Management
2020
3
C-Level Management
2020
3
Continuous Integration
2020
3
MS Visio
2020
3
PCI
2020
3
SaaS
2020
3
BI Developer
2017
2
Commercial
2017
2
Compliance
2015
2
ETL
2017
2
Scrum
2017
2
Big Data
2017
1
Data Lakes
2020
1
Hadoop
2017
1
MicroStrategy
2017
1
MS Azure
2020
1
PMO
2020
1
REST
2020
1
SQL
2020
1
Analytics
0
1
Business Analysis
0
1
Business Intelligence
0
1
Business Objects
0
1
Cloud Computing
0
1
Data Architecture
0
1
Data Integration
0
1
Data Modeling
0
1
Data Warehousing
0
1
DB2
0
1
in-memory databases
0
1
Information Security
0
1
Machine Learning
0
1
Microsoft SMS Server
0
1
mSQL
0
1
OBIEE Dashboards
0
1
Oracle
0
1
Problem Solving
0
1
Program Management
0
1
Program Management
0
1
Requirement Analysis
0
1
SDLC
0
1
Team Build
0
1
UNIX
0
1
Waterfall
0
1