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Teaching to Treat
2017-2020
February 2017-May 2020
Director of Project Management Office
As Director of the PMO at KUMC, I managed a team of six Project Managers and Business Analysts and partnered with the University of Kansas Health System, to improve technology and business processes that allowed faculty to teach, students to learn, healthcare providers to treat patients, and researchers to discover through seamless collaboration.
During my time as the Director of the Project Management Office at the University of Kansas Medical Center, I quickly realized that there were many official and unofficial project managers across many different organizations, all of whom managed projects in different ways. Most of these projects had some IT element, and they would come to IT with a solution that they thought would work before they had consulted with anyone in IT or Information Security to confirm that the solution was ideal or even feasible. To address this issue, I created a monthly PM forum, where I would present various topics, including how to submit a project idea to IT before starting the project, the importance of clearly explaining the problem rather than jumping to find a solution, and how to manage a project, from inception to closure. As a result, the Vice Provost converted our IT PMO into an Enterprise PMO whereby all project managers remained in their departments but reported to our organization for better alignment and visibility of initiatives.
Some highlights include:
• Leading a Project Management cohort group of 100+ disparate project and program managers across the organization; developed and presented bi-monthly trainings and forums to standardize project management methodology.
• Strategy development to implement Enterprise Project Management Office, resulting in a new dotted line reporting structure for 100+ disparate project and program managers.
• Leading, communicating, and implementing Office 365 that went live in February 2020, allowing researchers from 25 different research centers and institutes in 21 research cores; faculty and staff from three different schools from five different sites across Kansas; and 4000+ students to virtually collaborate, teach, work, and learn prior to Covid-19 facility shutdown.
• Leveraging existing open-source software to create streamlined intake process for stakeholders to submit new project requests, resulting in $126K annual cost savings.
• Managing executive governance and leadership teams to successfully deliver project results.
• Leading projects with Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Professionals to expand access to programs across the state of Kansas to improve the patient experience, especially in rural areas.