Project Management Institute
Senior Advisor to the CEO

Feb 2023 - Present
Providing advice, guidance and oversight for mission critical programs across the institute.

Chief Strategy & Growth Officer
Apr 2020 - Feb 2023
Collaboratively defined and drove the execution of PMI's strategy to create exponential growth in relevance and impact. Working globally, across the organization to define, test, and deliver "new products that matter," which will deliver dramatic increases in value to our customers.Collaboratively defining and driving the execution of PMI's strategy to create exponential growth in relevance and impact. Working globally, across the organization to define, test, and deliver "new products that matter," which will deliver dramatic increases in value to our customers.

VP, Corporate Development & Innovation
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
Exploring new ways of working and expanding the scope of PMI's offerings through acquisitions, partnerships and new product development. Recent additions to the PMI family include Disciplined Agile Inc and FLEX

Vice President, Transformation
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
Led the Business, Agile and Digital transformation at PMI, as the organization evolved beyond being the gold standard for PM certification toward even greater relevance for millions of change makers around the world.

Director, Digital Presence
Jan 2014 - Mar 2017
Responsibilities span all digital properties owned by PMI.
• Lead Online Community, User Experience (UX), Analytics, and Advertising Teams
• Run ProjectManagement.com business unit (P&L), including ProjectsAtWork.com
• Successfully integrated ProjectManagement.com into the PMI family of web sites
• Achieved record community traffic within 1 year of acquisition. Tripled previous record within 15 months of acquisition. (3/2015)
• Increased ProjectManagement.com traffic ten fold and PMI.org traffic by 28% within 15 months of acquisition.
• Provided executive leadership for a complex Sitecore replatform of PMI.org (7/2016)
• Established a strategic partnership with Agile Alliance to jointly build the first "Agile Practice Guide" (2017)Responsibilities span all digital properties owned by PMI. • Lead Online Community, User Experience (UX), Analytics, and Advertising Teams • Run ProjectManagement.com business unit (P&L), including ProjectsAtWork.com • Successfully integrated ProjectManagement.com into the PMI family of web sites • Achieved record community traffic within 1 year of acquisition. Tripled previous record within 15 months of acquisition. (3/2015) • Increased ProjectManagement.com traffic ten fold and PMI.org traffic by 28% within 15 months of acquisition. • Provided executive leadership for a complex Sitecore replatform of PMI.org (7/2016) • Established a strategic partnership with Agile Alliance to jointly build the first "Agile Practice Guide" (2017)
Skills: Community Outreach · Strategy · Management

CEO
Project Management.com (formerly gantthead.com)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

August 1999 — March 2017

Co-founded and built Project Management.com (formerly gantthead.com), a profitable web-based business from the ground up resulting in the largest membership association of IT project managers in the world. Create and maintain strategic business and marketing plans. Manage day to day operations and direct sales, customer service, editorial, and technology functions.
•First profitable in month 10, sustained profitability since 12/2001 .
•Built highly effective, sales, editorial, customer service, and technical teams.
•Established a variety of strategic partnerships with companies such as: Computer Associates, PlanView, Primavera, Niku, Stanford University, projectmanagement.com, CNET’s Tech Republic, Microsoft Publishing, and others.
•Successfully completed a major, successful restructuring of the business in 6/2001.
•Acquired Projectsatwork.com (4/2004).
•Launched Project HEADWAY, the PMBOK-integrated Project Management Process (9/2006).
•Rebranded to Project Management.com (10/2012)

Director, Advanced Technology Group
headstrong, Inc., Fairfax, VA (formerly james martin+ co.)
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1996 — August 1999

Led the Knowledge Management function which included the development and management of the corporate intranet site, the WAVE. Reviewed and managed a variety of Intranet/Extranet system and application development consulting engagements with the firm's clients.
•Responsible for all aspects of Intranet management and development including global knowledge management, ongoing systems development, and administration.
•Managed multiple projects, maintained an information management strategy, created policies and procedures for managing information delivery and dealing with International issues.
•Authored and managed the development of webWAVE, the james martin + co. Intranet development methodology. This methodology is currently one of the most popular available on gantthead.com.
•Promoted the james martin + co intranet development methodology through speaking engagements for CIOs and Information Management professionals.


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Education

The American University
M.S., Information Systems, May 1992 — December 1993

University of Maryland
B.A., Radio, Television, and Film, September 1983 — May 1988