Judith Blair-Simmons

About Judith Blair-Simmons

Project manager with years of experience in strategic planning, communications, organizational change, and performance improvement. Ability to effectively develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, dependencies, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources. Ability to apply skills in the combinations necessary to move projects forward. Possess the knowledge, skills, and experience to recognize potential challenges/ problems with the ability to bring the right resources together to ensure the problem is addressed and closed with the proper sense of urgency that the problem requires. Experienced liaison accustomed to collaborating effectively with customers, vendors, IT teams and management. Currently leads multiple IT projects, one of which includes infrastructure network build and server build for Amazon Web Service (AWS) for legacy system with 3rd party vendors and IT team.Strengths – Agile / SCRUM / Waterfall / Lean Six Sigma / Strategic Planning / Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)/ ITIL / Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Experience

1. Program Manager

   API - American Petroleum Institute

   Jun 2017 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Work with key stakeholders within all business functions to align technology solutions with business strategies and product roadmap, liaising business and technical teams.Assist in the collection, evaluation, understanding and communication of business requirements and logic in the development of technology solutions.Demonstrate a clear understanding of clients business and business processes, and share business domain knowledge across applicable teams.Work with developers to identify and isolate issues.Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.Identifies gaps in existing functionalities, options for improvement, and opportunities for process automation.Serve as a liaison between technical groups and upper management/key stakeholders.Work across teams and promote productive relationships (business, modeling, technology & governance) to improve clarity and ensure that processes are as streamlined as possible.Acts as scrum master, project manager, senior business analyst, and unit tester depending on the day, external team interaction, and/or needs of the project to keep it on track.

Education

• North Carolina State University

  BS, Industrial Engineering

• University of Maryland Global Campus

  Masters, Cybersecurity Management and Policy

• Villanova University

  Certificate, Black Belt Six Sigma

• University of Maryland Global Campus

  MBA