Karina Larson

About Karina Larson

Seizing the opportunity to contribute to an innovative organization where I am participating in organizational growth designed to catapult the success of the team. Leveraging leadership and interpersonal relationship capabilities, collaboration know-how, communication focus, passion for quality and technical experience.With a drive to deliver solutions that the business needs, I use my program management and project management background, leveraging ITIL, Continual Service Improvement and Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) certifications to iteratively improve IT services and products. I do this by bringing together stakeholders to identify the business problems needing to be solved. I have been successful because of my objective approach to asking questions to uncover the root of the problem. SKILLS- Producing Process Documentation - I embrace process documentation and the benefits of knowledge management for empowering all resources in the organization- Clear and effective communication, both written and verbal- Polished presentation capabilities- Complex problem solving - Solution-focused collaboration - Developing efficient processes- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project and Visio- Working with Collaboration Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Trello, SharePoint - Contracting and managing vendors, third-party contractors and consultants- Delivering projects using various project life cycle methodologies, including waterfall, Agile/SCRUM, and KanbanPEER FEEDBACK\"Karina is driven and seeks her goals but does understand that roadblocks can and will exist and is willing to work with others to overcome them.\" “Karina is extremely passionate about our customers and their experiences and truly looks to do the right thing for both the customer, SAT and Microsoft.” “…experiments relentlessly to find the best ways of doing things.”“Karina has the rare ability to look at the full picture. And has deep insights in the working of a project.”“…Karina brings the team together to work better as a whole.”“Karina is very adept at reading others; she values and is respectful of others input as well.”“…willing to bring up any challenges in a very open and respectful way and will constantly not only identify a problem but also identify a potential solution to the issue at hand.”

Experience

1. Director, Change Leadership

   Symetra

   Nov 2023 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

   Consult with stakeholders on short- and long-term internal change initiatives, in support of employee experience. Develop and deliver tools, resources and facilitate related training to up skill leaders and change owners to deliver successful change outcomes. Drive strategy and implementation of organizational communications and employee engagement experiences, such as Town Hall (all hands) meetings, All-Manager meetings.

Education

• Central Washington University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

Skills

• Project Management
• Passion for Quality
• Software Project Management
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Microsoft Office
• Cross-Team Collaboration
• Business Development
• Business Process Improvement
• Process Improvement
• Best Practices
• Leadership
• Product Development
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Geopolitical Considerations in Product Development
• Release Management
• Program Management
• Agile Project Management
• Microsoft Solutions
• Security
• Microsoft Solutions Framework
• Product Marketing
• Visio
• Agile Methodologies
• Project Planning
• Management
• Sharepoint
• Vendor Management