Marisa Benson

About Marisa Benson

Although my first career love will always be the study of and the making of the study of history, I have worked in information technology for more than 30 years. In my current position with KPMG, I collaborate with both global and regional companies to transform their IT organizations using the ServiceNow platform as a solid and proven foundation. While change isn\'t always easy, it\'s always thrilling. I\'ve also created and led teams of motivated and capable project managers, ITIL service managers, and instructional technologists. In Illinois, I was responsible for data privacy for a campus of users and nearly accounts; coordinating our enterprise-wide wide IT governance structure.I am also a licensed attorney in Georgia, Minnesota and North Dakota, finding a substantial and well - interesting - intersection between information technology, information security, and privacy program management. Specialties: Project and portfolio management * IT service management * Data privacy * IT business management * Governance, risk and compliance

Experience

1. Director, Advisory

   KPMG US

   Oct 2021 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US

   Taking advantage of my experience in privacy law, I am a solution lead for our Integrated Risk Management offerings that include GRC, SecOps, and Legal Service Delivery. With decades of experience managing PMO\'s and IT project managers, I help our clients transform their risk and compliance stance across the full suite of ServiceNow products. My industry focus is with Life Sciences and the BioTech industry, but my experience also includes global and F100 clients in Media/Technology, Healthcare, the Energy sector and Higher Education.

Education

• University of Oslo (UiO)

  Certificate

• Georgia State University College of Law

  Doctor of Law (J.D.)

• Georgia State University

  M.A.

• Duke University

  B.A.

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  M.S.

Skills

• Team Leadership
• Information Technology
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Proposal Writing
• Data Analysis
• Management
• Project Planning
• Business Intelligence
• IT Service Management
• Change Management
• Project Portfolio Management
• Staff Development
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• IT Governance
• Process Improvement
• Requirements Analysis
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Visio
• Business Analysis
• Disaster Recovery
• Project Management Office (Pmo)
• Technical Writing
• Governance
• Business Process Improvement
• Ms Project
• Higher Education
• Program Management
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• Project Management