Suzanne Sattelmeyer

About Suzanne Sattelmeyer

I am an innovative and passionate Program Manager/Scrum Master leading software and data integrations, ERP and banking platform implementations, and BI/data warehouse/data lake installations. I have served as a PMO Executive and Analytics Leader to Atlanta\'s top corporations. I achieve results and solve business/IT problems by: • Leading critical, enterprise-wide transformational program and projects from planning through development to implementation, building productive global cross-divisional high-performing work teams to deliver results. Built 7 PMOs from the ground up. I direct PMs and work teams, work closely with customers, stakeholders, executives. • Project statistics: 6-24 months,$100K to $15M budget, 1-9 workstreams, 5-60 team members, CEO, CIO, Exec VP sponsorship. Full life cycle using SDLC/Agile/Scrum methodologies. • Partnering with executives, stakeholders, cross-functional business and technical teams, to detail solutions and deliver results. I focus on solving problems, leading program teams, improving and optimizing business processes, creating successful project strategies, and improving business/project performance. • Empowering executives to make more successful and valuable information-based strategic decisions using analytics and business intelligence. 25 years’ experience introducing BI strategy, tools, and techniques to Fortune 500 companies. • Introducing improved/optimized business processes and controls. 25 years working with IT and business partners to re-engineer workflows and procedures. Skilled at introducing and incorporating change management processes and techniques. • Providing timely, focused communications. Expert at translating strategic objectives into clear requirements, producing expected outcomes with targeted strategies that ensure all parties, business and technical, understand and are aligned on the process and deliverables. • Open to long-term, remote contracts and permanent roles. Focus Areas: • Portfolio, program, project management • PMO development, management, and improvement • BI and analytics: dashboards, scorecards, root cause analysis, metrics/KPI creation, capacity planning, demand/resource management strategies, benchmarking, prioritization, future state planning, current state analysis, competitive/gap analysis • Process re-engineering and process improvement, change management, quality processes • Mergers and acquisitions, system integrations, software/new platform implementations • Industries: Banking, financial services, higher education, consumer goods, utilities

Experience

1. Program Manager, Consultant

   Brandeis University

   Jun 2022 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Leader of an ITS team charged with 1) deprecating Peoplesoft and Oracle at Brandeis University, migrating all of the 20 years of data, views and reports to a replacement database platform and 2) creating and implementing a plan to provide all of the administrative and academic users/departments with a methodology to access the migrated information, view, and reports through other systems. Direct over 15 technical professionals and executives to outline the strategy, develop the plan, enact work processes, and construct key metrics and status indicators. Introduced new work processes and efficiencies.

Education

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  Master of Arts (MA), Economics

• University of California, Berkeley

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), Resource Allocation