Tricia Adams

About Tricia Adams

Digital program and product leader who orchestrates product, process, people, and prioritization to drive execution and delivery. Proactively works with cross-functional teams at all levels to drive alignment and action around strategic direction gaps and operations, especially for re-organizations, mergers/acquisitions, and product launches. People leader who inspires teams to strive for excellence by setting a clear strategic vision, encouraging solution-oriented ideas, and investing in career development. With more than 15 years of project management experience, I have led enterprise-wide systems integrations and technical/digital programs in highly regulated industries with a start-up approach. I collaborate with our key stakeholders in User Experience, Product, Technology, and Data Science to understand our customers\' pain points and opportunities to delight them while establishing metrics to measure outcomes from the resulting product launches. Consistently partnering across the enterprise with project sponsors, key stakeholders, governance partners, and vendors to ensure transparent communication, evaluation of trade-offs, and risk resolution. My Program Management, Business Systems Analyst, and Product Owner teams and I have focused on business process improvements resulting in implementation of new processes or re-designs of existing ones. I have worked with my User Experience, Product, Technology, and Data Science partners to prioritize and roadmap plan our projected business solutions and implemented business rituals / rhythms that hold people accountable while communicating risks, results, and outcomes. For the past seven years, I have been directly leading and managing teams within Program/Project, Analysis, and Product focused on enterprise software development and platform initiatives. In that time, I have managed both individual contributors, as well as people managers. My team size has ranged from four to sixteen direct reports. My leadership style is fundamentally one of coaching and transformational leadership. My ability to recognize my team members strengths, as well as their opportunities allows me to effectively grow them as professionals and align them to organizational objectives that inspire and motivate them.Digital TransformationCommunity Outreach & EngagementPlanning & Resource ForecastingData Driven: Metrics & AnalysisPeople LeadershipTeam ManagementChange ManagementSDLCAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesStrategic ThinkingInterpersonal Skills & DiplomacyConflict ResolutionCommunicationBudget Management

Experience

1. Director, Finance Transformation Programs

   Expedia Group

   Feb 2020 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Program, process, and people leader who builds consensus to optimize business functions and capabilities through simplification, consistency, and partnership. Drives definition of optimal end-to-end processes and program delivery that enables the Finance organization to effectively support the rapid changes in the B2B business. • Collaborating across Finance, Sales, Product Marketing, and Product to build out recommendations to reduce costs, risk, and/or increase revenue.• Leveraging my financial services industry experience to implement a new form of payment through collaboration and excellent organization skills with our Product Marketing, Technology, and vendor teams.• Leading a team of project managers with deep Finance, system, and process knowledge who work with cross functional teams to deliver solutions to our clients and gain efficiencies by streamlining processes.

Education

• Cornell University

  Certificate, Executive Leadership

• University of Washington

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Scrum
• Management
• Strategy
• Disaster Recovery
• Team Leadership
• Project Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Analysis
• Business Process
• Certified Scrum Master Csm
• Program Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Vendor Management
• Waterfall
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Pmo
• Release Management
• Sharepoint
• Requirements Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Visio
• Software Project Management
• Business Intelligence
• IT Strategy
• Agile Project Management
• Data Warehousing
• Business Requirements
• Strategic Planning
• Agile
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• IT Management
• Process Improvement