debra morrison

* Build a community of practice standardizing program management methodologies within the business transformation program, optimizing operational efficiencies, realizing financial targets and improving ways of working. * Develop and deploy project management governance structure ensuring accountability and predictability of the outcomes for 70+ transformation initiatives * Optimize and standardize common practices for use within 8 value workstreams creating program’s operational model * Collaborate with workstream leaders ensuring initiatives are well designed, outcomes are achieved, and benefits are measurable * Facilitate program level reporting keeping executive leaders and stakeholders current on progress and issues * Develop and deploy program internal controls and metrics dashboards * Onboard key stakeholders and coordinate their contributions to program * Facilitate program level dependency and risk management mitigation planning

* Develop and implement project management methodology processes ensuring customer and internal projects are delivered according to contractual obligations * Define and implement governance practices ensuring mode of operations standardization and consistency * Implement cost management and tracking practices to meet organizational targets * Support PM community in capability and implementation management activities * Manage PMO communication community across global teams * Drive continuous improvement processes to achieve operational excellence

* End-to-End Program and Implementation preparedness planning, scheduling and resource management for LTE, CDMA, IMS and Routing & Transport wireless customer network deployments. * Lead and manage cross-functional field execution work plans meeting customer requirements and * schedules across Services delivery disciplines such as: Network Data Design, Engineering, Installation Integration/Migration, RF Optimization and Technical Maintenance Support * Support customer Lab and first office application (FOA) environment activities validating product introductions * Coordinate content and execution readiness of customer documentation for installation, integration and migration services * Proactively act to understand customer technical needs and identify potential solutions from internal deployment teams

* Manage and implement Corporate Compliance initiatives based on U.S. Government contractual requirements, obligations and guidelines. * Create, document, launch, train, audit, maintain and control corporate processes, policies and procedures within business operations standards required for compliance.

* Software, release and feature development Project Management. * Manage front-end system engineering requirements, architectural design, coding and test planning activities for R&D software releases * Drive cross-functional deliverable team activities meeting customer requirements according to schedule and within budget * Manage software load construction content strategies, schedules, dependencies and quality * Coordinate and balance current engineering commitments with incremental opportunities within budget and with available resources * Manage lab environment planning including resources, equipment and scheduling priorities across competing programs * Executive stakeholder project status, issue, risk mitigation and recovery reporting

* Plan & drive market deployment & execution of IT Services projects through the application of project control, issue resolution, risk management, change management, communication management, progress reporting, project documentation & quality review practices. * Manage Business funded IT projects through Investment & Gating governance processes * Provision accurate project costing, including supplier quotes & tenders, required as input to the Business Case * Manage project resource utilization levels and assignments with supplier partners to meet project schedules * Create IT Services Roadmap communicating 3-year evolution plans across service domains and end-user community * Ensure and coordinate regional communications to employees about new or changing IT services * Provide point of entry for new business service requests * Manage service request demand funnel and priorities to strategically implement deployments

IT Project Manager at Nokia

Activities and Societies: PMP (Project Management Professional) Certified - September 2006