Donna Reed - The Agilista PM

DONNA REED …a Technical Program & Project Manager …helping lead and develop teams in delivering business value as quickly as possible to your customers – by leveraging the right practices for the job (Agile, Lean, Waterfall, … combinations), and delivering the right solution by collaborating very closely with your customers and users.

DONNA has over 20 years experience in IT, Software Development & Business Process solutions for Fortune 500 clients such as: Adobe, CISCO, FileNet, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Kofax, Pacificare, Symantec, RX Solutions, Toyota, United Healthcare, Wellpoint and Wells Fargo.

SPECIALIZING IN…

FULL LIFECYCLE Management (Business Planning/Analyisis, Contract Management, Requirement Gathering & Design, Forecasting/Budgeting, Process & Resource planning, Execution, Monitoring, Release, Market Planning, Support…)
IT Infrastructure & Operations Projects (ie. Data Center Migrations)
Software Development, Maintenanceand Support Projects
Strategic Business Solutions & Partnerships
Business Process Improvement
Industry Compliance & Regulations
Outsourced & Offshore Resource Management
Leading Matrixed & Distributed Teams
Managing Outsourced & Offshore providers
Introducing Agile-Lean practices into traditional Waterfall environments
Leveraging the right practices for the job (ITIL, RUP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, SixSigma, SDLC, Waterfall…or combination)

She is also the founder of THE AGILISTA PM (www.AgilistaPM.com). Enabling project teams, organizations, and managers to become as Lean-Agile as possible — helping them determine HOW, WHEN and WHERE to utilize Lean-Agile practices along with their Traditional Waterfall methods of doing projects.

In addition to providing consulting services, Donna speaks, writes articles, publishes newsletters, serves on the PMI Agile Community-of-Practice and local PMI chapters. (click here to see “2010 Trends in Project Management”)

Donna’s passion beyond helping her clients is the outdoors. She spends her free time playing tennis, biking, rollerblading, hiking, walking the dogs, gardening, spending time with friends, and enjoying great food (indoors or outdoors).

…over 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE

CERTIFICATIONS: MBA – PMP – Lean-Agile PM – ScrumMaster – BS Computer Science
INDUSTRIES: Automotive – Financial – Government – Healthcare – Insurance – IT – Manufacturing – Software –Technology
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…managing many TYPES OF PROJECTS:

SOFTWARE: Product Management – Development – Integration – OEM
APPLICATION: Development – Integration – OEM – Migrations – Monitoring
IT and DATA CENTER: Migrations – Consolidations – Management – Virtualization – Outsourcing
BUSINESS: Planning – Development – Start Up – Process/Workflow Design & Re-engineering
OUTSOURCING / OFF-SHORING: Software Development – Data Center Operations & Support – Application Development, Maintenance & Support
VIRTUALIZATION – Desktop & Server Environments – Server Reduction – Application Migration into Virtualization
DISASTER RECOVERY: Site setup – Application Enablement
HARDWARE: Development – Integration – OEM
SERVERS: Consolidation – Reduction – Management – Upgrades – High Availability
MARKET: Planning – Research – Product Marketing – Product Launch
MONITORING: Hardware, Software, Infrastructure and Applications
NETWORK: Design – Enhancement – Rebuild – Security
DATABASE / STORAGE: Consolidation – Management – Tuning – Upgrades
BPM / BI / ETL: Design – Setup – Management – Upgrades
COMPLIANCE: Setup – Enablement – Audits
VENDOR: Setup – Management – Migration – Training
PMO DEPARTMENT: Setup – Management – Enhancement
and more…