Roxanne Stephens

Background

About Roxanne Stephens

16+ years of experience focusing in Business Process Engineering, Change Management, Strategic Planning, Project Management, Facilitation and Systems Integration. • Work with complex problem spaces (organization change/processes/systems/risk analysis/financials) to facilitate creation of a unified holistic approach to achieve common goals & agreement for future plans. • Engage and negotiate with stakeholders with varying backgrounds/constraints to develop solutions that meet each organizations needs as well as the overall mission goals. • Work with clients to elicit requirements. Determine requirements that need further clarification and coordinate effort to define the goals. • Learn new material quickly, understand the linkages to other relevant material, develop creative solutions, and provide the ‘big picture’ view that facilitates complex decision making. • Translate complex situations highlighting essential elements needed by senior decision makers. • Understand complex system architectures and how to use them to meet the customer need. My efforts has helped guide difficult transitions, improve organizational designs and strategies, promote ‘big picture’ strategic thinking, prompt teams find common consensus & understanding, define new services and processes, introduce new technologies and improve workplace demeanor. I am committed to growing team morale and quality to effect lasting change, and producing creative, inspiring and sustainable initiatives that meet client needs and customer motivations. I graduated from Virginia Tech with honors in Management Science (Information Systems) and a minor in Computer Science. While raising children, I taught High school and Middle School courses. I am very comfortable quickly learning new things, creating simple solutions to complex problems and communicating the result to provide understanding. I enjoy working in the 'big picture' and working with people.