Susan Irwin

Background

About Susan Irwin

I am highly driven professional with experience in portfolio, program, and project management leading PMO’s, managing programs and projects in both the government Healthcare and Financial sectors. I offer expertise in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. I have been instrumental in helping organizations save money and time by assessing current processes and implementing process improvements. I have a unique ability to think strategically while being detailed enough to drive a project to success. I am a strong communicator with experience presenting to C-level, end-users, and technical personnel. I have a proven history of taking products from inception to launch and rescuing troubled projects. Achievements: • Program Implementation Director leading five multimillion-dollar contract implementations in the government space • Assumed leadership of struggling IT projects bringing projects to closure on time and on budget • Established and achieved cost saving goals, allowing the PMO to exceed a profitability target of $3M • Management of portfolios, programs, and projects valued at over 10M Specialties: •Experience managing Agile and Waterfall projects •PMO Management •Healthcare and Financial Management •Strategic Planning •Portfolio, Program, and Project Management •Resource, Financial, and Vendor Management •Requirements gathering •Government implementations, contract management, proposal development •Process Improvements using Lean methodology •Team Leadership •Integrated schedule development •EVM •Project budgeting •PPM Tools: EPM Live, Plan View, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, TFS, JIRA •Microsoft Tools: Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access •Government experience: HHS and DoD •Enterprise Risk Management •Managing SaaS and On-Premise applications implementations with remote and local resources •Experience building and maintaining a System Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) •Data Analysis using SQL, Tableau, and SAS •Training •Vendor Management