Unique Projects
Army Intranet Project
She served as a pioneer at one of the Big Five consulting firms, acting as interim Executive Assistant to the CIO and its 150 FTE’s; VP Partners of Technology Knowledge Management; VP Partner Technology Engagement Delivery; she also took on the role of Senior IT Project Manager, leading the United States Army Intranet initiative, which commenced in December 2000 as part of the Army’s knowledge management overhaul. This initiative originated from an experimental project within the General Officer Management Office in the late 1990s. She managed the project’s implementation and facilitated the adoption of single sign-on for over 650,000 users, onboarding approximately 10,000 new users each week. In recognition of her exceptional organizational skills, leadership, expertise in knowledge management, and training abilities, the project team celebrated by presenting her with a bottle of champagne from France bearing the inscription “Intranet 2000” as a gesture of appreciation.
NIH CMMI Project
As Sr. Principal Project Manager for NIH under 43rd U.S. President Bush, April 2004, Executive Order 13335 established the National Health Information Technology Coordinator within HHS. She was instrumental in building a nationwide interoperable health IT infrastructure to boost quality and efficiency while reducing errors. At ITAAC, she led CMMI implementation, reaching Level 2 for services and advancing toward Level 3. She improved IT acquisition and contracting across agencies, driving better performance, predictability, and compliance. She also guided federal adoption of standards-based IT frameworks aligned with CMMI. She submitted reports to the U.S. 43rd President highlighting CMMI adoption and increase NIH budget for medical research and technology modernization. She advised on electronic health records administration, interoperability, and quality improvement controls. She championed health IT modernization, provided hands-on training and consulting, established governance frameworks for project management, clinical systems, program grant funding and staff oversight.
Texas Emergency & Utilites Projects
She was appointed to Texas Governor Rick Perry’s emergency task force to address evacuation challenges and enhance disaster response following issues identified during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Serving as the public sector Senior IT Project Manager, she developed a comprehensive disaster preparedness report focused on improving communication systems for missing people. She led a team that included AT&T/Microsoft to assess the strengths and weaknesses of mass evacuation procedures and provided actionable recommendations for future emergency strategies. She coordinated research findings for presentation at public hearings throughout Texas. Her responsibilities included managing stakeholder engagement; gathered requirements; designed software & infrastructure processes to advance command, control, and communication functions, particularly to improve evacuation protocols related to missing person searches. These efforts included establishing safe transportation measures for missing children and increasing public awareness. Additionally, she contributed to the preparation of the Final Report & Executive Action, which outlined 21 major recommendations to strengthen Texas’ evacuation readiness. As a result, Governor Perry issued Executive Order RP57, implementing several key measures, such as the creation of regional evacuation plans, enhancements to communication infrastructure, improved fuel supply strategies, and augmented coordination for populations with special needs.
Electric Reliability Council of Texas Project (ERCOT) – She served as the Sr. IT Schedule & Cost Project Manager for ERCOT, overseeing a $265M custom software implementation to manage power transactions for 23 million Texas customers—85% of the state's electric load. She coordinated schedules and budgets for the independent system operator, which manages an electric grid spanning 40,500 miles of transmission lines and over 550 generation units. Her portfolio further includes steering large-scale digital modernization initiatives for energy and utility organizations, where she expertly balanced project governance, technical risk, and stakeholder alignment across multifaceted teams and shifting regulatory landscapes. Due to her credibility as a trusted advisor from her ability to communicate complex strategies to both technical and executive audiences, inspiring confidence and fostering collaborative innovation as organizations embrace intelligent cloud, automation, and data-driven solutions she regularly presented to the ERCOT Board of Director providing research & actuate reports.