Vision: I am eager to work with PMI Atlanta to further define and increase their presence in the community as a leading professional resource to organizations and individuals. I want to promote increased visibility for our chapter as an educational and professional resource and partner offering opportunities to improve skills and find jobs in the project management profession.
I see opportunities to help our members refine and attain their career aspirations through mentoring, networking, skill development and management of personal professional goals. I want to continue the efforts that our chapter has made with local colleges to encourage and educate Project Managers who are seeking to define or improve their career goals.
Biography: Quick to smile and always ready to share a laugh, Laura believes that her sense of humor is one of her greatest gifts. It makes her approachable and allows her to bring levity to stressful situations as well as being a calm, grounded force during undefined, unexpected events. She is especially passionate about increasing the knowledge of those around her to help them better understand their environment and elevate their position.
A gifted collaborator, Laura has crossed the boundary between the technical and operations areas of business. Her professional experience includes expertise in the Supply Chain industry covering Distribution/Warehousing and all modes of domestic and international transportation. She has worked in the consumer products, paper, beverage and telecom industries to negotiate local, and international multi-million dollar contracts; oversee systems upgrades; release management; and software implementations as well as test and build data info cubes for Business Intelligence; and design performance metrics for Data Warehouse scorecards.
Laura has been an active and dedicated volunteer to PMI for eight years and recently completed a global Masters Leadership Program sponsored by PMI. During this yearlong journey she honed skills, and built solid relationships with PMI volunteer leaders from all over the world.
Laura thrives on opportunities to increase her knowledge and skill-set; she enjoys pushing her personal limits; sharing the results and seeing success in others. Most recently, Laura has been invited to speak at the 2013 PMI North American Leadership Institute Meeting and the 2014 Business Analyst World.