MassMutualSenior Program Manager, Program Management Office
Jan. 2025SNAPSHOT: Recruited during regulatory disruption (ISO 20022 and NACHA) after repeated execution failures. Rapidly stood up engineering-aligned PMO model, restoring predictability across teams through performance-driven execution.
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
• Spearheaded enterprise payments modernization across product, engineering, analytics, operations, and technology, improving payment workflows and reducing customer-impacting incidents by 25%.
• Designed and deployed strategy for regulatory compliance capabilities across 10+ teams, aligning scope, sequencing, KPIs, and timelines in a previously siloed environment.
• Built standardized PMO playbooks, execution artifacts, and automated Jira dashboards, establishing a single source of truth that reduced program failure rates by 30% within one year and leadership reporting effort by 40%.
• Introduced governance cadence and decision forums that tightened budgeting and resourcing, surfaced cross-team dependencies, reduced cycle times by 30%, and eliminated redundant work.
• Built and deployed an AI-powered executive briefing system using Notion, synthesizing inputs from calendars, Slack, and KPIs into daily 1-page summaries; reduced executive prep time by 60% and improved decision turnaround time by 30%.
• Designed automated meeting intelligence workflows using Zapier to capture action items and sync directly into task trackers; eliminated manual note-taking and increased follow-through on exec commitments by 40%.