Joy McGovern is a visionary business leader with experience turning around failing programs and implementing governance structures. She has strong program management skills in both traditional and Agile methodologies. Her experience includes implementing ITSM tools, large-scale program management, process design, and continual service improvement. She has a background in IT operations, project management, and process improvement at Wipro and IBM.
2. Visionary business leader that has proven success in
turning around failing programs, implementing
governance structures for long term success, designing
and streamlining effective processes and implementing
controls and metrics for continual service improvement
of those processes. Program manager with strong
knowledge of both traditional waterfall and Agile project
management principles who can leverage creative
problem solving and take decisive action when needed
to achieve success.
3. ITSM Tools Implementation and Management (CA
Tools Suite)
Large-scale program management
Process design and control
Continual service improvement
Organizational change management
Cost analysis and reduction
Governance of process and services
Leadership of global teams
Software and Infrastructure Project Management
4. CA Service Desk Microsoft Office Suite
CA Service Catalog Microsoft Project
Xtraction SharePoint
xMatters Infrastructure and Data
CA Process Automation Center Management
(ITPAM)
CA Asset Portfolio
Manager
CA Clarity PPM
5. Wipro/Infocrossing 2007- 2012 methodologies
Positions Held: Promoted to Senior Manager of ITIL and
Governance and given HR responsibilities for 3 teams
- Sr. Manager ITIL and Governance after success implementing new ITIL-aligned Incident
- Sr. Project Manager and Request tools and processes
- Customer Portfolio Manager Moved 100 FTE of work to India in 1 year
Developed governance model for managing resources
Accomplishments in India and US jointly
Recommended for promotion to Director of ITIL Tools Prevented any jobs from being lost during off-shoring of
and Governance - currently pending work by analyzing organic growth opportunities, normal
attrition and off shore skill-sets and on-boarding times
Added responsibility for ownership and administration
for the Clarity PPM tool set Reduced off-shore program travel costs significantly
by setting up corporate apartment housing, negotiating
Decreased contractor and consultant costs by international hotel rates and setting up group shot
approximately $1 million dollars for CA Technologies clinics
tools implementation (CA Service Desk and
complementary tools) Identified $5 million savings in service delivery costs via
monthly financial analysis and trending
Reduced time to enter a change by over 50% by
streamlining processes Standardized delivery of portfolio management services
across all portfolio accounts, leveraging standard
Shortened time to onboard a customer from weeks to template and reporting metrics
hours by implementing standard processes and
templates used by all Project Managers during new
customer migrations
Defined new go to market strategy for ITSM tools
allowing tiers of service
Successfully managed 2 projects with high risk to the
service delivery organization by using sound
organizational change and program management
6. IBM Global Services, Boulder, Colorado 1997 - 2007 Recognition awards for three years straight
Positions Held: Promoted to Configuration Management Lead
- Measurements &Reporting Project within 4 months of joining the team
Manager Significantly reducing training time for both end users
- Configuration Management Lead and new employees by designing and implementing the
first on-line user training for the Configuration
- Configuration Manager Management service offering
- Project Manager Created the initial process for managing configuration
- Desktop Support Technician data using databases rather than spreadsheets
Reconciled 98% of 10,000 assets deployed during a
Accomplishments: refresh project by carefully managing the tools and
processes used during the deployment
Successfully implemented $200,000 business
transformation reporting solution with an aggressive Improved customer satisfaction and reduced the time to
schedule on time with a high degree of satisfaction train new employees by documenting many desktop
support procedures, making them repeatable and
Reduced data load time for large accounts by consistent
approximately 75% by identifying and applying
automation and process improvement points
Improved data health on average 15% across 12 high
dollar accounts through implementation of continuous
service improvement metrics and controls
Managed design cycles and development projects for new
Configuration Management Tool releases
Managed the program of migrating over 200 clients to a
new Configuration Management tool set
Received maximum allowable number of Peer
7. Education:
Westwood College of Technology
Course emphasis: NT, Novell and UNIX servers and TCP/IP
networking, Microsoft Office Suite, C++ programming
language
University of Central Florida Bachelor of Arts
(cum laude)
Major: Legal Studies
Course emphasis: Legal research and writing, case
analysis, corporate law
Certifications:
PMP
ITIL Foundations v2