Joan Wallace

Current

Director of Program Management, PMO at Emdeon Business Services
PMP Certified at PMI

Past

Director, PMO at CHD Meridian
Senior Consultant at infobond
Director: Sales Consultants at Arcom Electronics

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Education

Golden Gate University
University of San Francisco

Recommended

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Connections

90 connections

Industry

Hospital & Health Care

Joan Wallace’s Experience

Director of Program Management, PMO

Emdeon Business Services

(Public Company; EM; Information Technology and Services industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )

PMO Director for Strategic IT Programs; Currently managing four programs (13 Projects).

I'm always on the look out for highly talented PMI Certified Project Managers, preferrably with Big 5 or large company experience working on very large initiatives.
PMP Certified

PMI

(Privately Held; Hospital & Health Care industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )
Director, PMO

CHD Meridian

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DMX; Hospital & Health Care industry)

June 2006 — 2007 (1 year )

* Reporting to the Pres: responsible to build a new corporate PMO from the ground up; including strategic planning, budgeting, re-sourcing, and reporting.
* As the chair of the Portfolio Management Governance Committee; built the Portfolio Management Processes from the ground up. Wrote policies, procedures and process flows for the Governance Committee.
* Worked closely with the senior executives to map proposed projects to the corporate strategies and goals. The approved projects were then scored against 20 critical factors, prioritized, resourced, scheduled and funded.
* Wrote policies, procedures, lifecycle methodologies, and templates. (Based on PMI guidelines) Designed approval gates for each phase of the sponsored projects.
Senior Consultant

infobond

(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

April 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Senior Project Manager, IT
Director: Sales Consultants

Arcom Electronics

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

1991 — 2001 (10 years )

Director: Sales Consultants (100M Revenue Responsibility)
2000-2001. Member of Presidents Advisory Committee.
Senior Consultant: Program Mgmt to Named Accounts; Sun Microsystems, Netscape/AOL, AT&T Labs, HP, etc.

Joan Wallace’s Education

Golden Gate University

MS: Information Technology , Data Networking Emphasis , 1998 — 2003

Activities and Societies:

Graduated with Honors; GPA: 3.81
Adjunct Professor for one semester
University of San Francisco

BS , Business with Organizational Behavior Emphasis , 1985 — 1988

Activities and Societies:

GPA: 3.58

Additional Information

Joan Wallace’s Interests:

Portfolio Management New Technologies New Business Ventures

Joan Wallace’s Groups:

Project Management Institute, PMP 2006, (PMI) Member, Education Committee, 2009
Women in Technology, Tennessee (WITT) Board Member, 2009
Asso of IT Professionals, (AITP) Member