Donna Linde, PMP

Experience

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  Moore Capital Management

  Jun 1990 - Jun 1991

  Programmer Analyst

  * Took part in the research and developmet group that created technical trading systems for use in the commodity and futures markets.* Left company to continue research and development of new systems for same manager at Brookville Analytic Investment Corp.

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  Brookville Analytic Investment Corp.

  Jun 1991 - Feb 1994

  Programmer Analyst

  • Developed two proprietary commodity trading systems for use in the futures markets. Conducted research and tested various trading systems on US and international markets.• Wrote a Windows program using SDK to display commodity price charts and technical indicators.• Maintained and developed programs written in C, Basic and ksh and performed SQL Server Administration.• In charge of accurately placing daily futures orders and monitoring system buy and sell stops.* After full-time employment ended, I continued to serve as a consultant for about a year. Show less

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  Hennepin Faculty Associates

  Feb 1994 - Feb 1998

  Programmer Analyst

  • Supported and maintained internal tools• Designed and developed a patient charge and registration interface system from HCMC to HFA which saved the customer days of manual processes• After full-time employment ended, I continued to serve as a consultant for 6 months.

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  Retek

  Feb 1998 - Jul 2005

  Software Manager

  Performed several roles including analyst, Oracle DBA, team lead, manager. • Managed roughly 150 Oracle, 15 DB2 and 1 Teradata databases in R&D. Ensured databases remained available, reliable and patched to the latest patchset.• Wrote and maintained ksh and SQL sripts for database monitoring, maintenance and backup/recovery procedures.• Lead and took part in various performance tuning projects.• Implemented internal system for tracking hardware and disk allocations.• Setup and maintained first retail.com database• Took part in various research projects (e.g. Migration to 10g, RAC, Oracle rdbms new features, partitioning)• Worked with hardware vendors on procuring and refreshing hardware. Show less

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  Oracle

  Jul 2005 - Feb 2017

  • Managed and mentored on-shore and off-shore teams responsible for release and program management. Also performed associate reviews, hiring and performance improvement plans.• Release manager for three consecutive large-scale Enterprise releases from 2014 –2016. The number of products releasing continued to increase every year starting with 30 products to over 50, which included both On Premises and SaaS. Over 115,000 development days went into the latest 2016 release.• Program Manager responsible for successful deployment of over six Planning and Optimization and Supply Chain products to the Oracle Cloud for Industries (OCI) and training the RGBU PMO team on the new processes.• Worked directly with several Oracle corporate teams (Corporate Architecture, Legal, Global Business Unit) on SaaS and On Premises compliance requirements and procedures including CSSAP (Corporate Security Solution Assurance Process) and corporate compliance (tech stack, FMW, 3rd party libraries, commercial, patent reviews, export compliance, accessibility) • Collaborated with several teams to create and manage the annual release charters and implementation plans. • In charge of managing enterprise change control process, issue & risk logs and communicating weekly status to stakeholders. Performed proactive mitigation of risks and escalation of issues to executives when their assistance was required.• Provided a monthly progress update and forum to address launch issues with the Launch Management Team which consisted of executives from various cross functional lines of business. Show less • Manage on-shore and off-shore teams of 10-12 people. Responsible for build systems, installers, internal tools and release management.• Reduced product installation from days to hours by developing and implementing product installers. • Manage Product Release tasks including the delivery, mock install and packaging of over 140 full and patch releases yearly.• Project manager for 5+ major R&D projects including a) internal web site implementation, b) source code migration, c) retail installers• Coordinated release and project tasks with cross functional teams including Operations, Development, Documentation, Translations and Project Management Office.• Implemented team disaster recovery and continual improvement processes.• Capacity planning, hardware forecasting and software license budgets.• Trained and mentored staff.• Performed associate reviews, hiring, development and performance improvement processes. Show less

  • Director, Program and Release Management

    Dec 2016 - Feb 2017

  • Senior Program and Release Manager

    Oct 2012 - Nov 2016

  • Senior Software Manager for Build Team

    Jul 2005 - Oct 2012
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  Genesis10

  Jul 2017 - Jun 2018

  Senior IT Project Manager - Prime Therapeutics

  IT Project Manager on new client implementation involving Federal employee program.

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  SunOpta

  Jun 2018 - Nov 2024

  Project Management Director, CPG
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  TruFoodMfg

  Nov 2024 - now

  Director Project Management