Tara White

Experience

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  Zions Bancorporation

  Jun 2011 - Aug 2022

  Set and manage project team and stakeholder expectations regarding project scope, benefits, and timeline. Coordinate and track status of project deliverables (e.g., risks and issues, action items, project plan, etc.). Effectively communicate project status to stakeholders. Mitigate and/or escalate project risk. Lead and motivate project teams by removing obstacles and facilitating commitment and productivity. Consistently deliver expected business value. Accomplishments: Transitioned as PM to three in-flight Cybersecurity projects totaling more than $1MM to implement a new vulnerability scanning tool and to integrate the Bank’s Cyber Exposure platform with ServiceNow. These efforts led to 20 percent more comprehensive coverage for Cybersecurity Vulnerability Exceptions and an automated remediation process.  Managed an executive-driven Small Business Banking project to restructure Business Banking products, processes, and overall organizational structure. Project benefits included increased Small Business loan volume which translated into $4MM-9MM in annual revenue, alignment of Small Business underwriting groups into a single reporting function, and digitization of the loan application process. Skilled at managing projects across a multitude of disciplines including Business Banking, Enterprise Loan Operations, Treasury & Deposit Operations, Retail Deposits & Lending, and Cybersecurity with a proven ability to recover at-risk projects, build strong business partnerships and teams across varied disciplines, and effectively replace ambiguity with structure and results. Show less Collaborated with project stakeholders to develop business requirement documents that accurately reflected the business objectives and needs. Actively engaged IT stakeholders to ensure defined requirements, including system integration points, were viable solutions. Worked with the business to develop test scripts for user acceptance testing to certify that the solution functioned as designed and met defined business requirements. Actively participated in the implementation of the solution to assist with any unforeseen challenges. Accomplishments: Managed the transition of 16 loan operations and servicing functions into a centralized operations center. Effectively mitigated and escalated risk as required, which kept the transitions on schedule. Facilitated work sessions with disparate stakeholders to drive best practices. Utilized multiple communication channels to manage stakeholder expectations and to strengthen partnerships.  Specifically requested as a resource by Treasury senior management to improve the project status of an at-risk, $2MM Treasury enrollments systems project. Actively engaged project stakeholders to rewrite requirements and workflows so they clearly and accurately portrayed the true business objectives.  Received two promotions in a three-year period as a Business Analyst. Promoted to a Project Manager in July 2015. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Jul 2015 - Aug 2022

  • Business Analyst

    Jun 2011 - Jul 2015
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  Select Health

  Aug 2022 - now

  Executive Project Manager