Program and Project Management Experience
Karen Guerra has the skills and proven track record for designing and launching programs and projects, for effectively leading teams, and for achieving project goals.
PLANNING THE WORK
Karen thinks strategically with a big-picture perspective that anticipates challenges and identifies opportunities. She has experience working cross-functionally, engaging with project stakeholders, understanding their expectations, and effectively communicating with them. She is organized and detail-oriented and has developed comprehensive project plans, helped to define goals, created schedules, and allocated resources. She is also adept at handling the financial aspects of programs and projects, including budgeting, cost estimation, and tracking expenses.
Karen has 30 years of management experience demonstrating these skills. She honed those skills when she started and managed her law firm, when she developed and launched a mediation service and training business, when she assisted clients with business start-ups, and when she served as the campaign manager for a county-wide political candidate. In recent years, she has demonstrated those skills while working as part of the leadership team for the development of a data privacy platform for laws, regulations, and cases involving data privacy and security issues.
EXECUTING THE PLAN
Karen has the leadership skills to inspire, motivate, and guide teams. Her communication skills enable her to convey expectations, provide feedback, resolve conflicts, and foster collaboration. Her critical thinking, creativity, and analytical skills make her a great problem solver. More importantly, she has good judgment, allowing her to make informed and timely decisions, considering relevant information and potential consequences to ensure decisions align with organizational objectives.
Karen has demonstrated her management acumen by effectively leading teams. She has developed detailed project procedures, provided training and mentoring, and developed cohesive teams that took pride in the value of their work. She has effectively used a variety of management tools to track metrics, plan capacity, and ensure smooth workflow processes. She has worked with partners, managers, engineers, and analysts. Her ability to work cross-functionally with complex technical and operational topics adds depth to her management skill set.
ACHIEVING RESULTS
Karen has a record for achieving goals on time and on budget. She is able to keep projects on track while remaining adaptable to adjust plans and resources when faced with unforeseen circumstances and shifting priorities. She also has experience establishing quality control processes to ensure deliverables meet high-quality standards
Karen’s record for achieving positive outcomes has been proven throughout her professional career. As an attorney, she used analytical, problem solving, and communication skills to convey complex information to judges and juries in order to obtain positive outcomes for clients. As the Managing Attorney for a newly formed Child Support Collection office, she was able to collect over $1M in child support in the office’s first year in operation. As a project manager for an eDiscovery company, she was able to complete numerous projects on time, on budget, with high quality results. In her recent contract position developing a data privacy platform tool, she was able to develop the end-to-end process for the litigation enforcement module, and to work with technical programmers to launch the module.
