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Melanie's innate strengths in organization, coordination, and
administration have produced tremendous value in organizing business issues and
resources for effective productivity. Coupled with a keen intellect, a
reverence for the pragmatic and real, a love of learning, and the ability to
draw parallels and produce leverage, she successfully applies this talent mix
in the business world.
Early in her career, Melanie noted the critical need
for a better bridge between Information Technology and the organizations it
serves. Thus, she has devoted much of her career to:
- Strengthening business alignment through an appreciation of
the broad conceptual nature of business, including the relationship of
organizational functions as a complete, sustainable system and the relationship
of the organization to the community, the industry, and the
world.
- Fostering a fertile environment for staff development, through
caring yet effective processes for organizational design, role definition and
job descriptions, recruiting and interviewing, orientation, ongoing
communication, and a respectful, intentional commitment between staff and
management.
- Developing a simple yet robust methodology for change and
project management, a coherent body of procedures and templates which provides
a blueprint for repeatable success - culminating in Repeatable Success
 Project Management Methodology© available through
TerraSys Consulting today.
Melanie is the founding principal of TerraSys
Consulting, Inc., a management and information technology consulting services
firm, providing services in both private and public sectors.
With the principals of TerraSys Consulting, she
created the methodology system, Repeatable SuccessProject Management Methodology©.
RS PMM enables project teams to meet expectations for cost,
time, quality, and functional expectations - project after project.
An extract of her experience:
- Prior to consulting, Melanie served as Chief Operating Officer
for an international wholesale and eFulfillment distributor. She has more than
20 years' experience in executive and Information Technology management,
particularly in distribution of pre-recorded entertainment products and in
grocery retail.
- She provides highly regarded leadership, working effectively
with clients, peers and staff. She has borne budget responsibility at all
levels, grooming teams to create aligned budgets and coaching for
accountability.
- She has developed processes to identify and to assimilate
vision, mission, values, strategy, and tactical plans, with willing and active
participation across disparate organizations.
- Working with the Menttium 100 Corporation, she has served as a
formal mentor to successful executives from Charles Schwab & Co., e*TRADE,
and California Federal Bank.
- She is a founding member of a leadership circle that uses
Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning
Organization as the basis for their work.
Melanie's publications represent a broad range of interests
and include Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To
(book with CD-ROM); various articles appearing on the LegacyConnect, Projects@Work,
Nolo, and other websites; The 1-2-3 Macro Library; and B2C Internet Practices.
She has been interviewed on live radio and for articles relating to project
management, selecting financial and legal professionals, and making final
arrangements. She has been a featured speaker at conferences sponsored by IBM
Corporation and Food Marketing Institute.
Melanie is both a natural teacher and a trained
facilitator. She has received instructor certification from Achieve Global
(formerly Zenger-Miller, Inc.) for the FrontLine Leadership series.
She holds a Master's in Business Administration from
the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. |
