Linda Cantey founded Clarus Consulting Group in 1999 (formerly known as GIT, Inc.). As a management consultant, she advises commercial and government clients as they establish and reengineer their management and business processes. Linda leads Clarus’ engagements using her engineering training and experience in project management, business process reengineering, and change management. Her project experience ranges from highly sophisticated and technical applications to complex, multi-organizational programs. Her expertise in change management ensures that the new management and business processes are implemented throughout the entire organization.
As the Principal Consultant for Clarus, Linda has:
• |
Worked with a technology product organization to establish a Program Management Office (PMO) to oversee a 120 person organization, with over 50 projects and $25M in capital budget |
• |
Led efforts to redesign business processes to leverage e-commerce capabilities |
• |
Reengineered processes ranging from business (accounting, finance, sales, marketing, strategic planning, billing), technical (sales engineering, software development, application development) and operational (fault management, logistics planning, configuration management) |
• |
Designed and improved the end-to-end Project Life Cycle process for an Application Service Provider (ASP) |
• |
Established, benchmarked, measured, and improved operational processes for a start-up company |
• |
Designed and executed a change management strategy and plan for the implementation of a new policy that affected 43,000 Department of Defense suppliers |
Previously, Linda was a consultant for Scitor Corporation, providing training and consulting services for Scitor’s project management and business process modeling software tools for US and international clients. While at Scitor, she also supported the development, launch, and operations of the Iridium satellite system in Chandler, AZ and Leesburg, VA. Linda also worked at IBM Federal Services Division in Sunnyvale, CA where she was responsible for the integration and test of the orbit analysis software for the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN). Her aerospace engineering career began at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, CO.
Linda has served on the Board of Directors for the Washington DC chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) since January 2004, and is currently serving as President-Elect for 2007-2008. (See www.pmiwdc.org) She earned her PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in October 2002.
Linda is also involved in Women in Technology (WIT), where she served as Chair of the Information Technology (IT) Special Interest Group (SIG) and on the Mentor-Protégé Program steering committee.
Linda earned her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
|