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2025

• Laura Wilke is senior director of project management at Seran Bioscience, a contract drug developer in Bend, OR.  She manages and supports the project management group.  She handles escalations, risks, issues, client management, working with business development, process improvement, change management, and internal growth.  

2024

• Brad Ring is a senior consultant in the Local Government Practice Group at Berry Dunn.  He has 30 years of experience with projects in both the public and private sectors and is a certified PMO developer.

• Patrick Firth is a senior project manager in the EPMO at Moda Health.  He has worked in quality improvement and project management for most of his 20 years at Moda. 

• Tom Green is global portfolio manager in R&D for Thermo Fisher Scientific, Material Science Division.  He's responsible for the global project prioritization process, including basic portfolio infrastructure such as BI tooling for visualizing and gaining insight into the portfolio.

• Talon Wood is the IT Project Support Manager for Project Solutions, Office of Information Services at the Oregon Health Authority. He works on project, program, and portfolio management practices for the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Department of Human Services.  He also serves as the Chair of the Oregon Project Management Advisory Board.

• Ida Hadgu is IT Portfolio Manager at Portland Community College.   In her role, she oversees the entire IT portfolio, which consists of 80 to 95 active projects, with 1 to 2 new projects added weekly. Ida manages project intake workflow processes and ensures IT Portfolio Project Management aligns with the College's Strategic Initiative Plan. 

• Alex Beelke is Director of Project Management Operations for IES Communications. He's responsible for monitoring and support of high value and high risk projects; process, standards and governance; training and development; systems and tools; and project audits and lessons learned.

• Alison Bellair is the IT Director of Project and Portfolio Management at TriMet, with responsibility for maturing the IT PMO, developing and implementing a Portfolio Management system and practices, and developing a PM Practice Community across the organization.

• Kim Catania is the Director of the Information Services Project and Portfolio Management Office at the University of Oregon.  She has worked in IT, Marketing and Education Services in both corporate and higher education industries.

• Julie Graham is IT Portfolio Manager at the Oregon Department of Revenue.  She responsible for all project and portfolio management processes at DOR. 

• Elizabeth Johnson is Associate Director of Education & Special Projects of the Denver-based nonprofit Mizel Institute, which provides public education on topics like cultural diversity, Holocaust education, and countering violent extremism. Elizabeth oversees a portfolio of educational programs for K-12 and adult audiences, grant-funded initiatives, and other complex or high-impact projects.  

• Ezra Becker is Senior Manager of Deal Strategy and Operations at Salesforce.  He manages projects and the cross functional portfolio at Salesforce for the improvement of the Deal Desk team. 

• Chris Luttkus is Senior Program Manager at Banfield Pet Hospital.  He has the unusual background of having a law degree and being a program manager. 

• Kara Sanders is Senior Strategic Initiatives Project and Portfolio Manager at SEIU 775 Benefits Group.  She works on the organizational alignment team that manages org-wide portfolio management, organizational alignment, and strategic planning. 

2023

• Susan Barbero is Manager IT Office of Project and Portfolio Services at OHSU, where she manages a group of project managers, project coordinators, and other project resources for the Information Technology Group.   Her team is currently trying to improve upon project management capabilities as well as development of program and portfolio management.

• Jason Tolentino is an associate principal consultant at Linea Solutions, where he is establishing processes and procedures for project operations, helping the company standardize their work efforts and identify metrics for success.  He previously was an associate director and solutions manager at Vitech.  

• Tami Aders is Executive Director of the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) at OSU.  She has held similar roles for the Oregon State Lottery and Performance Health Technology, so she has about 15 years of experience as a strategic leader in portfolio, program, and project management.

• Melanie Smith is the Research and Development Portfolio Manager for BPA's Technology Innovation Department.  She specializes in measuring the performance and outcomes of components in the portfolio and that they support BPA's research priorities. 

2022

• Jacob Farkas is an Information Technology Program Manager at Multnomah County.  He is currently the Multnomah County Library Capital Bond IT Program Manager, focusing on the $387M bond passed by Portland voters in 2020.

• Kevin Currie is Senior Manager IS Engineering, Program Management at Providence St. Joseph Health, where he recently transitioned into a technology PMO leadership role.

2021

• Renee Busey is Director of Project Management at The Vancouver Clinic.  

• Colby Parrott is Director of Organizational Effectiveness at The Vancouver Clinic.

• Rachael Fuller is currently serving as Assistant County Administrator at Washington County.  Prior to that she was City Manager for the City of Hood River and Assistant City Manager at the CIty of Gresham where she sponsored the design, roll out, and refinement of a citywide project management toolkit that built up the City's project capabilities.

• Josh Robben is the manager of the new Portfolio Management Program at the Bureau of Environmental Services at the City of Portland.

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