1. Mary Kenady
marykenady@yahoo.com
707-484-5487
Project/Program Manager with Business & IT Experience
Mary is an innovative Project Manager with deep experience in fast-paced corporate, consulting, and technical
environments. With excellent communication skills, Mary is a powerful liaison between executive teams,
business units and IT to solve ambiguous and rapidly changing business challenges. Consistently recognized
by executive leaders and co-workers alike for skills in issue resolution, project and resource planning, and
problem resolution in high-pressure situations. Key areas of expertise include:
 Business management
 Program and project management
 PMBOK methodology
 Business analysis
 Physically dispersed project teams
 Mentoring
 Vendor selection & management
 Software application development
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CENTER STREET CAFE, Healdsburg, CA 2005-Nov 2014
Owner
Owned and managed a restaurant with annual sales of over 750k annually
 Handled all procurement, Including vendor negotiation, pricing and ongoing relationships
 Performed all Human Relations functions, including hiring, mentoring, payroll, correspondence with government
entities, etc.
 Direct responsibility for customer sales, satisfaction and issue resolution
 Implemented the Point of Sale system, including software identification, vendor selection, and all database work down
to the entity/attribute level
o Dell hardware and PCAmerica software were utilized
SALVATION ARMY LYTTON SPRINGS ARC, Healdsburg, CA 2013-Current
Leadership Council Member
Participates in setting direction, reviewing budgets, and placing beneficiaries in this volunteer role.
UnitedHealth Group, Minneapolis, MN 2002 – 2006
Project Manager (2006)
Partnered with executives and business units to prioritize and implement solutions to satisfy business objectives for the
MYUHC.COM application and website, reporting to the VP at UnitedHealth Group.
Project Integrator (2004 – 2005)
Working within UnitedHealth Technologies, managed the Infrastructure processes and implementations for successful
corporate-wide programs
 Managed multiple, major successful releases of the MYUHC.COM application and website, including vendor
management, performance concerns, and physically dispersed project teams
 Responsible for the rapid deployment of an infrastructure and office in London, England to support a new
UnitedHealth Group business segment
Project Manager (2002 – 2004)
Working within the Project Management Office at UnitedHealth Group, served as an internal Project Management
consultant to various departments:
 Created Business Case documentation in support of a new business unit at UnitedHealth Group
 Served as an internal Project Management consultant to UnitedHealth Technologies, running a major product
implementation team and setting up a complex physically dispersed technical environment.

2. Venturi Technology Partners, Minnetonka, MN 1995 - 2002
Formerly Synchromesh Consulting
Formerly Norstan Consulting
Formerly Connect Computers
Practice Director (2000 - 2002)
 Managed the Application and Web Development Practice
 Internal and external project management resource regarding application development and full life cycle project
implementation, including PMBOK and Rational Unified Process
 Authored and published the project management content for UnitedHealth Group on their proprietary Project
Management Office website
 Responsible for project delivery within her practice area, mentoring project team, reviewing key business and
technical deliverables, and providing project triage when and where necessary to ensure successful project
implementations
 Not only prepared sales and presentation material for the sales team, but in many situations identifying and building
the external client leads herself
Principle Consultant (1995-2000)
SUPERVALU
 Led through a large portion of the Y2K readiness campaign, providing extensive planning and risk
analysis for the effort
 Replaced the existing corporate calendaring and scheduling package with Lotus Notes Calendaring and
Scheduling software, managing a large, cross-functional team for this successful implementation
 Led a program to bring up a new application development environment, including standards, tools and
processes. Mary led the development of the technical framework for use in client/server, distributed
application development efforts. It included client and server components as well as security, model
repositories, and an event service. She oversaw several projects with accountability for scope, status,
issue resolution, and budgets.
RELIASTAR FINANCIAL SERVICES (ING)
 Provided project management services for a corporate initiative to develop a new Internet/intranet policy,
by facilitating business requirements sessions across several functional organizations, and helped to
document and validate them. A formal recommendation, including software tool selection, cost benefit
analysis, and implementation plan was presented to the Board of Directors at their monthly meeting, and
approved.
AMERICAN EXPRESS FINANCIAL SERVICES
 As project manager in the Trust organization, built a new data import environment to enable
standardization of retirement fund data as it came into the organization. This involved project
management, requirements gathering and business analysis, cost benefit analysis, and building then
executing the implementation plan.
 Mary provided project management services to a new application to automate business rules around data
requirements for customer eligibility.
St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, St. Paul, MN 1977-1995
Project Manager
 Managed the activities on a large data warehouse application for the Financial Services Department that involved
consolidating information from twenty-seven source systems and reengineering the final premium and loss closing
processes through the design of custom applications.
 Managed the migration of the company’s workers compensation business from a purchased package to a custom
application
 Within the Commercial Lines Department, managed the migration of several lines of business from an old legacy
system to the new, Manually Rated Premium system.
Programmer/Analyst
Programmer
Actuarial Analyst
Actuarial Clerk
Rater/Coder
Typist
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS / CONTINUING EDUCATION
PMP Certification, Project Management Institute 2005-2007, Will Recertify