Katharine Harrison PMP, CSM

Katharine Harrison has an impressive 13-year career in Program and Project Management, with specialization in the IT, Business, and Client environments of Financial Services and Capital Markets. She has led teams and managed projects during mergers, acquisitions, high client growth, and restructurings. Katharine is a dedicated and organized leader who prioritizes building and fostering a culture of cooperation and collaboration across cross-functional project teams. She demonstrates a keen ability to challenge schedules and budgets to become more efficient.

Katharine's exceptional oral and written communication and reporting skills and common-sense approach have been invaluable in reporting to C-level management on portfolios of 50+ projects in progress and in pipeline. She has worked with contractor resources and annual budgets up to $20MM. Katharine's proficiency with Agile, Kanban, Jira, Confluence, COBIT, ITIL, and CMMI enabled her to successfully implement, monitor, and continuously improve project processes that are scalable and aligned with her organizational goals.

Katharine's expertise lies in Vendor Management, including managing contractors/offshore resources for over 11 years. She has an excellent track record in creating Business Cases and executing RFPs/RFIs for enterprise solutions, and her approach is to partner with Finance, Compliance and Business Operations in creating these critical documents.

Katharine has a BA Honors and studied Political Science, History, and English at the University of Guelph. She has CSM and PMP certifications from Berteig and Project Management Institute, respectively. Her previous roles include Senior Project Manager at Scotiabank and Senior IT Project Manager at Sun Life, among others.