Presentation: Mastering Adaptability: Leveraging Your Strengths to Thrive in an Evolving Job Market
Abstract: My path to a 15-year career at a Software Engineering firm is a story I’m asked to share often. I studied business marketing and theater arts in college, so managing software development and cybersecurity teams was never in my plan! But I’ve found that my skills are transferable to many different ecosystems, and my superpower is making complicated concepts simple.
In this session, attendees can expect to gain:
- Insight on what you should do and what you don’t need to do if you want to (or need to) transition to managing projects in a new field, such as technology
- How to apply an agile mindset to approaching your career path
- Tips on playing to your strengths and building a team that fills in for your weaknesses
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills
Biography: Leah Onuoha is a Senior Leader and Program Director at Gunnison Consulting Group, where she also serves as the Corporate Quality Manager and Philanthropy Chair. She graduated with honors from the University of Pittsburgh with degrees in Business Administration and Theater Arts.
With fifteen years of experience at Gunnison, Leah is a seasoned project management expert in overseeing federal software engineering contracts. Leah has been the Project Manager for the Geographic Update Partnership Software (GUPS) development contract at the US Census Bureau since 2015. The GUPS project includes the development of award-winning desktop and web GIS applications that support 14 Census Bureau geographic programs using open-source and license-free architectures. The desktop application is housed in a powerful, custom QGIS plugin, and the web application uses a thoughtful combination of frontend, middle-tier, and backend applications such as QGIS, Angular, OpenLayers, Django, Postgres, and GeoServer. As a Program Director, Leah has overseen cybersecurity, IT service management, and other agile development federal projects.
Leah is mentor at heart and enjoys finding ways to continually improve processes and products in the digital services, automation and intelligence, and cybersecurity spaces. She has had the pleasure of speaking at multiple Industry Conferences, and she enjoys interfacing with other IT and Project Management professionals eager to learn and grow
