Shakera Smith, MS, MBA, PMP, CAPM, PSMI
I am an innovative PMP-certified project manager with over six years of experience in driving significant improvements across diverse multi-million-dollar projects. As a Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Management and Leadership, I am equipped with advanced strategic planning and team leadership skills.
Google Suites
EPIC EHR
Salesforce
Workday
Project Management
Program Management
Agile/Scrum
Marketing
Product Design
Smartsheet
JIRA
Asana
Monday.com
Figma
“Shakera has stepped onto the Employee Recognition team and immediately began addressing needs related to technical skills that were missing within the rest of the team. She created this Microsoft form that is now being leveraged for nominations. She is creating a SharePoint site for recognition, nominations and communication of nominee's actions and monthly/quarterly/annual winners when the approach was vacated following Danelle's departure and we had limited expertise on the team prior to Shakera joining. She not only finds innovative ways to take ideas for recognition and make them a functional reality, but she does so with absolutely no hesitation! ”
“Shakera has taken us from 0 (paper Word documents and Excel) to 180 with our project management system -- and in only 6 months. This includes fully integrated Smartsheet for our overall marketing project plan, email calendar, invoice tracker / budget, inventory system and fulfillment schedule. She continues to work closely with everyone in the [Marketing & Special Events] team, [Enrollment Management Office], third-party vendors, recruitment support and leadership to build historical records from 2021 to present and workflows that benefit all parties. The results? Information is now at our fingers tips rather than taking sometimes an hour to find and staff members are able to spend more time on the creative and producing deliverables rather than logging and tracking projects. We're also able to more easily detect inconsistencies in quoted versus invoiced amounts and route causes of delays in production and fulfillment.”
“Hi Shakera! Hope this email reaches you well. I wanted to connect with you and see if you were available for GLO24? If so, have you registered for a role? I received notice that you are a great candidate/may be interested in an elevated role, such as EPM for 48in48. I wanted to connect & confirm your interest. I look forward to connecting.”
“Thanks to Shakera's help, we have been able to get invoices for Special Events processed a lot faster and we have so much information needed regarding our inventory. Having her working on project management stuff has been so helpful to Special Events. Thank you Shakera!”