1. Karen Trumbo ktrumbo5@gmail.com
925-413-9869 https://www.linkedin.com/in/KarenTrumbo
SUMMARY
An IT Leader with extensive experience in project management, change management and PMO practices. 10+
years of supervisory experience, 15+ years of project management, change management and PMO experience.
Managed teams of high skilled Project Managers and Change Managers each responsible for multi-million dollar
projects. Also hands on experience as Project Manager, Change Manager and PMO Lead on large strategic
change initiatives.
Expertise in managing organizations and people, portfolio management, PMO processes, project management
methodology, project assurance reviews, leading enterprise change, deploying to global federated organizations,
and working in a global and matrixed IT organization.
Held multiple positions in a fortune 500 company with accomplishments in building project management capability
to consistently deliver the expected business value on time and on budget, building change management
capability in a new and emerging organization, leading enterprise technology, process and people change
initiatives. My passion lies in leading teams, coaching and building organizational capability, particularly in the
areas of project management and change management.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Manager, IT Project Management 2009-2015
Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA
• Led organization of IT Project Managers to successfully deliver a portfolio of IT projects for Chevron’s
Corporate Departments (i.e. Finance, HR, Legal, Health & Safety, Procurement).
• Managed the performance of employee and contractor IT Project Managers for moderately complex to
very complex projects (i.e. ranging from $1MM to $50MM in size).
• Oversaw project and portfolio execution management metrics and developed strategies to continually
improve project execution and portfolio delivery success.
• Built strong project management organizational capability to ensure the successfully delivery of project
business value on time and on budget consistently meeting or exceeding an 80% success metric.
• Forecasted IT Project Manager demand and worked to optimized resource assignments by planning
ahead, understanding our resource supply and capability, understanding business project portfolios and
having regular communications with IT Managers.
Senior IT Project Manager 2006-2009
Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA
• Led Global Downstream (i.e. Marketing, Manufacturing, Supply &Trading) IT Leadership Team through
a strategy project to align their organization with enterprise IT transformation initiatives and reduce
ongoing operating cost. Project included modifying the IT organization structure.
• Managed Global Downstream IT project to implement new enterprise-wide data privacy compliance
requirements, ensuring all high risk business processes across the globe were assessed for
compliance and remediated as needed. Built and trained global support network to ensure ongoing
compliance.
• Formed and managed the Project Management Office (PMO) for an enterprise architecture program
that developed 5 year IT investment roadmaps for each business segment across Chevron. Oversaw
2. the budget, schedule, communication plans and status reporting across all work streams. Led Program
Leadership Team meetings and worked with Chevron IT CIOs and GM to build strategy alignments.
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Manager, IT Change Management Team / IT Learning & Development Team 2003-2005
Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA
• Built a new Change Management organization that provided internal consultants to plan and manage
the changes introduced by IT projects. Developed the internal organizational capability needed to
provide this function with excellence.
• Oversaw and managed the merger of two Learning & Development organizations into one Enterprise IT
Learning & Development Function.
Team Lead, Common Desktop Tools Support and Project Change Lead 2000-2003
Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA
• Year 1 & 2 - Managed 4 Technical Team Leads and their technical staff as several applications were
being rewritten to meet the needs of the second generation of Chevron’s common desktop platform.
• Years 3 & 4 - While performing the Team Lead role for a team now supporting these desktop tool
applications, I also served on an enterprise program to develop that implement a new lower cost
Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) global sourcing strategy.
o I started as an application SME and led the business case and decision analysis work for some
of the scope applications. My role then expanded to become the Change Management Lead
for this strategic change program.
o In the Change Management Lead role, I coordinated the integration of two new global
suppliers into our IT application support organizations, including application support role
transitions, employee communications and the resulting organizational downsizing.
IT Project Manager 1996-2000
Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA
• Managed several application projects including custom development of application tools for Chevron’s
Common Desktop Platform, SAP Business Warehouse implementation for internal IT billing, custom
development of an IT Change Event Management Tool and Network Support Tool, data warehouse for
a Vantive Helpdesk Ticketing System and integration with an IT Service Level Agreements application.
Technical Roles 1985-1995
Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA
• Held various technical roles including Programmer for both support and new application delivery,
Technical Lead, Project Manager and/or Business Analyst for application delivery projects, Data Base
Analyst. Gained application experience with mainframe, client/server and web based applications.
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BA in Computer Science from Mills College, Oakland, CA
Prosci Change Management Certification – June, 2016 (in progress)
AMA Training
Managerial Effectiveness
Comprehensive Project Management
Chevron Training
Experienced Supervisor
IT Project Management Methodology
