Barbara Ainsworth
• United States: Greater St. Louis Area
• information technology and services
Current: Managing Member / Principle Consultant, Process Plus International, LLC
Past:
Managing Member / Principal Consultant, QVision International LLC
VP Quality Assurance and Project Managemen
Greater St. Louis Area
Barbara Ainsworth
Address: Greater St. Louis Area
Current:
- Managing Member / Principle Consultant at Process Plus International, LLC
Past:
- Managing Member / Principal Consultant at QVision International LLC
- Consultant at JPMorgan Chase
- Mohawk Valley Utica, NY
Education:
People Network: 41
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Barbara Ainsworth’s Summary
Performance Scorecard:
> Propelled process improvements that contributed to CIO's reported $33-$45 millions of cost reductions in each of three (3) organizations
> Drove measurement implementation to continuously increase profitability, quality, project health, and organizational learning
> Contributed to organizational structure and culture change in organizations moving to institutionalize processes, end redundancy, and increase value delivered to customers
Areas of Expertise:
> Process Engineering, Management and Improvement
> Program / Project Management / PMO / PMP
> Quality Assurance / Quality Control
> Industry models / standards / best practices: CMMi, ITIL, Six Sigma, PMI, QAI, ISO, TQM, Baldrige, Deming, Juran
> Recruit; coach; mentor; train; develop high performance organization; direct, matrix, and virtual teams
> Assess, analyze, recommend solutions, strategy, planning, negotiation, Institutionalization, measurements
> Evangalize, inspirational leadership
> Consulting, customer bias, partnerships, collaboration, executive level through technologists
> National, global, complex organizations
> Public speaker, educator
Experience:
> Over 20 years IT in finance, insurance, services, beverage manufacturing, health care and government
> Roles: SME, senior executive, owner/driver, program manager, consultant
> Budgets to > $5M; US and global organizations
Continuous Education through 2008:
Over 60 classes/conferences/seminars focused on Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Project Management, and Technically Related Topics
Barbara Ainsworth’s Specialties:
Designations:
> ITIL Service Mgmt.by Office of Government Commerce 2007
> Project Management Professional (PMP) by Project Mgmt.Institute 1999
> Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) by Quality Assurance Institute 1997
> Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) by QAI 1992
Memberships / Affiliations
> International Institute for Software Testing - Faculty & Trainer
> Software Engineering Institute - Member / Speaker
> St. Louis Quality Assurance Assoc. Volunteer Board Member
Managing Member / Principle Consultant
Process Plus International, LLC
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
2003 — Present (5 years)
Female owned consulting; focus process and organizational/culture change management.
Full P&L accountability / business management; engaged in increasing IT / MIS efficiencies and quality using best practices / industry models. Consult / lead ‘C’ through technologist levels in government, finance, service, and health care.
• Delivered 'Measurement Program' strategy, plans, measures, processes, procedures, and dashboard for COO, Maritz Loyalty Marketing.
• Contributed 'Process Improvement' strategy and organizational structure to CIO, Kaiser Permenante health care.
• Delivered recommendations, strategy, schedule, communication and risk management plans, and artifacts for Cardinal Health Care’s IT.
• Assessed, delivered ‘measures’ recommendations, strategy, plan and schedule for Department of Homeland Security IT.
• Contributed to new venture's organizational structure, mission, and operations definition for CEO of Capital Sourcing Group.
• Public speaker, educator
Eductional Details:
Mohawk Valley Utica, NY
Yes, Applied Sciences
Barbara Ainsworth’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
Additional Information
Barbara Ainsworth’s Interests:
management training, organizational development, strategic planning, professional networking, digital photography, travel across USA, new activities in each place I visit [e.g., simulation sky diving, scuba diving, hiking in the desert, para-sailing]
Barbara Ainsworth’s Groups:
- Software Engineering Institute
- National Defense Industrial Association (Systems Engineering Division)
- Project Management Institute (PMI) and Specific Interest Group Network
- Quality Assurance Institute- Software Quality Engineering
- International Function Point User Group
- Association for Quality Participation
- American Society for Quality Control
- IEEE Computer Society
Barbara Ainsworth’s Honors:
Honored by St. Louis Quality Assurance Association for years of service as President, VP, Board Member, etc.
Cash awards for accomplishing projects early.
Trophy for "Longest Drive" in 4 person Scramble Golf Game [my ball stayed on the fair way while others' went into the rough!]