Program & Project Leadership

Monroe Modus

Turning Strategy into Results.

Carla Monroe is a senior project and program leader with 20+ years turning complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives into delivered outcomes across government, healthcare, education, and the national laboratories. Strategy on paper is easy; Monroe Modus exists to land it on schedule, in scope, and on budget.

20+
Years leading programs
$10M+
Largest program managed
25+
Staff & contractors led
12+
Professional certifications
What Monroe Modus delivers

Leadership across the full program lifecycle

From charter to close-out — governance, delivery, change, and quality, held together by clear communication and disciplined execution.

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Program & PMO Leadership

Stand up and run PMOs that coordinate multiple programs, vendors, and cross-functional teams toward one strategy — with status, KPIs, and decisions that hold up in front of executives.

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Organizational Change Management

Prosci-certified change leadership: stakeholder alignment, communication plans, and adoption work that makes new systems and operating models actually stick.

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Process Improvement & Six Sigma

Six Sigma Black Belt and Kaizen facilitator. Rapid improvement events that have doubled productivity and cut waste, plus the training to spread the discipline across an organization.

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Agile Delivery

SAFe 5 Agilist and Certified ScrumMaster. Runs Agile and hybrid delivery — backlogs, ceremonies, UAT, and train-the-trainer — without losing sight of the program-level outcome.

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Risk, Governance & Stakeholders

RAID logs, steering committees, change advisory boards, and the executive communication that keeps sponsors informed and risks remediated before they become issues.

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Quality & Operational Excellence

ASQ Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence. Builds the metrics, scorecards, and assurance systems that turn "we think it's working" into evidence.

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Track record · 2013 – present

A decade-plus of programs, delivered

Each engagement below shipped real outcomes for real organizations. Earlier career (2001 – 2013): statewide strategic planning and project management for the State of Florida and Staples Tech Solutions.

2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025
Director — Project Management Office Elite Enterprise · 2021 – present
Sr. IT PM / Scrum Master Infor · 2021 – 2022
Six Sigma Black Belt & Contractor Assurance DOE National Laboratories · 2019 – 2021 · Q clearance
Sr. Implementation PM — IT PMO Presbyterian Healthcare Services · 2018 – 2020
Sr. Implementation PM — MMISR TurningPoint Global Solutions · 2018 – 2019
Government Consultant / IV&V PM First Data Corporation · 2016 – 2017
Statewide Broadband PM State of New Mexico · 2015 – 2016
Asst. Director of Tech / PMO Manager Santa Fe Public Schools · 2013 – 2015
Delivered
$10M+ MMISR modernization

Directed 10+ project managers across 14 workstreams for New Mexico Human Services Department; chaired weekly joint PMO leadership.

Delivered
Statewide K-12 broadband

Ran broadband implementation for 15+ school districts and an RFP for the State of New Mexico — standardized reporting and improved turnaround more than 3×.

Delivered
2× productivity, DOE labs

Led Kaizen and rapid improvement events at the national laboratories; trained 100+ HR staff in quality and project management tools.

Delivered
$7M school technology build-out

Equipped three new schools and led the IT Change Advisory Board for system configuration changes at Santa Fe Public Schools.

Credentials

Certified across delivery, quality, and change

Twelve-plus certifications spanning project and program management, Agile, Six Sigma, and organizational change — kept current and put to work.

Project & Agile

  • PMP — Project Management Institute
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • SAFe 5 Agilist
  • ITIL v2011 — AXELOS

Quality & Process

  • Six Sigma Black Belt
  • Manager of Quality / Org. Excellence (ASQ)
  • Six Sigma Green Belt (ASQ)
  • Quality Improvement Associate (ASQ)
  • Kaizen / Rapid Process Improvement Facilitator

Change & Leadership

  • Prosci Certified Change Practitioner
  • Human Performance Improvement Practitioner
  • Blue Dragon Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

Industries Served

  • Government — state, local & federal
  • Defense / National Laboratories
  • Healthcare services
  • Education — K-12 & higher ed

Education

M.S. Information TechnologyUniversity of the Cumberlands, KY
B.S. Liberal Studies — Political Science & GeographyCharter Oak State College, CT
A.A.S. Integrated Studies — Technology & BusinessCentral New Mexico Community College

Let's turn your strategy into results.

Available for program leadership, PMO buildout, change management, and process improvement engagements.