Susan S. Bivins, MSPM, PMP, has more than twenty-five years of management and leadership experience dedicated to delivering successful information technology, organizational change management, and professional consulting services projects for major global corporations. She specializes in project and portfolio management; international, multi-cultural and multi-company initiatives; and business strategy integration in the private and public sectors.During her career with IBM, Sue managed multiple organizations and complex projects, including operations and support for the Olympics, and a strategic transformational change program. Since retiring from IBM, she has led multi-company joint initiatives with Hitachi, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, and served as Director of Project Management at Habitat for Humanity International.Sue earned her Master of Science in Project Management from the Graduate School of Business at The George Washington University, where she received the Dean's Award for Excellence and was admitted to the Beta Gamma Sigma business honorarium. A member of PMI, she served on the PMI Standard for Portfolio Management team. She is co-author of the book Mastering Project Portfolio Management - A Systems Approach to Achieving Strategic Objectives.