Susan S. Bivins
Missouri, USA
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 contributed to the PMI Standard for Portfolio Management and is currently serving on the OPM3 Third Edition team. She and her husband live in Missouri.
Sue can be reached via e-mail at sbivins@gwmail.gwu.edu.