Katharine Laird, PSM I

Katharine Laird, PSM I, has a diverse work experience in project management and website content management. Katharine is currently working as a Project Manager at ContinuumGlobal @ Google since November 2020. Prior to this, they worked as a Scrum Master at Silicon Valley Project Management, where they drove the implementation of a new LMS system and championed Agile best practices. Katharine also managed the product backlog and supported the Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.

Before that, Katharine worked as a Website Content Specialist at DataStax from July 2019 to April 2020. Here, they led a new publishing process that reduced cycle time and increased asset trackability, resulting in better optimization of marketing spend. Katharine also led a blog revamp project to improve user experience and content relevancy, and managed the content migration of over 2000 pages.

Earlier in their career, Katharine worked at Carbon Black, Inc. as a Website Content Specialist from March 2018 to December 2018. Katharine successfully delivered the Partner Portal Refresh project, resulting in a significant increase in partner web traffic. Katharine also implemented dynamic resources sitewide to improve content relevancy and effectively managed fast-moving web projects.

Overall, Katharine Laird has demonstrated their expertise in project management, Agile methodologies, website content management, and driving successful projects to completion.

Katharine Laird, PSM I, pursued their education in Global Public Health at New York University from 2013 to 2017. Katharine obtained their degree in Public Health during this period. In addition, Katharine also holds the certification of Professional Scrum Master - I from Scrum.org, which they achieved in June 2020.