Cassandra Howard-Albarado

Cassandra Howard-Albarado, PMP, has extensive project management experience spanning over two decades. Cassandra recently joined WelbeHealth as a Project Manager in November 2021. Prior to this, Cassandra worked for an undisclosed company from January 2019 to November 2021, leading various projects as a Project Manager.

From 2014 to 2018, Cassandra served as a Project Manager at Schumacher Clinical Partners. In this role, they specialized in managing highly visible and complex programs and projects that impacted the enterprise. Cassandra focused on delivering results and measuring success. Prior to that, Cassandra worked as a Project Manager II from 2014 to 2017, overseeing large corporate initiatives and network infrastructure projects with strategic importance and interdependencies across IT, business, and strategic areas.

Cassandra's earlier experience includes working as a Project Manager at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana from 2010 to 2014. During this time, they managed large projects involving cross-functional teams, provided executive-level reporting, and implemented changes to business processes and system applications. Cassandra successfully applied agile project management methodologies in an organization accustomed to waterfall methods.

Before joining Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cassandra worked at Covidien Healthcare, Inc as a Project Administrator on a short-term project focused on PeopleSoft Global Implementation. Cassandra was responsible for communication and organization, as well as utilizing Microsoft Project for managing project milestones, deliverables, timelines, resources, and tasks.

Additionally, Cassandra worked at Election Systems & Software as a Senior Project Manager from 1999 to 2006. Cassandra oversaw the successful installation of new voting machines, hardware, and software across the country. Cassandra managed over 250 election projects, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations and assigning implementation tasks.

Overall, Cassandra Howard-Albarado has demonstrated their proficiency in project management throughout their career, successfully delivering complex projects and programs, measuring success, and effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Cassandra Howard-Albarado, PMP, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Corporate Communications from Framingham State University in the years 1997 to 1999. In 2003, they obtained certification in the Women's Institute for Leadership from Bryant University, specializing in Business Administration and Management, General. Later, in July 2013, Cassandra obtained their Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute.