Marc Policani

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Skills

Senior PMO Leader; Portfolio Management; Program Management; EPMO / PPMO; Strategy Execution; Executive Governance; Delivery Risk Management; Portfolio Prioritization; Capacity Planning; Hybrid Agile / Waterfall; SAFe; PMP; Azure DevOps (ADO); Smartsheet; MS Project; Jira; ServiceNow; Executive Reporting; Decision Support; Operating Model Design; Change Management; M&A Integration; Compliance & Risk (GDPR); Revenue Technology; Utility & Energy Programs; Product & Platform Delivery; Cross-Functional Leadership; Generative AI (Applied to PMO & Reporting)

About

For more than 25 years, I’ve helped senior leaders make sense of complex, high-stakes portfolios — especially when the work is fragmented, the risks are real, and no one fully trusts the data.

Most of my career has been spent stepping into situations where delivery is moving, money is being spent, but leadership lacks a clear answer to a simple question: what’s actually in motion, what’s at risk, and what decisions matter most right now? That’s the gap I focus on closing.

I’ve worked closely with C-suite leaders at organizations like Microsoft, T-Mobile, Avalara, Doosan GridTech, and MISO Energy to stabilize PMOs and EPMOs, bring discipline to portfolio intake and prioritization, and create execution systems that leaders can rely on — without burying teams in process.

What I build is intentionally lightweight. The goal isn’t methodology purity or reporting volume; it’s clarity. Clear visibility into capacity, dependencies, risk, and trade-offs. Clear decision paths. Clear accountability. When governance works, teams move faster because they’re not constantly re-explaining context or relitigating priorities.

A few examples of that work:

At T-Mobile, I redesigned the operating model for a ~500-initiative revenue technology portfolio, cutting average delivery cycle time by 65%.

At Microsoft, I helped establish EPMO frameworks supporting global B2B partner programs that influenced $18.5B in license upsell and $2B in enterprise renewals.

At Doosan GridTech, I unified product development and customer deployment commitments into a single, executive-ready source of truth used by the CEO and COO.

At MISO Energy, I built an R&D portfolio prioritization framework that aligned funding decisions with strategic value and regulatory obligations.

I’m comfortable working across Agile, SAFe, and Waterfall environments, but I treat frameworks as tools, not goals. The work is about judgment, sequencing, and making trade-offs explicit — especially in software, cloud, infrastructure, energy, and regulated environments.

Lately, I’ve also been applying Generative AI in very practical ways: simplifying portfolio reporting, accelerating executive narratives, and reducing the manual effort it takes to keep leadership informed. Not hype — just useful automation grounded in real workflows.

If your organization is growing, integrating, or struggling to see the truth of its own execution, that’s usually where I’m most effective.