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Elizabeth Schlier
Elizabeth Schlier is founder and president of Gefion Inc. With more than 15 years of experience leading government and commercial engagements and providing subject matter expertise, Ms. Schlier combines her results-oriented management style and her strong analytical skills and experience developing business solutions to enable clients to achieve transformational change. Her areas of expertise include IT management strategy; IT organizational design; reengineering of both business and IT services; and program development and definition. Ms. Schlier holds an MBA in Strategic Management, Business Economics and Public Policy; is certified at the Master's level in ITIL®. She is frequently an invited speaker and panelist at ITSM events.
Elizabeth Schlier has more than 12 years of experience leading government and commercial engagements and providing subject matter expertise. Ms. Schlier combines a results-oriented management style and strong analytical skills and experience developing business solutions to enable clients to achieve transformational change. She most recently led and provided expertise on a number of engagements at the IRS across Enterprise Operations and in OPSMO, where she utilized her program and project management and reengineering and organizational design abilities. Ms. Schlier's key functional skills include project management; strategic planning; program evaluation; BPR and process modeling; organizational design and analysis; group facilitation; and business and technical writing. Her areas of expertise include IT management strategy; IT organizational design; reengineering of both business and IT services; program development and definition; executive leadership; and business process definition, which she conducts for industry and government clients. Certified as an ITSM expert at the master's level, Ms. Schlier is a frequent speaker at industry events and as a volunteer university guest lecturer.
Ms. Schlier's business skills are supported by the application of advanced analytical tools and techniques in the areas of management consulting, information engineering, marketing research, statistical analysis, and process design. Her industry experience includes the IT, healthcare, defense, services, energy, banking, manufacturing, education, fundraising, non-profit, and consumer products sectors. Her proposals and presentations have won a wide-variety of projects for her own company, employers, teaming companies, and strategic partners.
Areas of Expertise:
Education:
MBA, Business Economics and Public Policy/Market Research
The George Washington University, Washington, DC
BBA, Finance
The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Post-Graduate Study, Strategic Planning and Implementation
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
IT Service Management, Foundation and Masters Certificates
Information Systems Examinations Board, The British Computer Society
Elizabeth Schlier is founder and president of Gefion Inc. With more than 15 years of experience leading government and commercial engagements and providing subject matter expertise, Ms. Schlier combines her results-oriented management style and her strong analytical skills and experience developing business solutions to enable clients to achieve transformational change. Her areas of expertise include IT management strategy; IT organizational design; reengineering of both business and IT services; and program development and definition. Ms. Schlier holds an MBA in Strategic Management, Business Economics and Public Policy; is certified at the Master's level in ITIL®. She is frequently an invited speaker and panelist at ITSM events.
Elizabeth Schlier has more than 12 years of experience leading government and commercial engagements and providing subject matter expertise. Ms. Schlier combines a results-oriented management style and strong analytical skills and experience developing business solutions to enable clients to achieve transformational change. She most recently led and provided expertise on a number of engagements at the IRS across Enterprise Operations and in OPSMO, where she utilized her program and project management and reengineering and organizational design abilities. Ms. Schlier's key functional skills include project management; strategic planning; program evaluation; BPR and process modeling; organizational design and analysis; group facilitation; and business and technical writing. Her areas of expertise include IT management strategy; IT organizational design; reengineering of both business and IT services; program development and definition; executive leadership; and business process definition, which she conducts for industry and government clients. Certified as an ITSM expert at the master's level, Ms. Schlier is a frequent speaker at industry events and as a volunteer university guest lecturer.
Ms. Schlier's business skills are supported by the application of advanced analytical tools and techniques in the areas of management consulting, information engineering, marketing research, statistical analysis, and process design. Her industry experience includes the IT, healthcare, defense, services, energy, banking, manufacturing, education, fundraising, non-profit, and consumer products sectors. Her proposals and presentations have won a wide-variety of projects for her own company, employers, teaming companies, and strategic partners.
Areas of Expertise:
- Workflow Design
- Transition Planning and Change Management
- System Requirements Analysis
- Performance Measurement and Assessment
- Business Case Analysis (BCA)
- Strategic Assessment and Planning
- Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
- Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
- Implementation Planning and Execution
- Contract Negotiation
- Program Evaluation
- Financial and Statistical Analyses
- Vendor Analysis and Selection
- Research Design and Execution
- Organizational Design
- Benchmarking and Best Practices
- Service Level Agreement Development
- Proposal Writing and Presentation
- Focus Group Facilitation
- Project Planning
- COTS Software Selection
- Outsourcing Management
- Marketing Research
- Implementation of Recommendations
- Distributed Technology Life Cycle Management
- Project Management/Team Leadership
Education:
MBA, Business Economics and Public Policy/Market Research
The George Washington University, Washington, DC
BBA, Finance
The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Post-Graduate Study, Strategic Planning and Implementation
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
IT Service Management, Foundation and Masters Certificates
Information Systems Examinations Board, The British Computer Society