From kickoff to closeout
Who I am
I’m Renise Black, a project coordinator and manager who has worked across IT operations, database administration, and software engineering — including two years as a developer at Amazon. I pair technical fluency with structured delivery so projects stay scoped, on schedule, and genuinely closed out.
What I do
- Plan with intent — Project charters, scope and WBS, schedules and milestones, risk registers, and communication plans that get signed off before work starts.
- Deliver with discipline — Clear task ownership and RACI, issue and blocker management, stakeholder communication cadence, and agile ceremonies that keep delivery visible and on track.
- Close with knowledge — Acceptance and sign-off, hand-off and transition, lessons-learned capture, and documentation that leaves the team stronger after the project ends.
Recent work
Italy 2027 — Group Trip (5–6 travelers)
Plan and coordinate a ~10–14 day group trip to Italy in 2027, delivering a well-organized, budget-conscious experience for 5–6 travelers with shared decision-making and a single point of coordination. .
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French Language Assistant — A Gen AI capstone
Built an AI assistant that helps French learners practice, using retrieval-augmented generation and an agent workflow. Led the work end-to-end: requirements, approach, build, and lessons learned.
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Multiblog WordPress CMS
Designed and shipped a scalable WordPress CMS hosting multiple blogs from a single install — architecture decisions, trade-offs, and the execution plan that got it live.
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About me
I hold undergraduate in Mathematics and dual Master’s degrees in Business Administration and Human Resources. I trained as a software engineer through Amazon Technical Academy, and am working toward my PMP certification. I’m based in the Pacific Northwest and bring a systems-thinking, continuous-learning approach to every project.
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