Employee Spotlight:
Brandy Semore
Brandy Semore currently serves as Pinnacle Business Systems’ Director of Delivery Services & PMO. She is responsible for managing Pinnacle’s Engineering Team and Technical Services, the Project Management Office (PMO), as well as the Sales Support Team.
As a director, Brandy ensures that Pinnacle is consistently delivering on the “added-value” promise of our customer engagements. She manages the proposal process where her team works diligently to obtain the best price for the customer’s data center solution. Brandy then implements new project methodology procedures to ensure customer’s project results match requirements and partners with customers, other vendors, and manufacturers to deliver the best possible solution to customers. She then guarantees a successful technical service project by utilizing her ever-training team of highly skilled data center engineers. Her role also includes monitoring Pinnacle initiatives, measuring success for each, and applying strategic review, evaluation and control to always improve and better her teams. Brandy is also a guest writer for Pinnacle blog articles and focuses her writing on what makes or breaks a successful IT project.
In addition to her role at Pinnacle, Brandy is also a co-founder and advisory board member for Oklahoma Women in Technology (OKWIT). OKWIT is a nonprofit organization of professionals in the technology industry, with a determination to bridge the gap between genders in STEM fields. You can learn more about the organization through its OKWIT website.
Why did you choose the IT industry?
In an interesting way, I didn’t choose the IT industry. It chose me.
What do you like most about working for Pinnacle?
The technical solutions our team architects are customer-focused not product-focused and that is something that is easy to believe in and stand behind.
Tell us what you like to do in your free time.
I don’t have a lot of free time since I have a 4 and a 1-year-old. Since my free time is limited, I am mostly in full mommy mode when I am not working.
If you had to live off of one food for the rest of your life what would it be?
Sushi
What is something that most people don’t know about you?
My very first internship was working for the Pentagon in Washington D.C.
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I had many different ideas that I thought I wanted to pursue from being a veterinarian to racing and training thoroughbred horses, to being a political journalist. That being said, I am very happy where with the career I chose and couldn’t imagine doing anything else.
Brandy’s 6-part Blog Series on Project Management Success
Brandy’s blog series focuses on the critical elements of a successful IT project. In her writing, she provides actionable steps and advice that can help you improve the outcome of the projects you lead or participate in at your organization.
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