Sonja Koppensteiner, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

Email:

skoppensteiner@ndnu.edu

Sonja Koppensteiner, PhD, PMP, has held multiple project management positions in the high tech industry, in Europe and in the Silicon Valley delivering products to multiple markets such as power utility market, ATE, Telecommunications, and EDA. She founded InterGlobe Consulting, a business consulting company located in the heart of Silicon Valley in 2003. Since then she has served several businesses and universities in the area as a consultant, trainer and instructor.

Sonja’s experience spans from software project management to overall project management responsibility of highly complex and cross-functional solutions in the high-tech industry. As a project management consultant and change agent she has helped organizations to implement and improve project management processes and practices. Her knowledge covers the full product lifecycle from initiation to end of life. Sonja’s favorite tool (her creation) is the project process map that ties product life cycle, project life cycle and organizational processes together.

Sonja enjoys working with cross-functional and virtual teams. She is known as result oriented team leader who creates focus for cross-functional teams in order to execute and deliver on time.

Education History

• Ph.D., Computer Science Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria (2007)
• M.S., Management, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA (2001)
• B.S. and M.S., Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Vienna, Austria (1994)
  

Certifications:

• SCRUM Certified, 2003.
• PMP - Project Management Professional certified since 2003.
• Project Management Certificate, UC Berkeley Extension, 1997

 

Courses Taught

• Project Management
• Global Operations Management
• Global Management of Virtual Teams
• Information Technology Strategies
• Enterprise Performance Management
• Enterprise Information Management Systems
• Systems Management
• Operations Technology

Research and Interests

• Business Process Development, Implementation and Roll out,
• Project Portfolio Management,
• Project and Program Management
• Project Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle, CMMI,
• Agile Development Methodologies
• Improvement of efficiency and effectiveness in organizations operations
• Six Sigma

Recognitions

Professional Affiliations

• Project Management Institute (PMI),
• National Association for Female Executives (NAFE),
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• IEEE

Workshops 

• Project Management 101
• International Project Management
• Project Management for individual contributor
• Management of the software development life cycle (including agile methodologies)

Major Seminars

• “Planning using PMBoK” held for the Austrian society of computer science in December 2006 at Johannes Kepler University, Linz Austria.
• “The Significance of the Right Timing of Project Reviews in Software Development Projects” held for the Austrian society of computer science in June 2005 at Johannes Kepler University, Linz Austria.
• “Introduction of Agile Methodologies”, Roche Diagnostics, Graz, Austria in November 2003.
• “Agile Development”, FTW, Vienna, Austria in November 2003

Community Activities

• 2007 – President, PR & Communications Director for PMI Silicon Valley
• 2006 Past President of PMI Silicon Valley
• 2005 President for PMI Silicon Valley
• 2004 President Elect for PMI Silicon Valley
• 2001-2004 Program Director for PMI Silicon Valley

Publications

• “Aspects of Software Project Management”, SEA Publications: SEA-SR-12, December 2006.

• “Balancing the Best of Both Worlds: Traditional and Agile Software Project Management”, SD Best Practices September 11th -14th 2006, Boston, USA.

• “The Significance of right timing for project reviews in software development projects”, PMI Global Congress – EMEA May 14th to 16th 2006, Madrid, Spain.

• “The Significance of Project Reviews in Software Development Projects. Increasing the Chance of Project Success by Having the Right Timing for Project Reviews.” SD Best Practices September 26th-29th 2005, Boston, USA.

• “How to use CMMI to bring your project management process to the next level”, PMI Global Congress – EMEA May 23rd – 25th 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland.

• “What are the core competencies of a successful project manager”, 18th IPMA World Congress, June 19th – 20th 2004, Budapest, Hungary.

• “How Agile Software Methodologies influence the Role of the Project Manager”, 18th IPMA World Congress, June 19th – 20th 2004, Budapest, Hungary.

• “Will Agile Development change the way we manage software projects? Agile from a PMBoK Guide Perspective”, PMI Global Congress-North America, September 20th – 23rd 2003, Baltimore, USA.

• “Comparison and Analysis of Project Management Best Practices for Software Product Implementation Models (SPIMs), 17th IPMA World Congress on Project Management, june 4th – 6th, 2003, Moscow, Russia.