Maranda Forney — CEO
With a dual role as CEO of Forney Publishing and CEO of Maranda Forney LLC, Portfolio leadership executive with 20+ years guiding enterprise investments from strategy to measurable outcomes across healthcare, banking, and insurance. Aligns funding models, value streams, and clearly defined objectives with multi-year roadmaps to accelerate time to value, reduce delivery risk, and protect revenue. Establishes portfolio operating rhythms and cross-functional governance that raise decision speed and transparency without reliance on traditional project management structures. Directs complex vendor ecosystems and partner contracts for cloud, data, security, and core platform transformations, improving total cost of ownership and delivery assurance. Converts complex delivery portfolios into executive-ready insights and trade-off scenarios that enable confident decisions, sustained value realization, and stronger customer and stakeholder experience. • Real-time executive visibility for a $60M+ portfolio and 36 team members delivered by building a fully automated Microsoft Power BI dashboard serving as a single source of truth for key performance indicators, risk and incident flow, program status, intake, and high-risk approvals, translating complexity into board-level clarity. • 86% reduction in noncompliant technical debt items, strengthening risk posture and audit readiness. • 90% closure of critical issues and 84% closure of high-severity vulnerabilities achieved by developing policies, procedures, and training that focused remediation efforts. • 98% reduction in total known vulnerabilities, from more than 1M+ to 157, and 99% fewer service level agreement breaches, materially elevating enterprise security posture. • $119K annual savings delivered by designing and maintaining SharePoint site collections as the enterprise document storage and collaboration platform. • 20% increase in engineering productivity produced by designing and launching a global level-three engineering program for 300 engineers with targeted training and comprehensive documentation. • $400K savings and response time under 15 minutes achieved by identifying process inefficiencies and delivering recommendations to senior leadership, improving performance across more than 160 countries. • $100K annual savings and successful rollout to 314 legacy clients delivered by leading the end-to-end implementation of Care360 Physician Labs and Meds in Michigan, including client engagement, agreements, scheduling, and deployment.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in healthcare and technology sectors, focusing on project management and operational excellence.
Location: Miami, Florida, United States
Experience: 18 yrs
Skills
- Project Management
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Training
Career Highlights
- Led a $60M+ portfolio with automated insights.
- Achieved 98% reduction in known vulnerabilities.
- Delivered $400K savings through process improvements.
Work Experience
Maranda Forney LLC
Senior Technical Consultant (9 yrs 1 mo)
Dell SonicWALL
Senior Project Manager (1 yr 4 mos)
Hewlett-Packard
Chief Of Staff (5 yrs 2 mos)
IT Consultant
IT Project Manager (6 yrs 2 mos)
Avaya
Sales Manager/Project Manager (3 yrs 10 mos)
Lucent Technologies
Information Developer/Trainer (1 yr 6 mos)
Forney Publishing Inc
Chief Executive Officer (31 yrs 3 mos)
Education
Masters Information Systems Management at Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
Bachelor at DeVry Institute of Technology
Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University
Electrical Engineering at Howard University
