McLean, VA, January 20, 2023 - OBXtek Inc. has promoted Jennifer Liu to Vice President, Business Operations. In this role, Ms. Liu will plan, direct, coordinate, and oversee activities and daily workflow in the business operations organization, inclusive of the PMO and Corporate Communications.
"Jennifer has been crucial across the entire spectrum of OBXtek's operations and business development efforts. She has clearly improved everything she has touched…from modernizing our new opportunity business development pipeline, to creating a new workflow automating several steps, to creating ways to track financial performance across the organization," said Mike McKinney, OBXtek chief operating officer. "OBXtek would not have made the strides we have over the last two years without Jennifer's ideas and expertise."
Ms. Liu joined OBXtek four years ago as the Project Management Office (PMO) Director. She has stood up the company's first Project Management Office, standardized the strategic goals process by migrating it to Microsoft Power BI providing leadership a centralized location to monitor progress, and built an in-house capture and planning management tool for business development to streamline their processes and create efficiencies.
"I am fortunate for all the opportunities that I have been given since joining OBXtek," said Ms. Liu. "This is a high growth time for OBXtek and I'm excited to take on an expanded role to position the company for long-term growth and continued success."
Ms. Liu is an active alumna of Purdue University. She has been an undergraduate and graduate-level guest speaker at Purdue University Krannert School of Management where she has presented on IT project management and women in management.