Kathi M. Chun-Owens
Senior Director, CX Strategy & Strategic Partnerships at Freddie- Claim this Profile
Click to upgrade to our gold package
for the full feature experience.
Topline Score
Bio
LinkedIn User
Kathi is a results oriented, bottom line professional with all of the skills you would look for in a project manager. She is self motivated, organized, efficient, creative and she has the people skills to manage through difficult issues. She brings a positive attitude to any effort and cuts through politics to get things done. I would highly recommend her to any organization that is looking for talented people who know how to deliver results.
Jonathan Frieder
I reported directly to Kathi for 6 months as part of her Business Management Office (BMO) team in the Technology division of a Single Family mortgage business of a GSE serving the secondary mortgage market. Our team was responsible for developing and implementing the operating model and enabling processes and tools to support Finance, Resource Management, Metrics, Risk and Compliance and Administrative activities. As an experienced consultant from her prior roles, Kathi confidently led the team and navigated and delivered creative solutions that satisfied requirements of multiple functions and stakeholders. She demonstrated solid working knowledge of finance, budgeting, and risk management in executing her strategy. She also demonstrated excellent leadership skills, ability to build consensus and handle sensitive data and information related to budget and resource issues. Beyond these capabilities, Kathi has an even-keeled demeanor that makes her seem unflappable in even the most-pressured situations, inspiring confidence among her team and stakeholders who interact with her. Among her achievements, she effectively owned and produced a monthly business review report package that provided summary and drill-down metrics for management to understand the state of the organization and helped lay the groundwork for several key initiatives within the organization, including a transition to a managed services operating model. She also facilitated development of a comprehensive monthly forecasting process and tool that allowed managers to allocate resources and view the impact on resource and financial numbers in real-time and drove the creation of a resource management framework that enabled effective and efficient deployment (and re-deployment) of resources across 7 cost centers. Kathi is a consummate professional and team player who also created a positive and fun work environment. She would be an asset to any organization in need of a skilled and well-rounded business and project manager and I would look forward to any opportunity to work with her again in the future.
LinkedIn User
Kathi is a results oriented, bottom line professional with all of the skills you would look for in a project manager. She is self motivated, organized, efficient, creative and she has the people skills to manage through difficult issues. She brings a positive attitude to any effort and cuts through politics to get things done. I would highly recommend her to any organization that is looking for talented people who know how to deliver results.
Jonathan Frieder
I reported directly to Kathi for 6 months as part of her Business Management Office (BMO) team in the Technology division of a Single Family mortgage business of a GSE serving the secondary mortgage market. Our team was responsible for developing and implementing the operating model and enabling processes and tools to support Finance, Resource Management, Metrics, Risk and Compliance and Administrative activities. As an experienced consultant from her prior roles, Kathi confidently led the team and navigated and delivered creative solutions that satisfied requirements of multiple functions and stakeholders. She demonstrated solid working knowledge of finance, budgeting, and risk management in executing her strategy. She also demonstrated excellent leadership skills, ability to build consensus and handle sensitive data and information related to budget and resource issues. Beyond these capabilities, Kathi has an even-keeled demeanor that makes her seem unflappable in even the most-pressured situations, inspiring confidence among her team and stakeholders who interact with her. Among her achievements, she effectively owned and produced a monthly business review report package that provided summary and drill-down metrics for management to understand the state of the organization and helped lay the groundwork for several key initiatives within the organization, including a transition to a managed services operating model. She also facilitated development of a comprehensive monthly forecasting process and tool that allowed managers to allocate resources and view the impact on resource and financial numbers in real-time and drove the creation of a resource management framework that enabled effective and efficient deployment (and re-deployment) of resources across 7 cost centers. Kathi is a consummate professional and team player who also created a positive and fun work environment. She would be an asset to any organization in need of a skilled and well-rounded business and project manager and I would look forward to any opportunity to work with her again in the future.
LinkedIn User
Kathi is a results oriented, bottom line professional with all of the skills you would look for in a project manager. She is self motivated, organized, efficient, creative and she has the people skills to manage through difficult issues. She brings a positive attitude to any effort and cuts through politics to get things done. I would highly recommend her to any organization that is looking for talented people who know how to deliver results.
Jonathan Frieder
I reported directly to Kathi for 6 months as part of her Business Management Office (BMO) team in the Technology division of a Single Family mortgage business of a GSE serving the secondary mortgage market. Our team was responsible for developing and implementing the operating model and enabling processes and tools to support Finance, Resource Management, Metrics, Risk and Compliance and Administrative activities. As an experienced consultant from her prior roles, Kathi confidently led the team and navigated and delivered creative solutions that satisfied requirements of multiple functions and stakeholders. She demonstrated solid working knowledge of finance, budgeting, and risk management in executing her strategy. She also demonstrated excellent leadership skills, ability to build consensus and handle sensitive data and information related to budget and resource issues. Beyond these capabilities, Kathi has an even-keeled demeanor that makes her seem unflappable in even the most-pressured situations, inspiring confidence among her team and stakeholders who interact with her. Among her achievements, she effectively owned and produced a monthly business review report package that provided summary and drill-down metrics for management to understand the state of the organization and helped lay the groundwork for several key initiatives within the organization, including a transition to a managed services operating model. She also facilitated development of a comprehensive monthly forecasting process and tool that allowed managers to allocate resources and view the impact on resource and financial numbers in real-time and drove the creation of a resource management framework that enabled effective and efficient deployment (and re-deployment) of resources across 7 cost centers. Kathi is a consummate professional and team player who also created a positive and fun work environment. She would be an asset to any organization in need of a skilled and well-rounded business and project manager and I would look forward to any opportunity to work with her again in the future.
LinkedIn User
Kathi is a results oriented, bottom line professional with all of the skills you would look for in a project manager. She is self motivated, organized, efficient, creative and she has the people skills to manage through difficult issues. She brings a positive attitude to any effort and cuts through politics to get things done. I would highly recommend her to any organization that is looking for talented people who know how to deliver results.
Jonathan Frieder
I reported directly to Kathi for 6 months as part of her Business Management Office (BMO) team in the Technology division of a Single Family mortgage business of a GSE serving the secondary mortgage market. Our team was responsible for developing and implementing the operating model and enabling processes and tools to support Finance, Resource Management, Metrics, Risk and Compliance and Administrative activities. As an experienced consultant from her prior roles, Kathi confidently led the team and navigated and delivered creative solutions that satisfied requirements of multiple functions and stakeholders. She demonstrated solid working knowledge of finance, budgeting, and risk management in executing her strategy. She also demonstrated excellent leadership skills, ability to build consensus and handle sensitive data and information related to budget and resource issues. Beyond these capabilities, Kathi has an even-keeled demeanor that makes her seem unflappable in even the most-pressured situations, inspiring confidence among her team and stakeholders who interact with her. Among her achievements, she effectively owned and produced a monthly business review report package that provided summary and drill-down metrics for management to understand the state of the organization and helped lay the groundwork for several key initiatives within the organization, including a transition to a managed services operating model. She also facilitated development of a comprehensive monthly forecasting process and tool that allowed managers to allocate resources and view the impact on resource and financial numbers in real-time and drove the creation of a resource management framework that enabled effective and efficient deployment (and re-deployment) of resources across 7 cost centers. Kathi is a consummate professional and team player who also created a positive and fun work environment. She would be an asset to any organization in need of a skilled and well-rounded business and project manager and I would look forward to any opportunity to work with her again in the future.
Credentials
-
Change Practitioner
Prosci -
Lean Six Sigma
Fannie Mae
Experience
-
Freddie
-
Design Services
-
Senior Director, CX Strategy & Strategic Partnerships
-
Nov 2020 - Present
-
-
-
Freddie Mac
-
United States
-
Financial Services
-
700 & Above Employee
-
Senior Director, Customer Experience (CX)
-
Nov 2018 - Nov 2020
-
-
Senior Director, Single Family Strategic Planning
-
Aug 2013 - Nov 2018
-
-
Senior Director, Enterprise PMO
-
Nov 2011 - Aug 2013
-
-
-
Fannie Mae
-
Financial Services
-
100 - 200 Employee
-
Director, Single Family/Multifamily Technology
-
May 2006 - Dec 2011
-
-
-
Celerity IT
-
United States
-
Senior Consultant
-
Mar 2004 - May 2006
-
-
Education
-
LSU MBA, UMD BA
-
Louisiana State University
MBA -
University of Maryland College Park
BA