Michelle Ortega, MBA, PMP, CSM

Michelle Ortega, MBA, PMP, CSM has over 17 years of work experience across various industries including environmental advisory and capital, consulting, healthcare, and IT security. Their most recent role is as Chief Operating Officer at Sustene Global, a women-owned environmental advisory and capital firm. Prior to this, they founded and served as principal at MTSCOE, Inc., providing industry-agnostic consulting services across strategy and transformation, organizational change management, delivery and execution, and portfolio and program management. Michelle has also held leadership positions at RR Donnelley, DanOrtegaRacing.com, Buchanan Staffing, LLC, Online Business Applications, Check Point Software Technologies, and Gannett Healthcare Group. Their expertise includes project and program management, process improvement, crisis management, and technical training. Michelle holds multiple certifications including PMP and CSM.

Michelle Ortega has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Benedictine University, which they completed in 2018. Michelle received their Bachelor's degree in Business from the University of Illinois Chicago, although the exact dates of enrollment are not provided. Additionally, they completed coursework at the Marine Corps Institute between 1998 and 2002, but it is unknown whether they earned a degree. Michelle has also obtained certifications including Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) from Scrum Alliance and Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute, although specific dates of attainment are not given.