Lynn Reazin

For Ciena  •  Senior Director, IT Business Operations & PMO

I build the operating system for transformation, and the leaders who sustain it. And I build with AI.

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How I map to what you're building

How I put AI to work

Not just deploying AI, building a team that builds with it▸
  • Executive status agent — created enough consistency to surface systemic risk across 50 projects; usage doubled within two weeks of launch.
  • 17-use-case AI Playbook for Project Management — adopted enterprise-wide, with built-in guardrails.
  • Custom GPTs for contract evaluation (hours to minutes), TBM, and software/hardware asset management.
  • “Delivery Lab” — an AI show-and-tell I started; the team was running it themselves within two months.
  • Transcript mining to strengthen RAID logs and catch decisions being quietly revisited.

My philosophy: AI is a mirror. Generic context, generic output; specific context and goals, transformative results. So I build, test, and ship, I don't wait for perfect conditions.

"She is an innovator and a storyteller, able to convey new and complex concepts in ways that are compelling and drive adoption."Patrick Leonard, who hired and managed Lynn at UMB

How I lead

By the numbers

60→90%
status-reporting compliance, in two quarters
$250K+
annual savings per business practice (TBM)
$103M
portfolio governed, 40+ concurrent projects
2× in 2 wks
AI status-agent adoption at launch
1,000→<100
missing hardware devices recovered
30 yrs
building PMOs, IT finance & operating models

What draws me to Ciena

You're scaling fast on AI and data-center demand, and this newly created role is about building the operating system of IT with rigor and speed. That's exactly my wheelhouse. And Ciena's people-first culture, and your own "build with AI, ship today" way of working, are already how I lead.

In others' words

"What she excels at is putting order from project chaos."

Karen Buck, Director, Mastercard
Lynn Reazin  •  lreazin@gmail.com  •  913-915-9447  •  linkedin.com/in/lynn-reazin
This page was built with AI in an evening, a small demonstration of how I work.