Barbara Rodino
Barbara Rodino is a highly experienced PMO and Portfolio Executive with nearly 40 years in IT, beginning her career as a Senior Systems Engineer at IBM. In that role, she served as a consultant for diverse clients, delivering solutions across supply chain, manufacturing, transportation, logistics, and healthcare industries. Over the years, Barbara has led enterprise-scale technology portfolios across Fortune 500 organizations, spanning sectors such as hospitality, gaming, casinos, hotel operations, retail supply chains, manufacturing, and finance. She currently serves as Senior Director of Global Project Engineering and Management at Capgemini, where she drives strategic program leadership, enterprise transformation, and governance initiatives.
Throughout her career, Barbara has overseen hundreds of concurrent projects and programs, managing end-to-end portfolios that include intake, prioritization, resource allocation, financial oversight, and value realization. She works closely with executive stakeholders to assess delivery health, mitigate risk, and provide actionable recommendations that inform strategic investment and execution decisions. Her specialties include strategic planning, project and program management, M&A integration, full lifecycle product management, vendor relationship management, ERP, cloud, and data platform transformations, as well as pre-sales consulting to help businesses determine the right providers for implementation across supply chain, manufacturing, finance, and other applications.
Barbara is recognized as a transformative leader and trusted advisor to C-suite executives, building and scaling PMO and project engineering functions while establishing enterprise-wide standards, governance frameworks, and advanced delivery methodologies. She champions change leadership initiatives that modernize processes, elevate delivery discipline, and enable teams to thrive in complex, fast-moving environments. Currently, she is also exploring new career opportunities while continuing to provide consulting support to businesses, demonstrating her commitment to both innovation and operational excellence. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Barbara is dedicated to community service, volunteering as an Assistant Scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America, reflecting her leadership and mentorship both inside and outside the workplace.
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Six Sigma Black Belt Certification – Level I
• Florida Atlantic University - MS, International Business
• University of Colorado Boulder - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Malcom Balridge Award
• IEEE
• Boy Scouts of America
• United Way
• Take Stock in Children Palm Beach County
What do you attribute your success to?
I had one person that was a really good mentor for me - her name was Seta Selden. She was the only woman in NASA that actually created the Geyer system that they use on the space shuttle. She had a rough time of it, being one of about 15 to 20 women, and she was always classified with the Black women. She said every one of them were brilliant, and she loved those women. She used to go down there and have conversations with them all the time. I worked for her for a while at a company called McCater Software, and unfortunately she wanted to retire when she was almost 80, so she sold the company. It was sad because I thought I could gain more knowledge from her. Another person I aspire to is Shirley Muldowney, a woman who went into a man's world and totally made her mark in racing as a drag racer. She came up the hard way dealing with a lot of male crap, and she became NHRA Champion 2 years in a row. Those are the type of people that I aspire to.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
First of all, don't be afraid. You can't be afraid of it. Do a lot of networking, go to a lot of networking events and stuff like that, and make sure that you feel confident in your industry, whatever that is. And then I just say to just go for it. There's a lot of women that don't feel confident because they were under men for too long - and I have to say, I was like that too. Many were just saying, you know, you're too abrupt, you're too this, you're too bad, and I'm like, wait a minute, you guys are the old boys club, right? You guys would be disruptive and be assholes to each other, but it's not okay for a woman? So you just have to think positive. I think that's the biggest thing, is thinking positive. I didn't feel that way for a while. I felt down, I felt like I was that person, but I'm confident in what I'm doing. I've been doing it for a long time.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I've never been in an industry where it's been female run of any type. It's always been men overseeing everything. In hospitality, I came from Las Vegas, I did a lot of timeshare - it's all men. Men think they know it all, and you just sit back and say, okay, you know it all, and then you get frustrated because whatever they decided turns out to be wrong, and then you're the one holding up the bag and have to fix it. I had breast cancer and had breast surgery, and I was in a new job and got no time off. I've been fighting this for 2 years. I mean, you can't take time off either, because God forbid, you know, if you're taking time off, somebody's gonna say something. I took 2 days because I had to get the surgery, right? And some man said something, like, oh, she hasn't been here a month, and she's already taken time off. Like, whose business is it? You're not even at the same level as me. That's the type of response I got. It was not good. It's disheartening.
Locations
Capgemini
Wellington, FL 33414