Rebekah Straka

Portfolio management and technology operations professional with experience connecting enterprise strategy, product roadmaps, funding, capacity, governance, and delivery metrics to business outcomes. Experienced partnering with Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, and executive stakeholders to operate portfolio planning cadences, scenario planning, prioritization, financial management, roadmap governance, OKR/KPI reporting, risk and dependency management, and continuous improvement across complex technology portfolios.

Portfolio Manager, General Technology Services - Foot Locker - Remote

(2024-08)

• Orchestrate value delivery across technology portfolios by connecting product roadmaps, funding, capacity, prioritization, and delivery health to enterprise business outcomes.
• Operate scenario planning, prioritization, and quarterly planning cadence across the Teammate enterprise, spanning Supply Chain, Corporate, and Merchandising portfolios with $20M+ in annual fiscal-year scope.
• Supported Commerce as a standalone enterprise with $20M–$25M+ in annual fiscal-year scope, connecting strategy, roadmap priorities, funding, capacity, and delivery planning to enterprise objectives.
• Improved Teammate enterprise forecast accuracy from over 60% variance to under 10% in six months by partnering with Product Managers, Delivery Leads, and Finance to strengthen team-capacity planning, time reporting, Professional Services forecasting, and expense/capital classification across internal labor, hardware, and services.
• Standardized forecasting practices across product teams and programs by improving time-submission practices, validating capacity assumptions, aligning Professional Services costs and timelines to contractual commitments, and ensuring work was accurately classified as expense or capital.
• Lead weekly Delivery Health review preparation for Directors and technology leadership, validating financial health, forecast variances, roadmap projections, risks, and investment priorities to support executive-facing reviews.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Finance leaders to maintain Delivery Health metrics for value, cost, and risk while guiding review routines with data-driven financial recommendations.
• Align funding and capacity to portfolio roadmaps by analyzing internal labor, hardware, and Professional Services spend; surface trade-offs, validate financial assumptions, and partner with Finance on expense/capital classification, funding, budget planning, and capitalization tracking.
• Provide executive-ready portfolio reporting through Planview, Smartsheet, Power BI, and Excel, giving Directors and technology leaders visibility into portfolio status, forecasts, variances, delivery health, financial performance, dependencies, and risks.
• Established a cross-functional governance process with Legal to provide consistent visibility into GTS initiatives and facilitate Privacy Risk Assessments, strengthening governance and identification of privacy concerns across technology work.
• Act as a tooling subject-matter resource and trainer for agile portfolio tooling, capacity planning, capital time reporting, and IT Finance partnership; identify opportunities to improve portfolio governance, metrics, tooling, and operating routines.

Business Management Analyst - GXO Logistics - Remote

(2022-05 - 2024-07)

• Owned operational management for D2C and B2B client programs, including launch execution, daily operations, client communication, logistics coordination, and roadmap management.
• Created and managed annual budgets, performance scorecards, KPI reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Owned monthly billing analysis and invoice issue resolution, partnering with internal Accounting and external clients to explain charges and resolve discrepancies.
• Built and presented QBR metrics and daily account-health reporting for clients representing approximately $5M in annual revenue.
• Managed pipeline visibility, operational troubleshooting, weekly client calls, daily stakeholder communication, and long-term Quality Assurance and IT initiatives.
• Established and communicated ROI across client and company initiatives to support operational and financial decision-making.

Bachelor of Business Administration - Management & Marketing; Concentration: Business Leadership - Abilene Christian University