Anita Barrett
Director of Information Technology Services Project Management, Wichita State University
Education
BS Business Administration University of Kansas
Credentials
Project Management Professional – PMP®
Experience
Payless Shoes
Koch Industries
Cessna Aircraft Company
Bombardier Aerospace
Cargill
Agvantis
Anita Barrett, PMP, worked in Logistics for Payless Shoes and Koch Industries for 17 years before entering Aerospace for 10 years at Bombardier Learjet and Textron Cessna in Information Technology project management.
Anita also gained valuable experience as a Sr. Project Manager with Cargill, and as PMO Manager with Agvantis prior to her current position with Wichita State University as Director of Information Technology Services.
She has 22 years of experience running Information Technology projects, working with every major function of a large company.
After earning her BS in Business Administration from KU, she became a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute in 2007, and is currently working on her Agile Certification.
Anita and her husband John live in Goddard. They raised 3 children and now have a wonderful son-in-law and two grandchildren. They love to travel and spent a month in Alaska. Anita recently has started Blogging about PM.
