Larissa Avtenieva, PMI-PMP, PMI-ACP, PSM1, currently serves as a Project Manager at Teachers Federal Credit Union since May 2020, and has over two decades of experience in project management and software engineering. Prior experience includes roles at Arrow Electronics, where Larissa was an IT Project Manager responsible for managing the full lifecycle of various projects using PMI PMBOK standards, and a Senior Software Engineer focused on application software development and technical support. Larissa holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University in Ukraine and has completed a PMI PMP Online Boot Camp in 2018.