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Karen Messersmith

Sr. Project Manager, Information Services, Crowe Horwath LLP

Karen Messersmith is a Senior Project Manager for the Information Services organization of Crowe Horwath LLP. Karen has over 30 years of information technology experience in a variety of industries and positions. Karen began her career as a programmer for Commonwealth Edison and then spent 9 years as a systems engineer for IBM as part of the account team for several large manufacturing clients prior to joining Crowe.

Karen has a passion for project management and for the past 10 years she has focused exclusively on managing large projects. Many of these projects are large-scale system implementations such as SAP, Microsoft CRM and Concur Expense. Karen has also managed M&A integration initiatives in support of Crowe’s growth through acquisition. She enjoys the opportunity of working on a broad variety of projects and interacting with many different lines of business afforded to her through her role at an accounting and consulting firm.

Karen is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the local Michiana PMI Chapter. She holds a B.S. in Math and Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Karen enjoys reading, exercise and spending time with her family which includes three adult sons and two grandchildren.


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