-Coordinated and managed progress of the Department’s maintenance level 2023-25 biennial and 2023 supplemental budget submittals, totaling $130M. Guided 13 budget analysts through the budget development process by providing feedback, editing, and project management tracking. -Developed and performed after action review to identify process improvements for the future. -Maintained tracking documents and Budget Development SharePoint to properly preserve records.

*acting position-Administered Program estimates of the financial impact of bills (Fiscal Notes) for the 2022 Legislative session. -Completed qualitative and quantitative analysis to determine fiscal impacts, often with limited or imperfect information within 72 hour Legislative deadlines. -Consulted with subject matter experts and executive leadership to ensure accurate and objective cost assumptions, consistent with precedent.-Served as an executively delegated voting member at the agency’s internal Policy Budget Committee meeting. Discussed and advocated for equitable solutions to agency-wide budget issues.-Performed senior management duties and provided solutions to dynamic issues as the Program’s interagency point of contact for contracts, budget, accounting, facilities, information technology, and other miscellaneous issues while maintaining previous budget analyst responsibilities for the program.

-Monitored the Program’s $65M biennial budget as the Program’s sole budget analyst. Generated and maintained the Chart of Accounts (100+ Master Index Codes), spending plans, and budget analysis reports. -Performed monthly tasks to ensure strategic spending of restricted funds in compliance with accounting principles. Provided in depth analysis and summaries on emerging issues. -Administered statewide federal grants and contracts for law enforcement services to support natural resource conservation organizations. Resolved miscommunications and problems between the contractor, program managers, and the agency’s accounting staff.-Researched and authored legislative funding requests for the Governor’s budget. Packages ranged from Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy requests to increased cost analyses.

Performed centralized budget duties for the agency and provided backfill for a vacant budget analyst.

-Conducted research to support the Center’s role as a neutral third-party conflict resolution facilitator of collaborative governance for the Roadmap to Washington’s Future project, commissioned by the Washington State legislature to better understand land use policy priorities across all stakeholders.-Synthesized data from over 50,000 handwritten surveys collected from stakeholder workshops using qualitative analysis software ATLAS.ti to produce summary chapters for all 39 counties across the state.