Alexandra Orchard Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon, United States

* Monitor fiscal activity for sponsored projects, general ledger, and OHSU Foundation funds* Retrieve financial reports from Oracle and COGNOS data warehouse* Conduct monthly close operations on department, sponsored project, and foundation accounts* Prepare monthly reports for expenditure reconciliation, budget, and personnel effort forecasts * Review use of funds for compliance based on fund type (Uniform Guidance, sponsor, institutional and department policy and best practices, GAAP)* Maintain project financial forecasts* Review, identify, and resolve expenditure errors or required fund transfers, perform cost transfers* Collaborate with Senior Grants/Contracts Coordinator and project teams to move proposals to active awards: budget revisions, subrecipient contracting, labor schedules, and forecast preparation* Engage with stakeholders to invoice and pay contract/project activities; reconcile PCards* Coordinate with Sponsored Projects Administration Assistant Director to track, forecast, and adjust labor distribution proactively and retroactively* Assist with federal grant certification statement process: analysis and calculation of personal effort, verification and documentation of effort and salary cap* Monitor research incentives: ensure proper documentation and reconciliation* Build relationships with diverse project teams and external partners to obtain budgets and documentation; prepare subaward contract submissions * Document processes and procedures; ensure adherence and compliance

Portland, Oregon, United States

* Executed tie-outs, roll forwards, financial statement flux (variance) analysis, control (TOE) test work* Owned goodwill and intangibles business processes* Updated and performed testing procedures; revised project plan* Revised instructions and documentation for offshore engagement team* Collaborated within engagement team to provide exceptional client experience

* Executed tie-outs, roll forwards, financial statement flux (variance) analysis, control (TOE) test work* Collaborated within engagement team to provide exceptional client experience

Greater Detroit Area

* Managed data migration and transition to new content management and access system* Directed use of descriptive standards and processing methodologies, ensuring best practices* Trained and supervised students and part-time Archives Technicians processing collections* Engaged in shared decision-making, resource management, and policy development* Served on and provided leadership within Library System and University committees * Created and maintained workflows and metadata requirements for access and preservation* Proposed goals and criteria for processing materials, priorities, and accessibility* Maintained collection management policies and procedures adhering to national standards* Re-engineered technical procedures and practices, composed manuals, led peer training* Coordinated multi-format collection integration for improved access* Served as principal coordinator of analog and digital collection content and metadata* Collaborated with staff to preserve collection content within all system environments

Greater Detroit Area

* Established processing and digitizing priorities based on stakeholder needs* Represented the Reuther in professional organizations and university committees* Implemented general and specific SEIU-related reference and research services* Processed analog and born digital materials according to standard archival practices* Authored (adhering to archival standards, i.e., DACS, EAD) discovery tools for research use* Digitized, described, and provided access to SEIU audiovisual resources* Enhanced SEIU’s online presence through websites, social media, and blogs* Performed all archival workflow functions for SEIU records

Livonia, Michigan, United States

* Reviewed, categorized, and tagged audiovisual materials with appropriate metadata

* Weeded the Livonia Youth Symphony Orchestra music score collection * Assessed the collection’s storage needs and recommended archival storage products * Scanned individual music scores, enhanced scans in Photoshop, and combined into PDFs

* Processed the Bockris Collection and entered archival description into Archivists’ Toolkit

Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States

* Rehoused Subject and Biography photographs, created surrogate collections and finding aid

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

* Conducted research culminating in competitive and landscape analysis* Collaborated with stakeholders to define requirements* Directed design, delegated, and met deadlines as lead designer on high profile projects* Designed and created UI content: specs, storyboards, flowcharts, wireframes, mockups, etc.* Contributed to usability tests: wrote questions, monitored sessions, and implemented findings* Quantified usability heuristics culminating in design and product recommendations

Alviso, California, United States

* Had design responsibility for standalone DVR: updated, created UI specs, flowcharts, and mockups* Lead UI contact for the offshore engineering team* Participated in design, brainstorming, and critique sessions, collaborated with stakeholders to define requirements* Partnered with engineering to understand development and architecture; used version-control and bug-tracking systems * Participated in usability tests: wrote questions, monitored sessions and implemented findings* Interviewed job candidates; participated in the selection process

Post-Bacc, Accounting

Master Of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.), Archival Administration Certificate

Significant Coursework, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Art (Painting)