Ben Sandmann Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Manage a wide variety of strategic planning projects on behalf of the Office of the COO that have far reaching impact across the laboratory. • Coordinate and monitor project teams of subject matter experts and managers across operations to ensure appropriate project development and completion.• Initiate and direct the planning and development of project scope/budget/schedule, and monitor project commitments. Ensure that all requirements are documented and resourced appropriately.• Provide regular communication of status, issues, risks and mitigation plans to C-Levelleadership and business stakeholders to influence key program decisions.• Represent the COO and Laboratory on working groups and high visibility topics within DOE and the National Lab complex.• Develop innovative solutions and provide effective consultation and guidance on matters of broad impact and complexity.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Project Manager for planning and development of a new 5 building bioenergy laboratory research campus. Coordinate planning of site preparation, document building and research requirements, and short/long-term space planning for multi-phase site development effort.• Manage space use and efficiency reviews for Area offices and research laboratories.• Program Manager for the Biosciences Area’s Facilities Team, providing support to research programs across the area. Developing a centralized support management database to improve issue tracking and performance metrics.Key Achievements: • Spot Award: Sept. 2016 – Outstanding Service & Leadership in Support of Biosciences Area Reorganization• Recognition: Jul. 2016 – Appointed Facilities & Site Planning Lead for Biosciences Area

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Manage research facility and safety programs including hazard identification, control development, training compliance, and inspection of research and operational support programs. • Lead investigation, reporting and provide approval authority to accident/incident review.• Promote safety culture improvement, Integrated Safety Management and best practice utilization through education, awareness and leadership by example. • Manage the division’s ergonomic program and ergonomic advocate team.• Lead the division’s development and transition into the new Work Planning and Control system, including assurance of accurate work-scope and personnel coverage.• Chair and coordinate the division ES&H Safety Committee. Key Achievements: • Spot Award: Oct. 2013 – Operational continuity during power failure

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Operational Efficiency Manager – Physical Biosciences Division, May 2011 - July 2016• Manage day-to-day operations, provide business requirements, and approve proposed technical changes within Procurement, Travel, Safety, Facilities, Timekeeping, Security Access, Administration, Property, and Space Planning. • Consult on Web, IT, Proposals, and Finance system development.• Implement process improvement methodologies by documenting complex, unwritten processes, reengineering and streamlining existing programs and procedures.• Manage space planning, move coordination, and operational/research space utilization within LBNL and off-site leased spaces.• Lead point of contact determining business requirements, system UI and functionality, as well as transition planning and full migration into new work planning and control system. • Developed Ops program request-tracking database, introduced performance metrics and life-cycle tracking to eliminate lost and mismanaged requests. • Led cross-training processes for operational continuity for 25 employees. • Created financial reporting dashboard resulting in effort reduction of two FTEs and reducing report generation time by 2 days.Key Achievements: • Spot Award: Jul. 2015 – Exemplary efforts in managing PI moves to GPL• Spot Award: Sept. 2014 – Strategic planning of General Purpose Laboratory• Promotion: Aug. 2013 – Safety Engineer 4/Operations Manager• Spot Award: Jul. 2013 – Operational planning of General Purpose Laboratory• PBD Award of Excellence: Dec. 2012 – ABPDU facility readiness reviews• Promotion: May 2011 – Safety Engineer 3/Operations Manager

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Collaborated with principal investigators on the development and review of animal use research and teaching protocols for compliance with accrediting agency and institutional policies and guidelines.• Organized, conducted and submitted reports of semi-annual site inspections of animal housing facilities, laboratories, and university field stations.• Managed compliance records and updated multiple office databases for accurate maintenance of protocol information.• Data gathering, requirement interpretation, and report preparation for annual and tri-annual reporting to auditing/accrediting agencies (USDA and AAALAC).