Administrative Officer
Current-Member of the Budget Development and Execution Process Working Group designed to develop an improved budget development process to assist areas receive allocations sooner in the fiscal year and to provide transparency during the execution process. -Member of the Beltsville Strategic Plan Working Group designed to develop options for the future of multiple facilities in the near and long-term. -Member of the Facilities Planning team designed to identify and implement a financial plan to improve aging facilities with limited fiscal resources. This group successfully generated a 5-year plan which earmarks funding prior to allocation for prioritized projects while offering areas flexibility to complete non-capital improvements.-Utilized SharePoint to receive project data from labs to support budget development, then migrated this data into OneNote to conduct 10 project planning sessions over the course of a week, completing 100 project reviews. This virtual, streamlined model significantly reduced the time spent by management and subject experts in project review and expedited data necessary for budget development.-Recognized inconsistent tracking of personnel vacancies, led the Resource Management team to clean up all positions and created a visual organizational chart to show projected separations, pending hires, and vacancies. Created a dashboard to efficiently show the status of hiring actions for vacancies thus providing management with timely information while using simplified language. The dashboard enables the team to provide better recommendations for future hiring and enables budget personnel to quickly identify changes which affect fiscal resources for the next FY.-Took quick action to gain access grants processing software and utilized outdated user guides to learn the existing process, ultimately completing and submitting approximately 10% of the Farm Bill inventory for signature. Led a team of 4 specialists to complete 100% of provided agreements.