Sn. Project Manager
CurrentHired to help shape PMO for this nonprofit scientific research organization focused on technology and science innovations while coordinating up to 9 concurrent projects. Execute revenue recognition function, driving monthly accountability and recording project status to ensure contract alignment. Collaborate with all area managers and provide forecasts across 50+ projects. Partner with principal investigators (PIs) to track project finances, including controlling project spend. Track deliverables, analyze actuals vs. forecast, and monitor resource planning/materials costs via Deltek.✅ Positioned PMO to achieve record results by establishing baseline forecast (AOP), enabling smooth collaboration among executive leadership, project leaders, and lab managers. Generated savings by finishing 2023 within 2% of AOP.✅ Successfully rolled out financial modeling systems in Power BI, including implementing a bi-annual resource planning process that feeds into an annual operational plan while guiding the project management group in driving consistency among processes, reporting, and data analysis. ✅ Established standard, optimized, and model process for all substitute projects after creating a schedule with 200+ tasks and 400+ dependencies.✅ Dramatically streamlined and optimized business operations after standardizing tools, processes, and support functions across all projects within 4 months (2 months ahead of schedule). Established monthly cadence for data forecasting to improve senior-level decision-making, developed mapping table for PM support levels to ensure consistency, and developed uniform job descriptions for all new hires, partnering with HR.✅ Participated in coordinating and delivering key initiatives for Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD), Biosciences, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Army Research Laboratory (ARL), NASA, and several commercial engagements.