Manage portfolio of Federal, foundation and industry sponsored projects and gifts for multiple PIs, ensuring compliance with Federal law, 2CFR200 ‘uniform guidance’, FAR, and institutional regulations. Responsible for pre- and post-award management, compliance management, personnel training, policy and procedure development.+ Pre-award – research opportunities; review FoAs, RFPs, BAAs, Program Solicitations for required proposal components; create budgets and justifications; update facilities, current & pending, other support, and other required documentation in conjunction with PIs, collaborators, sub-awardees and research administrators; complete, review and approve pre-award records; prepare and review Research.gov/ FastLane, system-to-system, Grants.gov, and SF424 R&R packages for submission to sponsors.+ Post-award – review NoAs; create/confirm sub-accts; initiate re-budgets; monitor burn rates; secure PI approval of sub-awardee invoices; approve expenses, travel, corporate card, and A/P check requests; create effort cost distributions, track and submit supplemental pay; CAS monitoring.+ Negotiation – create budget revisions; review budget impact statements; revise PI effort; Just-in-Time – update and review Other Support; create DoD option periods, revise budgets and travel expansion budgets+ Communication – primary Department point-of-contact for central offices, PIs, award personnel, departmental staff, inter-departmental research administrators, external research administrators.+ Policy and procedures development – develop procedures and policies ensuring compliance and smooth administration of research within an academic department; created and maintain electronic proposal and project record system to replacing paper records for all sponsored projects and other funds.+ Compliance – ongoing training for PIs, award personnel, departmental staff, effort coordinator

Manage portfolio of 100+ Federal, foundation and industry grants, cooperative agreements and contracts, totaling more than $22.5M (FY2017) for 25 proposal-writing PIs, ensuring compliance with Federal law, OMB circulars, 2CFR200 ‘uniform guidance’, and Duke and Departmental regulations. Responsible for pre- and post-award management, compliance management, personnel training, policy and procedure development.+ Pre-award – research opportunities; review FoAs, RFPs, BAAs, Program Solicitations for required proposal components; create budgets and justifications; update facilities, current & pending, other support, and other required documentation in conjunction with PIs, collaborators, sub-awardees and grants managers; complete, review and approve SPS records; prepare and review FastLane, Grants.Duke.edu, Grants.gov, and SF424 R&R packages for submission to sponsors+ Post-award – review NoAs; create/confirm sub-accts; initiate re-budgets; monitor burn rates; secure PI approval of sub-awardee invoices; approve Buy@Duke carts, travel, non-travel corporate card, and A/P check requests; create PI & PD cost distribution and PI summer supplement iForms; CAS monitoring+ Negotiation – create budget revisions; review budget impact statements; review revised PI effort; Just-in-Time – review PIs’ Other Support; create DoD options periods revised budgets and travel expansion budgets+ Communication – primary point-of-contact for central offices, PIs, project personnel, departmental staff, inter-departmental grants administrators, external grants administrators, Campus IRB+ Policy and procedures development – continuous improvement to procedures and policies ensuring compliance and smooth administration of research within an academic department; migrated paper-based records to electronic system for all proposal and project grants, contracts, and gifts+ Compliance – ongoing training for PIs, project personnel, staff, eCRT primary coordinator

Supervise two party Judges, and multiple assistants assigned to local precinct for National and local elections while maintaining compliance with all Federal and State laws governing free-and-fair elections; manage personnel to ensure adequate station coverage throughout the voting process; re-train personnel in use of e-poll book, scanner systems, ADA auto-mark machine, and standard, curb-side, and provisional voting processes.

Manage multiple, simultaneous, recurring and non-recurring projects with long and short-term deadlines, in cooperation with Brenntag North America (BNA) National Accounts Executives (NAE), NAE Admin. Assistants, Sales Managers and Reps. utilizing independent decision-making, problem-solving, and time management skills in fast-paced, detail-critical, high-volume program. + Coordinate, oversee, prepare, administer, publish, and submit: Pricing for 155 National Accounts (ranging from $1M-$15M annually); responses to RFQs issued by National Accounts customers, including intent to respond, non-disclosure agreements, bid responses, work copies of bid workbooks - formatted, sorted, enhanced, and filtered for internal users, MSDS and product specification documentation, safety and regulatory compliance documentation via e-mail, multiple live reverse auctions, or web portals; access to ConocoPhillips distributor web site for 45 Sales Representatives; monthly and quarterly sales progress reports; presentations used in President’s Quarterly review; National Accounts alpha listing; NAFTA certificate requests; legal document template library and ISO 9001:2008 updates for Admin. Dept.; National Accounts response to the DoJ Sodium Perborate investigation + Initiate, establish, develop, implement, deliver, and maintain: New awards process – price reconciliation, firmness, special instructions, teams, files, and price sheets; 3-day orientation and training program for new Sales personnel, new hire pre-and post-employment guidelines in ISO documentation; company participation in food and pharmaceutical industry mandated web-based document management portal (iCIX); National Accounts SOP training and Central Pricing Program (CPP) SOP training for Sales and Customer Service; templates for CPP changes + Investigate and troubleshoot: Invoice issues-document results of investigation for internal and external customers; user issues arising in CPP automation beta test