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Responsible for personnel completing commodities purchases, fulfilling certificates of insurance, and supporting the Contracts and Procurement team. Developed and implemented procedures to streamline pre-award grant requests. Interpret NIH guidance for government grant submission. Trained the internal research team on grant tracking, deliverables, and application entry. Detected, submitted, and tested system enhancements for organizational trends related to purchase requisitions. Work with internal stakeholders to develop and implement efficiencies for the review and execution of event related agreements. Identify additional efficiency opportunities for multi-department grant submissions. Streamlined government flowdown report and files for ease and accuracy to aid in annual third-party audits. Regularly performed internal team audits to identify and correct gaps in procedures. Served as a resource for discussions on when HIPAA (Covered Entity) applies versus our Public Health Authority status based on services being performed. Responsible for the grant completion and submission to the government through Broad Agency Announcement application. Accountable for government deliverables in conjunction with the received grant.

Implemented our team SharePoint site as well as created linked Power Automation to lookup and send automated messaging based on established due dates as a deliverables notification system. To ensure ease of use, I created user-guides based on permission levels granted within the site. Responsible for the successful negotiation of over 400 domestic and international centers to the updated data and sample sharing agreements, while highlighting the differences of Public Health Authority versus Covered Entity. Worked with centers within the E.U. to understand and work through how GDPR applies to the data submissions to keep both entities in compliance with respective laws. Collaboration with internal stakeholders to create and track Request for Proposals/Quotes for new services or vendors. Enhanced the laboratory agreements with their tailored individual project riders. Successfully draft, review, and negotiate sponsorship and service agreements. Perform federal and third-party (commercial) award submissions. Researched, identified and implemented processes for ensuring that pre-award NIH templates and procedures are streamlined as well as introduced version control. Act as subject matter expert for additional modules and processes within Oracle EBS. Identification and inclusion of modules not being tested by users within the application. Evaluated and streamlined current processes to enhance them for current and future use.

Executed multi-departmental analyses to determine pricing for posted center fees, research studies, and additional projects. Close communication with donor registries around the world for pricing while gathering clarifying details on when certain service items would be applied to the workup. I performed yearly submissions to the FDA for the pricing and compliance of cord blood and Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC). Successfully imported and exported data using Oracle EBS to be used by internal stakeholders. Constructed reports and analyses to be published on the network website for cord blood center participant rankings. I was the subject matter expert for new application module system implementation and development. • Linked Vlookup and IF statements in Excel• Cord blood center participant reports• Multi-departmental cost analysis• System implementation

Managed the payables for over 60 international registries including account reconciliation and processing invoices. Collaboration with internal partners to achieve and streamline financial projects that impacted the Accounts Payable team. Lead multi-departmental meetings and developed procedures for billing and crediting decisions. I was the subject matter expert on my team for system testing and application changes. I also created user guides to act as resource guides for training and reference. • International claims processing• UB-04, CMS1500, statements and invoices• Managed and responded to shared inbox• Donor and Courier Expense forms