Ron Smith Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

United States

• As Director of Grants and Contracts, I am the primary contact for all grants and contract-related administration, both pre and post-award. I work closely with the Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration.
• Budget development for new submissions.
• Technical assistance with grant applications.
• Manages PI's biographical sketches and other support pages.
• Submits applications through funders' portals.Post-Award Financial Planning & Analysis:
• Reviews the general ledger and updates the Post Award Budget Tracker.

New York, New York, United States

• As Senior Financial Analyst my primary role is to provide budgetary and administrative oversight in the financial management of 100 ($50MM+) awarded research grants and contracts. I worked closely with research.
• Ensures that grants, contracts, and other revenue streams are properly monitored, credited and reports are prepared
• Monitored monthly budget, and or/general ledgers of the assigned funds in the department’s research program; provides variance analysis
• Communicates with institutional finance staff to ensure that revenue and expenses are captured properly
• Prepare and submit purchase orders, contracts, change orders, invoices, check requests, petty cash vouchers, travel requests, travel vouchers, fund transfers and HRTS transactions as necessary
• Analyze all revenue streams for the research program and assists in developing feasibility and profitability analysis and/or business plans for new and existing programs

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Assist in the daily operations of the department in relation to grants and contracts. I gained valuable insight as to how the universities administrative offices operate. More specifically how OBFS manages federal, state, and local, grants and contracts internally. I also worked with the Compliance Department preforming risk assessment on sub award.

Evanston, Illinois, United States

• Oversees the business operations of three separate recharge facilities, EPIC, NIFTI, and Keck II. Monitor billing and account receivables; prepares costs studies reports for the recharge facilities; forecasts revenues.
• Monitors billings and account receivables, prepares costs studies reports for the recharge facilities, forecasts revenues, and expenses, manages the budget process and the preparation of financial reports for the center
• Oversees center's salary budgets including faculty, bi-weekly, work-study, and temporary staff
• Manages monthly payroll; Oversees the Human Resource processes which include research appointments, hiring, and performance reviews; Advises on personnel issues within the center, resolves personnel problems and.
• Maintains communication flow among faculty, managers, and administrative personnel to achieve optimal fiscal management
• Development and implement new policies and procedures that will improve financial management and performance

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Manages the daily operations of a biomedical research study at Northwestern University. Monitors study performance analyzes and review results. Develops, and implements budgets. Coordinates written submissions, and the.
• Ensures all study activities are completed by strictly following Good Clinical Practices (GCP) as well as all current local, state, and federal laws, regulations, guidance, policy, and procedure developed by the NU.
• Oversees and manages collection, maintenance, analysis, and evaluation of data that will be used in grant submissions, presentations, and publications. Ensures that patient data is entered correctly into databases..
• Manages lab/study budgets, inventory including purchasing of supplies and services ensuring that they are necessary, reasonable and project related; orders and maintains inventory of study supplies, which may include.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Coordination of research projects, management of research-specific resources, pre and post-award budget management, maintain a liaison relationship with the office of Grants and Contracts, as well as faculty, external.
• Monitor all Grants.gov submissions through UIC’s portal
• Maintain all current and pending IRB certification documents
• Prepare budgets, PAF’s, and all required data for all Grants.gov submissions for 7 Principal Investigators in the department
• Budget management $5,250,000. This Includes funding from NIH (National Institutes of Health), American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Leukemia Foundation, and the Department of Defense
• Monitor income and expenditures (direct and indirect costs) for all grant and contracts for the department. Including all payroll and FTE reports monthly

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Plans, directs, organizes, and evaluates the operations of UIC’s eight community clinics in conjunction with the Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, the School of Public Health, and the University of Illinois Hospital. Accountable for budget development, financial performance, facilities and administration, labor productivity, people.

Bachelor'S Degree, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies

Master Of Arts - Ma / Pending