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Norway

Oslo, Norway

• Project manager for the IT Dept’s EU and national level research projects
• Apply for EU and national level project grants
• Manage agreements and invoicing for IT services to external organizations
• Administer the European Open Science Cloud for the University

Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

• Responsible for implementing the company policies and operating programs, budgets, procedures, and directions.
• Report to the CEO on the company's financial and operational status.
• Project manager of five R&D projects.
• Interim CEO October 2020 - September 2021.

Oslo, Norway

• Lead and coordinate multiple projects; this includes preparing roadmaps, budgets, contracts, delivery assurance, reports, risk, and mitigation planning.
• Organize project requirements into clear and cohesive goals and objectives.
• Track, assess, and report on program progress, recommending adjustments if needed, ensuring that all risks, issues, and actions are tracked accordingly.

Stavanger Area, Norway

• Project Manager for 20+ externally funded technology research projects, managing all aspects including grant preparation, project design, execution, and reporting.
• Research Center manager. Lead the technology center's overall activity and resource utilization.
• Manage researchers in EU innovation action projects, analyzing requirements of complex systems incorporating AI, Blockchain, cloud/edge and 5G technologies and advancing the technology beyond the current.
• Lead project design with external organizations including other research entities and industry partners to determine scope of work, time and budgetary allotments.
• Project manager for building a data center, including defining requirements in the statement of work, and vendor selection for room renovation, cooling system, and IT hardware.

Quantico, VA

• Directed 10 enterprise architecture teams for more than 50 projects supporting acquisitions of IT systems.
• Project Manager for a cost and assessment project aligning business strategy with resources and performance measures. This allowed for enterprise-wide analysis of return on investment.
• Project Manager for the organizations first use of executable architectures to support model-based systems engineering from a capability perspective.
• Wrote and managed a 3-year contract worth more than $2.5 Million USD annually.
• Collaborated with engineers to select appropriate solutions aligning to operational requirements to ensure the compatibility of systems.

Camp Smith, Hawaii

• Performed financial accounting, budget formulation and execution, and cost benefit analysis for an organization of approximately 86,000 individuals in multiple locations worldwide.
• Ensured fiscal responsibility and stewardship by supervising and mentoring a financial management team that managed an annual budget of $1.8 Billion USD.
• Prepared and presented monthly, quarterly, and annual reports to executives and developed quarterly expenditure plans consistently within 2% variance from actual.
• Calculated and presented financial "what-if" scenarios and advised management on short-term and long-term financial actions, objectives, and policies.
• Led financial management of multiple contingency efforts to include a typhoon disaster relief worth $18 Million USD with U.S. State Department visibility and earned a personal award for my contributions.

• Managed the entire supply chain from budgeting funds, ordering and receiving, maintaining asset records, performing reconciliations, and disposal.
• Initiated, developed, and led an inventory of over 30,000 accountable items and assets across three separate warehouses valued at over $400 Million USD.
• Implemented new procedures for the property disposal program, which decreased disposal time from an average of 6 months to less than 2 weeks.
• Passed an inventory inspection with 99.7% accuracy.

Masters Of Science, Information Technology Management

Thesis: "Analysis of ROI in Industry SOA Implementation" 2011

Bachelor Of Science, Kinesiology

Activities and Societies: Naval ROTCEarned Second Language Proficiency - Norwegian

Command And Staff Program

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