Senior Manager, Program Management

Dr. Jon B. Nielsen, MBA Senior Manager

*********@*******.*** www.linkedin.com/in/jon-b-nielsen-ph-d-mba-78023244

505-***-**** Santa Fe, NM 87501

November 5, 2020

Dear Hiring Manager,

I am submitting this cover letter and my resume to express interest in your Senior Program Manager position. I am a results-driven senior manager with extensive global business management and leadership experience. Analytical professional skilled in successfully coordinating multidisciplinary domestic and international teams to successfully meet goals and complete programs within schedule and budget. Strategic thinker while maintaining tactical execution. Experienced in communicating and relationship building with executive level clients. Ability to present technical information tailored to the audience. Safety-conscious communicator and leader focused on efficient management of teams and programs to ensure timely and successful completion.

I am an accomplished R&D and applied scientist and program/project manager with extensive business management and program management experience in support of programs and grants funded by federal government agencies that exceeded $100 million annually (five programs with over 75 projects). I have extensive experience as the primary point of contact for and relationship management with executive level US government agency offices, internal and external stakeholders, and other national laboratories to maintain a network of relationships, with both existing and potential customers and partners. I have 10 years or experience with international assignments and have been involved in hands on work in multicultural international environments and am sensitive to unique cultural differences. I have over 20 years of successful management and supervisory experience based on people first, diversity, and inclusion as a core values, along with development of colleague success through all aspects of the talent life cycle including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, orientation, mentoring/development, engagement, retention, performance management and succession planning. I have 20 years of experience in business and operations management roles to include general business management and planning principles, financial planning and budget management, human resources, management of buildings, laboratories, facility services, environment, health and safety, procurement, contracting, facility security, quality management, materials inventory management. and document control. I am passionate about providing quality customer service, facilitating a collaborative working environment, enabling innovation, and clear and transparent communication at all levels inside and outside the organization to enable effective relationships management, exceptional program performance, and highly successful organizations.

In each of my professional roles, I have been successful in producing positive results and I have a consistent history of advancing shared company goals. Please review the following examples from my resume, which outline the many strengths I can leverage to advance your mission.

25+ years of experience working for a federally funded National Laboratory (FFRDC).

Accomplished leader and manager for organizations of >100 employees (managers, team leads, scientists, engineers, technicians and support staff)

20 years of experience in business and operations management roles to include general business management and planning principles, financial planning and budget management, human resources

10+ years of experience leading global non-proliferation activities in over 50 countries and working in and deploying teams to foreign locations including high hazard countries and sensitive countries.

10+ years of experience leading and participating in meetings with foreign government and industry partners to advance non-proliferation and nuclear security goals.

20+ years of experience developing, maintaining and growing a network of relationships with senior leaders in US government agencies, focusing on both existing and potential customers and stake holders.

10+ years of experience in leading, managing, and oversite of a complex portfolio of global federally funded programs and grants in excess of $100M annual budget consisting of five programs with over 75 projects.

20+ years of experience in program/project manager. Responsible for programmatic performance through EVMS cost and schedule performance (ORACLE/Primavera P6 Enterprise financial and project portfolio management), developing and tracking schedules, formulation of work break down structure, forecasting, staffing, operational and overhead budgets, balancing program priorities, resource management, capital expenditure requirements, and tracking and reporting on performance metrics and milestones, risk identification and management, business process improvement, and conducting periodic program reviews.

Responsible for strategic planning, five-year budget projections for ongoing programs and strategic initiative planning with funding requirements, and capturing funds for proposed initiatives.

Experience Integrating multidisciplinary organizations, departments, and teams operating locally, remote, and international locations to ensure effective communications, streamline workflow and ensure compliance with regulations and execution of program goals.

Interacted with project stakeholders by facilitating information flow as a liaison between research staff, Principal Investigators, project sponsors, research administrators and Institutional Program Management in the administration of agreements and contracts and research compliance.

Developed and facilitated the implementation of process improvement initiatives to enhance program outcomes using principle of 6 Sigma, Lean, quality management.

Key strength in developing and communicating program strategies, goals, objectives, and priorities, program progress, and risks, to internal, external and international executive level government customers and stakeholders.

Responsible planning, justification, compliance and ensuring effective execution of large domestic and international federal contracts for procurement of goods and services, equipment, and scientific instrumentation in support of programmatic activities. Contracts totalled in excess of $75 million.

Experience preparing packages for solicitation (RFP) of proposals for small and large projects ranging from $10,000 to multi million dollars projects.

Experience preparing proposals for responses for federal RFP/RFQ (IDIQ, BPA, Task Order, BOA, for federal funding with differing payment types (FFP, T&M, FPI).

It is with great excitement that I submit my resume for consideration to become a member of your team. My resume provides further detail on my talent for team collaboration and passion for problem solving; it is my goal to apply these skills to enhance the overall effectiveness of the organization’s capabilities while meeting company goals. I look forward to setting up a meeting to discuss in greater detail how I can benefit your organization. In the interim, thank you for reviewing this letter and the attached material.

Regards,

Dr. Jon B. Nielsen

Dr. Jon B. Nielsen, MBA Senior Manager

*********@*******.*** www.linkedin.com/in/jon-b-nielsen-ph-d-mba-78023244

505-***-**** Santa Fe, NM 87501

Results-driven senior manager with extensive global management and leadership experience supporting national and international nonproliferation goals. An analytical professional skilled in successfully coordinating multidisciplinary domestic and international teams to successfully meet goals and complete programs within schedule and budget. Strategic thinker while maintaining tactical execution. Experienced in communicating and relationship building with executive level clients. Ability to present technical information tailored to the audience. Safety-conscious communicator and leader focused on efficient management of teams and programs to ensure timely and successful completion. Highly proficient in use of Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Skype, TEAMS, ZOOM and ORACLE/Primavera P6 Enterprise financial and project portfolio management.

Areas of Expertise

Strategic Planning

Financial Management

Nuclear Security

Program/Project Management

International Relations

Contract Compliance

Operations Management

Contract/Grant Management

Customer Relations

Leadership development

Quality Management

Leadership

Communication

Training Delivery

Vendor Management

Professional Experience

SENIOR CONSULTANT - INDEPENDENT Santa Fe, NM 2/2020 to Present

Consultant – Business Development and Capture Management

As a senior consultant provide support for business development and capture management.

Provided support for development of proposal language for provisioning of specific classified and unclassified telecommunications and information technology (IT) services in the broad categories of technology support services, infrastructure computing services, mission computing services, enterprise IT and information services.

Provide consulting services and proposal development and reviews focused on delivering in-depth technical experience and hands-on, immersive training and instructional design supporting a broad spectrum of nuclear and radiological security topics to include: capabilities of radiation detection and measurement systems for nuclear security and safeguards applications, trouble shooting and maintenance of sophisticated detection and measurement equipment, nuclear material accounting and control, radiological search and secure exercises, nuclear security, physical protection transportation security, mitigation of insider threat, and process monitoring

Participated in development and preparation of proposals responding to federal RFP/RFQ’s from requirements identification, through multiple draft stages (blue, pink, red, gold, white) and submission.

Provided knowledge and experience in high performance computing, modeling, simulation and visualization technologies and platforms and supporting services.

Key Accomplishments:

Successfully provided all materials and information to meet proposal submission deadline.

MISSION SUPPORT AND TEST SERVICES Los Alamos, NM 11/2019 To 2/2020

new Mexico operations Manager

NMO’s principal mission is in the area of diagnostic and experimentation within the stockpile stewardship mission supporting the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).

As the Senior Manager of The New Mexico Operations (NMO) of MSTS, I provide leadership at offices in Los Alamos (LAO) and Albuquerque (SO).

Responsible for leadership and management of an organization composed of >100 managers, team leaders, scientists, engineers, technical, and administrative employees in two locations.

Responsible for operations in two facilities consisting of office space, collaboration rooms, conference rooms and 20 scientific laboratories.

Responsible for financial management of the organization to include current year budget oversight, tracking, and reporting, preparing five year financial plan to include staffing plans, facility needs, strategic initiatives, and large procurements.

Responsible for environment health and safety, procurement, contracting, human resources, facility security, quality management, and document control.

Management of facilities and laboratories, safety and security, resource management, operational and capital budget planning, EVMS reporting, and program execution

HONEYWELL FEDERAL MANUFACTURING AND TECHNOLOGIES Albuquerque, NM 8/2019-11/2019

Senior Project manager

As a Sr. Project Manager, I lead moderately complex Program(s), Project(s), and/or strategic business process development/execution, acted as primary project manager for one or more specific weapons programs and/or reimbursable products/services and represented Program Management function for assigned program elements to internal and external stakeholders.

Performed primary, first point of contact, technical, administrative, and logistical liaison role with company, Department of Energy, design agencies, laboratories, integrated contractors and other government agencies for one or more key weapons, growth, and/or business process development/execution programs.

Developed cost and schedule proposals for RFQ requests from a variety of customers.

Lead, directed, influenced and exercised extensive technical knowledge and expertise to evaluate and resolve significant technical issues pertinent for key project(s) or program(s).

Exercised extensive knowledge of programs and business processes to negotiate and establish achievable cost and schedule parameters for key weapons and/or reimbursable product/service programs and program elements.

Lead multiple aspects of financial planning, monitoring, reporting, scheduling, network analysis, and preparation of technical/schedule information required for program/project planning.

Integrated customer needs with business competencies to drive growth in both existing and emerging markets. Participates in strategic and market planning.

Guided the effective use of program/project resources including personnel, tools, and methods to complete and deliver 6 prototype and R&D article fabrication projects on time and within budget.

LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY Los Alamos, NM 1988 – 2016

Program Manager – Global Material Security, GS-NNS, (2006 – 2016)

Responsible or management and leadership of the Global Material Security program office supporting nuclear nonproliferation goals by providing policy and technical leadership to prevent or limit the spread of materials, technology, and expertise relating to nuclear and radiological threats; developing technologies to detect nuclear proliferation worldwide; eliminating or securing inventories of surplus weapons-usable materials and infrastructure; and reducing the risk that hostile nations or terrorists could acquire nuclear weapons or weapons-usable material. We execute this mission by drawing broadly on the Laboratory’s scientific and technical expertise.

Provided leadership, management and oversite of a complex portfolio of global federally funded programs and grants in excess of $100M annual budget consisting of five programs with over 75 projects.

Represented the Laboratory as primary point of contact for government Senior Executives.

Responsible for programmatic performance through cost and schedule performance KPIs(EVMS), developing and tracking schedules, formulation of work break down structure, forecasting, staffing, operational and overhead budgets, balancing program priorities, resource management, capital expenditure requirements, and tracking and reporting on performance metrics and milestones, risk identification and management, business process improvement, and conducting periodic program reviews.

Responsible for managing current year budget and reviewing, approving and submitting monthly reports to funding agencies and Laboratory leadership.

Responsible for strategic planning, five year budget projections for ongoing programs and strategic initiative planning with funding requirements, and capturing funds for proposed initiatives.

Responsible for developing, maintaining and growing an extensive network of relationships, with both existing and potential customers.

Coordinated with internal and external customers and stakeholders to strategically develop and negotiate mission goals and project/program scope in domestic and international activities in more than 60 countries.

Managed and directed sub program managers and senior project leaders to drive effective program execution.

Provided leadership and oversite of contract management and RFP preparation for task orders, IDIQ, staff augmentation, including requirements development, bidder conferences, scoring metrics development, contract proposal evaluation, vendor selection, and contract management.

Integrate multidisciplinary organizations, departments, and entities to streamline workflow and ensure compliance with regulations and laboratory capabilities.

Provided management and leadership for ensuring participation in the analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation, and review and revision of training related material including (but not limited to); radiological and nuclear material detection, systems installation, system maintenance, alarm response, central alarm station and profile analysis, threat mitigation workshops.

Collaborate with GMS, European Commission Joint Research Centre, and IAEA on development and delivery of training to ensure harmonized training approach and materials.

Served as the Subject Matter Expert for materials out of regulatory control, nuclear and radioactive material detection and monitoring systems, radiation detection system installation, operation and maintenance, and material protection control and accountancy in support of education the broader international community.

Key Accomplishments:

Increased annual radioactive source recovery rate by an average of 20% per year on a stable budget through implementation of operational efficiencies.

Annually planned and staffed over 25 operator and maintenance provider training deployments around the world.

Completed setup, executed acceptance testing and commissioning for more than 1000 fixed radiation portal monitors worldwide.

Secured $2.5M for testing six handheld radiation detection devices and completed on-time and under budget.

Led the initial development of interactive virtual reality training and transition to production of fieldable training modules. The content of this training platform will include facility access and procedures, packaging and transportation activities, instrument maintenance, and specialized radiological inspection, identification, and recovery procedure.

Successfully completed $1.5M project testing three new alternative systems for neutron particle detection.

Executed challenge testing for nine potential new radiation portal monitors.

Successfully planned and staffed over 25 training deployments around the world

Facilitated announcement of completion of 383 Russian border crossing points being equipped to detect nuclear and radiological smuggling as part of NNSA program (NNSA and Federal Customs Service of Russia).

Secured $1.9M for design, construction, & startup of outdoor drive-through portal monitor test facility.

AWARDS

2008 Distinguished Performance Award – Second Line of Defense

2007 Defense Programs Award of Excellence:

For outstanding achievement in reestablishing pit production for stockpile support.

2006 Defense Programs Award of Excellence:

Successful Execution of the Krakatau Subcritical Experiments

2006 Defense Programs Award of Excellence:

Type 126 Pit Production Liaison team for QER Acceptance

2005 Los Alamos National Laboratory Distinguished Performance Award:

Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Project Team.

2004 Los Alamos National Laboratory Distinguished Performance Award:

Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Concept Development Team

2005 Director’s Achievement Award – Acknowledgement of outstanding contributions

toward the resumption of Laboratory operations in the wake of the July 16, 2004,

suspension of operations.

2002 Defense Programs Award of Excellence:

Successful Execution of the Mario and Rocco Subcritical Experiments

1999 Albuquerque Operations Office Certificate of Achievement:

Highly Enriched Uranium De-inventory Initiative

Publications

25 Referred Journal Publications

More than 20 internal reports and 50 technical presentations

Doctor of Philosophy in Inorganic Chemistry

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA Tuscaloosa, AL

Master of Business Administration

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO Albuquerque, NM

Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry

ST. OLAF COLLEGE Northfield, MN

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