Manager Project
Resume:
BELINDA ALLEN
North Bethesda, MD
adlf22@r.postjobfree.com
Accomplished strategic and innovative manager with over 10 years of experience translating business visions into customized projects to support comprehensive solutions and services.
Dedicated and highly motivated professional in managing project expectations, scope, and third-party contracts for health organizations, federal government awards, and financial institutions. Genuine team player who thrives off unique challenges and interprets strategies into actionable value-added goals.
KEY AREA OF EXPERTISE
Customer Relationship Management
Performance Improvement
Conflict Management
Quality Assurance
Cross Functional Team Management
Project Life Cycle Management
Professional Experience
Henry Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, MD
Program Manager, 01/2020 – 03/2021
Work with HJF internal work flow system to develop business agreements such as MTAs, CRADAs, DTAs for individual projects, including pre/post award processing, grant submissions, publications and reports.
Facilitate weekly planning sessions to review and support associated timelines, track both budget and forecast management, action items, and commitments impacting the project schedule and client delivery.
Manage day to day administrative oversite to maximize project resources, achieve solutions to existing and prospective partners to support research performance.
Build and maintained positive relationships with stakeholders and members of the team to reach a common goal for all promises and services are rendered.
ST. JOHN Properties, (Temp), Baltimore, MD
Project Manager, 08/2018 – 01/2020
Consulted and assisted both internal and external partners and vendors to oversee construction, prioritized plans, designs, and post-construction occupancy phase for Verizon Annapolis Junction project.
Analyzed and completed project request for information, post submittals, and change orders, ensured requirements were met based on subcontract agreements and project closure.
Worked in partnership with internal design team to ensure site construction issues (i.e., sub-contractors and vendors) were pro-actively identified and resolved to meet VAJ standards, local codes and schedules.
Secured positive relationships and maintained detailed schedules for each project and actively managed tasks with vendors to include milestones, action items, and lead purchases impacting the project schedule.
ICMA-RC, (Contract), Washington, DC
Consultant, 1/2018 - 07/2018
Managed communication with key stakeholders at all levels of the organization, influenced successful executions of software development lifecycles, streamlined everyday operation.
Liaised interaction among developers and administrators, conducted policy reviews, cross referenced policies and practices on existing information systems and applications.
Collaborated with VP Business Partner and Technical Operations core team to successfully communicated and drive contract deliverables through Agile processes as it relates to security policy and standards.
Managed software delivery list, conducted WebEx meetings, intake discussions with after actions to team; tracked work plan (i.e., Cyber Ark, Splunk Assimilation, and Security Virtualization) deliverables.
NIKA Inc. (Government Contract), Rockville, MD
Project Manager, 10/2014 - 10/2017
Achieved Health Facility Planning Agency Project Office IDIQ contractual efforts, to include facility executions (i.e., design, restoration, and modernization) for the USAMDDA Medical Research Institute.
Succeeded day-to- day administration, communication, and collaborations for project implementations, transitioned medical replacement facility multi-layered concepts of operations.
Partnered with facilities management team members, coordinated and tracked all department of research FF&E procurement and installation service undergoing new construction and renovation.
Monitored cross-division interdependent change control framework, operating procedures, and digitization integrations utilized Microsoft (i.e., Project, Excel, and Smartsheet) tools to safeguard Bio-Safety services.
Management and Technical Solutions INC., Arlington, VA
Project Manager, 10/2012 - 10/2014
Supported Health Facility Planning Agency Project Office contractual efforts successfully provide users with plans, processes, and best practices for the joint service transitioning alignments into new facilities.
Fostered positive relationships with activity team members, manage multiple inter-dependent implementations and projects in agile environment, completed tasks and drove policy plans.
Managed move plans and space management, reported on multiple dimensions of the workplace—vacancy, occupancy ratios, and space efficiency by maintaining accurate data within a space management system.
Interfaced with 25 function managers, ensured spending accuracy in both monthly forecast and reconciliation of spending by budget items; reversed $125,000 profit loss within a contract turnaround.
Omni Link Corporation Government Contractor for DoD 2012 – 2012
Project Manager - Hired to manage 12-project portfolios supporting the Air Force Agency Research and Development that included implementation of portfolio agreements. Advised and consulted with CFO and key executives to collaborate on business objectives and priorities with the goal of aligning people strategy with business needs.
IAP Worldwide Services Government Contractor for DoD 2008 - 2011
Department Coordinator -Supported Walter Reed National Military Medical Centers 2005 Defense Base Realignment and Closure project. Managed Department of Surgery clinical operation restructure and change management, transitioned new policies and standard procedure reorganization for two medical centers (i.e., Walter Reed and Fort Belvoir). Provided manpower assessments, job realignments, and mapping for critical positions; coordinated work-group reviews for demo features to ensure $150K relocation merge and $20M equipment reach-back.
EDUCATION
TESOL, Teaching English as a Second Language ~ 2019
CSM, Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance ~ 2016
PMI, Project Management Institute, Member, (Montgomery, Potomac) County Chapter, MD ~ 2015
MBA, Business Administration, Keller Graduate School of Management, Arlington, VA ~ 2012
BS, Information Technology, DeVry University, Arlington, VA ~ 2009
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