Project Manager Resume Profile

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Confidential manages research projects and provides business analysis for private and public clients. RMBC focuses on fossil and renewable energy industries. Confidential provides independent project management services for research projects and commercial fuel production projects. She also conducts biofuels technology evaluations, feasibility studies, strategic and business plans, and feedstock resource assessments. She builds analytical models and projections for fossil and renewable fuel industries. Confidential provides programmatic and technical support to federal and state agencies.

As a project manager, Confidential works closely with her client's team, their subcontractors and her client's investors to achieve project goals and objectives. Activities may include designing and writing statements of work, identifying and developing objectives and milestones, and constructing and managing schedules and budgets. She manages invoices, accounts payable and receivables, equipment and chemical inventory, and other details associated with cost targets as needed. She provides all project management reporting including milestones, progress reports, financial updates, redirects projects as priorities change, ensures high quality products and timeliness, and manages cost expectations. She writes, negotiates and manages lower tier subcontractors on the behalf of the clients. She will develop research targets and manage all aspect of the research programs. She writes state and federal grants on the behalf of the client, including complex grants for DOE and USDA. She has written successful SBIR and SBIR II grants and received up to 1 million in funding proposals. She has designed and managed multi-tasked projects with multiple subcontracts that exceed 3 million per year. She provides leadership to the team members and the client's investors and supports team members in their profession growth by reviewing papers, managing performance objectives, and identifying and recommending training opportunities. She prepares and presents presentations and outreach events for clients and stakeholders.
Her recent client list includes Renewable Energy Group REG , Inc., General Atomics, Conoco Philips, Marathon Oil, the OPEC Secretariat, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Monsanto, U.S. Department of Energy DOE , Biolight Harvesting a start-up algae company , and investment firms and biodiesel developers. She is a member of the National Biodiesel Board, the Algal Biomass Organization, and the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance.

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Project Manager II,

From 1997 to 2004 she managed NREL's Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel Project. Her tasks duties include the same project management activities described in the previous section with the addition of 1 increased project management complexity due to the U.S. DOE regulatory process and 2 program management complexity. She managed up to 14 subcontractors per year under a tight budget, without cost over-runs.

She collaborated with the National Biodiesel Board, US Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, state agencies, private research organizations, universities, biodiesel and feedstock producers, and key policy stakeholders to craft the biodiesel industry we have today. The critical industry needs were identified and prioritized and then research projects were developed to 1 meet regulatory requirements for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for establishing a legal biodiesel fuel, 2 conduct criteria and air toxics emission testing, 3 develop test methods and technical data to establish ASTM fuel quality standards, 4 perform resource assessments and crop analysis, 4 develop models for national projections, and 5 provide stakeholder leadership and outreach. She also managed research in renewable diesel technologies including pyrolysis oil, Fischer-Tropsch diesel, gasification, levulonic acid esters, alcohol-diesel emulsifications, and other fuel oxygenates and additives. Under this program, she managed the close out of the Aquatic Species Program algae . She also managed the publication of the first soy biodiesel and petroleum diesel life cycle analysis.
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She created and managed NREL's first Geographic Information System GIS , including funding, equipping, staffing, training, and client development.
She co-managed and wrote the first ever Lignocellulosic Ethanol Life Cycle Analysis with co-manager Cindy Riley and collaborators from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Pacific Northwest Laboratory.

She developed economic models and projections for the lignocellulosic ethanol industry and other biomass energy technologies.
She evaluated the first climate change agricultural and land use impact analysis for DOE in 1989 and was an IPCC International Panel on Climate Change member.
She provided trouble shooting support for recalcitrant projects.

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