AMBER HALL

• Provide guidance and support in proposal development and management to multiple faculty and grant development professionals for five colleges and district office IT and Police Department.
• Fostered a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging staff to share innovative ideas and providing resources for professional development.
• Prioritized tasks and allocated resources appropriately to keep teams focused and productive.
• Assisted senior leadership in managing all aspects of operations.
• Reviewed proposed regulatory changes and evaluated potential impacts on business operations.
• Assisted in organizing and overseeing assignments to drive operational excellence.
• Assisted in the delivery and content development for employee retreats and recognition events
• Ensured timely delivery of Board Action Items
• Collaborated with other departments on the recruitment and hiring of employees
• Provided guidance and templates for the development of a financial management dashboard
• Overhauled Grants Management Handbook and document structure

Executes broad financial, HR, operational, facilities management and strategic leadership responsibilities for the Outreach and Student Services Division

• Implemented long-term growth initiatives by growing sponsored funding over $20M in 3 years
• Demonstrates strong capabilities when managing multiple tasks, projects and shifting priorities
• Thoughtfully performs budgetary, forecasting and strategic activities utilizing various data resources utilize amazon workspaces, excel, adaptive planning
• Provide mentorship and guidance to support staff and built new systems and structures based on organizational need for operations on several fronts; Supervised multiple teams of business leaders within the organization
• Provide trainings to Executive Leadership on capturing diversified funding and how to respond to RFP's as well as created Business Operations training for all new and existing business staff (BOS and BOMs)
• VP level approver for Peoplesoft, Concur and Workday
• Oversee audit processes and audit Manager Position, Research Operations staff as well as Sr. VP Business Operations team
• Manage all foundation and scholarship distributions for Educational Outreach and Student Services
• Sponsored Funders included: Department of Education, State of Arizona, SAMHSA, Arizona Community Foundation, Bank of America, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, San Carlos Apache, AZ DES and several other foundations
• Created and led a work Culture Climate committee to promote retention and collaboration

• Prepares major operational and projection budgets for local/federal/state/foundation funding
• Manage Program fee accounts
• Assists research investigators with the submission of annual progress and final reports
• Coordinates with the contracts department regarding award requests such as project period extension, revised budgets, additional certifications, carry forward requests and at risk accounts
• Supervise and lead a team of business operation professionals
• Account set-ups and monitoring of all payroll, transfers and reconciliation
• Projections for program fees and revenue for fiscal year budgets
• Process staff, student, faculty renewals and assist with Faculty Hires (systems: PeopleSoft and BrassRing)
• Keeps informed of, interprets and applies pertinent rules, regulations, policies and procedures set forth by the University or other governing agency
• Staff Council President of Downtown campus where I led staff involvement and participation in events and culture building

• Responsible for managing the day-to-day activities, monthly profit/loss statement, marketing and content development of the Professional Development Education (PDE) /Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) unit (includes faculty recruitment)
• Led development, recruitment and marketing efforts for an Executive Leadership Certificate in collaboration with Indiana University and National Human Services Assembly where over 30 Nonprofit Executives convened online and face-to-face over several months for professional growth ensuring profit margins were maintained

• Finance and Budgeting- Prepared major operational, sponsored projects (NSF, DoD, NIH & Foundations) and projection budgets
• Researched and prepared periodic reports, financial statements and records on center projects, progress and provides reports to sponsors as needed
• Grant and Business Development Assisted research investigators with the submission of annual progress and final reports
• Coordinated with Post Award Management regarding award requests such as project period extension, re- vised budget, additional certifications, carry forward requests and at-risk accounts
• Respond to RFP's as needed
• Personnel Analyzed and planned for staffing; coordinated personnel matters with Biodesign HR such as payroll actions, re-classifications, recruiting, new hire actions, interviewing and selecting new staff.
• Created a website and event management for the Center of Environmental Biotechnology

• Proposal Preparation for Energy Attenuating Seating and Floor Products-Created compliance matrix from solicitation, create schedule, tasks and due dates
• Prepare, populate and write technical content
• Coordinate graphics and create needed graphs, tables, etc
• Design pricing models and populate Bill of Material (BOM) lists
• Submitted final document to customer
• Project Management - Maintain project schedules by meeting all milestone dates Assist in writing test plans for development products
• Managed project tasks for all research and development engineers
• Executed a multi-million- dollar project with a large OEM and Canadian government from proposal phase through initial production
• Super- vised project/duties for 10 employees (6 engineers, 1 buyer and 3 technicians).

• Lead new business opportunities from customer concept through contractual stage for high-altitude guided parachute air drops and solar EO/IR surveillance tower systems Manage proposal process
• Define requirements, compliance with scope of work, compilation of subject matter expert input, graphics, pricing and final editor
• Conduct post-proposal debrief analysis so the team can learn how to improve or enhance future proposals
• Created tracking system for proposal efforts and performance metrics Published articles for military applications Collaborate with business development team to successfully market at trade shows.

• Of $13.5 million of sponsored and non-sponsored projects and accounts; identifies, collects and analyzes data and provides information for decision making and reporting
• Coordinates and develops proposals for external funding opportunities for potential startup businesses
• Coordinate purchases for the Information Technology and Facilities Departments
• Reconcile and monitor all Procurement Card purchases
• Direct the preparation of budgets for Information Technology and Facilities departments
• Create metrics for monthly review of expenditures and performance
• Review, audit and maintain payroll reconciliations
• Set-up annual blanket purchase orders and release payments as needed.