Alia Baron

● Completed post-award grant research activities while delivering excellent customer service.
● Managed 30+ increasingly complex research portfolio's while ensuring that PI's have accurate and timely information to make decisions.
● Manage fiscal and administrative aspects of federal and non-federal research grants, including budget development for proposals, financial reconciliation, closeouts, and preparation of analytical reports for PI’s and other stakeholders.
● Allocate faculty and staff salaries to research grant accounts with direction from Principal Investigators.
● Meet with investigators to review and explain financial data monthly.
● Prepare budgets for grant applications, supplemental funding, budget modifications and adjustments.
● Proactively identify problems and work to resolve them in an efficient manner and reasonable timeframe.
● Provide guidance on policies and procedures to ensure compliance with sponsor rules and regulations.

• Supervised staff of 20-30 ocean and pool lifeguards and assigned various tasks to keep two swimming pools, oceans, and general club facilities safe and running efficiently.
• Trained new guards on optimal behaviors and protective life saving techniques.
• Attentively watched over swimmers in both ocean and pools being quick to identify those in distress.
• Coordinated emergency response between staff and municipal first responders.
• Warned patrons of unsafe or hazardous water conditions.
• Successfully performed multiple water saves and applied first aid as needed.

• Completed post-award grant research activities while delivering excellent customer service.
• Managed 30+ increasingly complex research portfolio's while ensuring that PI's have accurate and timely information to make decisions.
• Coordinated proposal submissions by meeting with team members to discuss proposed resources, draft administrative components, review budget's and drive deadline achievement.
• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
• Oversaw editing process completion and applied updates for error-free submissions.
• Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
• Grants Coordination, Administration, Renewal and Close-Out.

• Performed patient registration, order entry, insurance verification, medical necessity checking, and cash collection for outpatients to facilitate quality patient care and timely reimbursements.
• Greeted visitors and established purpose of visit to complete check-in procedure efficiently and promptly.
• Updated patient demographic information in Epic to prevent treatment and record keeping errors.
• Managed front office customer service, appointment management, billing and administration tasks to streamline work flow.
• Researched issues and made quick decisions to achieve efficient and effective resolutions.
• Entered all changes to client data using Epic.
• Scheduled patient appointments for 20+ providers thereby improving their efficiency and enhancing patient experience.
• Responsible for ordering medical supplies for Thomas Jefferson OBGYN department.