Cathleen Baron Babcock
Halfmoon,NY
Summary
Results-oriented Senior Grant Management professional with over 15 years managing multi-million dollar federal and state grant portfolios. Expertise in grant administration, compliance, risk assessment, and resource stewardship. Skilled in investigating complex issues, evaluating evidence, and translating data into actionable strategies for effective program implementation. Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, navigate challenges, and drive organizational success while fostering collaborative stakeholder partnerships.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Federal Grant Manager / Technical Sergeant
New York State Police Traffic Services Division
Albany, NY
01.2005 - 01.2019
- Direct the full procurement lifecycle of multi-million dollar federal and state grant funding portfolios, leading cross-functional teams from initial identification and actuarial proposal design, award negotiation, strategic execution, compliance, reporting and audit.
- Enforce rigid fiscal and regulatory compliance frameworks across all managed programs, ensuring strict adherence to state and federal statutes and regulations.
- Deliver data-driven actuarial grant proposals and lead the continuous evaluation, administration, and redevelopment of complex traffic safety programs utilizing advanced predictive data analytics.
- Cultivated and managed funding relationships with major grant bodies, including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the New York Governors Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC), enhancing program support and collaboration.
- Directed cross-functional teams to execute public safety and technology programs, adapting strategies to meet challenges in rapidly evolving technological landscapes.
- Advised and briefed executive leadership on milestone progress, regulatory compliance updates, and fiscal health indicators, strengthening public and private partnerships.
- Present professional written and oral information concisely to diverse networks via executive speeches, community dialogues, publications, training manuals, expert panels, internal directive orders, professional conference speeches, editorial interviews and reports, presentation for educational organizations, traffic safety publications, grant reports and data documentation.
- Concurrent Executive & Inter-Agency Appointments:
- Advisory Board Member & Secretary | New York Governors Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC)
- Serve as a key leader on the GTSC Advisory Board, steering the strategic development, operational deployment, diversification, and statewide roll-out of high-priority training and safety programs.
- Coordinate and unite complex networks of public, private, and national stakeholdersincluding local, state, and federal governments, educational institutions, domestic dependent nations, and non-profits to achieve mutual programmatic goals.
- Project Representative | NYS Critical Infrastructure Response Information System (CIRIS) Team
- Appointed as the primary law enforcement, traffic safety, GIS mapping, and database development representative to a high-level, formal multi-agency project coalition.
- Partnered directly with senior leaders from the New York State Intelligence Center (NYSIC), NYS Office of Counter Terrorism, NYS Department of Transportation, and the NYS ITS-GIS Program Management Office.
- Formulated the comprehensive strategic plan for the statewide distribution, deployment training, database development, and benefit-reporting of the CIRIS infrastructure.
Education
Master's Degree - Criminal Justice & Public Administration
State University of New York at Albany | Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
01-2011
Bachelor's Degree - Design and Environmental Analysis
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY01-1995
Skills
- Multi-Million-Dollar Grant Portfolio Management
- Full Grant Procurement Lifecycle
- Data-Driven Actuarial Proposals
- Strategic Execution & Risk Assessment
- Dynamic Research Analysis Implementation
- Multi-Agency Stakeholder Collaboration
- Integrity Driven Leadership
- Multidisciplinary Alignment
- Grant Systems & Platforms: eGrants GARS (Grant Award & Reporting System) TraCS (Traffic and Criminal Justice Software)
- Public, Press, & Executive Briefings, Expert panelist
- Collaboration & Tools: Microsoft Excel (Advanced Data Modeling) Access Word PowerPoint Zoom Chat GPT
- Compliance & Governance: Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200/Section 402/Title 23,
- Risk Assessment
- State and Federal Compliance Guideline Competency (2 CFR 200 and Section 402 of Title 23)
- Certified Grant Management Specialist (CGMS) credentials pending
- Federal Funding Matrices: NHTSA ARPA BIA DHHS IHS IIJA EPA
- Technology & GIS Data Analytics (eGrants, GARS, ArcGIS)
- Data Analytics & Spatial Mapping: ArcGIS (Mapping & Analysis) CIRIS Database Development (Accident Data Mapping)
- Data Mining TSSR Actuarial Modeling
Accomplishments
- Data-Driven Initiative Design: Modeled, analyzed and identified and statewide injury and fatality concentration databases to recognize trends; discovered low seatbelt/child restraint usage near NY State Parks, designed a targeted program and secured competitive GTSC funding for a statistically successful impact.
- Inter-Agency Initiative Leadership: Formed a successful strategic partnership with the NYS Park Police to roll out a high-visibility enforcement and educational campaign, establishing proper restraint use training and education across vulnerable communities.
- Technology & Training Rollouts: Supervised the implementation, training frameworks, and roll-out strategies for advanced technology integrations, incident mapping platforms, and critical incident reaction workflows.
Affiliations
- Government Liaison Networks: NYS-DMV DOH DOT NHTSA GTSC New York State Child Passenger Safety Advisory Board (NYSCPSB) Secretary
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- International Association of Chiefs of Police (ACP)
- New York Women in Law Enforcement (NYWLE)
- Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP)
- New York State Association of Traffic Safety Boards (NYSATSB) / Traffic Safety Board (TSB)
- Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA)
- ESRI Geographic Information System Technology Network
- Institute for Traffic Safety Management & Research (ITSMR)
Timeline
Senior Federal Grant Manager / Technical Sergeant
New York State Police Traffic Services Division
01.2005 - 01.2019
Master's Degree - Criminal Justice & Public Administration
State University of New York at Albany | Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
Bachelor's Degree - Design and Environmental Analysis
Cornell University