Jennifer Brandt

• Provided financial, programmatic, and administrative support to various DARPA program managers, government agents, performing contractors, technical staff, and the academic community.
• Supported on-going activities as well future work, and was responsible to review and document technical progress, track milestones, compile funding profiles, and monitor deliverables for existing programs and seedlings.
• Provided assistance with Internet research assignments and the maintenance of web pages.
• Provided assistance with Program Objective Memorandum (POM) initiatives and Research and Development Descriptive Summaries (RDDS).
• Provided program administrative support services, including (1) prepared, organized, and executed Proposer's Day Conferences/Workshops; (2) received, tracked, and processed proposals for source selection activities; (3) prepared documentation, including the Scientific Review Memorandum, Broad Agency Announcements, and Justifications for Other than Full and Open Competitions in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and DARPA policies; (4) prepared program documentation including the Program Approval Document (PAD), Memorandum of Agreements (MOAs), Security Classification Guides (SCGs), and quad charts; (5) prepared for and supported program kick-off meetings; and maintained archives (log, index, retrieve, and store correspondence, presentations and financial files).
• Provided program financial support that included preparing Financial documents Procurement Guidance documentation, monitoring obligation and expenditure rates for each contract, developing and maintaining specific Program Phase Spend Plans, receiving and processing obligation and expenditure documentation, gathering and compiling documentation to support program execution oversight and monitoring of funding.
• Prepared, maintained, and tracked contract finances in order to execute program baseline and re-baseline analyses and assessments that included program plans, work breakdown structures, milestone schedules, cost and other documentation to assess necessary actions and assure programs were in technical, schedule and, cost compliance.
• Provided logistical support to the program manager that included planning and facilitating meetings and conferences, providing briefings and presentation support, arranging location and logistical needs as required, coordinating one-on-one meetings between attendees and the program manager.
• Prepared, reviewed, and finalized correspondence and briefing materials, including copying and binding briefings, reports, attendee lists, and name badges.

Business Financial Manager/ Risk Integrated Product Team (IPT) lead

Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) Standard Missile (SM-6) IAU Program

• Provided financial and programmatic support to the Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) Standard Missile (SM-6) IAU Program.
• Tracked, processed, and distributed performer deliverables, collected, and analyzed cost / schedule/performance and risk deliverables.
• Coordinated and participated in program management reviews between PEO IWS and the performer and various field activities. Also, program reviews and recurring meetings and VTCs with the Program Office, partner organizations to include PARMs, and Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
• Supported action item tracking and management within the team to ensure completion of tasking.
• Served as the program Risk Integrated Product Team (IPT) lead. Managed Risk Management Process for a program. Facilitated monthly risk management boards. Held weekly meetings with performer risk team and provided feedback to the program manager.
• Provided financial support to include coordination between field activities, the prime contractor and research laboratories in support of the SM-6 IAU program to support the Master Program Schedule (MPS), contract requirements, and milestones with the other missile programs in relation to the overall Standard Missile program.

Program Analyst/Senior Executive Assistant - AT&L ACTD Office

• Maintained heavy business, travel, and social calendars for staff, and responsible for the planning and coordination of numerous official trips, high-level meetings, working lunches and social events, significantly enhancing senior manager’s productivity.
• Arranged and prioritized meetings, briefings, office calls, phone calls, travel, correspondence, and social events which allowed the senior managers to prioritize non-scheduled events and crucial matters as they occurred.
• Coordinated meetings among many senior government officials’ schedules to maximize efficiency among all organizations involved, while continuously managing daily administrative tasks and remaining focused on the manager’s needs.
• Authored and prepared signature-ready, high-level sensitive, congressional and business correspondence.
• Worked in concert with the AT&L Security Office to ensure proper security procedures were undertaken while conducting daily operations within the office.
• Provided extensive program support to the ACTD Oversight Executives and contractor residents within the ACTD Program.
• Additional duties included service as the Information Technology Point of Contact (IT POC), the Terminal Area Security Officer (TASO), and the Defense Messaging System (DMS) drafter.