Jennifer Mack
Marana,AZ
Summary
Accomplished contracting professional with extensive experience in R&D contracting and strategic acquisitions. Excels in developing innovative procurement strategies and fostering multi-agency collaborations, significantly expediting procurements. Skilled in negotiation and stakeholder management, demonstrating exceptional emotional intelligence and business acumen to drive results and innovation.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Acquisition Analyst
Strategic Engineer Solutions
06.2024 - Current
- Reengineering of DARPA I2O's acquisition business practices for pre-solicitation through post-award. Refining processes to increase efficiencies; adopting new technologies to replace manual tasks and processes.
- Generate and develop new acquisition strategies and solicitations; applying innovative solutions to reduce the barrier to award and enhance program results.
- Undertake development of junior to senior level staff regarding the application of acquisition rules, regulations, internal and external policies and procedures which are applied to DARPA programs and agency-wide documentation.
- Collaborate closely with legal teams and contracting professional to ensure acquisition and negotiation strategies are well informed and will facilitate successful win/win results for the Government and technical performer.
- Liaison between internal departments and external partners throughout the acquisition lifecycle, ensuring alignment of goals.
- Process high priority taskers required by senior leaders to quickly inform and/or implement agency-wide and/or DoD enterprise level acquisition initiatives.
Contracting Officer
ARPA-H
08.2023 - 06.2024
- Develop business strategies for 8 R&D Contracting Officers and 4 Mission Offices; managing collaboration and driving results.
- Institute new acquisition strategies; solicitations and award documentation; quickly gaining multi-agency acceptance and approval.
- Advancing internal business practices for pre-solicitation through post-award; driving innovation and expediting procurements for 10 Program Managers within the Resilient Systems Office.
- Undertake development of agency-wide policy documents; generating soliciting, evaluating and selection plans for agency-wide adoption.
- Provide expert business acumen in ARPA business solutions to mission offices; promoting and adapting e-business and acquisition solutions.
- Conduct pre-award, award and post-award actions in support of 6 R&D programs.
Contracting Officer
DARPA
10.2018 - 08.2023
- Senior-level contracting SME providing sounds business advice at the strategic level.
- Developed new acquisition strategy and solicitation methods to combat technological advancement concerns impacting the speed of relevance.
- Lead high performance teams
- Performed cradle to grave contracting in support of R&D projects and programs.
- Identify and recommend actions for complex problems that are outside of normal day-to-day business practices that require in-depth understanding of the problems and programs.
- Anticipate problems, develop, integrate and implement sound solutions and action plans to ensure program/mission accomplishment across multiple disciplines.
Contract Specialist
Washington Headquarter Services
09.2014 - 10.2018
- Managed full procurement cycle by planning, reviewing, soliciting, awarding, administering and closing out contract to achieve seamless transition at all levels of procurement.
- Closely monitored and evaluated contract performance to determine regulatory compliance and necessary amendments.
- Provided exceptional customer service to diverse clientele even in high-stress environments.
- Reviewed current contracts to identify upcoming contract expirations and coordinated with stakeholders to analyze contract renewals and re-negotiation.
Acquisitions Analyst
ECS Federal
11.2012 - 09.2014
- Documented acquisition valuations and earnings accretion and dilution models for public and private companies.
- Created and developed processes to support proper warehouse inventory assortment and optimization.
- Resolved purchase order issues to support regional and central merchandise teams.
- Responded to order placement, validation and inventory clearance issues.
Education
Master of Program Management - Program Management
Keller Graduate School of Management
Arlington, VA2013
MBA - Business
Keller Graduate School of Management
Arlington, VA2012
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice
St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud, MN2002
Skills
- R&D Contracting
- Code of Federal Regulations United States Code
- FAR DFARS
- Cost Analysis
- CPFF FFP
- SPS PD2
- Microsoft Office 365
- Outlook Teams
- Mattermost Slack Asana
- Collaboration Emotional Intelligence
- Research Strategy
- Project & Portfolio Management
- Risk Analysis Management
- Negotiation Strategies
- Adaptive Communication
- Management Internal & External Stakeholders
Additional Information
Top Secret Clearance
Timeline
Senior Acquisition Analyst
Strategic Engineer Solutions
06.2024 - Current
Contracting Officer
ARPA-H
08.2023 - 06.2024
Contracting Officer
DARPA
10.2018 - 08.2023
Contract Specialist
Washington Headquarter Services
09.2014 - 10.2018
Acquisitions Analyst
ECS Federal
11.2012 - 09.2014
Master of Program Management - Program Management
Keller Graduate School of Management
MBA - Business
Keller Graduate School of Management
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice
St. Cloud State University
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