Mark Schroeder

Execute various projects of a wide range budgets, scope, and complexity for U.S. Department of Homeland Security clients at a top management consulting firm which acquired Grant Thornton. Highlights include:

Program Management

• Oversee project budgets and teams ranging from $1M to $3.5M, ensuring the efficient use of financial resources through strategic staffing, task order management, and execution strategies to ensure schedules were met profitably and within standard.
• Streamlined project management processes, resulting in increased efficiency and timely delivery of projects.
• Optimized client operations by conducting in-depth assessments and recommending actionable improvements.
• Key Accomplishment: clearing backlog of several million dollars in invoices as a result of post acquisition financial system reconciliation from previous employer, Grant Thornton.

Team Leadership and Mentorship

• Guide multiple cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams to execute client deliverables.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary experts to deliver holistic solutions addressing complex business challenges.
• Key Accomplishment: Recruited or internally staffed 20 junior level employees and mentored them in the consulting industry and firm workplace culture.

Strategic Planning and Communications

• Lead initiatives to mature organization ability to engage internal and external stakeholders, disseminate program information, and promote information sharing to meet requirements.
• Lead development of technical documentation artifacts to support client requirements.
• Guide team execution of strategic communications work products, such as website updates, strategic planning, process improvement, and project management services.
• Key Accomplishment: Facilitated a client's first ever strategic plan in its 50-year history.

Executed various projects of a wide range budgets, scope, and complexity for U.S. Department of Homeland Security clients at a top management consulting firm. Highlights include:

Project Operations & Engagement

• Oversaw recruiting, budgeting, and sustaining 100+ consultants supporting a Federal engagement valued at over $50M, one of the firm’s largest.
• Collaborated closely with clients to ensure service quality guidelines are met.
• Liaised with project managers to leverage resources, expertise, and client contacts.
• Communicated engagement updates to project managers to ensure consistent delivery.
• Developed scoping documents for proposing new work to address client challenges.

Key Accomplishment:

Stakeholder Engagement

• Solicited and communicate requirements gathering for key client initiatives.
• Developed outreach materials to inform members on policy issues impacting their communities.
• Track advisory council progress in meeting goals and milestones.

POLICY & BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

• Interfaced with stakeholder partners to obtain requirements for the development of concepts of operations and other technical work products.
• Conducted organizational and business process assessments of key client programs.
• Presented briefings to communicate progress towards meeting strategic objectives.