Robert Trimble
Summary
Experienced Contracting Officer specializing in procurement and contract management. Expertise in federal acquisition regulations and commercial contracting methods. Proven ability to enhance vendor relationships and achieve cost reductions through effective contract strategies. Recognized for improving operational efficiency and ensuring compliance with industry standards.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Contracting Officer, Foreign Service
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Niamey
07.2024 - 07.2025
- Managed approx. $400M international development portfolio of 22 U.S. government contracts and grants held by a wide range of international, local, intergovernmental, private sector, and non-governmental organization external partners covering health, democracy and governance, education, agriculture, and rapid disaster deployment aid in post-coup Niger.
- Expanded availability of antimalarial resources for 10 Million vulnerable populations, stemming the spread of infectious tropical diseases including malaria.
- Orchestrated rapid deployment of continuing emergency response to disastrous events within the country. Ensuring that over 3,000 households minimize the harmful personal and health-related impacts of flooding protocols.
- Created a fully staffed and capable contracting and grants office in Niger where none had existed prior. This included management and training of all staff of 3 procurement professionals, and enabling 28 technical specialists to perform their program support duties.
Regional Lead and Contracting Officer
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Dakar
08.2000 - 07.2024
- Remote management of the Sahel region portfolio. This included $900M total value in 45 contracts and awards in USAID/Niger, USAID/Burkina Faso, USAID/Capo Verde, USAID/Mauritania, and USAID/Gambia under regional direction of USAID/Senegal.
- Partners included international, local, private sector, and non-governmental organizations. Contracts and awards included health, democracy and governance, human rights, education, agriculture, and rapid disaster deployment aid.
- Awarded regional monitoring contract with multiple contract line items worth $100M over 5 years.
- Received multiple accolades for 'managing the unmanageable' in the tumultuous 'Coup Belt' of Africa and developed innovative procedures for rapid reaction and alteration of agreements to best fit a dynamic environment.
Contracting Officer Recruit
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Washington
01.2016 - 05.2018
- Audited document and office processes and evaluated for best practices and areas requiring strengthening/closer adherence to American federal procurement law.
- Created modernized standardized auditing documentation templates that allowed auditing of numerous types of agreements and contracts as well as process review of Acquisition and Assistance offices worldwide. These auditing document templates were used by USAID until its closure in 2025.
Project Manager Scheduler
ASI Government Services
Arlington
12.2014 - 12.2015
- Working as PMP Certified PMO Officer to assist in the setup of the PMO at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB).
- Offering advice as a best practices expert in numerous project including projects centered on training, procurement, and process upgrades at the FRTIB.
- Assisting prime contractor at Veterans Health Agency to develop new network logistics.
Project Manager Consultant
Le, Arnold, and Associates
Falls Church
04.2014 - 12.2014
- Responsible for performing a variety of PM roles within the engineering department of the TSA HQ in Arlington, VA. This includes project management, schedule control, and quality control/governance.
- Strong focus on meeting minutes, master scheduling, and providing technical and financial oversight.
- Managing external organization relation management with a strong focus on infrastructure based projects.
Senior Project Manager
Evoke Consulting
Arlington
12.2013 - 04.2014
- Responsible for performing a variety of PM roles within the business side of the Veterans Benefits Administration. This includes project management, UAT Control, contract management, risk analysis/mitigation, and external organization relation management with a strong focus on upcoming mobile applications.
Project Manager/Contract Manager
Amtrak
Washington
06.2007 - 11.2013
- Employee responsible for performing a variety of PM and budgetary roles within the IT Marketing and Product Development portfolio including project management, financial and budgetary creation analysis/research/proposal/justification, Journal Entry Creation/internal accounting and bookkeeping, billing/accruals, risk and issue investigation/analysis/mitigation, vendor management, facility management, internal and external audits, time keeping and procurement.
- This position requires collaboration across Amtrak departments at all levels of the organization.
- Project Manager on both federally sponsored and revenue funded programs and projects over with a total value of 12 Million dollars over last 5 years directing, tracking, and analysis of customer facing projects and programs on all phases including initiation, planning, design, requirements, coordination, implementation, closeout, and post-closeout operational support.
- Departmental expert and POC on budgetary control/guidance/planning/execution, financial analysis/tracking, master schedule management, resource management, and risk/issue investigation/resolution and management on departmental programs and projects as well as guiding and assisting other management to develop budgetary procedures for transparent and easy reporting in a department with annual federal budget (public) of 21 Million dollars and operating (private) of 8 Million dollars in adherence to policy and regulations set forth by federal and company authorities.
- Creation of Journal Entries for Internal Accounting based upon federal project and operational expenses according to GAAP.
- Training SME on entering contractor Project Managers for documentation, tracking, analysis, and administration of federally funded projects in line with Amtrak's organizational values and strategic goals. This included review and editing of project related procedural documentation.
- Creation of department wide documentation that includes financial forecasts, financial data repositories, billing invoices, technical documentation, and supporting documentation for programs and projects on over 200 MultiService Agreement contractors, Independent Contractors, Capital and Operating Employees, and Temps. This includes budgetary recommendations, auditing reconciliation, and justifications. Audiences included management, executives, and coworkers.
- Communication of detailed reports for upper management and customers using SAP/AAMPS (Arrow) to verify financial information and completing federal budget reclassification departmentwide.
- Working cross departmentally, including being recognized as the departmental POC team lead of a culturally diverse team of professionals.
- Earned Value Management (EVM) of multiple year capitally funded programs and qualitative/quantitative data analysis of project success both during and post-closeout.
- Departmental Project and Program proposal impact analysis, strategic evaluation, compilation of justification documentation, schedule/task creation (WBS and PERT), financial policy/regulation adherence, and impact on all departmental programs.
- Various other tasks including assistance in project and operational policy analysis and creation, scheduling, minute taking, direct task assistance, and departmental procurement of equipment, components, services, and software.
Contracting Officer
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
New Delhi
05.2000 - 07.2000
- Worked with senior procurement officers to best learn practice and tradecraft of creating program agreements/contract and managing personnel to best oversee the $500M portfolio with 23 programs covering Health, Environmental, and Business Development.
- Met and audited numerous potential partners pre-agreement to ensure that best practices were adhered and awards/contracts could be granted with confidence.
Education
MBA - International Management
Thunderbird, School of Global Management
Glendale, AZBachelor of Arts - International Relations
Kent State University
Kent, OHSkills
- Contract management
- Federal procurement
- Risk analysis
- Budget management
- Policy writing
- Stakeholder engagement
- Program evaluation
- Team leadership
- Training development
- Decision-making
- Contract negotiation
Merits
Contract Writing as per FAR/AIDAR, Grant/Cooperative Agreement Writing as per 2 CFR 200 and 700., US Government Warrant to Award up to $25M (inactive), US Federal Acquisition Institute – Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C Professional), Tenured and Commissioned Foreign Service Officer (Diplomat), Jan 2020, U.S. Top Secret Clearance Holder – 2016-July, 2025 (Capable of renewal), Project Management Professional (PMP-Inactive), English (Native), Spanish (Level 2), French (Level 2), Russian (Level 2), Bulgarian (Level 3), Swedish (Level 1), German (Level 1), MS Office, Google Office Suite, MS Project (Master)
Timeline
Contracting Officer, Foreign Service
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
07.2024 - 07.2025
Contracting Officer Recruit
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
01.2016 - 05.2018
Project Manager Scheduler
ASI Government Services
12.2014 - 12.2015
Project Manager Consultant
Le, Arnold, and Associates
04.2014 - 12.2014
Senior Project Manager
Evoke Consulting
12.2013 - 04.2014
Project Manager/Contract Manager
Amtrak
06.2007 - 11.2013
Regional Lead and Contracting Officer
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
08.2000 - 07.2024
Contracting Officer
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
05.2000 - 07.2000
MBA - International Management
Thunderbird, School of Global Management
Bachelor of Arts - International Relations
Kent State University
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