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Program Management

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Contact

Heather Shocker, Principal Program Manager

Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC)-focused Programmatic Support

We provide non-technical programmatic support with DoD and IC sponsors, engaging and working closely with all University stakeholders (PI, OCG, CCO, Export Control, the Preserve, etc), industry partners and government sponsors to ensure programmatic success.

NSI Programmatic Support Offers:

  • Proposal and award strategy; important if competitive proposal
  • Execution strategy
  • Clarification of roles and responsibilities and relevant objectives and expectations
  • Full understanding of award obligations, deliverables, and expectations
  • Kick-off meeting to ensure the award is fully understood by stakeholders (technical objectives, budget, milestones/deliverables, schedule, responsibilities, etc..)
  • Comprehensive assessment, planning, management, monitoring, and mitigation of:
    • Stakeholders
    • Communications
    • Schedule
    • Budget and 91´«Ã½
    • Subcontracts
    • Risks
    • Compliance
    • Procurement
    • Milestones and Deliverables
    • Follow-on/Additional work strategy
  • Deliverables – all deliverables are provided to Sponsor
  • Meetings and communications – attend relative meetings, capture action items, communicate when appropriate with the Sponsor
  • Invoices – ensure all are issued and paid, including for subcontract awards
  • Close-out meeting with primary stakeholders to ensure all actions required are taken and outstanding issues addressed
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Contact

Heather Shocker, Principal Program Manager

ÌýÌýheather.shocker@colorado.eduÌý

Program Management

Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC)-focused Programmatic Support

We provide non-technical programmatic support with DoD and IC sponsors, engaging and working closely with all University stakeholders (PI, OCG, CCO, Export Control, the Preserve, etc), industry partners and government sponsors to ensure programmatic success.

NSI Programmatic Support Offers:

  • Proposal and award strategy; important if competitive proposal
  • Execution strategy
  • Clarification of roles and responsibilities and relevant objectives and expectations
  • Full understanding of award obligations, deliverables, and expectations
  • Kick-off meeting to ensure the award is fully understood by stakeholders (technical objectives, budget, milestones/deliverables, schedule, responsibilities, etc..)
  • Comprehensive assessment, planning, management, monitoring, and mitigation of:
    • Stakeholders
    • Communications
    • Schedule
    • Budget and 91´«Ã½
    • Subcontracts
    • Risks
    • Compliance
    • Procurement
    • Milestones and Deliverables
    • Follow-on/Additional work strategy
  • Deliverables – all deliverables are provided to Sponsor
  • Meetings and communications – attend relative meetings, capture action items, communicate when appropriate with the Sponsor
  • Invoices – ensure all are issued and paid, including for subcontract awards
  • Close-out meeting with primary stakeholders to ensure all actions required are taken and outstanding issues addressed

Principal Program Manager

Program Management

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