Laurina Bragdon has special expertise in the areas of program management, analysis and policy implementation. She has highly developed knowledge of effective program implementation, operations management, financial software, and business processes. She has outstanding leadership, problem solving, team building, negotiation and organizational skills. She is a program manager and analyst with over eight years of experience in business, financial, and project management in both government and private sector. She is skilled at preparing written communication, including guidance, policies and reports. She is a dedicated professional with certifications in Information Technology Infrastructure Library, Project Management Professional, Contracting Officer's Representative, and Digital Graphic Arts.
Her professional experience includes working as program manager for five critical agency programs with a combined funding of $5 million. Her responsibilities include budget management, contract management, regulatory compliance, vendor relationship management, and development of key performance indicators for monitoring and assuring program success. She provided detailed reporting metrics to senior level executive staff. She re-engineered agency business processes using detailed analysis and assessment of existing agency data. She conducted research and evaluations, collected quantitative and qualitative data, and developed strategic plans to ensure efficient operating procedures. She also provided technical guidance to regional and overseas offices in business process improvement methodologies.
Laurina Bragdon has served as project manager or project team member for several key agency initiatives including development and implementation of a state-of-the-art application that tracks inventory in real time and allows automated ordering. Her accomplishments included award for fulfillment center consolidation project that saved organization over $100,000. She developed user requirements and information architecture for a state-of-the-art custom application that tracks inventory in real time and allows automated ordering, increasing customer satisfaction and significantly reducing processing time. She successfully executed new programs and arranged program related training. She received award of merit for leading agencies Combined Federal Campaign – National Capital program. |