Laura Ayres

About Laura Ayres

Over 25 years of experience providing program/project management, earned value management (EVM), risk management, compliance, finance, and technology support to various organizations including public transit, public utilities, defense and civilian agencies and government contractors. • Active Security Clearance: TS/SCI w/CI Poly • Program Planning and Controls Manager – Managed controls for large complex programs funded by the DOE, DHHS CMS, DoD, and DHS TSA in a cross-functional integrated product team environment. Responsible for program controls cost/schedule functions to meet performance objectives; baseline change management; monitoring and analysis of program cost/schedule performance; monthly internal and external Program Management Reviews. Cost estimating/cost and price analysis. • PMO Manager - established Program Management Offices (PMOs), developed policies, plans and processes compliant with EIA 748 Earned Value Management System (EVMS) guidelines and Project Management Institute (PMI) and industry best practices. • Designed and implemented EVMS for two USG agencies, DoT FAA and OPM, and for multiple government contractors. Developed supporting policies, processes and procedures. • Established and managed a comprehensive and innovative enterprise governance, risk, and compliance program to control enterprise risk and readily respond to stakeholders, compliance and regulatory needs. • Established internal controls along with a periodic monitoring and surveillance program to evaluate both design effectiveness and operating effectiveness of program management, accounting and financial systems that support programmatic performance, income and expenditure reporting • Provided advisory consulting services to government contractors in the areas of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), Code of Federal Regulations Grants Management (2 CFR 200), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) compliance, business systems assessments. • BBA Accounting. Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute. PMI WDC Chapter member; Prior board member of the College of Performance Management Washington DC (CPM WDC) chapter; Active member, NDIA Integrated Program Management Division committee working groups. • Specialties: Integrated Program/Project Management, Earned Value Management, Risk Management, FAR/DFARS/Grant/CAS compliance

Experience

1. Evms Compliance and Internal Surveillance Lead

   General Dynamics Information Technology

   Nov 2020 — Present · Falls Church, VA, US

   Core team member of GDIT\'s Program Support Center (PSC) as the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) internal surveillance lead. Responsible for annual internal surveillance of programs with a contractual Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) EIA-748 EVMS requirement. Additional responsibilities include maintaining EVM system description documentation, processes and procedures, Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) training for program teams, Control Account Manager (CAM) IBR readiness sessions, EVM fundamentals and advanced training.

Education

• Dowling College

  Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Accounting

  1998