As Associate Director of Strategic Collaboration, Kristina supports Global Security Initiative’s (GSI) mission to catalyze Department of Defense (DoD) research broadly across Arizona State University (ASU). She oversees GSI’s pre-award efforts, supervises GSI’s proposal management team, collaborates with ASU faculty engaged in defense and security research, leads trainings for faculty and staff across ASU on best practices for proposing to the DoD, and identifies new strategic funding opportunities.
Kristina joined ASU and GSI in 2015, and has served in project management roles to build GSI’s pre-award portfolio and contribute to the creation of GSI’s research centers. (https://globalsecurity.asu.edu/) She has managed tens of millions of dollars in proposal activity for GSI’s investigators and affiliates across the university, and is adept at guiding complex proposal teams from various national and international organizations. GSI's pre-award team collaborates on dozens of high-dollar, high-impact STEM grant proposals every year. (e.g., cybersecurity, robotics, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, STEM education and workforce development)
Before ASU, Kristina was the Publications Lead at an international scientific society, where she oversaw the team’s production of 17,000 research manuscripts annually. Prior to that role, she was the Professional Services Operations Manager at a Seattle-area software development/Agile consulting company, where she earned ScrumMaster certification and was a liaison to the department’s Fortune 500 customers.
Kristina has significant experience in relationship management; STEM research development; project management; meeting facilitation; training; and technical writing/editing in academic, industry, government, and nonprofit environments.