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Diane joined IDEA in November 1998. Her responsibilities as Coordinator of Business Operations include coordinating, managing, and administering all financial, personnel, payroll, and record keeping activities for IDEA. In addition, she is responsible for ensuring that standardized financial and statistical reports are provided to grant project directors; preliminary and final financial reports are prepared for principal investigators, the Office of Grants and Contracts, and funding agencies; project expenditures are developed accurately to ensure compliance with funding agencies and institutional regulations; providing documentation to federal or agency auditors; and managing new and continuation grant applications, carryover and no-cost extension requests, special reports and resource analyses requested by principal investigators.
Diane graduated from Downey High School in California and earned her BA in Business Economics from UC Santa Barbara (1982). Past experience includes serving as account controller at UCSB as well as administrative assistant and contracts assistant for the University Foundation at CSU, Chico for 5 years. In Eugene, Diane was employed from 1991 - 1998 as an administrative analyst to the VP for Medical Management and the VP for Finance of Health Guard Services, Inc. She also has a background in consumer goods and sales as a result of working for the Gillette Company as a Regional Sales Assistant and Retail Sales Associate for 8 years.