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member of the Army Acquisition Corps and a graduate of the Program Manager’s Course at
the Defense Systems Management College.
Professor Snider’s recent publications appear in American Review of Public
Administration, Administration and Society, Administrative Theory & Praxis, Journal of Public
Procurement, Acquisition Review Quarterly, and Project Management Journal.
Karey L. Shaffer — Program Manager for the Acquisition Research Program at the
Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School. As PM, Shaffer
is responsible for operations and publications in conjunction with the Acquisition Chair and
the Principal Investigator. She has also catalyzed, organized and managed the Acquisition
Research Symposiums hosted by NPS.
Shaffer has also served as an independent Project Manager and Marketing
Consultant on various projects. Her experiences as such were focused on creating
marketing materials, initiating web development, assembling technical teams, managing
project lifecycles, processes and cost-savings strategies.
From 2001-2002, Shaffer contracted to work as the Executive Assistant to the Vice
President for Leadership and Development Human Resources for Metris Companies in
Minneapolis. In this capacity, she introduced project lifecycle and process improvements to
increase efficiency. Likewise, as a Resource Specialist contractor at Watson Wyatt
Worldwide in Minneapolis, she developed and implemented template plans to address
continuity and functionality in corporate documents; in this same position, she introduced
process improvements to increase efficiency in presentation and proposal production in
order to reduce the instances of corruption and loss of vital technical information.
Shaffer has also served as the Project Manager for Imagicast, Inc. and as the
Operations Manager for the Montana World Trade Center. At Imagicast, she was asked to
take over the project management of four failing pilots for Levi Strauss in the San Francisco
office. Within four months, the pilots were released; the project lifecycle was shortened; and
the production process was refined. In this latter capacity at the MWTC, Shaffer developed
operating procedures, policies and processes in compliance with state and federal grant
law. Concurrently, she managed $1.25 million in federal appropriations, developed
budgeting systems and secured a $400,000 federal technology grant. As the Operations
Manager, she also designed MWTC’s Conference site, managed various marketing
conferences, and taught student practicum programs and seminars.
Shaffer has her BA in Business Administration (focus on International Business,
Marketing and Management) from the University of Montana. She is currently earning her
MBA from San Francisco State University.
A special thanks to our editor Jeri Larsen for all that she has done to make this
publication a success, to David Wood, Lea Houlette and Ian White for production and
graphic support, to Lindsay D’Penha for CD programming and to the staff at the Graduate
School of Business & Public Policy for their administrative support. Our program success is
directly related to the combined efforts of many.
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