Assistant Director, CRESP III
Vanderbilt University

Email: julie.james@vanderbilt.edu

Education

B.S., Accounting, Lipscomb University

Brief Biography

Julie James is the Assistant Director of CRESP III in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Julie interacts with CRESP university consortium members, departments, divisions and Principal Investigators regarding administrative, budgetary and compliance requirements.

Julie reviews annually the budget proposals for accuracy and completeness, and ensure compliance with DOE federal policies and regulations, as well as organize and triage proposals and reporting requirements in conjunction with the CRESP research team. Julie also oversees the execution and maintenance of the CRESP Knowledge Management system to establish a record for the DOE CRESP III cooperative agreement to effectively communicate with the Department of Energy, primary DOE sites, key government agencies and other designated stakeholders.