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~'''t. .~~ ~ COMB/NED AREAS STRATEGIC PLAN FOR TERRORISM PREPAREDNESS 2.3 PROJECT ApPROACH The project will be managed from the URS office in Santa Ana. Ca. under the direction of the project manager. Tom Wall. Senior staff, including David Marx, from other southern California offices will be directly involved in the process and available for face-to-face meetings with no more than 24-hour notice. The Santa Ana URS office staff will provide administrative and accounting support. URS has served our public-and private-sector clients for more than 20 years in all areas of security preparedness projects and strategic plans. This experience ranges from urban area security initiative strategic plans to full security system designs for large international airports. Over the past decade. URS has completed tasks and projects ranging from threat/vulnerability assessments, emergency response. and preparedness training to security systems engineering, biometrics technologies (facial recognition. chemical! bio sensors). force protectionlthreat reduction. facility designlbuild construction. and business risk management. 2.3.1 Management Plan Given the magnitude of the effort and the short time frame allocated for the project, URS has organized a project team as outlined in the attached Organizational Chart. The two principal URS points of contact will be Tom Wall, Project Manager, and David Marx. Principal-in-Charge and manager of the technical effort. The team is further broken down into technical areas of responsibility as indicated on the chart. with administrative, accounting and support staff assigned as necessary. Biosketches for key personnel and resumes for all members of the team are included in Section 2.4. Team members were chosen based upon their experience and competence with similar projects and/or technical areas. All team members have worked together on other projects and have proven success working on multi. jurisdictional assignments with tight schedules. Key Personnel and Task Leaders In addition to the project manager, technical manager. and support staff (as indicated on the organizational chart), the URS team is organized into a series of functional areas each led by a Team Leader. The functional areas include: data management, risk assessment. capabilities assessment. gap analysis/needs prioritization, spending plan development, and meeting facilitationlconsensus building. Tom Wall will serve as the primary client point of contact for all project tasks and supervise the efforts of the task leaders. David Marx will lead the technical effort and ensure the quality and timeliness of all deliverables. Together, Tom and David will be constantly available to support client activities. Each team leader is responsible for that team's effort and will supervise the work in that area of responsibility. The first task for Team Leaders is to prepare Project Management Plans (PMPs) for each task immediately upon authorization to proceed. The PMPs describe the client's objectives, the scope of work and technical approach, budget. project organization and contact list, interim milestones, deliverable schedule, technical review requirements. and staff assignments to ensure complete, timely. and on-budget deliverables. PMPs are distributed and reviewed by all project team members. URS " 4