Jim Krupnick, Director Office of Institutional Assurance
Jim Krupnick serves as Director of Institutional Assurance at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. As such, he reports directly to the Laboratory Director and by dotted line to the University of California Contract Assurance Council, has the requisite authority, responsibility, and accountability to manage the LBNL institutional assurance functions and serves as the principal point-of-contact on all matters related to performance assurance.
Jim is also the Laboratory Project Management Officer. In this role he manages the Office of Project Management, in conformance with LBNL strategic goals and DOE contract requirements, and works with LBNL Divisions’ staff and institutional resources (space/site planners, project managers, architect/engineers, etc.) to ensure that all major Laboratory projects are fully credible (from a business sense), include realistic scope, budget, schedule, and risk data, and are properly sited.
Prior to these positions, Krupnick served as Project Director for the Molecular Foundry as well as Division Deputy for Planning at the Advanced Light Source.
Krupnick received his BA in Social Science (1972) and an MBA (1987) from the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the staff at LBL in 1976 as a principal electronics technician assigned to the Bevatron. He became a technical/scientific coordinator in 1980, and remained at the Bevatron until 1987 when he became the Assistant Project Manager for the Advanced Light Source construction project. From 1993 when the ALS began operations, until he assumed his current positions in June of 2005, Krupnick managed a number of functions at the ALS including finance, planning, and project management.