Becca Landwehr

Business Lead for the Department's current and emergent Real Property System of Record in the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations' Planning and Real Estate Directorate's Office of Strategic Planning (OBO/PRE/OSP).

Key Accomplishments Include:
• Directed maintenance and refinement of 26,000+ global real property records for the Department; resulting in enhanced, multi-faceted decision-making criteria for projects spanning from capital projects to prioritized maintenance activities
• Managed the Department's annual Federal Real Property Profile (FRPP) submission to GSA
• Developed the Department’s first definition of real property using criteria to drive data refinement
• Drove enterprise system transitions, migrating a 20-year old customized system to an industry-leading Integrated Workplace Manage System (IWMS), Archibus.
• Enhanced data governance across 40+ downstream systems and data domains, ensuring the appropriate subject matter experts serve as the authority on their area of real property data.

Business lead for the intake, assessment and evaluation of all space planning and design requests for the domestic real estate portfolio within the Bureau of Administration's Operations Directorate in the Office of Real Property Management (A/OPR/RPM).

Key Accomplishments Include:
• Created and implemented workflows for 470+ space planning requests annually, reducing customer wait time by 85% and increasing request close rate to 97%.
• Combined modern systems (Archibus) with lean/agile methodologies to streamline evaluation, project viability and alignment to the Department's strategic goals.
• Guided a diverse team of interior designers, data scientists and program analysts to establish regular goals, set metrics, and manage risk on behalf of the Department.
• Spearheaded portfolio-wide initiatives to reduce cost and increase transparency under the new Working Capital Fund model, saving $500K+ in FY23.

Senior Interior Designer responsible for planning and coordinating interior architectural projects pertaining to the programming, design, construction, acquisition, repair and maintenance of U.S. Government owned and operated buildings in foreign countries.

Key Accomplishments:
• provided assessments and creative strategies to extend the useful life of existing facilities in Western Hemisphere (WHA) and African (AF) regions.
• drove strategic solutions to OBO’s overseas customers and support several continuous improvement efforts within across the Department and within the Interior Design Division.
• contributed to bureau-wide workplace strategy studies, best practices and analyses
• recognized as subject matter expert among peers and senior leadership for portfolio management topics including: future of work; diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility; flexible work in the wake of Covid-19; and space utilization policy.

Department Awards:
• Meritorious Honor (2022) enhanced communications between OBO and post throughout the lifecycle of a project by providing a toolkit to guide post through their new workplace using change management principles
• Meritorious Honor (2022) developed Space Groups diagrams to graphically streamline and clarify space programming data with Diplomatic Security, A/E firms and other stakeholders
• Meritorious Honor (2022) leadership in ensuring OBO facilities promote and protect occupant health and wellbeing through a coordinated framework of design, policy and operations solutions.
• Franklin Honor (2022) provided research, innovation and advice to the U.S. Department of State and OBO leadership - bridging the gap between behavior, culture, space and technology for the future domestic workplace environment in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic