New planning, budget director named at DOE’s Oak Ridge Office

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office has named Jamie Standridge as director of the Planning and Budget Division within the Office of the Chief Financial Officer at ORO.

In this role, Standridge is responsible for coordinating all phases of the DOE-ORO budget planning, formulation, and execution activities for the multi-appropriation, $3.9 billion dollar funding structure of ORO and all major DOE contractors in Oak Ridge. Other responsibilities include knowledge of overall DOE budget policies and procedures involving nationwide programs within overall DOE budget policies and procedures.

The ORO Planning and Budget Division provides services through the Oak Ridge Integrated Support Center to the Oak Ridge Offices of Environmental Management and Nuclear Energy, as well as four Office of Science laboratory federal site offices in Tennessee, California, Virginia, and Washington.

Standridge joined ORO in 2002 as a budget analyst, and in 2008 was named ORO team lead in the Science and Research Branch of the Planning and Budget Division. During his tenure at ORO, he has served on temporary job details to the Office of Management and Budget, and the Office of Deputy Director of Field Operations at the DOE Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

A native of Sweetwater, Tenn., Standridge earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Tennessee Technological University and an MBA from the University of Tennessee. Standridge and his wife, Charity, live in Madisonville, Tenn., and have a daughter, Lila, age 2.