Serve as the first point of contact for development-related questions, risks, roadblocks, and critical issues from internal teams, vendors, and cross-functional partners, resolving issues where appropriate and calling out critical matters to management when needed; provide guidance and informal leadership to project teams to support issue resolution, process compliance, and successful project delivery. Monitor project and portfolio progress against key checkpoints, schedules, forecasts, budgets, and deliverables; track and communicate status - including schedule updates, phase gate progression, risk, budget impacts, vendor performance, and forecast accuracy - to partners and project sponsors to help ensure timely, accurate, and quality execution of development initiatives.