Danielle N. Paula Email & Phone Number

Remote

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Supporting Health and Human ServicesActing as Agile and SAFe Implementation and Adoption Lead, working alongside executive leadership, Agile coaches, IT project managers, contract representatives, and the development teams to gain a full understanding of the vision and challenges for the program. I took an active listening approach and asked probing.

Washington D.C.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Served as the central liaison to the end users, development team, and leadership helping to bring a common vision to the program. Worked as the scrum master, project manager, functional test lead, and product owner for the development team where she organized and facilitated end user working groups, populated and updated the product backlog, executed.

• Initiated and developed the division level Agile Transition Strategic Plan for FY18
• Agile Coach for division leadership and staffs: train, coach, mentor, and teach staffs about agile principles, best practices, and project management including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean, and Human Centered Design
• Develop original agile training materials
• Key member of the Agile DevOps community of practice responsible for driving agile transformation
• Actively seek and identify waterfall processes and procedures which impede the division’s transition to agile and then work with leadership to reconcile improving development and implementation efforts
• Act as Scrum Master for two product teams; manage and prioritize backlog, facilitate, capture, and disseminate key actions from scrum ceremonies such as Backlog Grooming, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review, and Sprint.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Agile Product Owner for a DoD software platform; use a combination of Scrum, Kanban, PMBOK, and Human Centered Design tools and techniques to manage all aspects of the SDLC; engage stakeholders, gather requirements.
• Lead a scrum team in the Agile development of a data processing tool for DoD that decreased the client’s task completion time by 87%.
• Scrum Master for a virtual cross-functional team responsible for the development of a serious game concept.
• Act as the central coordination point between government client, PMO, source system data owners, development team, quality assurance team, and end users.
• Identified a future training gap and developed recommendations for government client resulting in the development and publication of several stop-gap training materials including one-pager job aids, task oriented.
• Transformed a DoD data analysis user manual into an interactive web-based SharePoint site removing extraneous information and adding video tutorials to improve the tool’s usability and utility

Washington. DC

• Task Lead for a team of designers, developers and QA analysts ensuring project management framework standards throughout the SDLC
• Collaborated, facilitated, lead and coached scrum teams responsible for development and operations management.
• Liaised between the Business Owners and technical team supporting Dept. of State; met with Business Owners to translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Created and documented deliverables and documents including Systems Requirements Specifications, requirements definitions, functional specifications, presentations, style guides, sitemaps, wireframes, and user manuals.

Alexandria, Virginia

• Transformed the company travel process, impacting 90+ employees across 23 states and 7 countries. Led integration of Concur®, a business and expense management software solution, into an existing travel system, and.
• Initiated the overhaul and business process redesign of the Bi-Annual Performance Review system. Implemented a system that incorporated tailored job descriptions with measurable metrics for all positions resulting in.
• Research, write and publish the company’s monthly security newsletter relating to national security topics.
• Completed front end and back end in depth training on the Palantir platform resulting in a certification.
• Managed the IT vendor advising executive team of recommended compliance, network security, policies, procedures and infrastructure updates to secure company and client data.
• Successfully completed Facility Security Officer Training; processing employee clearances, visit requests and general personnel maintenance.

Alexandria, VA

• Eliminated wasteful overhead spending by analyzing and renegotiating contracts while switching to lower cost vendors. Realized cost savings of $20,000 in year 1 and $24,000 in year 2, reducing the OM budget by nearly.
• Independently designed and implemented a Leadership Offsite meeting to address critical firm issues such as company climate and retention, define Praescient’s strategic vision, and facilitate leadership and sales.
• Worked within a team of 3 to spearhead the redesign the company’s website. Resulting in increased page views, usability, accurate information, and an reducing bounce rate by 30%.
• Researched, wrote and published several policies and procedures ensuring employees and managers were aware and compliant of said polices which resulted in budget savings and improved operations execution.

Washington D.C.

• Cross functional supervisor for a team of 2,000+ people to coordinate the success of over 20 events. Led development and execution of plans and logistics, including owning client relationships, for numerous events: the.
• Achieved rapid promotion over peers within first 3 months due to outstanding performance.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Self-started a travel company for young professionals.
• Researched, planned, organized, and led international tours to 7 countries across 3 continents while managing all aspects of the business including operations, marketing, research and development, client development.
• Designed and built the company website using HTML, CSS, Wordpress, and Joomla.

Greater Boston Area

• Worked cross functionally to provide legal, IT, and HR support to an established organization of 19 experienced litigators and 12 support staff.
• Created a file management system using numerous technologies (i.e., Ikon, Concordance) to streamline document review and database processes for the firm

Boston, MA

• Facilitated in fact-finding for the federal court through completing data entry on prospective jury pools.
• Led Jury Duty appointment processes analyzing potential juror excuses to determine eligibility of personnel for jury selection.
• Created juror service notification system to streamline processes within the Jury Office.
• Organized and filed court rulings, motions, and decisions.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Provided research and writing support to a nonpartisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom.
• Responsible for collaboration of articles and publications on current events, WMDs and Terrorism, spanning over 120 projects.
• Conducted interviews with policy and thought leaders across Washington DC to gather research regarding current events such as rebuilding Afghanistan and developing infrastructure.
• Organized and executed events such as “Who Are We Today?” Philanthropy Symposium with Ayaan Hirsi Ali and “Islam in Democratic Societies”.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), 4.0

B.A., International Relations, Business Management, Studio Arts

Washington Semester Program, International Law & Organizations