D'Arcy Placilla Email & Phone Number

Serving as the central hub between users, developers, and stakeholders, I have conversations around pain points, needs, wants, and capabilities to build the right product and build the product right. I support multiple Scrum team’s efforts to digitize paper form applications used by millions into fully functional online forms by conducting gap analysis, generative and formative user research, usability testing, and internal QA testing.

Arlington, Va

Main point of contact for general building and project management, vendors and clients. Triage employee and client ad hoc requests on a variety of subjects, streamline processes, improve workflows, identify inefficiencies as well maintaining transparency and providing support across all employee heirarchies and high-level visibility to leadership.

Department Of Biology

I provide administrative support for a complex academic program requiring extensive collaboration with students, faculty, and other departments. I also support the Academic Program Administrator by managing the summer program, undergraduate program, Master's program, NIH program, and graduate program. This includes data entry for tracking student progress, special events coordination related to all programs, and scheduling of Graduate Board Oral exams. Additionally, I am responsible for departmental communications which include managing the departmental website. Lastly, I coordinate both the Department of Biology Seminar Series and the Astrobiology Seminar Series.

Bachelor’S Degree, American/United States Studies/Civilization, Graduate With Honors

High School, Music Performance, General, Graduate With Honors