Mimi Davidson, Ckm, Sp Email and Phone Number

Mimi oversees the day-to-day and strategic initiatives of the DEM&S organization, ensuring the smooth operation of the SETA Contractor team in support of the Director of Digital Engineering, Modeling & Simulation (DEM&S).Mimi leads a team of SMEs as task lead and technical manager, providing strategic analysis, technical leadership and executing against top priorities for DEM&S, as contractor support within Systems Engineering & Architectures (SE&A), for OUSD (R&E).Her leadership drives digital transformation and provides critical resources to support the mission of the U.S. Department of Defense. She conducts trade studies, oversees the ongoing development of the Digital Engineering Body of Knowledge (DEBoK), and improves communications and process for review of policy and guidance.Mimi leads the Digital Engineering Working Group (DEWG) Community of Practice, Modeling and Simulation Community of Practice to connect with the Services, Agencies, and industry representatives to establish a collaborative environment for building technical direction and guidance for digital engineering concepts across systems engineering disciplines.

• Leads Knowledge Management for the Digital Engineering Body of Knowledge (DEBoK) supporting DEM&S• Provides Knowledge Management support to advance Digital Engineering (DE)• Leads integration of DE resources and tools that promote knowledge sharing, innovation and collaboration• Establishes Best Practices capability and Lessons Learned within the DEBoK to enhance quality of captured lessons and proven practices in the DE industry• Provide expert advice, advocacy, guidance, reporting, documentation, outreach, and engagement (nationally and internationally) with external organizations; focus on major organizational stakeholders to charter, develop and mature Communities of Practice (CoP) in key domains for Government, Defense, Intelligence, Industry and Academia• Manages organizational Knowledge Base; ensures information is timely, relevant and properly tagged for easy search and access• Expert knowledge of KM Software: Atlassian Confluence, Jira, SharePoint, Salesforce• Investigates current trends in knowledge management and data repositories to provide capability to properly index and archive developed products• Collaborates with DoD leadership and the engineering community to advance technology, drive digital transformation, and evolve digital ecosystems to support the mission of the U.S. Department of Defense• Serves as a liaison with other OUSD(R&E) elements: Business Operations, Mission Integration, Mission Engineering to leverage synergies across OUSD(R&E)• Advises, discovers, and if necessary, develops digital / model-based techniques and artifact implementation processes in support of systems engineering application to DoD areas of interest within R&E where digital engineering can be applied • Develops and supports transition and implementation plans for digital engineering

• Designs and develops the KM Strategic Plans with consideration of the program architectures, team roles and responsibilities and defined success metrics• Leads integration of tools and technologies that promote KM and collaboration within the MISS organization• Conducts KM assessments of the org. to determine knowledge and process gaps and makes recommendations to address areas of improvement• Leads the Lessons Learned, Best Practices capability on the MISS program to identify areas of improvement and opportunity for current and future projects• Defines Governance and Business Processes Improvements for the PMO• Collaborates with employees across SAIC, the Army National Guard, and key stakeholders to design, build and test successful systems for the Military Intelligence Systems Support (MISS) Program• Served as technical lead to establish, transform and mature a connected ecosystem for program management functions through the development of a COTS-based Program Management Platform, “Unify.” • Identified, characterized, selected and employed hardware and software to maintain interconnected and interoperable computational environments • Established digital processes and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to administer travel, reporting, training, data collection and analysis, for this $750M Military Intelligence Services and Support (MISS) program

• Shaped the culture of REI Systems through effective employee engagement, change management, and internal communications• Managed corporate ERP systems to support workforce and leadership• Developed data analysis and reports for use in executive decision making• Directed programs, as well as staff and cross-functional agile teams in an efficient and effective manner• Responsible for clearly conveying complex information to audiences of all levels

• Provided guidance, best practices and governance to ensure technical success on the $243M NASA HITSS III contract, in support of NASA’s space agencies, as an employee of REI Systems• As a Sr. leader in the Program Management Office (PMO), she evaluated the lifecycle management of technology and process implementation practices across this 80-person technical contractor pool• Analyzed work across the agency’s cross-cutting technology & engineering challenges and informed program leadership of the necessary changes to be made to advance technology, engineering & innovation for NASA• Oversaw research and reporting to key stakeholders and NASA leadership• Implemented best practices to facilitate a knowledge management program with corresponding frameworks and KM methodologies• Worked with leadership to promote effective communications and change management plan• Through focus group engagement, identified areas of system risk and underperformance to remediate for greater efficiencies and quality• Created systems to support staff; increase their knowledge and improve performance

• Implemented solution supporting growth leading to operational efficiencies and critical business information • Led the requirements development, systems architecture, system design and implementation of an enterprise knowledge management system across the 40,000 employee GDIT Divisions to promulgate lessons learned and best practices across GDIT’s Divisions• Developed Concept of Operations, system requirements, high level design, software and hardware selection, cloud / hosting considerations; led the user testing, deployment and system validation for this custom-developed application • Attracted over 1,000 employees to Communities of Practice; increased employee engagement, encouraged internal mobility and retained top tech talent• Worked with major organizational stakeholders to charter, develop and mature Communities of Practice and Centers of Excellence in key tech domains for Federal Civilian Government, Defense, Intelligence and Homeland Security business sectors for increased knowledge sharing, market differentiation and innovation • Developed systems using approaches like a tradeoff analysis for key lines of business in Cloud, Cyber and DevOps

• Built awareness, connectedness and career support for CSRA employees through Communities of Practice• Led workforce education, training, and networking to encourage knowledge sharing and leveraged internal talent to improve workforce mobility and retention• Skilled in presentations and communications for C-level executive briefings • Developed corporate communications according to leadership priorities and strategic communication plans

• Supported the Director, DHS for development and execution of cross-cutting communication activities to define the Nation’s key Cybersecurity ecosystem• Led an agile software development teams through requirements and high-level design in an iterative process to define the nation's cybersecurity website as part of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) which operates at the intersection of the private sector, civilian, law enforcement, intelligence, and defense communities• Applied unique data analytic perspectives to content strategy and user experience for the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC)—now CISA—website brand identity initiative housed within Northrop Grumman Corporation• Worked closely with our DHS customer to develop the NCCIC Cybersecurity website based on their vision and priorities – from requirements analysis, high and detailed design, implementation, verification/validation and deployment and sustainment of systems

• Provided strategy consulting to global architecture firm Perkins Eastman, advised their web presence optimization, from concept development, to implementation and sustainment with her own company, Mongo LLC• Increased web traffic, user adoption and established a successful pay per click online advertising program on Google• Performing the technical backend and interface support for Perkins Eastman Global Architecture Firm, she achieved first place position in Google for all nine major practice areas• Worked with Nextel/NII holdings, Intl., for their international push-to-talk software application, and increased traffic through website optimization efforts

• Consulted with organizational leadership on content management systems (CMS), business processes and online web presence; supported engineering activities • Provided strategy for requirements analysis, user research and analysis of alternatives for vendor selection• Led engineering activities including data architecture redesign, implementation, verification/validation and migration using web 2.0 tools

• Facilitated development, implementation, testing and verification of AHP environments• Enacted system requirements based on data• Led planning, design and implementation of optimized site architecture• Advised leadership on design and development activities and engineering reviews across AHP digital interfaces