Norman Davis serves as a Business Analyst for NIH in the development and maintenance of eRA (Electronic Research Administration) grant management infrastructure/system. - Work closely with product owners and technical lead to understand product specifics.- Lead Sprint Reviews, Refinements and Planning- Assist in backlog grooming and participate in retrospectives- Contribute to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organization's Agile project lifecycle.- Act as liaison between business stakeholders, such as management, customers or end users, and the software development or information technology team.- Knowledgeable on the end-to-end System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) solutions- Develop and write user stories that directly support the primary objective of the project and are the appropriate size for iterative development.- Build solid domain knowledge and deep understanding of current system functionality. Anticipate positive and negative impacts to other areas of the platform, organization, etc.- As directed, own, prioritize, and maintain the Product Backlog- Act as subject-member-expert for assigned products- Communicate requirements to SW Developers and Testers.- Support Product Owners and Team Leads in planning, road mapping, and monitoring project work.- Provide Level of Effort (LOE) estimates for requirements analysis work and assist in project planning.- Monitor development and testing activities to confirm correct implementation of requirements.- Work with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure all members of the Scrum team (Developers, Testers) actively engage and participate in refining requirements (as User Stories) and Acceptance Criteria; and in determining level of effort for each User Story (i.e., story points).- Provided Tier-3 production support as needed.- Experience working with Agile/SCRUM writing user stories and following the development process through user story acceptance

Engage with the client’s Grants Management / Operations staff to help implement and establish “comfortable competence” with the client’s new business processes. • Develop a sound understanding of the client’s as-is processes, to-be processes, and grants management system to productively guide client staff to adopting new ways of working. • Incorporate change management methodologies, strategies and skills where necessary for consumer adoption• Apply sound project management capabilities to effectively management schedules, resources, risk, communications, and stakeholders• Measuring, analyzing, benchmarking, and improving processes • Identifying and simplifying business processes to drive maximum output

Client - Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Grants Management Technical Assistance Program (GMTA) Norman Davis served as a Workstream/Task Lead for the GMTA program within the Grants Program Directorate for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Norman’s primary objective was to assist FEMA in providing specific levels of technical assistance using tools such as providing documentation, conducting conference calls or providing three-day workshops specific to a recipient’s challenges. • Driving the overall agenda of the project to include the overall budget, aggressive timelines and budget workplans for technical assistance, staffing and outcome measurements • Provides advice and guidance to resolve, implement, and manage program initiatives• Identify relevant issues related to technical assistance course deliveries• Manage program initiatives such as webinars, Train-the-Trainer programs, on-site technical assistance workshops, program-specific workshops and external training held at the Emergency Management Institute• Review and determine appropriate staffing requirements and prepare all technical publications and software resources for projects• Manage all phases of planning and implementation of technical assistance workshops and internal FEMA training• Plan and coordinate various activities for projects and ensure compliance to all task procedures and policies and oversee all projects. • Prepared workflow charts and diagrams to represent the sequence of steps and decisions needed to perform a process

Client - Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Broadband Technology Opportunities Program Mr. Davis supported the Grants Specialist and Federal Program Officer (FPO) in working with the recipient to facilitate the close-out process. As a Closeout Analyst, his responsibilities were ensuring that all funded project activities were completed and grant recipients met all requirements imposed by applicable laws, regulations, award terms and conditions. Additional close-out tasks included identifying best practices and lessons learned to formulate new policies and standards for future opportunities within NTIA.

Mr. Davis provided analytical post-award grant monitoring support to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Institution and Award Support. He conducted desk reviews, which are essentially mini-business system reviews of NSF awardee grant management policies, procedures and practices, to extend business assistance to awardees and ensure that federal funding provided by NSF is managed in compliance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and NSF regulations. He worked directly with representatives of NSF awardees to gather and analyze policies and procedures used for their award management. He evaluated and assessed awardees’ effectiveness in administering NSF funding by assessing general management practices, evaluating accounting and financial systems; and reviewing awardee reconciliations of Federal Financial Reports to corresponding awardee accounting records. NSF uses information from these desk review reports to further develop and target business assistance outreach to its awardees. - Mr. Davis also conducted follow-up activities to assist NSF in closing out desk reviews that were selected for follow-up monitoring. - Mr. Davis was also tasked with reviewing the NSF mandated Standard Operating Guidance documents and revising the Desk Review Guide and Site Visit Review Guide accordingly.

Mr. Davis supports 28 National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) grantees (totaling close to $360M in grant funds) in the daily operations of post-award administration, data collection/analysis, process improvement, performance monitoring, and technical assistance on grantee regulatory compliance and reporting. The Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) program seeks to expand broadband internet access and adoption in under- and unserved communities across America. Mr. Davis conducts site visits to assess grantee progress and help prevent fraud waste and abuse of federal grant funds. Mr. Davis also prepares status reports and collects telecommunications and grant compliance-related information and provide critical analysis of project and telecommunications data to assist clients with making informed decisions.- Recognized as a grants management subject matter expert, providing expertise to resolve complex client issues- Continuous communication with Federal Program Officer (FPO) to identify recipient challenges, propose solutions, discuss project schedule delays, and project implementation- Monitoring project performance that includes monitoring the budget for cost overruns, project schedule, project goals, Award Action Requests, staying abreast of current financial and project activities (route changes, fiber concerns, project delays, environmental concerns, political inquiries)- Participate in client status meetings and individual FPO meetings with the Comprehensive Community Infrastructure Director- Monitoring the overall project performance overlapped with developing and tracking recipient corrective actions, conducting grant and/or BTOP policy related research and populating and updating NTIA/ Booz Allen Hamilton internal systems that include using MS Excel spreadsheets for data tracking- Review Performance Progress Reports for data integrity as compared to previous quarter results and the Baseline report

Mr. Davis provided pre-award and post-award grants management service; function as central point of contact for internal and external grant communications and management; collaborates with grant program managers to manage fiscal and program reporting and regulatory compliance.- Responsible for over 20 assistance awards from various donors (DOJ, DHS, foundations) - Managed financial activities of all grant programs - Provided monthly reports to Program Directors - Prepared budgets for grant proposals using MS Excel- Reviewed grant submissions to ensure compliance with grant regulations and funder requirements- Collaborated with program managers to prepare and submit required financial and program reports and deliverables

Mr. Davis assisted the Europe & Asia Division in the management and administration of a selection of acquisition and assistance awards and contracts; facilitation, submission, and negotiation of federal, non-federal, and international grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, subawards, leases, and consulting agreements and modifications; drafting and issuing subcontracts and subawards to civil society organizations; assisting in the preparation of and reviewing budgets and ensuring that there is good financial management of approved budgets and communicating with USAID Contracting Officers to address any issues and questions that may arise on IFES contracts. - Responsible for all contractual aspects of various contracts with USAID (Georgia, Pakistan, Armenia)- Responsible for over 40 assistance awards from various donors (USAID, DOS, DFID, British Embassy, AusAID, Dutch Embassy, UNDP and others) - Negotiates, drafts and issues Subcontracts to organizations partnering with IFES - Serves as the key person in charge of monitoring compliance by IFES and its Subcontractors with the requirements of contract with USAID and the provisions of the FAR- Work with project staff to monitor prime agreement, sub-recipient, subcontractor, vendor, consultant performance - Detailed review and evaluation of budget submissions using MS Excel- Ensures that MS Excel budgets are correctly prepared and managed by IFES in accordance with the FAR - Coordination, evaluation and monitoring of proposals - Research and interpretation of OMB Circulars A-110, A-122, and A-133, the FAR, and USAID, DOS and other donor regulations

Oversaw and managed over $8.5million in grant program funding. Sponsors include FEMA, DHHS, Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Fannie Mae Foundation. Ensured compliance with sponsor and federal regulations; facilitate communication between affiliates and headquarters; maintain communication with project directors to provide oversight and financial support; accurate reporting and billing to sponsors.- Acted as Program Officer for Endowment Fund that awards over $500,000 annually- Managed Service Coordinator Program that includes 40 HUD housing facilities grants- Dramatically reduced time to draw down funds for Service Coordinator program by 80%- Identified potential issues with spending patterns by monitoring and reporting on monthly spending for grants and contracts- Prepared annual grant budget for fiscal year budget/forecasting- Supervised staff of 2