Paul Eder, PhD

BAE Systems, Inc.

Lead a team of 20 tech professionals in the design, development, and implementation of database, automation, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for a CFO office in a large government agency

Senior Program Manager

🔥 Leading multiple AI and data initiatives for DHS OCFO
🔥 Planning, organizing, and guiding the work of data science team on data engineering and modeling efforts 
🔥 Developing AI roadmap to guide the path to the future for DHS OCFO (e.g. developing guidelines and prototypes for Generative AI applications)
🔥 Integrating Python, SQL, and Tableau on large-scale data validation efforts

Project Manager / Senior AI & Data Advisor

High Value, LLC

Collectibles buying and selling / motivational speaking and consulting

President

FIRESTARTERS

Author of FIRESTARTERS: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

Motivation: Helping you capitalize on your passion and skills.

Strategy: Helping you understand how to get from here to there on your life path.

Networking: Helping you identify the right people to boost your financial potential

Book Author

The Millennium Group International

Director of Management Consulting

The Center for Organizational Excellence, Inc.

● Led multiple organizational strategic planning, human capital, process re-engineering, large-scale research, survey, and program evaluation efforts with values ranging from $50K to $2.5M annually.

● Currently coordinating DATA Act strategic data innovation project for the CFO of the Department of Homeland Security. Involves application of full life cycle project management activities: change management, solution development, risk management.

● Led an 8-person workforce planning engagement for the 800,000-employee civilian workforce of the Department of Defense.  Established competency models for occupations ranging from teachers to aerospace engineers. ​

● Leveraged strategic data expertise to re-vamp the data collection and reporting processes
for an organization with the mission to supply civilian workforce support to military work units in
Afghanistan. Developed statistical guidance for preparing civilians to staff future missions in war
zones. Led to client receiving recognition from the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program
Support.

● Conducted large scale evaluation of a HUD five-week national training program​, resulting in a
demonstration of program success in improving timeliness and quality of work.

● Led four-year effort to report on and improve processes related to the assessment of the
success of human capital best practices​ within the Department of Defense. 

● Re-designed and re-engineered entire HR Line of Business for the Securities and Exchange Commission

● Conducted holistic organizational assessment for US Marshals, leading to strategic re-structuring​. 

● Led a year-long program assessment for a government-wide initiative designed to decentralize
the monitoring of strategic human capital practices​.

● Developed and analyzed surveys assessing labor-management relations practices​ across DoD's 800,000 employees and 1300 local bargaining units.

Director

University of Delaware

Led, designed, implemented, and analyzed multiple research studies resulting in comprehensive
recommendations reports for organizations. Additionally, leveraged research and organizational expertise to design and teach 8 university courses on advanced topics.

Selected Accomplishments:
● Led a research project examining employee creativity and performance at three organizations,
including a mortgage broker. This work involved conducting in-depth statistical analyses to link
employee attitudes and perceptions to performance evaluations and absenteeism data​.

● Evaluated the effectiveness of the R&D team format, involving collaborative knowledge management
technology, employed by a Fortune 500 chemical company​.

● Designed major research projects examining customer satisfaction with exhibits at a major
metropolitan zoo and a world-famous Aquarium. These projects entailed actively manipulating
aspects of the environment to determine how the changes would influence customer enjoyment​ of the leisure experience.

● Evaluated employee motivation and performance​ in a manufacturing and a social work
organization. Developed employee-attitude assessments and conducted statistical analyses of data.

● Developed an extensive, culture-focused interview protocol for employees at an organization that
manufactures “smells” for consumer products.

Organizational Researcher, Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant

As an Organizational Effectiveness, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Innovation Executive, I've dedicated over two decades to leading transformation in both public and private sectors through strategic management, organizational development, and innovative data analysis. At the heart of my approach is a blend of creativity, leadership, and project management skills, honed to perfection as a PMP and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

Key Achievements:

Developed competency models for over 30 occupations in a large government agency, creating a robust framework for talent development and performance management.

Led comprehensive proposal efforts for various consulting projects, playing pivotal roles from business development and capture to proposal writing and project management, showcasing versatility and a results-driven mindset.

My philosophy: "Use data to tell a story." I focus on integrating multiple evidence points, such as surveys and objective data, to craft compelling narratives and drive impactful decision-making. This approach has not only enabled comprehensive assessments but has also been instrumental in identifying powerful indicators for organizational growth and innovation.

Looking Ahead: 

My aspiration is to be a go-to resource for the seamless integration of AI tools, serving as a thought leader at the innovative forefront of consulting. I am deeply engaged in understanding and advocating for the "human touch in the age of AI", a critical emerging trend that balances technological advancement with human-centric approaches.

Let's Collaborate: 

I am eager to connect with like-minded professionals to exchange ideas, foster mutual learning, and collaborate on projects that challenge the status quo. Whether you are seeking an advisor, a motivation expert, or a public speaking resource on consulting and AI topics, I am open to a variety of opportunities that fuel innovation and creativity.

Project Manager / Senior Data Advisor

GitHub

Senior Customer Success Architect

Microsoft

Senior DevOps Customer Engineer in the National Customer Success Unit, MSUS

As a customer engineer in the National Customer Success Unit, I help our customers enable their teams to achieve more by continuously delivering their products. I work with their leadership to define their processes and train their teams to use GitHub and Azure DevOps, develop customized solutions, provide training on Scrum, DevOps, Git, and more, and help them uncover the practices that will help them achieve the goals for their products. In addition to my customer-related activities, I helped create the content we offer our customers; I have contributed to Microsoft’s DevOps Dojo, the DevOps Fundamentals and DevSecOps workshops, authored the Scrum with Azure DevOps workshop, and am co-developing our Service Technology Advisory for DevOps offering.

Senior Customer Engineer

As a DevOps consultant, I work with product delivery teams and their leadership to enable them to continuously deliver value to their end-users. I work with government organizations and enterprises to start their DevOps transformation journey. To that end, I work with my customers to help them adopt a growth mindset, adopt modern DevOps practices, and help them set up and fully utilize Azure DevOps, especially Boards and Pipelines.

DevOps Premier Services Senior Consultant

ValueMomentum

As an ALM architect, I consult on, train, and help implement Visual Studio with Team Foundation Server (TFS) both from tooling and methodology perspectives, consulting on software architecture design, and test-driven-development, as well as custom software development for testing, building and deploying software, using the .NET framework.

ALM Application Architect III

Sela

As an ALM architect at Sela, I accomplished the following:
•	Authored Microsoft’s official TFS 2010 Training Kit
•	Authored Sela’s official TFS 2012 Introduction course
•	Trained customers’ on-site TFS support teams
•	Migrated my customers’ ALM platforms from Visual Studio & TFS 2010 to VS/TFS 2012 and 2013
•	Migrated teams from Visual Source Safe and other version management systems to TFS
•	Helped document customers’ ALM processes for official inspections and certifications (e.g. FDA approval)
•	As a consultant, served as the on-site ALM Manager for SuperDerivatives (see below)
•	Designed and implemented VS/TFS 2010/2012/2013 solutions for software development firms
•	Designed and customized requirement management solutions
•	Developed and customized automated build management solutions, including both custom build activities and improvements to the build workflow
•	Designed, trained and coached R&D groups on following an agile methodology, implementing Scrum, TDD/BDD and other agile practices
•	Trained teams on working with Scrum and TFS
•	International public speaker at conferences and ALM-related user groups on topics related to TFS, agile methodologies and advanced programing practices. I spoke several times at the SDP conference, Microsoft’s ALM user group, and the Toronto ALM User Group.

Senior ALM Architect & TFS Consultant

SuperDerivatives

As a consultant for Sela, I worked on contract as SuperDerivatives’ ALM Manager. In this capacity, I accomplished the following:
•	Led and trained the VS/TFS support team.
•	Designed SuperDerivatives’ release management methodology. 
•	Implemented and guided service / support teams in the use of Lean/Kanban to drive development and incident case management
•	Designed and developed custom Workflow (WF) activities for their TFS build & deployment system
•	Trained and coached development teams in their efforts to migrate to Scrum, as their software development management process. Coaching included facilitating a Scrum of Scrums weekly meeting to enhance cross team collaboration 
•	Training and providing ongoing support for developers in the use of TDD and BDD practices

ALM Manager

As a senior customer success architect, I help software development teams to enable continuous delivery of value to their customers. I have experience working with startups, large enterprises, and government organizations on three continents. I have more than 10 years of experience developing software, and I have both served as a scrum master and trained scrum masters to serve their own teams. I help organizations set up and configure their GitHub services, and help their teams automate their software build process, testing, and release pipelines, to help them deliver high-quality solutions, faster than ever before.

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