Renee Elizabeth Davis
Slidell,LA
Summary
Professional with strong background in executive support, adept at managing complex schedules, coordinating meetings, and handling confidential information. Highly skilled in communication, organization, and problem-solving, ensuring seamless office operations. Focused on team collaboration and achieving results, adapting flexibly to changing needs and priorities. Dependable and resourceful, consistently delivering high-quality outcomes.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Supervisory Executive Assistant to the MVN Commander
United States Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District (MVN)
07.2019 - Current
- Command Administrative Manager and principal civilian assistant to the District Commander, Deputy District Commander, Deputy District Engineer, Deputy Assistant District Engineer, and Military Officer of the New Orleans District.
- Command “Gatekeeper”. Understanding the varying degrees of Commander requirements and project suspense dates, I analyze, identify, and decide which scheduled events or meetings are most appropriate for allocation of his time.
- I also serve as proxy, representing the District Commander, Deputy District Commander, Deputy District Engineer, Deputy Assistant District Engineer or Military Officer in meetings or through district-wide email communications.
- Command “Influencer”: Understanding mission requirements, I manage the Commander and deputy’s correspondence with varying degrees of classification markings, prepares research, executive itineraries, coordinates, and schedules VIP visits from start to mission completion.
- Manages and administers the operation of the Executive Office to include preparing executive summaries, VIP and local commander visit itineraries from start to completion, coordination and control of district staff actions and functions.
- Serves as a member of a hiring panel, organizing and managing federal government 101 recruitment seminars, active member of the New Orleans Federal Executive Board and processing commander and deputy correspondence with varying degrees of confidential, classified, and unclassified markings.
- Delegate less consequential executive taskings to the Executive Secretary.
- Serves as member and presenter on Black History Month, Women’s History Month and Veteran committees, Corporate Board, and multiple project delivery teams.
- This is a federal job.
Senior Program Analyst/Executive Assistant
USDA National Finance Center (NFC)
02.2012 - 07.2019
- MISSION SUPPORT/ORGANIZATIONAL AWARENESS: I served the National Finance Center (NFC) in two capacities. My position was dual-hatted where I worked for both the New Orleans Federal Executive Board (FEB), directly reporting to the Director as the Executive Assistant and in support to the Administrative Management Support (AMS) Chief for fiscally sound, cost-effective program delivery.
- In the absence of the FEB Director, I was the go-to person for all FEB related activities, events, and planning, and from FEB2012-DEC2013, served as assistant to the Continuity of Operations (COOP) Manager procuring Shreveport Alternate Work Site for NFC.
- For the FEB, I strategically coordinated and managed the logistics of fifteen interagency planning events and six educational training programs, while simultaneously collecting, analyzing, and maintaining quantitative and qualitative metrics for after action reporting.
- Provided back-up support to the Emergency Notification communication system and served as the2014-2018 Chair of Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW); dedicated to honoring and celebrating the dedication of Federal, State, and Local government employees.
- I served three different Executive Directors consecutively from2012 through 2019 (Kathy Barre, Cheri Alsobrook, and Theresa Trentecoste).
- COMMUNICATION: In partnership with the FBI and Southern University Law Center (Baton Rouge)2015 and2016, I assisted in strengthening relationships and increasing awareness of Federal career and employment opportunities for300 students through sponsorship of “Federal Government 101” Career Day. During this event, we helped 21 Federal agencies increase their outreach and recruitment efforts at Historically Black Colleges and Universities by conducting a job fair and Federal Government 101 information sessions.
- COST CONTROL MEASURES: The FEB does not receive an annual budget to accomplish our objectives, so it must rely on joint leveraging of agency resources and develop creative solutions to satisfy common needs. As a result of my role in the negotiating process and collaborating with agencies, the total cost avoidance of shared training/conference room space, mediation assistance, and interagency no-cost or low-cost training for the services that we are able to track in2018 was $366,384.87.
- This is a federal job.
Information Officer (1825) / LCDR (04)
United States Navy Reserve
04.1987 - 07.2017
- CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS (COOP)/MOBILIZATION MANAGER: I used the Navy Family Accountability and Assessment System (NFAAS) to determine the Command status and event impact to Navy families following a natural/man-made disaster or catastrophic local or regional event such as an earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane, etc.
- Much like NFC’s Emergency Notification System, following a disaster, I assist the Command in deploying individuals/families, assessing property damage and determined how the event impacted Navy families
- Through NFAAS, I collect personnel information, assisted in locating affordable domicile and office locations for personnel, and tracked the recovery process
- NFAAS is an event-based system used to help determine how and where Navy service members and their families are located.
- I accessed data through a user-friendly website designed to assist Navy family members (Active Duty, Reserves, Department of the Navy Civilians, NAF/NEX employees and their immediate family members) who are directly impacted.
- Through NFAAS, I reported a member’s and their family current location, updated emergency personal contact information and requested assistance (especially if evacuation occurred far away from the home or place of work), informed the Navy know how the members are doing, coordinated needed clothing, food, housing, medical, pandemic, and other physiological needs through the Department of Defense (DoD) and other Federal agencies, and accurately accounted for all assigned personnel and their families to the Command.
- In my mobilization (MOB) management capacity, I independently planned the arrivals and departures of members and units through various Navy processing centers located throughout the United States of America.
- Activated over 10,000 Navy Reservists to Active Duty via orders in support of Operations Noble Eagle and Enduring Freedom Campaigns Post 911.
- Recognizing the delays encountered in locating suitable, I trained members for hard to fill positions during this National Emergency.
- Created a personnel prioritization process to pinpoint short-fused personnel needs which assisted the Navy in carrying out its deployment mission to combat National Terrorism.
- 30+-year military job.
Program Analyst
Commander, Navy Meteorology & Oceanography Command (CNMOC)
02.2011 - 02.2012
- Core member of a fifteen member staff.
- Performs program assessments to determine the level of efficiency and effectiveness of CNMOC in meeting United States Fleet Forces (USFF), Department of the Navy (DoN), and Department of Defense (DoD) priorities and requirements.
- Work is performed through coordinating, conducting, and presenting analysis of current ship capabilities.
- Responsible for creating and using analytic methods to identify gaps/risks in CNMOC capabilities to translate those gaps/risks into recommended program initiatives.
- Once finalized, my results were communicated to executive managers in Executive Summaries to make informed and objective decisions.
- Led CNMOC assessments in support of Program Objective Memorandum (POM) development, which is the Navy’s 5-year future defense program used to determine program budgeting, planning, resource management, and cost estimates over a 5-year period.
- Worked collaboratively with OPNAV N81, USFF, and the Oceanographer of the Navy staff to lead and/or conduct analytical studies in support of CNMOC goals and objectives.
- Identified, collected, and monitored business and performance metrics to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of CNMOC in meeting its strategic and operational objectives to the war fighter.
- Served on multiple committees and working groups in support of N8 assessments such as Ocean Data Collection Price and Performance Modeling, Programmatic Information Sheets, and Business Case Analysis.
- This is a federal job.
Senior Business Analyst Lead
eVenture Technologies, LLC
05.2007 - 11.2009
- Advised management on the evaluation and effectiveness of program operations, productivity and efficiency
- Understands Navy budgetary and fiscal management principles and techniques as they relate to long range planning of program objectives.
- Skilled in fact finding and investigative techniques; oral and written communications, and development of presentations and reports.
- Advised the civilian government manager on the potential benefits and implementation of the Implementation and Deployment Readiness Dashboard Tool (IDRRT) to improve department efficiency.
- Developed Deployment procedures to prevent fraud, waste and abuse, unauthorized disclosure or misappropriate of assets (for example, developed weekly automated email to stakeholders to give real time status of pending requests and submissions).
- Analyzed business processes and data of existing DIMHRS readiness to determine whether the Services (Army, Air Force, DFAS and DMDC) are ready to receive and implement the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System (DIMHRS).
- Identified and managed external tool dependencies; authored the Deployment, Contingency, Lessons Learned and Post Implementation Review plans and processes.
- Facilitated Deployment Independent Process Team (IPT) meetings.
- Actively participated in Legacy Systems, Data Migration meetings, and formal Technical Interface Reviews.
- Met with Test and Evaluation and Integrated Logistics System personnel to understand and implement their business processes.
Senior Business Analyst
Apogen Technologies
01.2005 - 05.2007
- Reported to all levels of an Enterprise level organization for the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System Program (DIMHRS - Oracle Application).
- Team lead and direct report to the United States Army (USA) - Provided analysis on business processes of the Implementation and Deployment Readiness Dashboard tool (IDRRT).
- Administrative support to include communication, directives, files, forms, records, and policies
- Reviewed DIMHRS audit and investigative reports to determine appropriate changes or required corrective actions.
- Developed project plans to increase overall program effectiveness and to develop a more comprehensive IDRRT that served project leaders of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), and DoD Business Transformation Agency (BTA).
- Presented IDRRT tool and business processes to senior-ranking program officials.
- Used an automated system to calculate and provide data analysis on status, time-line coordination, and phasing of over2500 IDRRT deployment checklist tasks
- Conducted Deployment Independent Process Team (IPT) meetings.
- Attended and participated in Legacy Systems, Data Migration meetings, and formal Technical Interface Review (TIR).
- Met with Test and Evaluation and Logistics personnel to gain understanding of their business processes
- Authored the DIMHRS Post Implementation Review, Deployment and Contingency Plans.
- Identified, reported, mitigated, and resolved deployment risks and issues.
- CDRL: Reviewed organizational policies, procedures, and deliverables to ensure accuracy, completeness and compliance to program guidelines and directives (DoD5000.2 -8 Dec08).Prepared clear and concise written and oral communications and presentations; researched complex business questions regarding DIMHRS deployment policy and either provided an answer to resolve an issue or recommended solutions.
- Communicated effectively with diverse user groups; identified and retrieved data to prepare reports; adapted to changing technology; worked independently; and organized and prioritized work; coordinated a variety of projects simultaneously; evaluated user request for new or modified applications such as for financial, HR, or statistical study.
- Analyzed and developed specifications to determine feasibility, cost, time required to implement, compatibility with current system capabilities, and financial impact using strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat (SWOT) analysis.
Human Resources Department Head
United States Navy
10.2000 - 10.2004
- Established critical liaison between the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and Navy Personnel Support Detachments (PSDs) to resolve a wide range of customer pay and system issues while simultaneously: adjudicating over $3,850,000 in pay errors to Navy service members and payment processing delays.
- Created, coordinated, documented, managed, and updated project plans for Navy Standard Integrated Pay and Personnel System (NSIPS) Issues and concerns.
- Initiated Navy Personnel Database Training via Microsoft Net Meeting to train over30 Navy Commands and400 system users in real-time metrics to enable extensive billet research, make fact based personnel assignments, establish job rotation dates, extensions and interim placements; developed workload staffing standards to determine organizational manning by determining resource allocation for coverage among staff of53, adjusted work assignments and timely delivery of service to assigned areas during concurrent loss of team personnel.
- Approved staff time and leave records.
- Researched, compiled, and formulated Executive Summaries for policy execution.
- Implemented tracking procedures and reporting methods.
- Attended Regional Conference and weekly project status meetings to provide departmental information while representing the Reserve Services to senior military leaders.
- Administratively responsible for all duties and functions of the pay and systems department.
- Reviewed and maintained documentation for accuracy, completeness and conformity with Navy policy guidance and directives.
- Performed other duties and special projects as assigned.
- Principle liaison between technical, design and production teams during life cycle development.
- Analyzed user-reported problems to identify sources of high pay-error frequency, determined corrective action, submitted recommendations, and provided senior staff with the status of action items and outstanding issues.
- Approved time and leave records, created, coordinated, documented, managed, revised, and updated project plans for Navy Standard Integrated Personnel and Pay System (NSIPS).
- Developed spreadsheets and other record keeping systems.
- Worked on special projects, reports and performed other duties as assigned.
- Debated the Navy Occupational Billeting Classifications Code for Manpower Personnel Staff Officer3965 while completing Defense Acquisition University (DAU) courses for Information Technology.
- Liaison between design, production, and technical teams during life cycle development.
- Participated in programs for classifying, selecting, and assigning personnel (i.e APPLY Board)
- Supervised or participated in interviews to determine civilian, military, and previous experience of applicant to recommend for duty and career assignments.
Business Analyst, Officer
Citibank
07.1999 - 10.2000
- Evaluated Service Level Agreements (Slash), identified and prioritized opportunities, tracked and reported results.
- Assisted the Quality Assurance Team in tracking, fixing, and adding system enhancements to product lines.
- Defining process flows via Joint Application Development (JADE) sessions and analyzed /documented business requirements for the scope of work.
- Created and maintained project plans.
- Planned, organized , assigned, reviewed, and evaluated the work of peers
- Performed Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functions
- Created user guides, resolved development issues before and after system implementation , and point of contact/liaison between Citibank departments and stakeholders.
- Organized and chaired user meetings to track client issues, concerns, or complaints.
- Worked closely with assigned users, team members, clients and technical support staff to research and resolve outstanding problems in a timely and efficient manner.
- Created project plan that outlined the steps required to develop structured card designs.
- Converted project specifications into a sequence of detailed instructions and logical steps to illustrate to the customer the logical operational flow.
- Assisted users to solve operating problems by recreating steps taken by the user to locate and resolve the source of their complaint.
Patient Administration (PAD) - Senior Clinical Systems Analyst
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center (EHMC)
01.1995 - 07.1999
- Assessed, planned, implemented, and evaluated information support needs for patient care operations using critical judgment, policies, procedures, protocol, and hospital standards.
- Client focused and understood the business needs to create applications, reports, and analyze processes for day-to-day business processing.
- Performed system assessment, process analysis, identification of system requirements, and functional definition of the business system changes.
- Formulated and conducted one-on-one training for hospital directors, nurses, physicians, and clinical staff
- Gathered data, performed system programming (matrix coding for Eclipsys TDS7000) - Designed customized Patient Administration (PAD) registration clinical application screens for: Admitting, Business Office, Chaplain,26 Clinics, Emergency Room, Inpatient, Outpatient, and Medical Records Departments.
- Performed production testing and chaired user meetings to resolve client concerns.
- Analyzed, tracked, managed, and reported client issues to upper management for resolution.
- Identified and monitored project-related issues, developed a plan of action, updated project plans and provided management with the status of outstanding items.
- Updated and maintained system security access and system files.
- Provided 24-hour on-call help desk and customer support via personal computer and modem dial-up.
- Reviewed, wrote, and executed system test scripts.
- Planned and scheduled tasks to ensure departmental goals were met.
Customer Support Analyst/Trainer
Script Systems, Incorporated
07.1993 - 12.1994
- Customer Service Analyst/Trainer that provided proprietary software application modules to medical industry.
- Each module was designed specifically to address the requirements of medical offices, clinics, hospital departments, retail pharmacies, hospital outpatient and large mail- order pharmacies.
- Provided service support to computer systems in CA, NY, TX, PA, OH, HI, FL, and IA by dialing in via modem and resolving application issues.
- Monitored confidential patient information and resolved any physician billing issues to HCFA1500 forms by providing clear and concise definitive answers to processing questions and medical coding requirements.
- Initiated, conducted and coordinated analysis on resource allocation, financial program evaluation reviews, and physician applications to ensure that program financial goals were on target.
- Collateral duties consisted of training users on customized software such as word documents, spreadsheets, file transfers and local databases.
- The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functions I performed centered around writing detailed business requirements, conducting client site visits, and providing one-on-one user application help sessions.
Business Relations Analyst/ Trainer NASCO
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)/BCBSNJ (Horizon)
06.1985 - 07.1993
- Principle facilitator between Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (BCBSNJ) department managers and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) technology support staff.
- Interviewed clients to define and manage project scope.
- Established and developed procedures, practices, and methods for BCBSNJ Membership Services Department.
- Decomposed high-level information into project details and created user requests from the underlying true needs.
- Challenged business units on their assumptions of how they would successfully execute their plans through strong analytical, product management skills, understanding and interpreting customer business needs, and then translating them into application and operational requirements.
- Worked jointly with developers and subject matter experts (SMEs) to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between membership performance needs. This was supported by me quickly understanding the business issues and data challenges of the clients.
Education
Doctorate Business Administration -
Columbia Southern University (CSU)
Orange Beach, ALPhD - Public Policy
Southern University And Agricultural & Mechanical College (SUBR)
Baton Rouge, LA05-2025
Master of Business Administration -
Webster University
Jacksonville, FL05.2004
Master of Arts - Computer Information Resources Management
Webster University
Jacksonville, FL03.2003
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
Old Dominion University (ODU)
Norfolk, VA05.1985
Skills
- Calendar management
- Travel coordination
- Meeting preparation
- Document management
- Communication liaison
- Event planning
- Task prioritization
- Correspondence handling
- Expense tracking
- Resource allocation
- Administrative support
- Project assistance
- Team collaboration
- Problem solving
- Research support
- Client interaction
- Relationship building
- Meeting facilitation
- Decision support
- Policy compliance
- Corporate communication
- Executive support
- Office management
- Customer Service-oriented
- Meeting planning
- Schedule management
- Staff management
- Report analysis
Affiliations
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Southern Region, Hattiesburg Alumnae Chapter
- National Naval Officers Association, Lifetime Member
- Blacks in Government, Lifetime Member
- National Black MBA Association, Member
- American Society for Public Administration, Member
Certification
- [Administrative Professional Certification] [October 2024]
- Louisiana Election Commissioner (St. Tammany Parish, Precinct #913) 2021 until Present
Timeline
Supervisory Executive Assistant to the MVN Commander
United States Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District (MVN)
07.2019 - Current
Senior Program Analyst/Executive Assistant
USDA National Finance Center (NFC)
02.2012 - 07.2019
Program Analyst
Commander, Navy Meteorology & Oceanography Command (CNMOC)
02.2011 - 02.2012
Senior Business Analyst Lead
eVenture Technologies, LLC
05.2007 - 11.2009
Senior Business Analyst
Apogen Technologies
01.2005 - 05.2007
Human Resources Department Head
United States Navy
10.2000 - 10.2004
Business Analyst, Officer
Citibank
07.1999 - 10.2000
Patient Administration (PAD) - Senior Clinical Systems Analyst
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center (EHMC)
01.1995 - 07.1999
Customer Support Analyst/Trainer
Script Systems, Incorporated
07.1993 - 12.1994
Information Officer (1825) / LCDR (04)
United States Navy Reserve
04.1987 - 07.2017
Business Relations Analyst/ Trainer NASCO
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)/BCBSNJ (Horizon)
06.1985 - 07.1993
- [Administrative Professional Certification] [October 2024]
- Louisiana Election Commissioner (St. Tammany Parish, Precinct #913) 2021 until Present
Doctorate Business Administration -
Columbia Southern University (CSU)
PhD - Public Policy
Southern University And Agricultural & Mechanical College (SUBR)
Master of Business Administration -
Webster University
Master of Arts - Computer Information Resources Management
Webster University
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
Old Dominion University (ODU)
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