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Quick facts

Target roles: Technical Program Manager · Delivery Lead · AI Enablement and Adoption Lead · Atlassian or SharePoint Platform Lead
Clearance: Active Top Secret
Certifications: PMP® · PSM I · AI-Empowered SAFe® Agilist · AI-Empowered SAFe® POPM · ISC2 CC
Experience: 15 years in enterprise and federal IT · 8+ years leading project, business analysis, and Agile delivery
Environments: Navy OPNAV and NAVAIR · DoD · Air Force · Air Force Reserve · FAA · EPA · NIPR and SIPR
Platforms: Jira · Jira Service Management · Confluence · SharePoint Online · Power Automate · Power Apps
Work arrangement: Remote or hybrid

Submittal summary

Aerika Saxe is a Top Secret–cleared Technical Delivery Lead with 15 years in DoD and civilian federal IT. She leads Agile delivery (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban), owns Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint platforms, and drives enterprise AI adoption. As day-to-day delivery lead for the Navy’s OPNAV-GPT, she coordinated 10+ workstreams to scale a secure AI capability from 250 to 7,200+ users across NIPR and SIPR. PMP®, PSM I, AI-Empowered SAFe® Agilist and POPM, ISC2 CC.

Evidence for the interview

Six case studies with situation, constraints, and results Sample dashboards, RAID, RACI, and JQL Results by the numbers Verified credentials and DAU coursework

Roles

Where I fit

Technical Program or Project Manager
Delivery Lead or Scrum Master
Product Owner
AI Enablement and Adoption Lead
Atlassian or SharePoint Platform Lead

Keywords

Core skills and keywords

Agile deliveryScrumSAFeKanbanProgram managementRelease managementRequirements analysisUser storiesUATRAID managementStakeholder managementExecutive reportingJira administrationJira Service ManagementConfluenceSharePoint OnlinePower AutomateJQL dashboardsAI adoptionChange managementTraining designRAG content readinessAI governanceDoD acquisitionNIPR / SIPR

Credentials

The credential stack, and how I use it

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Program governance

Project Management Professional (PMP)®

Scope, schedule, cost, risk, and change control across multi-workstream federal programs. The RAID logs, status packs, and decision records behind OPNAV-GPT.

Team delivery

Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I)

Running Scrum events that end in decisions, and coaching teams on Agile practice through the Jira boards and workflows they use every day.

Scaled Agile

AI-Empowered SAFe® Agilist · AI-Empowered SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager

PI planning, cross-team dependencies, and backlog ownership when several teams deliver one capability, with AI built into planning and refinement.

Security

ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

Delivering inside NIPR and SIPR environments with access control, data handling, and accreditation steps planned into the schedule, not discovered at release.

AI for delivery

Data Landscape of GenAI for Project Managers · Generative AI Overview for Project Managers

Data readiness and responsible AI use for project teams, applied to RAG source content, prompt libraries, and AI adoption plans.

DAU

Federal acquisition

15 Defense Acquisition University courses

Requirements analysis, work breakdown structures, and the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, so delivery plans fit how DoD funds and buys capability.

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