Paula Thrasher is Director of Digital Services at CSRA. She has 20+ years experience in IT and has spent the last 15 years trying to implement Agile culture in the federal government. Paula's first Agile project was in 2001. Since then, she has lead over 15 programs and projects as an Agile developer, technical lead, Scrum Master or Agile Coach. Her teams have helped two separate federal agencies migrate applications to Amazon AWS GovCloud, and don some other amazing DevOps ninja work along the way.

Paula is a proud Carnegie Mellon University Alumni with a B.S. in Statistics, is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP), but prefers learning new things through experience and working with smart people.