Paul Hartl

Paul Hartl is a Senior Business Systems Analyst at Lease Crutcher Lewis. Paul has been in this position for 1 year and 1 month. Prior to that, they worked at Holland America/Princess Alaska-Yukon Land Operations for 4 years, where they held various positions, including Manager, Systems & Data Administration, Business Systems Analyst, and Business Intelligence Analyst.

At Lease Crutcher Lewis, Paul is responsible for managing enterprise-wide operational systems, including training and facilitation of thousands of global end-users. Paul also direct manages and supervises a team of data specialists and system administrators. Paul has experience using Agile project management theory to meet the changing strategic goals of business operations. Paul was also the Project Manager of a Proof of Concept project partnering with IBM to leverage Watson for natural language processing of unstructured, free text data.

Some of Paul’s other daily activities include research, requirements gathering, building business cases, project management, and extensive collaboration with third-party software vendors and internal IT teams for successful deployments of software and production support. Paul also serves as the liaison between the business and software development vendor teams. Additionally, Paul is responsible for creation and maintenance of product roadmap and the prioritization of product backlog to align with key stakeholder and business needs.

Paul has a lot of expertise in the coordination of User Acceptance Testing, implementation, and quality assurance of enterprise systems, database applications, and version upgrades. Paul also analyzes existing customer needs and works with product owner, business users, and vendor development team to implement high value features and solutions. Furthermore, Paul prepares and presents analysis reports, executive-level dashboards, and strategic recommendations to Management. Paul has also successfully identified process inefficiencies and developed solutions for technical operations through gap analysis. Additionally, they have created and maintained relational databases to internally audit multiple training programs, international emissions reporting, shore power use and cost savings, and identify leading indicators.

Some other notable accomplishments of Paul’s include developing and maintaining monthly fleet-wide safety, environmental, and operational efficiency reports shared amongst the corporation; designing training materials to ensure familiarization and knowledge transfer to successfully implement systems; preparing and maintaining test documentation, including test scripts, and executing pre-deployment user acceptance testing; creating and maintaining functional and technical documentation and standards; being responsible for functional application design, including user stories, use cases, and business requirements documents; creating combined data sets from multiple sources using modern data architecture methods for best practice data analysis and reporting; developing a database and monthly dashboard for analyzing environmental incidents shared with executive management; designing a fleet-wide incident tracking and forecasting tool to support managerial decision making; reporting on environmental performance for use in corporate sustainability reports and required permitting; analyzing big data to determine trends and key performance indicators for executive management; recommending operational improvements based on data and procedural analysis, performing data validation as necessary; designing logical data models and flowcharts using relational databases and modern data visualization software; developing and tracking a continual improvement program to meet ISO 14001 requirements.

Paul Hartl has a Bachelor of Science from Central Washington University in Environmental Science - Policy Specialization, which they completed in 2017. Paul also has a degree in Marine Transportation from California State University Maritime Academy, which they obtained in 2015.