My Journey
Darryl “Deri” Draper-Amason, PhD, works at the intersection of instructional systems, human performance improvement, maturity models, mission engineering, and AI-enabled readiness. Her work focuses on helping organizations make readiness visible, measurable, and actionable across complex human-technical systems.
As a researcher at Old Dominion University’s Center for Mission Engineering, she leads applied work on the Integrated Digital Maturity Pathway, user-story-driven readiness assessment, human-in-the-loop AI, and the Unified Theory of Maturity Models. Her professional roots in instructional systems, ISPI, training evaluation, and performance improvement continue to shape her approach: readiness must be connected to evidence, behavior, decisions, and measurable results.
Performax Systems reflects her current body of work: a readiness intelligence platform for understanding how people, systems, data, and decisions come together to accelerate performance and mission impact.
Driven by passion
I am driven by a deep belief that people want to perform meaningful work, contribute to something larger than themselves, and make decisions that matter. But too often, they are asked to operate inside systems that are unclear, disconnected, or changing faster than they can adapt.
That is where my work begins.
My passion is helping organizations see what is often hidden: the readiness gaps, performance friction, knowledge-flow breakdowns, maturity barriers, and decision risks that prevent people and systems from reaching their full potential.
Through my work in instructional systems, human performance improvement, maturity modeling, mission engineering, and AI-enabled readiness, I focus on one central goal: helping organizations turn complexity into clarity and clarity into action.
Performax Systems reflects that passion. It is built around the idea that readiness is not just something to report after the fact. Readiness is something to understand, develop, measure, and sustain.
When people, systems, data, and decisions are aligned, organizations can move faster from learning to performance, from insight to impact, and from intention to measurable results.