Taylor Hope

Experience

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  Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)

  Jun 2013 - Jan 2015

  System Analyst

  • Performing the testing of records management COTS application, creating test scripts, and formulating new testing framework. • Scrum Master responsible for facilitating daily stand up meetings, backlog grooming, and sprint planning sessions, and ensuring impediments are removed from development team.• In charge of change control release management by delivering changes to production and stage environments. Responsible for creating the initial change request, correcting any deficiencies, coordinating with implementers for given tasks, and seeing change request approved and implemented.• Exceptionally experienced in Freedom of Information/Privacy Act (FOIA/PA) processing and records management systems and business process. Thorough understanding of request, ingestion, redaction, referral, and delivery process.• Providing help desk support by troubleshooting issues and acting as a direct contact for end users. Contact users over email, phone, or in-person on a regular basis to gather metrics and identify issues. Troubleshooting completed by investigating application, server logs, and input from end user and provide remediation through consistent recreation of issue or providing location of bug to developers. Show less

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  InfoReliance

  Jan 2015 - Apr 2016

  Consultant

  My role as a Consultant at InfoReliance included business analysis duties, testing of software, and acting as scrum master for the work stream.• Responsible for taking requirements and constructing a product backlog of user stories that fulfill business needs and functionality of the system. Consistently groom the backlog through backlog refinement, updating user stories to meet the growing needs of the stakeholders.• Acting as Scrum Master for the team, conducting daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, and sprint review ceremonies. • Work with stakeholders on a weekly basis to clarify requirements, gather new requirements, and to update existing product backlog and functional requirements document (FRD).• Maintain Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) with test cases and requirements.• Developed test plan, test cases for each sprint, and testing approach for validating functionality and business needs. Maintain within HP Quality Center.• Responsible for deploying application for testing by pulling build from Visual Studio, deploying to server, and migrating the database.• Create VuGen scripts for performance testing of application and maintain within HP LoadRunner.• Ensure the team has what it needs to work within a sprint by eliminating impediments, gaining access to application and database servers, and brokering meetings with the proper support personnel. Show less

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  TG Federal

  Apr 2016 - Feb 2017

  Consultant

  Supported and assisted with the development of a solution architecture for a key civilian sector agency to modernize the process of collecting data and streamlining it for downstream compliance and data parity.

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  Deloitte

  Feb 2017 - now

  Manager within the Strategy offering of the Strategy & Analytics (S&A) portfolio driving the enterprise data strategy and digital transformation of FIRREA agencies.Completed 10-month rotation acting as NVIDIA Alliance Manager to drive sales and adoption of Deloitte solutions leveraging NVIDIA technology for government clients in Civilian, Federal Health, DoD, and State/Local/Higher Education sectors. Senior Consultant within the Strategy offering of the Strategy & Analytics (S&A) portfolio enabling the modernization of financial regulation examination systems. Consultant within the Technology Strategy and Architecture (TS&A) service line supporting the modernization of the civilian sector's capabilities for data quality and data integration.

  • Manager

    May 2021 - now

  • Senior Consultant

    Aug 2018 - May 2021

  • Consultant

    Feb 2017 - Aug 2018