Robert Taylor

My name is Robert Taylor and I am an IT professional with over 17 years of experience. My first "career" was in the airline industry. I began in operations - fielding airline company requests for coding their rule and fare data into a standardized format for distribution to travel agency software systems. As the IT industry transformed and became more distributed - my career followed suit. I moved from operations to training - teaching our customers to code the information themselves once the technology lent itself to enabling that capability. From training, I moved into requirements analysis and UI design. From there, I moved into data modeling and diagramming - at this point I switched business areas and moved into Federal government contracting. I've since moved into project and program management, have transitioned to a Federal employee, and am constantly striving to make the Federal engineering and project processes more agile.

I am currently serving as an IT Manager in the Department of State and recently chaired a working group that successfully established a formalized Scrum-based framework for executing IT projects within the Bureau of Information Resource Management. Professional interests include the intersection of sound Enterprise Architecture with Agile practices and philosophies.

I am a certified CSM (applying for CSP), PMP, PMI-ACP, DoDAF Black Belt, and ITIL Foundations.