Grace Kasper Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Grace develops end-to-end client solutions to provide insight and data integrity to complex, ambiguous, and critical processes. She leads meeting with various stakeholders for process discovery, refines requirements, and develops in multiple applications. She has created complex data visualizations while ensuring the security of PII and PHI. During her development, she held demonstrations, created QA test scripts, and provided regular leadership updates. Grace built a custom python script to recognize and flag noncompliant claims, saving her client upwards of $100M.In her initiatives, Grace drives the Business Development (BD) for targeted market sectors by recognizing opportunities for leadership attention, tracking engagements, and performing market analyses. She has written for 4 Requests for Information and 1 Request for Proposal. Additionally, Grace organized a 20 person cohort training for Senior Consultants and Managers to learn the complexities of the BD from Senior Managers, Partners, and Managing Directors. Comments from Grace's managers during performance reviews:"Grace has been absolutely exceptional... She continues to provide value and support the implementation of an incredibly impactful Tableau dashboard for our clients. She is independent, proactive, and thoughtful. I would gladly staff Grace on any of my engagements and am confident she can deliver excellent work anywhere she goes.""Grace is an excellent team member... and exceptional at managing up and delivering outstanding quality to the client. Her presentation skills and ability to managing the work and project far exceed her level.""Grace's performance was exceptional and unique for a first year analyst. She managed high levels of client ambiguity during this period, helped personally task and drive our team of sub-contractors 2x her experience level... Her maturity to handle this highly complex engagement was consistent with that of Senior Consultants performance."

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Embedded Systems Engineering Lab (ECE 4180 \ ECE 6180): Cross-listed advanced undergraduate course and (previously available) graduate level course testing embedded systems engineering. Additional technical documentation can be found: https://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/489X/- Resolved and helped students through problems in five (5) multiple step (10-15 individual challenges) lab assignments using an ARM Microcontroller, Raspberry Pi, and multiple peripherals such as sonar, IR sensors, LED screens, motors, touch sensors, keypads, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth- Hosted at least ten (10) hours of walk-in assistance weekly while observing proper covid 19 precautions and ensuring lab safety- Applied knowledge to help debug and overcome technical challenges as students undertook month long projects to create sophisticated, interconnected, and comprehensive IoT and/or embedded devices

- Collaborated on a team of Deloitte professionals to deliver a cloud-based, Product Lifecycle Management solution - Analyzed vendor offerings and requirements and managed multiple weekly documents and living documents- Researched and presented technical details to my team and Deloitte professions to provide a greater context of our projects & future innovations in related fields

- GTRI does over $500 million of contracted work in government contracting, mostly in the defense sector - Worked under the guidance of GTRI researchers performing research to assist in the creation of a complex electromagnetic environment used to test Aircraft Protection systems ina hardware in the loop environment- Presented project, progresses, and knowledge to colleagues in bi-weekly meetings- Built and refined RobotFramework tests and analyzed results of tests within the context of the simulator- Used the Agile Business model for group goal setting and daily task scrums

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

- Reorganized 50-hour training and programming for 100+ members into a virtual format- Hosted 3-days of events with 200+ visitors per day into a virtual format to account for safety during the COVID-19 pandemic- Represented Alpha Chi Omega as on the Recruitment Corona Task Force (10 students and multiple advisors) and created plans for recruitment that prioritized student health during the coronavirus pandemic- Collaborated with other Greek Organizations setting rules for the 2020 Recruitment season- Ran Logistics Committee which involved organizing workshops, activities, and workbooks and managing daytime and nighttime internal & external committees- Organized and led confidential meetings between members and Chapter Recruitment Information Board- Handled recruitment applications, chapter attendance, educated & coached the chapter on membership standards, and assigned chapter roles within recruitment- Mentors replacement on position requirements and future plans for the position- Spent about 20 hours a week to preparing and organizing forms, emails, and information

Greater Atlanta Area

- Co-lead lab sections of 30 students on Electricity and Magnetism- Created outside resources for students to study material more effectively and graded weekly quizzes- Organized and lead small study sessions for students outside of class to help them understand the material and applications of the material to their fields of study- Average rating of 4.75/5.0 by students through an anonymous online survey of TA performance (includes my ability to communicate, respect, enthusiasm, preparedness). - A selection of quotes by my students concerning my work: "Always happy to explain/discuss [things] in order to help up succeed. Supper approachable. Great at explaining, patient, always happy to help!", "She was really caring and was really good at relating difficult concepts to make them more understandable. She was always ready to help in lab, and was encouraging all along the way." and "She was so willing to help and make sure we actually understood what was happening and not just getting past the checkpoints. She was also really nice and patient when explaining things."- as a Gold Standard TA, asked to advise peers in the areas of preparedness and students' engagement

Dallas, Texas

- Collaborated on IBM Cloud’s Fabric Development department on the Identity team- Wrote PHP Unit Tests, Test Utility classes, and PHP 7 Upgrade testing on a team utilizing the Agile Business model- Developed skills in git, PHP, PHPUnit testing, SQL, Confluence, and FishEye in through projects

Atlanta, Georgia

Served customers, handled money and dealt with customer service disputes.

Gainesville, Georgia

With First Aid, Lifeguard, and CPR Certifications, I cared for and monitored the well-being of the 30 campers in my care at all times. I ran activities with campers (ages 7-13). Additionally, I gave educational and motivational talks to campers weekly. In total, I have gone on 8 leadership-training weekends, with a total of 120 hours of leadership training.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi Omega (VP of Recruitment Information), Women in Engineering, Women in Electrical and Computer.

High School Dipolma

Softball (Captain and All-Region Athlete), Theater and Drama - Cast and Crew (Sound Engineer), Bearettes (an all-girls A Cappella Group).