Personal Summary:

Bryan Kocher designed, managed, and built high pay-off systems for Raytheon, Polaroid, IBM, the state of Illinois, DOD, and the US Postal Service among others. He is an expert in turning around troubled projects. He taught assembler programming at Boston University and currently teaches MS Project and PMBOK PMP examination preparation courses. He holds a BA in History, Masters in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and a PhD in Software Engineering. Dr. Kocher added PMP certification in 2003. For twenty years he was an officer of ACM, the second largest US scientific not-for-profit organization and president for two years. He has published numerous articles and a book.

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SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Visual Basic, .NET, Visual Studio, COBOL, FORTRAN, LISP, SNOBOL, ADA, ALGOL, C, C , Java, PL/1, VBA, FOCUS, 1-2-3 macro language, IBM 360 Assembler, DEC PDP-11 Assembler

Database Management Systems: Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, IDMS, IMS, ADABAS, Model 204, System 2000, VAX RDB, Database Design 3NF, 4NF and programming, Teradata SQL

Software Packages: Excel, MS Access, MS Word, MS Project, PowerPoint, Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro, ProMod, Primavera, DELTEK Open Plan Cobra, Rational Rose, Clearcase, System Architect.

Simulation languages: Promodel, Simscript, GPSS, Dynamo, GPSS, META

Methodologies: SDLC, RUP, UML, Waterfall, Agile RAD, JAD, SCRUM , ETL, EDI, Earned Value Method EVM , PERT, CPM, MS Certified Professional Earned Value Method EVMS , WBS, Integrated Master Plan, Business Process Redesign, Six Sigma, Portfolio Management, and ROI. Expert in PMBOK Knowledge Areas: Project Integration Management: Project Plan Development, Work Breakdown Structure WBS Development, Project Plan Execution Management, Integrated Change Control Management Scope Management: Scope Planning, Scope Definition, Scope Verification, Scope Change Control Time Management: Activity Definition, Activity Sequencing, Activity Duration Estimating, Schedule Development, Schedule Management Cost Management: Resource Planning, Cost Estimating, Budgeting, Cost Control Quality Management: Quality Planning, Quality Assurance, Quality Control Communications Management: Communications Planning, Performance Reporting and Risk Management: Risk Identification, Risk Analysis, Risk Response Plan, Risk Monitoring Control

Other: biometrics HSPD-12 FIPS 201 PIV Identity, Credential and Access Management ICAM Business Process Management BPM Business Process Re-engineering BPR Business Intelligence BI Decision Support Systems DSS Data Warehouse.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Independent Consultant, Project Manager

Some clients include:

• Centech, writer and proposed project manager for DHS HSPD-12 RFP response
• AMYX, writer and proposed program manager for GSA HSPD-12 RFP response
• AARP, Washington, DC, PMO Project Manager, Enterprise Re-engineering
• IBEX USA, Editor and writer on several business process / systems designs in RFP responses.
• Titanium Cobra Solutions, San Diego, CA, PMBOK PMP Exam Prep MS Excel and MS Project Instructor.
• Director of Operations, Pentagon Ridge Condo Association, Responsible for evaluating a 5 Million portfolio of projects, aligning with community objectives, ranking, selecting, and budgeting funds over multiple years to accomplish goals, evaluating bids, and overseeing construction projects including milestone evaluation and stage-gate reviews. Chair board of directors meetings. Responsible for maintaining good relationship with all owners CRM .

Author Currently writing a book.

Confidential

Biometrics Program Manager

• Book Boss and designated Program Manager for DHS EAGLE II. Built team of 13 subcontractors to create response to DHS EAGLE II RFP. Phased subcontractors in/out as needed. Built budget for price bid. Negotiated teaming agreements and NDAs with all 13 and submitted our proposal a full day ahead of the deadline.
• New Product Development and Marketing Created plan and WBS for 4 companies to develop a web-enabled database MS Access, SQL Server, VB.Net of laws and regulations governing use of Biometrics around the world with clear, specific legal opinion regarding use of each biometric in each country. In charge of budget and phase reviews. I built the prototype demonstration product in MS Access, Excel automation and several hundred lines of VB.Net code.
• DoD Manager in charge of 9 subcontractors doing Legal, Cultural, Political, and Policy studies for the Biometrics Identity Management Agency BIMA , designing Service Oriented Architecture SOA and Business Process Management BPM for Identity, Credential and Access Management ICAM . Planned integration with DHS, DoS, and DoJ FBI . Set Work Breakdown Structure WBS to produce on Combat Command COCOM use and needs for biometrics overviews of biometrics including privacy legal/cultural studies interoperable systems and problem mitigation. In charge of staffing and budgeting for project and all TAG employees on the program. TAG used MS Project Deltek MPM and Cobra for project planning and EVMS tracking. Secret clearance.

Confidential

Program Manager and Management Consultant

Project management, Software design, implementation, and management consulting a sample of projects include:

Confidential

Project Manager in PMO planning BPM for HSPD-12 PIV card implementation. We developed a complete, detailed roll-out plan and dashboardfor all airports nationwide with RUP and UML

Confidential

• Program Manager for 8 Million BPM design to provide HSPD-12 PIV cards to SBA in J2EE and Oracle .
• This project included creating the IMS in MS Project, moving the data center, phasing in and out subcontractors, and purchasing 800,000 of equipment.
• Managed several projects simultaneously.
• Responsible for negotiating contracts and budget control of subcontractors and USG accounting for all program expenses and invoicing.
• Achieved direct savings of 370,486 for the program.

Confidential

Program Manager in charge of a Department of Homeland Security funded HSPD-12 FRAC program. This 6 Million system and BPM design provide biometric smart cards to Illinois first responders. Cards include fingerprint and PIN identification encrypted on a 64K chip compatible with HSPD-12, PIV, TWIC, CAC and FIPS-201. The Java J2EE and Oracle system includes an MS Access system I developed for producing temporary ID cards at incident scenes, a dashboard, and applications for verification on a PDA. I managed the work of 6 companies and 3 state agencies including IBM, National Super Computer Center, Entrust, and the Bureau of Identification. The Integrated Master Plan defined necessary accomplishments for each sub. The sub schedules fed the Integrated Master Schedule in MS Project. I phased vendors in and out as needed evaluated milestones procured equipment for 16 command vehicles and added AAMVA 2D barcodes allowing State Police cruiser equipment to scan cards. I built an Excel and VB simulation to show the card issuance process

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• Development Integration Project Manager for web-based Java and Oracle mortgage processing servicing ASP for Canada. My 12 person group integrated FIS Filogix EDI with XML, built EDI interface to Canada ACH using off-shore on-shore programmers. The PMO rigorously applied EVMS with MS Project. Responsible for WBS, meshing with IMS, phase in/out of personnel, budget and milestones.
• When I took over, the project had a 21 SPI. In two months the SPI was 100 , where it stayed to project completion.
• This project finished exactly on schedule.

Confidential

Reengineered business process with RAD VB/Excel/Lotus Notes containing hundreds of lines of code I wrote to create an application for underwriters to price HMO renewals and generate alternative renewal options based on claims experience .

Confidential

I wrote thousands of lines of VB.Net code to create applications to guide assembling equipment that manufactures semiconductor chips and to ETL collect test data into an MS SQL Server LIMS database for ISO 9001. The application can either connect to the internet in the build area of the clean-room and transmit test results in real-time or store test results for later transmission.

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Redesigned business process BPM to speed quarterly sales forecasting and sales analysis. Using SAP data, VB automated Excel forecasts, consolidation, analysis, and reporting with VB.Net code I wrote.

• Eliminated approximately 100 staff hours per month from the production of forecasts and results.

Confidential

Director, Equity Trading System

Managed 20 programmer/analysts responsible for a business critical securities trading strategy system. Supervised development of Java/Websphere/Smalltalk DB applications for portfolio attribution and retrieval of securities data via web browser. Instituted BPM teaching staff to do root cause analysis and establish procedures to eliminate failure recurrences.

• Set up performance dashboard and increased system availability from 72 to 99 .

Confidential

• Program Manager and Management Consultant
• Project management, software design, implementation, and management consulting a sample of projects include:

Confidential

• Business Process Reengineering BPR Project Manager, Hired and lead a 13-person team developing client server, Oracle 7, On-line Transaction Processing OLTP system in Visual Basic VB.Net . Architect responsible for planning, estimating, delivery, client contact, budget, personnel, WBS, MS Project, milestones, alignment with client objectives and all other project elements.
• Wrote RFP response and won competitive bid to implement this system.
• I wrote all ETL programs in VB.Net to edit, transform, and load old system data to new database.
• This system was deployed at 300 USPS facilities across the country.

Confidential

Designed developed VB automated Excel mutual fund portfolio reporting producing camera ready quarterly and annual reports of multiple fund families with thousands of lines of VB code and Sybase.

• This system eliminated 80 staff hours per month in the production of statements.

Confidential

Automated Fund Accounting and Fund Management spreadsheets with Excel/VB and rewrote 40 Crystal Reports to accommodate changes to the Fund Station MS SQL Server database