Bryan Kocher

Falls Church, VA ***** mobile 617-***-**** adxv8r@r.postjobfree.com

Personal Summary

I fix broken projects. Troubled programs are my specialty. I took a web development project at Royal Bank of Canada from 21% SPI to 100%. I set up processes and procedures at State Street Bank to improve system up-time from 72% to 99%. I increased ACM membership 20% and brought in 700% more program funding. I am a certified Agile and PMP manager who also teaches PMP exam preparation classes. I help realize value.

Education and Certification

MS, Sep 1975, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

BA, May 1970, History, Economics minor, Moravian University, Bethlehem, PA

Top Secret clearance (interim), DOD, active, issued March 2023

SAFe 4 Practitioner Certified, 2019 Scaled Agile Framework, Scaled Agile Inc.

PMP, 2003, Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute, Newtown Square, PA

MCP, 1998, Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA

Academic Appointments

Adjunct Professor, Boston University, Boston, MA, taught assembler programming

Adjunct Professor, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA, taught assembler programming

Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, taught cost accounting for engineers

EXPERIENCE

FDIC ICAM Program Management Office Manager. Oct 2022 – Present

Setting up PMO and implementing DAD to integrate ICAM projects across Zero Trust, Application Inventory, Authentication Hub, Credential Management, ICAM One Identity, Organizational Change Management, and metrics

Skills used: Manager, development methodology, change management, and program management.

Grant Thornton. Operations Transformation Product Delivery Manager. Mar 2020 – Jun 2022

Worked with Veterans Health Administration to streamline operations. Researched, wrote and delivered Analysis of Alternatives for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platforms at VA - Salesforce, MS 365 MS Dynamics, eGain, and ServiceNow. Managed development of CTRT, a modern replacement for the Learning Management System used by DoD Comptroller CPAs to schedule education, document completion, and track their requirements for (re)certification.

Skills used: Manager, DevOps, SAFe, Agile development, SCRUM, Kanban, change management, and program management.

Perspecta. NMCI NGEN, Agile Product Owner/Product Manager for Identity and Directory. Apr 2016 – Mar 2020

NMCI is the world’s largest intranet, with 4,100 servers, 400,000 seats and 700,000 users. Program Manager for a $3M per year agile team, spread over eight states, with 12 engineers, two Domain Architects, 13 projects with Project Managers and a SCRUM Master; responsible for PKI, Certificate Authority, Active Directory, DNS, Centrify 2 factor authentication, Kerberos security, ADFS single sign on, DHCP Network, GPO, FIM, MIM, RBAC, MS Office 365, M 365, Quest Change Auditor for AD audit, Splunk and Solarwinds for analysis. Used both Scrum and Kanban. Worked with customers and domain architects to prioritize upgrades, investigations and fixes; matched engineers to tasks; worked with engineers to estimate time and mashed the estimates with priorities to create schedules. Used MS Project; tracked engineers’ progress with MS Team Foundation Server (TFS). My group was evaluated as the most productive Agile team on NMCI.

Skills used: Manager, DevOps, SAFe, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SDLC, MS Project, TFS, certificates, SHA-2, and program management.

Independent Consultant, Project Manager Apr 2011 – Apr 2016

Some clients include:

Northrop Grumman, Social Security Administration, Task Order Manager: Active Directory (AD) Governance. In charge of developing AD governance for the SSA network. Task Order Manager for Office of Information Security web site rebuild – built wire frame mock-ups of new web site and drove process.

NeighborWorks, Sr. Project Manager obtaining COTS to replace a failed DIYsystem, including forensic system analysis, risk analysis, market survey, business process modeling, and project management. Added Business Intelligence (BI) analysis for conference marketing and attendee evaluations.

Titanium Cobra, Navy PEO EIS, Washington Navy Yard, Deputy Task Manager; taught PMP exam prep classes.

IBEX USA, Senior Program Manager for GSA Contract. Part time 2016 to 2022.

Skills used: Manager, SDLC development, MS Office: Excel, Sharepoint, Visio, Project, RFP writing, PMP, Risk Analysis, Agile, MS Project, business process design, change management, and project management.

TAG LLC (acquired by KEYW), Falls Church, VA, Program Manager, Biometrics Sep 08 - Apr 2011

“Book Boss” and designated Program Manager for DHS EAGLE II. Built budget for price bid. Negotiated teaming agreements and NDAs with all 13 subs, ran red team review, and submitted 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 – Program 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) for project. Wrote ConOps and requirements for 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.

Skills used: Manager, SDLC development, MS Excel, Visio, SQL, Access, MS Project, VB programming, RFP response writing, PMP, Risk Analysis, business process design, program management, and project management.

Independent Consultant, Project Manager May 2002 – Sep 2008

Project management, software design, implementation, and management consulting. A sample of projects includes:

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

Program Manager, SBA, DC – 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 out under performing subcontractors, and purchasing $800,000 of equipment. Managed several projects simultaneously. Responsible for negotiating contracts and budget control of subcontractors and USG.

Program Manager, State of Illinois, Springfield, IL – in charge of a Department of Homeland Security HSPD-12 FRAC program. This $6 Million system and BPM design provide biometric smart cards to first responders. The cards are compatible with HSPD-12, PIV, TWIC, CAC and FIPS-201. Oversaw Java J2EE, Oracle, and MS Access development. I managed the work of six companies and three state agencies including IBM, National Super Computer Center, Entrust, and the Bureau of Identification; tracked project with MS Project.

Program Manager, Royal Bank of Canada/Fidelity Information Services, Toronto – I replaced an underperforming manager for web-based Java and Oracle mortgage processing & servicing ASP. I rigorously applied EVM. When I took over, the project had a 21% SPI. In two months the SPI was 100%, where it stayed.

Chief Architect, Axcelis Technologies, Beverley, MA – designed and built a field assembly and test systems.

Chief Architect, IBM, Reading, MA – designed and built a telemarketing sales forecasting and reporting systems.

STATE STREET GLOBAL ADVISORS, Boston, MA, Computer Systems Manager Apr 2000 – May 2002

I replaced a manager who only achieved 72% system up time. In six months I had the system available more than 99%. I managed 20 programmer/analysts responsible for a business critical data warehouse / data lake and securities trading strategy system. Supervised development of Java/Websphere/Smalltalk DB for portfolio attribution and viewing securities data via web browser. Instituted BPM teaching staff to do root cause analysis and establish procedures to eliminate failure recurrences. I set up performance dashboard and increased system availability with no change in equipment or personnel.

Independent Consultant, Project Manager Oct 1991 – Apr 2000

Military Service (US Army) 1970 – 1973

Intelligence Analyst US Army Security Agency, Arlington Hall Station, VA Held TS/SCI clearance

Skills used: SDLC AS IS evaluation, SDLC TO BE requirements development, SDLC development, Programming Assembler, COBOL, FORTRAN, SDLC system design, SCLC system maintenance

Professional Activities 1977 – 1992

ACM (NY, NY) has annual revenues of $100+ million, more than 100,000 member in 400+ chapters worldwide, 150 full time staff and thousands of volunteer staff. ACM publishes 42 scientific journals on computers and stages 60+ computing conferences annually. Chaired meetings of Board of Directors and many committees.

President, Chief Executive Officer 1988-1990

Initiated PBS Nova series, "The Machine that Changed the World"; planned and successfully ran direct appeals to the membership to recoup the $1 Million PBS donation.

Increased membership more than 20% with new public relations program reversing a 4-year decline.

Increased corporate contributions by 700% for awards programs and technology competitions.

ACM Northeast Regional Vice-President 1980-1988

ACM Boston Chapter Chairman 1977-1980

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