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Bryan
Kocher
Personal Summary
Developer
of systems used by top managers to make
multi-million
dollar decisions
at US Postal Service, Verizon, toysmart.com, Qwest, and State Street Bank.
Implementer of systems used at IBM; Polaroid; Fleet; Brown Brothers, Harriman;
etc. to radically reduce labor content. Former President of ACM, the world’s
largest society for Computer Scientists. Consultant
to Harvard Business School Faculty. College teaching experience.
PhD in Software Engineering, M.S. in Industrial Engineering.
Technical Strengths
Microsoft Certified Professional in Visual Basic (VB) and MS
Office XP products
(Excel and Access). Long experience with SQL databases (Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL
Server, DB2, and VAX RDB), simulation modeling, Decision Support Systems (DSS
and OLAP), report generation (Crystal Reports), Reengineering, Business Process
Redesign, Business Systems Analysis, Application Systems Integration, and
Project Management in Mainframe, PC, and client server environments. Skilled at
analyzing business issues, developing Return on Investment (ROI), payback
period, cost/benefit, and designing profit maximizing solutions for securities,
financial, and operational systems. Familiar with MS Project, CASE tools
(Rational Rose, RUP, and Erwin). Recent exposure to C#, web development, and
the .Net (dot net) platform.
Selected Experience
IBM (2002)
–Automated
production of quarterly sales forecast Excel spreadsheets from SAP database for
Telesales representatives, added VB automation to reps spreadsheets, and
automated consolidation and subsequent reporting.
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This
system eliminated approximately 100 staff hours per month from the production
of forecasts and results. |
State Street Global Advisors (2001)
–System Manager
overseeing 6 programmers responsible for operation of Vision, an OLAP securities
trading and strategy simulator loading data from IDC, Reuters, Factset, First
Call, IBES, etc. daily. Dealt with Portfolio Managers and data vendors to
improve Vision and keep it running. Made failure analysis a priority. Wrote
instructions, checklists, and diagnostic procedures for programmers and
operations. Documented processes with Rational Rose, data structures with Erwin
and moved scripts into ClearCase. Started a Lotus Notes database to capture
information about each failure. Rewrote Vision’s loaders for internal data from
Sybase to Oracle.
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Increased system uptime from 72% to 99% |
ToySmart.Com (1999)
– Controller’s assistant
of this startup, developed MS Access system to integrate data from a Web hosted
MS SQL Server Database, Paylinx credit card settlement system, Oracle 8 Yantra
E-commerce fulfillment system, and Great Plains accountingProduced an integrated
view of the company’s financial and operational position.
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Identified $870,000 in unbilled/uncollected accounts and collected 86%.
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ACM (1988-1990) -- President
of an international society with 100,000
members, 106 fulltime staff, and 600 chapters worldwide. Established
organizational priorities for this turnaround. Oversaw a $40M annual budget, 16
journals and 60 conferences per year. Led search for new Executive Director.
Served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of AFIPS and The
Council of Scientific Society Presidents.
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Increased membership more that 20% with new public relations program reversing
a 4-year decline. |
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Increased corporate contributions by 700% for awards programs and technology
competitions. |
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Initiated PBS Nova series, "The Machine that Changed the World"; presented
concept to Board of Directors and secured $1M commitment, which was later more
than recouped via direct appeals to the membership. |
State Street Bank (1999) –
Developed General Electric Mutual fund accounting, wrote 60
Crystal Reports, VB and Excel automation. Devised Access and VB applications
including a system to automatically sweep fund balances to and from overnight
investments as specified by fund managers.
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Eliminated need for a dedicated system, saving $125,000 per year on the FOCUS
license. |
Brown Brothers, Harriman (1998) – Created a VB
and Excel applications for mutual fund portfolio reporting. Created embedded
graphics, country percentage breakdowns, industry percentage breakdown, etc.
that automated the production of “camera ready” quarterly and annual reports for
multiple fund families.
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This
system eliminated 80 staff hours per month in the production of statements.
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US Postal Service (1997) – Project Manager,
Business Process Reengineering,
Hired and lead 7-person team to design and develop On-line Transaction
Processing (OLTP) system in Visual Basic (VB), Crystal Reports, and Oracle 7.
Chief contact with Postal Service.
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This
system is now deployed at 300 USPS facilities across the
country.
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Replaced central mainframe with distributed PC system, eliminating 20 FTE and
$600,000 direct expense. |
Bank of Boston (1996) –
Created Daily Mortgage pricing and distribution to all
branch banks, System prices all mortgage products including points, and APR.
Results faxed daily to all Bank of Boston branches.
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Cut a
four-hour process to 45 minutes. |
Harvard Business School (1985) -- Faculty
Consultant & Software Designer/Implementer,
Worked with Harvard Business School faculty to create cases as teaching software
in Lotus 1-2-3.
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Created
"Weirton Steel" and "Southport Mineral" for Corporate Financial Management
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Created
“Titanium Dioxide” for Competitive Analysis. |
Raytheon Data Systems (1978) -- Integrated
Financial System Designer/Manager, Designed and
managed implementation of an integrated, manual and automated system to track,
produce monthly bills, and receive payments for over $100,000,000 worth of
leased equipment. Managed a team of 20 programmers over eighteen months. Ran the
leasing company's data center. Programmed in COBOL, Assembler, and PL/1 on IBM
VM/CMS, and MVS.
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This
system reduced the average age of receivables by 12 days. |
Commercial Union (1976) --
Designed, programmed, and managed implementation
of an on-line, multi-dimensional, decision support system for analyzing revenue,
claims, and profitability of insurance lines by geographic area. Managed team of
five programmer/analysts programming in COBOL on IBM MVS/CICS with ADABAS.
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This
system gave the agency managers their first global view of agent performance
and provided the factual basis for cancellation of several hundred
consistently loss-producing agencies nationwide. |
Academic Appointments
Adjunct
Professor,
Boston
University, Boston, MA
1980
– 1982
Adjunct
Professor,
Framingham State University, Framingham, MA 1976
– 1980
Publications
“A Model
for Software Practices from the Accounting Profession”,
IEEE
Software,
January 2000. Authored 24 monthly columns,
Communications of the ACM,
1988 –
1990. “Using Hidden Features of Lotus 1-2-3”,
Proceedings of Annual ACM Northeast Region Conference,
1985. “Luddites and Fauna
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the
Futility of Resisting Technological Change”, ACM SIGCAS Journal, 1984.
“Take responsibility for security”, ComputerWorld, 30 April 1990. “A
Picture of Quality – Polaroid’s SPC” Quality Magazine, Jan 1995.
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