Brian Cooley

Background

About Brian Cooley

Highly skilled manager with 23 years experience in complex business and IT environments. Strong focus on business analysis and program management with progressive project, resource, systems and vendor management experience. Specialties Functional Strength: Business Analysis, Systems Management, Project Management, Vendor Management, Outsourcing, Resource Development/Coaching, Process Improvement. Flexibility: Leadership, business experience, process design and information systems skills in one resource. High Responsibility Quotient: Experience managing projects/programs and multiple application suites concurrently in support of mission critical outcomes with over 60 people (FTE, domestic and onshore/offshore),$12M budget, 2.8M participants and $52B in assets under management. Adaptability: Extensive experience managing geographically diverse teams of direct/indirect reports consisting of Project Managers, Supervisors, Technical Leads, BA/QA Analysts, Systems Analysts and Data/Systems Architects. Deep Solution Reservoir: Experience managing operational systems and projects comprised of mainframe, WEB, distributed and desktop applications in Financial Services, Insurance and Government. Bottom Line Impact: Six Sigma Greenbelt and TQM facilitator with training, process re-engineering and organizational design experience. Specialties: Program/Project management of small to large scale complex IT initiatives including new system implementations and conversions. Broad operational experience including production activities, product development and regulatory issues such as Sarbanes-Oxley. Broad application experience including VantageOne, DSS, RPS, wmA, OMNI, Relius Administration, Naperword, Documerge and AllTax. Vendor management including RFP's, risk assessment and selection of domestic and onshore/offshore partners.