1. Morton Cohen
Professional Bio
Extensive experience in the requirements, design, development and on-time delivery of business and IT
improvement projects. Excellent at building and maintaining strong project teams through communication and
coaching. Consistently places emphasis on understanding business needs first, then use of technology. Recognized
for strong leadership skills and having the confidence of executives and customers.
Project Areas
Application
Development,
Database Development,
Analysis,&
Administration,
Business Intelligence,
Financial Management
and controls,
Systems Analysis,
Design, &
Documentation
Hardware Experience
HP Server,.
HP PC and Laptop
Software Experience
Windows 10, 8.1, 7 and
previous.
Visio diagramming tool,
SQL query,
Excel Pivot table
reporting
Industry Experience
Manufacturing,
Technology & Services,
Insurance and banking,
Customer Loyalty –
Advertising -business
controls,
Consumer products
Education/Certifications
Part time instructorin
evening classes,
Competent Toastmaster,
Leadership
Improvement Program,
Masterof Business
Administration in
Finance
Database Development, Analysis, and Administration
Aimia
Information Technology Project Manager. Installed first application based on
standard package for customer loyalty program. Supplemented application with data
to improve accounting for point bank and usertracking.
Used SQL to determine data issues and apply corrections. This improved delivery
time for support.
Implemented reporting changes in order to report on current department and
previous department.
Toyota
Implemented Indirect Parts Business Intelligence application to reduce the cost of
indirect parts for manufacturing of automobile. Organized data and reports in such a
fashion that lowest cost location can help other locations.
Hewlett Packard
Coached project team and become expert on data center operational data between
various vendorapplication and managed loading of data warehouse with new data
types.
Application Development
Hewlett Packard
Program Manager with responsibility to administer customer data center
performance reports. This included historical report and operational reports.
Implemented Agile project management approach to reduce time to build and test
software.
Project / Program management
Procter and Gamble
Implemented new project management method globally. This improved quality.
Implemented IT Service support standard industry approach and associated metrics
Hewlett Packard
Designed and rolled out project management measures for progress for project
implementation. Example measures included per cent complete, number of
requirements etc. Object counting was used for measures.
Implemented Labor Tracking Excel model to highlight when resources would be
available for next project. This effort improved people planning.
Business Controls , Visualization and Security
Toyota
Created business process diagrams to simplify business process and automation.
Created visualization of application security roles and data usage for new
applications.
Hewlett Packard
Audited internal costs to ensure that the department costs were in order. Costs were
in excess of $2million per month
Created project management process to bettertie requirements to test cases.
Developed of shore (India) team to test reports for application conversion project.
Team later expanded to test new software releases.
Implemented ISO base internal Quality Management System which included peer
review.
Aimia
Facilitated the discussion of application Phishing. We determined that the
Phishing was part of the client server application architecture. We had to offer
mitigation external to the application to manage risk.