Bryan Cooke

Consulting, Management Consulting

Hi, I'm Bryan Cooke. Welcome to my profile!

Bryan Cooke's Bio:

Bryan Cooke's Experience:

• Vice President, Delivery at Collaborative Solutions

  February 2012 - January 2014

  Collaborative Solutions is a Workday consulting partner with an exceptional track record of customer success. Since 2007, Collaborative Solutions has successfully deployed Workday HCM, Payroll, and Financials solutions to over 150 customers. Responsible for the successful delivery and implementation of the Workday solution including 25+ successful Workday Phase 1 deployments and dozens of other post production / optimization Workday projects Helped manage the relationship with the Alliances and Regional Delivery organizations within Workday Led a practice of 130+ consultants with Workday HCM, Payroll, Financials, and Integration certifications Sponsored innovation efforts including improvements to the Workday implementation methodology and the internal implementation of Workday Talent Management Created an organization structure to scale to meet the demands of the fast growing Workday ecosystem Completed certification requirements for Workday HCM and Workday Engagement Manager Closed contracts with net new customers totaling well into the millions.

• Vice President, Global Business Consulting, Accenture Software at Accenture

  March 2009 - January 2012

  Hired and managed a team of consultants and project managers spanning the globe Closed multi-million dollar implementation programs for global clients, including Nestle, Sony, RJ Reynolds and The Coca-Cola Company Executive responsible for Nestle SFA (Mobility) implementation including Latin America rollouts Doubled billable utilization, decreased concessions and increased margins Supported new license transactions via RFI/RFP responses, deal shaping and contract negotiation

• Executive Director / Program Manager at Emory University

  July 2006 - March 2009

  Program manager for a broad set of projects that supported aggressive expansion goals Responsible for developing a strategy, business plans, budget development and tracking, external consultants, staffing, process implementation, issue resolution, and metrics tracking Directed the execution of a comprehensive communications strategy involving rapid roll out of branding, messaging, websites, and publications

• Director, Professional Services at Taleo

  August 2005 - July 2006

  Directed the Eastern region consulting practice which included oversight of up to 18 projects, leading a large consulting team, budgeting, forecasting, issue resolution and sales pipeline management Active participant in a high pressure, complex sale process with high sales quotas Actively managed customer relationships during implementations Applied field readiness methodology to rollout a major software release to the consulting organization

• Consulting Practice Manager at Oracle, Inc.

  March 2005 - August 2005

  Responsible for the recruitment, development, deployment and evaluation of a team of 35 consultants capable of generating revenue exceeding $35 million annually Developed proposals for full scale implementations, staff augmentation, and audits for customers Assisted with sales efforts, contract negotiations and issue resolution

• Field Readiness (Services Product Line) Manager at PeopleSoft

  June 2004 - March 2005

  Led, managed, measured, and communicated the global field readiness process in a cross-organizational role for PeopleSoft's second largest product line, PeopleSoft's Financials Management System Led hiring and training strategies for a consulting practice of over 300 consultants through the analysis of practice capabilities, skills inventory and availability versus projected services demand

• PeopleSoft Certified Project Manager at PeopleSoft

  July 2002 - June 2004

  Successfully led full life cycle projects to implement financial management software packages Guided PeopleSoft customers to strategically prioritize projects to increase product usage and impact Managed daily project activities including scheduling, issue management, resource selection, project plan development and tracking, and risk management Communicated project status, budget, issues and risks within the client organization and PeopleSoft

• Consulting Manager at PeopleSoft

  July 2000 - July 2002

  Responsible for the recruitment, selection, development, and deployment of a team of 35 consultants Developed staffing proposals for full scale implementations for customers Assisted with complex sales efforts and contract negotiations

• PeopleSoft Financials Consultant at PeopleSoft

  February 1997 - June 2000

  Provided consulting services to numerous global PeopleSoft customers by assisting with full life cycle implementations of PeopleSoft Financial Management products as a subject matter expert and team lead Recognized as a product expert and regularly presented at PeopleSoft User and Consulting Conferences Served as a Financials Product Lead responsible for connecting the global consulting organization and PeopleSoft's development and strategy organizations Global evangelist of PeopleSoft's Product Lead Program, a crucial component of field readiness activities

• Systems Analyst at Electronic Data Systems

  March 1995 - January 1997

  Assisted the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) with two software implementation projects as an employee of The Orkand Corporation and EDS Served as a functional requirements analyst on a large project deployed nationwide to assist in tuberculosis control Lead developer on a full lifecycle software project which was successfully deployed to help prevent the spread of tuberculosis among health care workers Analyzed legacy data and developed data migration plans that met strict privacy requirements

• Programmer Analyst at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

  March 1992 - February 1995

  Developed client server applications involving analysis, database design, coding, testing implementation, training and maintenance Maintained and enhanced existing applications Developed approaches and procedures to extract, transform and load (ETL) mainframe data into client server applications

• Director at PwC

  June 2014

Bryan Cooke's Education:

• Emory University

  2001 – 2002
  MBA

• University of South Alabama

  1985 – 1988
  BS
  Concentration: Finance

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