Keith Cochran

Experience

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  GE

  Jan 1986 - Aug 1988

  Co-op Engineer

  • Improved assembly line quality and wrote an internal paper on the statistical process control techniques used for the Juarez, Mexico plant.

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  McDonnell Douglas

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1993

  Design Engineer

  • Enabled F-15 fighter jet maintenance teams insight into component replacement by predicting electrical and fuel system failures with over 95% accuracy using an artificially intelligent CLIPS rule-based inference engine.

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  Weltronic/Technitron

  Jan 1993 - Jul 1993

  Development Engineer

  • Eradicated the main cause of production downtime in a Toyota plant in Kentucky by developing a networked system to accurately predict when each of the 114 welding tips needed replacement. The system I created using C and assembler informed overnight service personnel which welding tips to replace for the next production run with over 90% accuracy.

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  Motorola

  Jul 1993 - Jan 1997

  Development Engineer

  • Ensured the safe communication to police officers using older analog radios by creating “Analog Caller ID”, allowing dispatchers to direct instruction to specific law enforcement individuals without decoding a numeric ID that changes often.• Saved over $1M annually in development cost for the organization by researching and implementing a discovery tool for C language developers to find and modify existing code in a 1M+ line of source code system in seconds rather than minutes. For this effort, I won a Total Customer Satisfaction award and presented my project in Hawaii. Show less

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  Click Commerce

  Jan 1997 - Aug 1997

  Vice President of Engineering

  • Leveraging the newly formed world-wide-web, enabled the processing of several million dollars in B2B transactions over the internet for several Fortune 500 clients including Motorola, Mercury Marine, Turtle Wax, and Ameritech.• Increased annual revenue by 50% by productizing an extranet called “ClickCommerce” for the B2B market as one of the first employees in this start-up company.

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  Lucent Technologies

  Aug 1997 - Jul 2000

  Member of Technical Staff

  • Enabled international phone card users the ability to cross borders using the same card by single- handedly engineering and developing the International Apply Charging feature for the 5ESS.• Saved 3+ months of software development effort by creating a tool in Java in 5 days that ingested a 400+ page Korean technical specification and generated the necessary ASN.1 code required to implement the features.

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  College of DuPage

  Jan 1998 - Dec 1999

  Instructor

  • Delighted 100+ undergraduate students with my outstanding teaching skills in introductory classes on Dynamic HTML and Java.

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  Cochran Software

  Apr 2000 - now

  Owner

  • Managed certifications and provided a training platform 5k+ for CEDIA members by creating a learning management system (LMS) and associated iPad/iPhone application customized for the association market. • Used AI to create a recommender system to guide thousands of students on the correct learning paths for a CEDIA conference.• Serving multiple nursing schools with reusable training objects and facilitate on-demand learning, created an LTI-capable learning object repository Orbis Education. Show less

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  The Trizetto Group, Inc.

  Jun 2000 - Apr 2012

  Manager, Software Development

  • Technical manager for 15+ engineers world-wide, developing the NetworX series of products which processed healthcare claims for the world’s top healthcare companies.• Maximized profitability for large healthcare providers by engineering a tool called “Modeler Analytics” which was used to simulate changes in healthcare parameters.• Optimized time-to-delivery and greatly reduced overall defects by implementing process improvements in the SDLC for quality and scheduling purposes, including peer-programming, test-driven development, formal code reviews, JUnit testing, software estimation, and production monitoring. Show less

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  Oracle

  Apr 2012 - now

  • Delivered mission-critical security reporting to executives of a $50B revenue organization utilizing AI/ML to gain insights on a 1Tb+ corporate-wide data lake containing scan and configuration data, leveraging a voluntary group of high-value engineers in an internal dotted-line organization I created.• Modernized Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) security posture in Artificial Intelligence (AI) by developing the first AI standard used in SaaS, updated existing standards and processes OCI-wide, and enforce sound security practices in all lines of business by leveraging the NIST AI RMF, OWASP ML Top 10, and other key initiatives by the US and other world governments in the 100+ world-wide products and services Oracle offers.• Reduced security risks around AI by revamping security initiatives including new software processes, new developer guidelines, introducing automated tooling for models, and physical vetting of cloud software architectures using CISSP and other leading security and infrastructure practices prior to the production release of any product or service using AI.• Strengthened alignment of security and IT initiatives with business goals through the completion of 1000+ OCI Cloud Architecture Reviews and Corporate Security Reviews of new and updated product architectures created by product development groups, focusing on the secure use of AI/Machine Learning.• Published 5 peer-reviewed papers on AI and presented 4 of them at the conferences that published them. One of these papers will be enhanced and published in 2024 as part of the Best of 2023 for the International Journal of AIED. Trained many AI models to perform tasks such as text classification, code generation, and patch cycle completion predictions. Show less • Managed 40+ consultants supporting several large retailers such as Eddie Bauer using the Open Commerce Platform, utilizing the Java stack, when the company was Fry, Inc.. After acquisition by Oracle in 2016, managed 20 employees world-wide supporting the $50M+ annual revenue Oracle Retail Order Management System.• Improved delivery speed by 25% and reduced defects by 40% by instituting an agile software development process.• Ensured security practices through the creation of new policies and standards, enabling us to validate our practices with PCI auditors. Show less

  • Security Intelligence Architect

    Jan 2018 - now

  • Consulting/Senior Software Technical Manager

    Apr 2012 - Jan 2018