David Koehler

Experience

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  Long Island Rail Road

  Dec 2007 - Dec 2014

  • Administered all facets of strategic planning and Information Technology services for the largest commuter railroad in the United States.• Motivated and mentored unified and productive technical teams with a staff of 164 employees.• Facilitated the direction and maintenance of IT planning and capacity/cost projections in order to provision a $44M operating budget.• Applied vast experience in contracts and vendor negotiations while managing large vendor contracts and technical consultants, such as Oracle, IBM, Avaya, Booz Allen, and Accenture.• Created and launched a Project Management Office (PMO) and a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) system to regulate IT projects.• Instituted an Enterprise Architecture unit to optimize technology and business decisions. • Carried out the alignment of Information Technology project goals through IT Governance standards and practices.• Served as key member of the MTA leadership team responsible for transforming five MTA Agency IT departments into one MTA IT Department. Show less • Delivered tactical leadership to the Application Development and Application Maintenance initiatives within the Information Technology Department.• Certified adherence to established budgets as well as generated detailed expense reports, employee performance evaluations, and project information control statistics.• Prioritized and executed projects in accordance with corporate needs.• Instructed and oversaw mid- and senior-level managers, confirming that all staff attended regular technical and professional trainings.• Bridged communications between the Application Support group, other IT groups, and all business units.• Liaised with multiple levels of management at LIRR, MTA, as well as outside agencies and vendors.• Delivered the highest level of career development for direct and indirect reports.• Created, furthered, maintained safe work practices and conditions. • Cultivated a professional environment which valued individual points of view and enabled employees to attain their full potential.• Conceived and conveyed complex technical requirements and functionality to business users, customers, and senior management. Show less • Functioned as key member of the LIRR IT Leadership Team while providing expert advisement to the Deputy Chief Information Officer and the Chief Information Officer regarding technical issues.• Served on the IT Governance team for the purpose of monitoring IT resources to achieve business requirements and corporate goals.• Presided over the Applications Support, Application Architecture, and QA management teams to verify that Systems Development Life Cycle standards were upheld in the support of Schedule Revenue Systems.• Engineered various applications to be used by production control to monitor and conduct interfaces with the Business Service Center (BSC).• Partnered with Network and Computer Operations management to ensure the necessary infrastructure was in place to promote the corporate applications development environment.• Collaborated with Senior LIRR staff and Public Affairs personnel to ascertain and evaluate customer needs in providing state-of-the-art Customer Information systems.• Formulated departmental budgets and devised long-term project strategies in order to provide expected deliverables on time and within budget.• Ensured consistency and integration between systems was maintained alongside IT leadership. Show less

  • Acting Chief Information Officer

    Jul 2013 - Dec 2014

  • Deputy Chief Information Officer

    Mar 2011 - Jul 2013

  • Director - Systems Development

    Dec 2007 - Mar 2011
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  Metropolitan Transportation Authority

  Jan 2015 - Sept 2020

  Chief of Transportation Applications

  • Demonstrate expertise in all areas of strategic planning and transportation applications for the Long Island Rail Road, Metro North Rail Road, NYCTA, including bridges and tunnels.• Train, guide, and motivate high performing technical teams consisting of 110 employees.• Employ control and authorization over the design, development, and execution of IT strategy. • Formulate capacity/cost projections in support of a $150M MTA Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) program as well as a $619M MTA New Fare Payment System (NFPS).• Establish and oversee the Project Management Office (PMO) and the advancement of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) to ensure standardization of IT projects to provide consistency, transparency, and cost reduction.• Originate and adhere to IT Governance standards and practices to provide oversight in aligning Information Technology project goals to business requirements. Show less