Branndon D. Kelley

Branndon D. Kelley

Chief Information Officer (CIO) at American Municipal Power, Inc.

Location
Columbus, Ohio Area
Industry
Information Technology and Services

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  • Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
  • DeVry University
  • Shepherd University
  • Hedgesville High School

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Branndon D. Kelley's Summary

Branndon has spent the last thirteen years providing vision, leadership, governance and execution for technology programs, projects and departments. He approaches IT as a true partner of the business and brings a diverse background in IT operations, project management, executive leadership, strategy, and business development. His technology skills and business acumen allow him to communicate to individuals from a technical to executive-level.

Utilizing his ‘partner’ approach Branndon has helped organizations realize business value through the implementation of strategic technology solutions. Those technology solutions range in size, complexity and scope including projects in both the private and public sector(s); up to 100 million in total contract value.

Today, Branndon is the Chief Information Officer for American Municipal Power (AMP). At AMP Branndon oversees all information technology and SCADA functions, projects and people. He is responsible for setting, facilitating and leading technology strategy and tactical execution.

Community involvement is very important to Branndon. He is very involved in the local, regional, and national IT community. He participates, shapes and speaks at a number of CIO and IT related events.

Branndon has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, and a Master of Business Administration. Branndon has been honored as a semi-finalist for TechColumbus – 2010 Innovation Awards ‘Executive of the Year’, included in the DeVry Columbus Alumni Wall of Fame, and awarded with the DeVry Pinnacle. He holds a number of certifications, is an adjunct instructor at a local college, and spends free time with his wife Shannon and his son Jackson.

Specialties

Management:

Budgeting
Cost Analyst
Leadership
Training & mentoring
Sales & marketing
Public speaking & presentations
Project & vendor management
Price & contract negotiations
Client relationship management
Cross-team partnering
Merger & Acquisitions

Technical:
Data Center Management, Migration & Design
System & Network Security
Virtualization
Backup & Disaster Recovery
Enterprise System / Network / Storage Management & Design
Messaging & Collaboration
Cloud Computing

Branndon D. Kelley's Experience

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

American Municipal Power, Inc.

Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Utilities industry

August 2009 – Present (2 years 7 months) Columbus, Ohio Area

I am responsible for all information technology and SCADA functions, projects and people at American Municipal Power (AMP). I set, facilitate and lead technology strategy and tatical execution.

American Municipal Power, Inc. (AMP) is a nonprofit leader in wholesale power supply for municipal electric systems. We help member communities control their destinies in the volatile world of power supply.

AMP serves 129 members - 128 member municipal electric communities in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia and the Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation, a joint action agency headquartered in Smyrna, Delaware. Combined AMP's member communities serve over 565,000 customers.

*08/2009 - 06/2010 was a consultant acting as Sr. IT Director

Adjunct Instructor

ITT Technical Institute

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ESI; Education Management industry

December 2008 – Present (3 years 3 months) Columbus, Ohio Area

I am a member of the CNS faculty on a part-time basis. I teach the CNS Capstone class which is the final class prior to graduation. This course encompasses the technology learned through-out the program while challenging students with project management and business presentations methods. I leverage my past experience in delivering like technical solutions to encourage students to think outside the normal and deliver what the market demands.

EC311 Intro to Project Management - Summer 2011
ITT 331 CNS Capstone Class (Winter 2008, Summer 2009, Winter 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Winter 2011)
IT Risk Management (Fall 2010)

Infrastructure Practice Manager

Quick Solutions

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2009 – June 2010 (1 year 6 months) Columbus, Ohio Area

I was responsible for managing, directing, governing, and implementing infrastructure projects or platforms that leverage best business practices, a strategic vision, align with client's organization goals and provide a cost and value benefit. These solutions range in scope and size, but include technology in the following areas:
• Virtualization, Collaboration, Messaging, Communication, Deployment Services, Data Center Design, Management and Migration, Application and system hosting, Environment Design, Hardware maintenance and support, Hardware purchasing and procurement, and Small and Medium Business Managed Services.

Accomplishments:

- Grew the QSI Infrastructure Practice from $0 to $1.8 million dollars in revenue.
- Booked $1 million + in revenue 1st half 2010.
- Hired a team of the top Microsoft, VMWare, Linux, Network, Security and Hardware Infrastructure Architects.

Consultant

Lane Bryant

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Retail industry

February 2002 – June 2009 (7 years 5 months) Columbus, Ohio Area

I provided off-hours, holiday and weekend support for mainframe, Essbase, and proprietary applications.

Director, Technical Services

HP Enterprise Services

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Information Technology and Services industry

August 2004 – January 2009 (4 years 6 months) Columbus, Ohio Area

Director, Technical Services (2/2007 - 1/2009)

In this position I had overall responsibility for the IT organization that supported the EDS, (Saber Corp / Government Solution) State and Local Government division. My staff included a diverse team specialized in help desk, desktop, server, network, telecom, data center support for both internal operations and delivery to clients. The internal Infrastructure was distributed among three data centers (Ohio, South Carolina, and Oregon) and included 500 + physical servers, 300+ virtual servers, 100+ network devices, and multiple SAN(s) and related equipment. The data centers also hosted the production environments for many client servicing state-wide voter registration, child support, and department of labor systems. My team delivered the infrastructure components of client projects ranging from 1 million to 100 million dollar in size.

My other responsibilities included:
- Overall IT strategy for the organization, including policies, procedures and best business practices.
- Data center build-out(s) and move of 300 + servers and related equipment.
- Budget planning and management of a 10 million + IT Budget.
- Project management of internal IT initiatives.
- Staff management, coaching and mentoring to increase productivity and effectiveness.
- Excellent vendor negotiation skills that have saved upwards of 1 million dollars in cost savings per year.

Senior Manager (9/2006 -02/2007)
I was responsible for all internal infrastructure and the personnel that supports it. This included over 600 physical servers and 300 + virtual servers (running multiple platforms) in three data centers throughout the US. I oversaw a national team responsible for delivery of help desk, LAN / WAN, telephony and data center support. I researched, reviewed and approved capital expenditures as well as short and long term IT initiatives. My team also delivered infrastructure components for a portfolio of projects ($300 million +)

Technical Delivery Manager / Senior Consultant

HP Enterprise Services

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Information Technology and Services industry

August 2004 – January 2009 (4 years 6 months) Columbus, Ohio Area

In this position I held four different roles:

Enterprise Applications Manager (June 2006 – September 2006) *Promoted
- I was responsible for all corporate systems within the internal IT organization. My role included both operational management as well as the technical support. I also was the Senior Server / System Administrator and level three support to junior team members.

Project Manager, Enterprise Messaging (March 2006 – June 2006) *Project Completed
- I was responsible for the research, design and final decisions regarding the Enterprise Messaging System for the newly formed Saber Corp (merger of Saber Consulting and Covansys).

- Technical Delivery Manager (November 2005 – June 2006) *Reassigned
I managed the infrastructure team that delivered the child care management systems (CCMS) to multiple state agencies across the country. This included staff, project and client relations management as well as senior level technical support.

Senior Consultant (8/2004 - 12/2005)
In this position I held two different roles:

Senior Infrastructure Consultant (May 2005 – December 2005) *Promoted
- I was responsible for the design, deployment and support of infrastructure primarily for centralized voter registration system mandated by the US Government (HAVA act of 2002). State infrastructures I was responsible for included: Idaho, Rhode Island, and Nevada,

Enterprise Backup and Recovery Engineer (August 2004 – May 2005) *Promoted
- I was responsible for standardizing all backup and recovery procedures. I maintained the enterprise backup system that covered over 300 servers with 4 tape libraries and approximately 1500 pieces of media. I completed the two migrations of backup software to different versions and platforms.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Kelley | Price Technology

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2002 – December 2008 (7 years) Columbus, Ohio Area

As the co-founder and chief executive officer I was responsible for go-to-market strategy, sales, marketing, client satisfaction, technical design. I created the service 'Simplified IT' in 2001 as a way to fill the void left in the small to medium size business market. As a company we experienced double and triple digit growth over the last four years I was CEO. www.kelleypricetech.com

Sales and Marketing

Strategic Planning

Presentations

Project Management

Contract Negotiations

In December 2008 Branndon resigned as CEO and completed the sale of his share of Kelley | Price Technology.

Adjunct Instructor

Kaplan College

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry

February 2007 – October 2007 (9 months)

I was a member of both the general education as well as computer department faculty. I taught classes in accounting, public speaking, network security, computer applications, and related technical courses. Presented material with a common sense approach relating topics to real world experiences.

This was then known as Technology Education College - Columbus. Ohio

Desktop and Network Management

DEX

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry

June 2004 – August 2004 (3 months)

I was responsible for establishing an IT department of a recent start up location in Ohio for an established west coast company. I supported over 200 desktops, printers, scanners and other peripherals in addition to 14 servers and related networking equipment. This infrastructure supported approximately 250 employees on a 20 hour a day operation.

Lead Computer Operator

ADP

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ADP; Human Resources industry

November 1999 – June 2004 (4 years 8 months)

I was responsible for AS400 operations that processed payroll, quarterly and year-end statements. This included budgeting, vendor management, and staff supervision.

Network and Data Systems Manager

Matrix Psychological Services

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Mental Health Care industry

January 2003 – March 2004 (1 year 3 months)

I was responsible for all technology systems, project and initiatives. I oversaw the growth of the IT infrastructure by many times. Worked closely with executive-management to use technology to enable growth and improve processes.

Consultant

Unicon Intl

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

December 2001 – February 2003 (1 year 3 months)

Supported Victoria's Secret and Lane Bryant main frame operations.

Consultant

Victorias Secret Stores

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Retail industry

December 2001 – February 2002 (3 months) Columbus, Ohio Area

provided main frame support.

Consultant

Safelite

Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Automotive industry

August 1999 – November 1999 (4 months)

I was responsible for supporting the efforts to upgrade all Point of Sale systems to Y2K compliant.

Associate

Fujifilm

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; FUJIY; Photography industry

May 1998 – July 1999 (1 year 3 months)

Processed film and developed pictures.

Branndon D. Kelley's Honors and Awards

  • DeVry Pinnacle - Alumni Hall of Fame

    DeVry University
    • June 2011

    The Pinnacle is a gold book collection featuring 50 of our most successful DeVry and Keller alumni. It focuses on the rock stars, unsung heroes and hidden gems working in great companies, influencing tomorrow’s leaders and affecting policy in business and technology.

Branndon D. Kelley's Organizations

  • American Public Power Association

    Vice-Chairman, IT Committee, Business and Finance Conference
    • September 2011 to Present

Branndon D. Kelley's Education

Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University

MBA, Finance and General Management

2003 – 2005

DeVry University

BS, Computer Information Systems

1999 – 2002

Shepherd University

BS, Computer Science

1997 – 1998

Hedgesville High School

Diploma, College Prep

1993 – 1997

Branndon D. Kelley's Additional Information

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2011 TechTomorrow Program Committee Member Columbus Young Professionals Association of Information Technology Professional (AITP) Knowledge2011 — Intelligent Utility Executive Summit - Committee Memeber 2011 TechTomorrow A CIO Leadership Exchange - Committee Memeber Cleveland Cincinnati CIO Executive Summit(Governing Body) Cincinnati CIO Executive Summit (Governing Body) CIO Forum (Central Ohio) - Member midTECH CIO Summit Steering Committee 2011 CIO & IT Security Forum - Delegate

Honors and Awards:

2010 TechColumbus Innovation Award Semi-Finalist - Executive (CIO) of the Year.

Outstanding Contributor (Quick Solutions, Inc.) 1st Quarter 2010.

DeVry Alumni Hall of Fame ( inaugural class )

DeVry Pinnacle 2011 ( inaugural class )

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