Keith Cochran

Current

Vice President at BEC, Inc.
Manager, Software Development at The Trizetto Group, Inc.
Owner at Cochran Software

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Past

Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies
Instructor at College of DuPage
Vice President of Engineering at Click Commerce

Development Engineer at Motorola
Development Engineer at Weltronic/Technitron
Design Engineer at McDonnell Douglas

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Education

University of Illinois at Chicago
Washington University in St. Louis
Purdue University Calumet

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Industry

Computer Software

Keith Cochran’s Summary

Currently a manager of software development at TriZetto, and working on a start-up company BEC, Inc.

Keith Cochran’s Specialties:

Software management, Grails/Groovy/Java development.

Keith Cochran’s Experience

Vice President

BEC, Inc.

(E-Learning industry)

January 2007 — Present (3 years )

Manage and Develop all technical applications for the company.
Manager, Software Development

The Trizetto Group, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2001 — Present (8 years 10 months)

Manage 10 software developers for NetworX Pricer and Modeler development.
Owner

Cochran Software

(Computer Software industry)

April 2000 — Present (9 years 9 months)

Develop custom software applications for clients.
Member of Technical Staff

Lucent Technologies

(Telecommunications industry)

August 1997 — July 2000 (3 years )

I worked on the Next Network Switch and International Intelligent Networks. I developed many applications including Apply Charging.
Instructor

College of DuPage

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 1998 — January 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Taught classes in Introduction to Windows, Dynamic HTML and Introduction to Java.
Vice President of Engineering

Click Commerce

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; CKCM; Computer Software industry)

January 1997 — August 1997 (8 months)

Managed a small staff of this start up company, worked with several companies on developing business to business web sites called Extranets.
Development Engineer

Motorola

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

July 1993 — January 1997 (3 years 7 months)

Area: Control Centers in the Radio Network Systems Group (RNSG). Received a Total Customer Satisfaction award and a trip to Hawaii for my efforts in improving defect identification, designed a feature that enabled caller ID on analog radios while I was at Motorola, designed and maintained a web site which helped engineering find documents, etc. (remember, this was 1994!).
Development Engineer

Weltronic/Technitron

(Machinery industry)

January 1993 — July 1993 (7 months)

Networked resistance welding machines together to identify trends in required maintenance.
Design Engineer

McDonnell Douglas

(Computer Software industry)

January 1989 — January 1993 (4 years 1 month)

Research and Development
Key Contributions:
Presented research ideas to various military personnel (Navy and Air Force) across the country on various military bases.
Designed and developed a real-time Object-Oriented Expert System for diagnosing F-15 aircraft management system failures written in C++.
Designed and developed a computer controlled F/A-18 exterior lighting system.

Keith Cochran’s Education

University of Illinois at Chicago

MSCS , Computer Science , 1994 — 1999

Studied algorithms and virtual reality.

Activities and Societies:

None
Washington University in St. Louis

Grad Certificate , Artificial Intelligence , 1990 — 1992

Received a graduate certificate in Artificial Intelligence. Major areas of study included knowledge systems and rule-based inference engines.

Activities and Societies:

None
Purdue University Calumet

BSEE , Electrical Engineering , 1983 — 1989

Studied electrical engineering, computer science, and various topics in physics including laser physics.

Activities and Societies:

None