Professional Biography

Peter V. Cooper is owner and principal of Data Assets Development, a management consulting service to business and I/S management specializing in improving the return on systems investments. He has synthesized his training in Business Process Engineering, I/S Strategic Planning, Data Analysis and Total Quality Management to develop an effective approach for treating data as a corporate asset. This fundamental but versatile premise has helped clients to formalize strategic I/S planning, to undertake departmental-level business process re-engineering, to articulate data administration policies and procedures, to build enterprise data models, to apply those models to data base construction, and to prepare for data warehouse development. He has also designed and developed data base applications for desktop system use.

Mr. Cooper has served as Director of Data Administration for the Paul Revere Insurance Group, a subsidiary of Textron. His mission to re-engineer the Data Administration function resulted in its evolution from a back office service for mature mainframe production systems into a leading force in the company's drive to integrated, client/server based, cross functional applications. He generated a practical enterprise data model for Paul Revere and introduced the concept of Central Data Management into the company's technical architecture.

Previously, Mr. Cooper served as Director of Corporate Data Administration at Wang Labs where he developed and implemented policy and procedures for collecting, maintaining, and disseminating key corporate data. He worked with other management both in MIS and in the business community to lead the company to a more data-oriented approach to internal systems development. Together with his staff, he established techniques for creating and maintaining data definitions, prepared enterprise data models, and implemented a corporate data dictionary. He also introduced services designed to make that dictionary directly useful to the business community as well as to systems development personnel.

Prior to his association with Wang he gained more than a decade of both technical and operations experience in managerial positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. During his years with the Boston Fed he developed and implemented the bank's formal approach to long-range strategic planning of computer hardware and software, provided internal consulting services to payments mechanism functions, and managed time-critical operating departments such as Check Processing and Accounting Systems.

Mr. Cooper holds graduate degrees in Planning and in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and has earned the designation "Certified Computer Professional" from the Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals. He has conducted courses in Managing for Productivity, Business Process Re-engineering, and Total Quality Management. He has also spoken on data administration topics in a variety of settings.