Brian Kennedy Enterprise Transformation Executive

Enterprise Transformation Lead

Bank of America

Sep 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)

• Deliver 30% team capability gains ($1.6M+/yr in recovered capacity at $150–$200/hr per resource) by rebuilding operating models, governance rhythms, and decision-rights structures across the flagship digital platform serving 6,000+ corporate clients.
• Lead transformation across CashPro Payments, a global payment platform governing ACH, wire, SWIFT, and cross-border transactions for corporate treasuries, ensuring all operating model changes align with payment network rules, banking regulatory frameworks, and treasury compliance requirements.
• Architect transformation roadmaps, planning cadence, and Center of Excellence structures governing delivery across multiple business units in a highly regulated banking environment.
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VP of Operations & Project Management (Co-Founder)

Fort Block Games, Inc.

Jul 2023 - Current (3 years 4 months)

• Hold full P&L accountability set operating model, pricing strategy, and go-to-market structure across two distinct user segments without adding headcount.
• Own governance cadence end to end: planning, prioritization, resource allocation, and executive decision-making at startup scale.

Transformation Manager

Gdit

Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 (1 year 1 month)

• Delivered 30% throughput gains ($8.5M+ in recovered capacity 12 teams of 5–8 people) across 12 federal teams by redesigning cross-team operating rhythms in FISMA/FedRAMP environments.
• Reported directly to the CIO and CFO and to external government stakeholders, translating complex program delivery status, risk, and investment decisions into executive-level reporting for C-suite and federal leadership audiences.
• Aligned backlog prioritization and release planning with mission-level objectives alongside architecture, product, and PMO leadership.
• Stood up Jira/ServiceNow governance structures that made cross-team delivery status visible to leadership and measurably improved delivery predictability.

Transformation Manager

Elara Caring

Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year 1 month)

• Directed 30+ concurrent transformation initiatives across data engineering, cloud, BI, and operations led operating model redesign across business intelligence, data analysis, and engineering teams through a migration off legacy systems.
• Delivered multi-million-dollar capacity recovery through 33% output increase across a 4-person BI team and 12-person engineering team during legacy systems migration.
• Delivered programs on time within internally funded budgets for cross-functional teams across multi-month cycles.
• Ran executive steering committees, reporting transformation value and risk directly to organizational leadership.

Transformation Manager

GHX

Sep 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 5 months)

• 50% lift in release success rate + $1.6M+/yr in recovered delivery capacity: Waterfall-to-Agile operating model transition established governance and release-planning structures delivering both reliability gains and 30% throughput improvement across a 15-person release team.
• Built cross-functional rhythms connecting business objectives to measurable delivery outcomes, protecting platform delivery timelines and budget integrity.

Transformation Manager

Charter Communications

Jan 2021 - Sep 2021 (9 months)

• $5.5M+ in recovered engineering capacity + $1.2M in budget savings: 30% throughput uplift across 50+ engineers through Agile operating rhythm transformation, with $1.2M in budget savings surfaced to finance leadership through executive Tableau dashboards.
• Cut report turnaround 25% while improving cross-functional decision-making speed and data visibility.

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Project Manager / Sr. BSA / Scrum Master / Release Manager

Aegon-Transamerica

Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 (2 years 1 month)

• 30% analytics acceleration ($1.6M+/yr in recovered capacity): Operating model redesign for data-science and engineering teams improved throughput while lifting ML model accuracy ~15%.
• Architected and launched the Benefits Sherpa program a strategic platform integrating third-party benefits data to surface retirement-readiness gaps across 100,000+ plan participants. Created employer acquisition opportunities by positioning Transamerica in front of HR and benefits decision-makers; drove retirement-plan sales by demonstrating participant gaps; increased 401(k) engagement, contribution rates, and asset retention; enabled cross-selling of Transamerica wealth and health products; and generated aggregated workforce financial-readiness ins

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Progressive Leadership Roles

Various (American Water Works Association, Labs Inc., Shane Co., WPS Health Insurance, American Family Insurance, 608 Games LLC)

Jan 2007 - Jan 2019 (12 years 1 month)

• Built the transformation, governance, and delivery discipline behind 18+ years of enterprise change leadership across insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, and technology.

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