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Prior to joining Suss Consulting, Mr. Cogan was a civilian professor at the U.S. Army War College. He taught leadership and management courses and Army specific organizational methodologies. He held the position of Professor of Information Technology. He inaugurated electives pertaining to science and technology and was conferred the Somervell Chair of Management. His areas of interest focused on future technology studies and established a multitude of contacts at DOD and national research facilities.
Before his military retirement, Mr. Cogan served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He was responsible for all video, voice, and data operations, including all Internet services, photography, television, radio frequency management, and campus telephone operations. His project management efforts there included the complete re-wiring of the student dormitories with gigabit ethernet and private digital voice telephone.
Military assignments preceding his CIO post included research and development at the Communications and Electronics Command, Ft. Monmouth, NJ. There he was responsible for the infusion of next generation electronic technologies for the U.S. Army. He supervised national and international programs to include a multi-national message communications system. He was also the product manager for Standard Installation and Division Personnel System (SIDPERS-3), at Ft. Belvoir, VA which required the complete software re-write of the Army personnel management system. There he supervised a contractor team of 140 software engineers and managers who wrote over one million lines of code with an annual budget of over $2 million per year. He was a communications division chief at the U.S. European Command headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. He also served an assistant professor of computer science at West Point in the early 1980’s and was considered a subject matter expert in the Ada programming language and authored and presented several refereed papers. As a junior officer he was a tactical signal corps officer at division and corps levels to include two additional European assignments.
BS, Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
MS, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
Professional Engineer Degree, Columbia University, New York, NY
Postgraduate course work at Duke University and Rutgers University
Graduate, Defense Systems Management College
Graduate, U.S. Army War College | 