Applied Business MetricsApplied Business Metrics, LLC Principals
David Kennedy
David has over 25 years experience serving financial service companies with a focus on banking and commercial real estate. David began his career in public accounting working for both KPMG and Kenneth Levanthal & Co as a management consultant and auditor. He also held a Controller position with a leading Bay Area real estate firm and played an integral role in their 1997 initial public offering. In 2000 David formed Applied Business Metrics, LLC to focus on business automation solutions for financial services companies. David holds an MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley (Haas) and a BA degree in Economics and Business from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a former Certified Public Accountant.
Michael Kennedy
Michael is a veteran software architect with over 13 years experience designing, developing, deploying and maintaining commercial software products. He also has over 6 years of software consulting experience. Michael was the Director of Architecture for the Education and Research Industries at Oracle/PeopleSoft. During this period he focused on the Campus Solutions Student Administration product suite where he was a senior member of the team from the initial release through currently shipping version 9.0 and the rolling release model. In addition, Michael was a senior member of the HRMS Architecture team during the "Person Model" refactoring and was the lead architect of the popular and successful Enterprise Learning Management product (ELM). Prior to Oracle/PeopleSoft Michael was a manager at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) serving clients that include Walt Disney, General Electric, Times Mirror, Toshiba, Cadence Electronics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Visa International, and the California State University system. Michael holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of California, Los Angeles.