Jeanne O'Kelley

Senior Vice President, Technology Excellence Center

Biography

Evaluating the environment, understanding the problem or opportunity, and creatively solving the problem in a innovative way has been a consistent theme throughout Jeanne O’Kelley’s career. She is a pragmatic innovator. Never scared of new technologies and approaches, she is constantly scanning the market for new ways to solve the problem that provides the customer with cheaper, better and smarter solutions. And she is not a dreamer, she turns innovation into solutions and has been the founder of three successful businesses over the past 30 years. Since joining Vangent in 2006, she is using her entrepreneurial roots promoting Communities of Practice across the company in all six countries to encourage collaboration utilizing Web 2.0 technologies to drive Vangent’s innovation.

In 1997, Ms. O'Kelley co-founded Blueprint Technologies, a software engineering company based in Vienna, Virginia, when she saw an opportunity to help businesses increase their competitive advantage by offering reusable software. As President and CEO, Ms. O'Kelley drove the strategic direction and overall vision of Blueprint Technologies, working closely with the Board of Directors and the executive management team. In 2006, her success with this woman-owned, small business enabled Blueprint Technologies to grow strategically and aggressively through its acquisition by Vangent.
Prior to Blueprint Technologies, she joined Rational Software, an e-development company, where she led a field operation that pioneered the transition from the company's defense hardware and compiler solutions to the commercial growth market of object-oriented design and programming techniques. While at Rational Software, she collaborated with industry thought leaders who were driving the software development process based on business requirements captured in easy-to-understand Use Cases and visual models. Prior to Blueprint Technologies, she also co-founded ISI, Inc., a network installation and integration company, in 1983 and BDG, a manufacturing franchise company, in 1989.

Ms. O'Kelley serves as an advisor and mentor to several small businesses, in addition to participating as a member of the leadership team for the Industry Advisory Council (IAC) Enterprise Architecture Shared Interest Group (SIG). She also continues to participate with industry groups such as the Object Management Group (OMG). Ms. O'Kelley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Towson University.