Management Philosophy and Experience

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Dan A. Steele

 
Philosophy to guiding / leading / mentoring
I believe in servant leadership. My propriety is to insure that my team members have the knowledge and tools they need to get the job done right. My approach to success is helping others succeed. My greatest sense of accomplishment comes from helping my team members excel.

Team Motivation
I am one person on a highly skilled team of individuals. I put forth my best effort and expect others to do the same. Team strength derives from the synergy of its members.

Project Management
• Experienced: 17 years hands on project management
• Developed using full software life-cycle – requirements thru delivery
• Performed user acceptance testing

• Certified: PMP certification in 2005 and recertified in 2009
• Managed in matrix organization: 3 years
• Implemented large complex CRM focused on not for profit sector
• Managed 5 person team
• Managed simultaneous projects: 3 – 7 active w/ 30 maintenance customers
• Updated design study methodology reducing ambiguity and better defining scope
• Developed intranet to improve internal communications and team spirit

Operations Management
• Director of Operations: 4 years
• Retaining my project manager duties
• Developed new data conversion process to improve efficiency and streamline process
• Documented processes used by project managers, developers and trainers.
• Developed project plan template used company wide
• Wrote a Project Management Handbook
• Refined our ability to report on data from our time tracking system
• Worked with business analysts to further improve design document formats
• Organized a business analysts training
• Deputy to the COO for special projects

Program Management
• Accepted accountability for project success while also managing 5 project managers
• Provided sample reports and project templates
• Reviewed new projects with less experienced project managers
• Held regular project review meetings
• Managed widely distributed team
• Managed resource time and budget

Technical Product Support Direction
• Directed a technical product support group of 22 persons
• Restructured team leveraging skills
• Boosted customer satisfaction rates from 82% to 94%
• Modified customer survey approach increasing response rates from 33% to 59%
• Increased resolutions within SLA by 7% over a 6 month period

Offshore Team Management
• Liaised business with offshore vendor
• Negotiated SOWs and contracts making recommendations to the COO and CFO
• Analyzed costs vs. benefit of offshore relationship
• Promoted communication between onshore and offshore teams to maintain quality
• Educated onshore team on management techniques
• Arranged for and helped to develop training classes for the offshore team
• Implemented quality methodology of navigation plans and test plans

Quality Team Management
• Started quality team focused on implementation process
• Developed well-defined method of requirements and specification development
• Included navigation and test plans to improve delivery quality
• Improved documentation and customer communication
• Improved supportability of implementations

Performance Metrics Development
• Formed team to mine performance metric information
• Developed metrics for billing, utilization and realization
• Developed performance metrics for the technical customer support team
• Developed monthly dashboards for C-level and BOD
• Developed team goals to aid line managers
• Predicted 6 mo. billings considering pipeline, backlog, and utilization

Partner Program Management
• Started a certified partner program
• Improved quality and consistency of partner work delivered
• Improved the quality of partnerships while reducing marginal relationships
• Consulted with partners on use of web services integrations
• Facilitated meetings with technical staff as needed

Telecom Experience
• Managing customer business analytics mart
• Managed 10 person team distributed between 3 US locals, India, and South America
• Developed new features and functionality as needed and defined
• Facilitated meetings, scheduled resources, reviewed and approved requirements
• Performing database analysis for data modeling of an upgrade marketing database



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