Daniel Mckeegan Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

Mar 2022 - present: Strategic Assortment Growth desk• Project manager for strategic product line expansion opportunities.• Coordinate implementation efforts for a minimum viable product approach to build out new categories that meet customer and market needs.• Ideate and execute process improvements to increase the speed and scope of work and decrease time to market.Jul 2019 - Mar 2022: Electrical Test & Measurement desk• Analyze more than a dozen direct and indirect voice of customer (VOC) sources, identifying core themes that inform actionable and quantifiable improvement opportunities to the merchandised ecommerce experience.• Perform competitive analysis to determine strengths and weaknesses relative to other broadline MRO (maintenance, repair & operations) competitors, specialized industrial distributors and integrators, and B2C/big box options.• Leverage VOC and competitive analysis to develop best-in-class organizational design solutions for product line review groups ranging from 1,000 products to 30,000 products.• Lead and manage line review projects, providing inputs and feedback to and coordinating efforts across functional teams including information architecture, product information analysis, master data management, copywriting, photo studio, CGI, rich content development, and content strategy.• Execute the implementation of line review launches, publishing new organization hierarchy with completed data and content to the live website.• Product expertise includes precision measuring tools and gauges; temperature and environmental measurement and monitoring; and system and differential pressure measurement and monitoring.

Greater Chicago Area

• Survey and analyze all AMER region clients' URL automation rules to determine viability of migration from entity level to campaign level tracking.• Lead an ongoing migration initiative to increase clients' work efficiency and decrease system and server loads.• Train and mentor new team members on Kenshoo best practices, focusing on workflows, Kenshoo’s database structure, and technical processes.

Chicago, Illinois

• Develop and execute project plans to bring new clients (direct, agency, and local agency) onto the Kenshoo platform.• Account for clients' business needs, as well as their preexisting integrations and relationships, as part of a holistic campaign management, tracking, optimization, and reporting model that maximizes the value of Kenshoo Search, Kenshoo Social, and Kenshoo Ecommerce.• Serve as principal point of contact between new clients and Kenshoo's Sales, Solutions, and Client Success teams to ensure a seamless transition and launch.

Chicago, Illinois

• Kenshoo's global Support team performs troubleshooting, analysis, and fault recovery for the Kenshoo Search cloud platform (Java based, SaaS) for direct and agency clients.Lead customer communication while acting as support liaison between clients, Product, R&D, and Client Success teams via Kenshoo's support ticketing system.• Maintain and improve Kenshoo Support's internal knowledge hub, focusing primarily on Tracking (Multi-source data, integrations, processing/reprocessing, attribution) and Best Practices (database, MySQL, Hive).• Develop and implement procedures to improve operational efficiency and mitigate risks to the client and the platform while reducing time to resolution.• Create workflows and SQL-based templates to facilitate implementation of common customization requests.• Mentor K24x7 (Tier One) Support team members in basics of SQL and fundamentals of Kenshoo system processes and database structure.• Associated technical expertise: MySQL (expert), Reporting, SOAP, Linux/Shell and Perl scripting, Github (used by Support to analyze code as part of investigations), data analytics (Hive), variety of monitoring tools (Zabbix, Logz.io, Hosted Graphite).

Chicago, Illinois

Codifyd (formerly ByteManagers) is the leading provider of product content solutions. Our technology-enabled consulting services and cloud-based solutions enable manufacturers, distributors and retailers to efficiently prepare, optimize and transform their product content allowing these organizations to: increase revenue, improve customer service, and gain organizational agility. • Lead teams of Analysts and Junior Analysts (JAs) on product content development projects for client e-commerce platforms.• Mentor Analysts and JAs on technical processes and conceptual approaches to data QA and normalization, as well as communication with clients and offshore production vendors.• Perform high level analysis of our team's QA results on raw data files, which I communicated as feedback to our data production teams.• Oversee the normalization of product attribute data for format and conceptual relevance at taxonomy node and global attribute levels.• Develop and run SQL queries for ETL processes necessary for high volume data production output. In daily applications, these take the form of programmatic data checks and custom reporting needs.• Automate SKU-level product description and keyword creation through the development of taxonomy node-level, schema-based derived attribute expressions.• Interact with clients via review logs, conference calls, and on-site presentations to realize the best-in-class product content solutions designed by Codifyd consultant and sales teams.• Execute project goals within established timelines according to Codifyd best practices and the client-specific requirements as defined by the consultant team.• From 09/2013 to 03/2014, led a team of 12 Analysts and JAs on Codifyd’s largest-ever SKU build effort. Over these months the team performed QA and normalization on 4.426 million values for appx. 325,000 products including Linear Motion, Bearings, Material Handling, Electric Motor, Pneumatics, Hydraulics, and Hose/Fitting categories.

Chicago, Illinois

• Optimize client product information through QA and normalization of product attribute data.• Perform product and taxonomy research to best represent the schema-normalized data points contained within each project.• Develop working knowledge of SQL (Microsoft SQL Server) for daily database query work and ad hoc client- and internal-facing reporting needs.• Mentor JAs in the practical and theoretical approaches to product data QA.

Chicago, Illinois

• Execute assigned project work, primarily data QA and sourcing/classification checks.• Provide sales support by performing data and content audits on prospective accounts.• Develop and execute a Unit of Measure Conversion process for one of our clients alongside one of our Technical Reporting Analysts• Engaged in vendor relations outreach on behalf of clients seeking operational data, supplementary product content such as MSDS sheets and product images, and the development of a more robust supply chain relationship through the creation of drop ship SLAs.

• Assist general manager and franchisees in developing schedules, performing stock inventories, preparing and placing food orders, meeting labor percentage targets, and maintaining nightly cleaning regimen.• Provide customer-focused service experience, ensuring consistent food quality as well as driving conversations to build relationships with our patrons.