Daniel Gardner Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Playa Del Rey, California

Owner and operator of an investment incubation group offering business development and supply chain management consulting services to trusted partners with equity investment available.

As a freelance consultant, I've managed to remain competitive with larger firms competing for the same business and secured greater occupational proximity to several industries on the cutting edge of technological relevance, such as entertainment, health care and consumer electronics manufacturing.Key AchievementsDeveloped total technology strategy for four successful start-up companies offering supply chain management solutions to various consumer and b2b segment - both production server environment as well as back-office infrastructure involving networking (production and VPN), telecommunications, network security, LAN/WAN segmenting and desktop deployment.Drafted business policy, procedure and standards for clients in industries including media, applied sciences, internet services, hospitality and health care. Authored policy and procedure drafts covering roles and responsibilities in varying departments. Analyzed and translated standards and practices into functional requirements for business systems including communications, accounting, fulfillment, back office and point of sale/front of house. Experienced in project management methodologies Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Critical Path and Float.Regular guest speaker at industry conferences, participating as an IT and consumer electronics technology expert. Frequently called upon to speak to non-technical audiences about the impacts of IT on their industries and market conditions.Built a network of trusted professionals and reliable service providers across the US, the Ukraine, Taiwan and the Republic of the Philippine Islands.

In partnership with another consultancy, provided business consulting support to clients in the entertainment, fashion apparel, merchandise apparel and ebusiness sectors.Through business consulting experience, developed and operated service offerings supporting the needs of organizations seeking data services, manufacturing fulfillment and information technology infrastructure support.Key AchievementsIdentified market for a turn-key, high volume revenue generating service providing web-based application enabling casting professionals to provide their producer and ad executive clients the ability to access and review video clips of auditions and communicate feedback and choices across casting project teams.Negotiated and secured partnership with leading casting director of television commercials; Established alliances with casting studios servicing multiple casting directors and parlayed those relationships to generate service requirements and market service.Translated service requirements into system requirements, designed, developed and implemented service according to a contracted timeline.Operated service for one year until successfully negotiating sale of service.Identified market for merchandise apparel serving independent recording labels and artists in the dance music sector.Identified and partnered with manufacturers providing wholesale blank apparel for printing and embellishing. Negotiated credit terms and inventory limits across four product lines: t-shirts, outerwear, head wear and accessories.Developed web-based order entry system for managing the design process and communicating across all participants in manufacturing fulfillment process.Oversaw all aspects of program management including quality assessment and control, manufacturer coordination and inventory delivery to event locations across the US and Ibiza, Spain.

Executive Producer of $20M supply chain innovation project involving planning, development and implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture solution for the metals fabrication industry. Led in-house multidisciplinary teams in business process design, systems integration, application development and sales force support. Responsible for overall program management involving in-house IT staff and consulting teams from Andersen Consulting and Diamond Technology Partners utilizing the critical path method of project management.Functioned as technological liaison, facilitating communication between all teams and executive leadership for both the subsidiary and the parent company.Achieved all milestone goals at budget and ahead of critical deadlines.

Key AchievementsResponsible for project management on several large scale implementation projects for clients in the midwest and southwest region including Chrysler/Powerway, Agilent Technologies and eBay. Contributed application architecture and infrastructure planning to large scale ebusiness infrastructure implementations. Functioned as thought leadership for the Business Consulting Group, developing methodologies for information architecture nested within SOA applications and innovations in content management.Hired full time as an application developer specializing in early client/server applications for internal clients. Spearheaded Microsoft ASP development and implementation for the Chicago Headquarters. Promoted to senior consulting for Business Consulting Group based upon meritorious service.

Key AchievementsResponsible for project management for space planning, security, business interruption management and furnishings and equipment for Northwestern University''s medical faculty - specifically their multi-group specialty practice. Oversaw large scale relocations and technological implementations for IIS and medical technologies, including communications and client server and communications applications.

Film/Cinema/Video Studies

Education record

Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia

Activities and Societies: Black Student Union