Dan Walder Email & Phone Number

Manage strategic technology projects and report executive status to business CTOs:- Datacenter infrastructure migration to cloud and facilities decommissioning- Leverage cloud strategies to enable mergers, acquisitions and divestitures

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

• Responsible for all DuPont site migration work for mergers and acquisitions. As of June of 2020, this includes a multi-billion dollar divestiture and multiple smaller business integrations into DuPont.
• Led the development and implementation of an enhanced merger and acquisition framework for IT migration for the new DuPont company.
• Responsible for over $40 million IT site migration budget to execute programs on time and within cost.
• Interfaced with executive IT business leadership to build support for funding to integrate acquisitions into DuPont.
• Accountability for global site migration teams managing a staff of 100 DuPont and FTE resources.Major Achievements:Established a team of over 100 FTE’s to execute the merger of DuPont’s Nutrition and Biosciences (N&B).

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

• Led the development and implementation of Infrastructure migration framework for the Corteva/FMC and DuPont/Dow migrations.
• Accountable for global Server & Storage, Telecom and Personal Computing and Print service teams which included managing a global staff of over 150 FTE and DuPont resources.
• Responsible for over $100 million IT infrastructure budget to execute programs on time and within cost.
• Interfaced with executive leadership to build support and awareness for IT infrastructure execution across all merger programs.Major Achievements: Led all IT infrastructure work for the stand-up and separation of the.

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

• Led development and implementation of “Follow the Sun” IT operations and enterprise service management support strategy for Telecommunications and Server & Storage at DuPont.
• Oversaw IT transformation and business process improvements to achieve adoption of standard hardware solutions which resulted in significant improvement of operational metrics.
• Managed root cause analysis and emergency approval processes to ensure stability of production environments.
• Led alignment sessions with global business representatives to ensure infrastructure systems met business requirements.Major Achievements:Developed and implemented an execution strategy to migrate the global DuPont.

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

• Led the optimization of our personal computing service in DuPont.
• Led the harmonization of Accenture services during the renegotiation of their MSA contract.
• Certified in Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean/Kaizen methodologies.Major Achievements:Earned my Blackbelt certification by driving the optimization of our PC computing solution with Dell along with utilization of Lean Six.

• Led a security network of 75 manufacturing locations to ensure that the needed security on both the general and process control network were in place and operating effectively.
• Interfaced with executive leadership to build support and awareness for IT security programs.
• Developed and implemented an IT security strategy to identify vulnerabilities and drive remediation through the IT leaders at the manufacturing sites. This resulted in an 80% reduction of the risk posture of all.
• Mentored new security officer and provided training to enhance overall security competency.
• Performed risk assessments for new and existing technologies to ensure cost effective controls were implemented.Major Achievements:Developed and executed the IT security strategy for the Chemical Facility.

· Planned, scoped, and coordinated global infrastructure and compliance audits.· Discerned and communicated major issue findings regarding internal controls to senior management. · Proactively partnered with audit clients for successful long term growth by ensuring control risks within the business were effectively understood and considered in the audit.

· Augmented current internal penetration testing/vulnerability assessment process based on relevant attack vectors.· Conducted new system implementation reviews to ensure cost effective controls were built into the system design.Major Achievements:Developed and led the more in-depth Unix infrastructure audits to address the critical SAP systems of DuPont.