Dan Weithman Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio, United States

United States

Serving as Project Manager in the Enterprise Strategy and Planning organization. Worked on projects within both Medical and Pharmacy segments of the business. Responsible for project planning, progress reporting, and financial forecasting for both large scale and small initiatives.

United States

Led initiative sponsored out of the Enterprise Transformation Office to modernize and optimize the Business Process transformation journey. The mission was to optimize how and where the work gets done. Serving as a Project Manager I led the transformation of processes for the Claims and Finance organizations to an off-sore vendor. - Created, aligned and drove work plans in partnership with vendor company - Managed and drove resolution to program risks and issues - Managed vendor relationships - Led forum for stakeholder/executives and provided updates on the progress of the programUpon completion, I moved on to another assignment with a different company.

Netjets

Managing critical projects to the company possessing heavy offshore vendor development. Providing Agile guidance and coaching to both on and offshore teams, driving efficiency and visibility into the work. Served as a Scrum Master providing Agile Coaching and disciplined project management skills resulting in improved engagements with heavy offshore development.

Quality Assurance Team – Office of the ECTOProvided consultation, agile coaching and strategic thinking to a portfolio of programs totaling approximately $350M in annual spend to identify and mitigate program delivery and value realization risk. - Provided Agile Coaching ensuring adherence to methodology and delivery best practices. - Mentored Agile delivery teams and program sponsors while serving as a trusted advisor, recommending process improvements and reduction of non-value-added work. - Analyzed portfolio risks and generated themes impacting delivery and value realization while partnering with capability owners to implement strategies to mitigate or reduce risks. - Communicated findings effectively to Program Leadership, Sponsors and C-suite executives, gaining support on recommendations made to the program.

Columbus, Ohio Area

- Implemented a new methodology to assess the delivery risk of large-scale programs resulting in an increase in program delivery effectiveness and annual savings of $3M- Originated scoring model measuring overall portfolio’s risk related to the ability to deliver benefits; saving $1.3M - Delivered a more efficient and consistent claims experience to our members by consolidating five claims applications, resulting in business value projected at $75 - $100M in annual savings- Reduced calls by 13% into the Nationwide Service Centers, by creating five new on-line assets (registration, authentication, access, account summary and support tool) that supported 1M+ members- Directed cross-functional team in executing the strategy and roadmap of the data warehouse, serving 7,000+ customers; $18.5 M in loss avoidance, $14.1M in expense savings and $167M+ in revenue- Recipient of two industry recognition awards in 2002, including Best in Class implementations of data governance practices and Accountability Model as a sponsor to the data warehouse- Contributed to the team being awarded Nationwide Outstanding Contribution Award in 2012 by serving as Program Business Lead on Claims Transformation Project. - Gained Top 10 Project recognition in 2009 as Product Owner- Spoke at Tera Data User Conference regarding Nationwide’s implementation of data governance practices and Accountability Model - Key speaker at Guidewire User Conference on Nationwide’s journey with Guidewire ClaimCenter implementation

Claims Transformation - Office of ClaimsServed on the Program Leadership team committing to the consolidation of multiple claims applications with a new packaged software implementation solution (Guidewire). Coached the Business team, instilling Agile best practices into an Agile organization rooted in Waterfall methodology. Provided technical direction and user acceptance of solution through the planning, development and implementation of the new asset, resulting in $75 - $100M in annual savings.- Heightened visibility into programs process by directing monthly forums and initiating roadshows per Agile best practices.- Improved release over release to produce a higher level of credibility with stakeholders and end users by enacting new readiness forum to ensure business commitments were met with a higher level of quality.

Director, Agile Product Owner Product Owner overseeing team of six product proxies in creation, implementation, and support of online assets enabling access and self-service of their products with Nationwide via an Agile implementation. - Slashed calls into Nationwide service centers by developing five new online assets (registration, authentication, access, account summary, and support tool) that facilitated 1M+ members. - Brought enhanced and consistent online experience by providing a single sign-on with a common view of their products via an Agile delivery approach.- Advocated expansion of Agile delivery methodology at Nationwide by delivering incremental business value sooner, leading to widespread adoption of Agile across the enterprise.

Director, Sales Agent GatewayProvided leadership and direction to a team of seven managing implementations, readiness, and support of new agent application for sales and service to members. - Formulated new support construct to facilitate agents in a new environment; standardized new agent desktop and tightened security, resulting in fewer support issues and business disruption for agents. - Boosted agent’s satisfaction and adoption of new tools and processes by instituting command centers to support agents in transition immediately following implementation of the new asset.

Director, Marketing and Strategy, P&C Data Warehouse Tera Data ImplementationOrchestrated business sponsorship and direction for P&C Data Warehouse. Liaison to IT through delivery and implementation. Achieved industry recognition for implementation of Data Governance and Accountability Model; key factors to our successful implementation. - Gained consensus and alignment for funding and sequencing of work through collaboration with peers. - Coordinated cross-functional business team in building out strategy and roadmap of data warehouse serving 7k+ customers, which produced $18.5M in loss avoidance, $14.1M in expense savings, and $167M in new revenue. - Produced higher level of consistency and confidence by rectifying concerns with consistency and accuracy of P&C reporting through the creation of data governance committee and standards, certification of standard reports, and implementation and delivery of new training. - Solidified reliable cross-functionality for the advancement of the data warehouse by developing and implementing the “Accountability Model.”- Applied detailed eye to spot opportunities to stimulate growth and save on technology expense by suggesting consolidation of multiple data warehouse platforms saving ~$1.3M per annum.

Developer/Project Lead/Manager, Information Technology Systems Progressed in increasing roles of responsibility; including database administrator, implementation leader and project management across multiple businesses. Provided access to tools and data to increase the business intelligence within the Claims and Underwriting organizations.

Bachelors, Management Information Systems

Mba, Business Administration And Management Information Systems