Dan Galasso Email & Phone Number

I am a Program and Portfolio Manager with experience leading diverse efforts involving system development, process improvement, organizational change, engineering development, hardware testing and production operations in both the healthcare and aerospace industries using Agile and traditional methodologies. In addition to project & program delivery, I lead PMO teams and develop project & program managers.I began my career as an aerospace engineer focused on in-space propulsion and quickly gravitated towards technical project management. I then transitioned to a role as a production program manager responsible for numerous complex projects leading diverse cross-functional teams to deliver critical safety products to customers in spaceflight, military & commercial aviation and nuclear safety.The changing landscape within the Healthcare industry created the need for large organizational change efforts at the corporate program office level, which provided a great opportunity to apply my experience leading complex efforts including process improvement and cost reduction. Since joining Kaiser Permanente I have led efforts delivering system development, PMO improvement, organizational change and strategic planning.My Program Management specific experience includes proposal generation and negotiation, program planning and kick-off, driving project execution, risk & issue management, financial analysis (EAC/ETC), and Release Management. As a PMO Manager I developed standardized processes & tools, created training & development initiatives for project professionals, led executive portfolio reporting and directly managed project managers.

Listed skills include Aerospace, Process Improvement, Six Sigma, Testing, and 24 others.

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  The Ohio State University

  Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering