Daniel Braden Email & Phone Number

Lake Forest, IL, US

San Diego, CA, US

Reporting to EPMO leadership, I am responsible for guiding multiple Scrum teams through the use of Agile / Scrum practices and values for the purpose of delivering quality products and solutions to the organization. I build trusted relationships with the team and with their stakeholders (Product Managers, Solutions Managers, etc.) to ensure that the needs.

Managed the Information Technology software development team (10 members), to deliver all IT software projects utilizing agile scrum values and principles by working with the IT department and various business groups. Drives IT strategies, planning, design, implementation, and coordination of all IT portfolio/projects throughout the organization..

Delivery Consultation:Leading scrum/delivery teams to drive successful delivery of agile projects for the Milewise Product. Ensure the Milewise product scrum team lives by the values and practices of scrum and agile principles. Optimize and coordinate the needs / capability of the software development team with delivery of stakeholder BRD's within a.

Mclean, VA, US

• Performed a combined PM/Scrum Master role dedicated to the complete implementation of IT projects including: Data Center/Infrastructure, Application and Business Systems implementations, ensuring effective risk.
• Determined scope, level of effort, and risk exposure for data center, application systems, and cloud projects.
• Developed effective project plans with all supporting documentation for Executive approval.
• Managed/lead change event(s) during approved change windows.
• Responsible for communicating event status prior to, during and post completion to organization.
• Facilitated pre-event/release walk-throughs and dry runs with impacted stakeholders.

Glen Allen, VA, US

• Responsible for project management support activities for facilities operations to ensure security and stability of the environment during infrastructure projects. Supported all aspects of service delivery, including.
• Managed Infrastructure Events, Troubleshooted problems, involved the appropriate resources and performed system and infrastructure recovery as quickly as possible.
• Contributed to data center project standards development and enforcement.
• Acting management leader for escalation of issues.
• Contributed to the operational improvements in performance.
• Coordinated activities with customer IT and user departments to ensure the integrity of the environments. Participated in system design improvements and performance enhancements.

Blackfriars, London, GB

• Reporting to the CIO, managed the corporate Data Center infrastructure and eight direct reports in a raised floor environment with 160+ servers, with an annual operating budget of $4.4 million that provided services.
• Successfully managed a $350,000 upgrade and installation of HVAC and electrical continuity along with an annex to the data center. Provided more efficient power and AC requirements to save energy costs, and enhance.
• Managed the telecommunications annual budget of $500,000 providing telephone and video conferencing services for a global organization.
• Negotiated vendor contracts for hardware and support on all IBM computer platforms and all data center UPS equipment.
• Negotiated vendor contracts for local and long-distance telecom services for the corporate office.
• Planned/Tested and provided for the business continuity and disaster recovery (SUNGARD) for servers running SAP, Windows 7, AIX, OS400, including all system upgrades and PTFs on the IBM mid-range platforms.

US

• Promoted to manage a staff of nine associates in a 24 hour cycle to perform all computer operations tasks, including all system backups for disaster recovery (BRMS), all batch processing, and all data updates.
• Responsible to ensure all data center SLAs met criteria for metrics agreed upon by the business and IT.
• Managed all preventive maintenance on data center hardware including UPS battery replacement.
• Managed the telecommunications for the Melrose Park location providing all adds, moves and changes on a Meridian Option 61 PBX.
• Performed all IBM iSeries and pSeries system upgrades. Performed iSeries disaster recovery planning/testing.
• Installation of BMC Software’s Control_M product for batch processing automation (2006).

US

• Managed the migration of a mainframe environment to a server and mid-range platform based data center to become Y2K compliant. Mentored by the Data Center Manager to become eventual replacement upon retirement.
• Responsible for training the computer operations staff and IT Business Analysts on the iSeries platforms that were installed for Y2K to migrate from an IBM ES9000 mainframe environment.
• Created all documentation associated with the Y2K migration for all data center processing including backup strategies, batch processing, and performance management.
• Installed all IBM mid-range iSeries systems for the Y2K initiative and associated application software.

Roseland, New Jersey, US

Computer Operations Manager reporting to the V.P. of I.T. managing a staff of 11 associates.Responsible for all batch processing required to service 14,000 clients in the Chicago metropolitan area including all payroll, quarterly and yearly tax reporting to the IRS. Projects: Installation of all IBM System 36 and AS400 IBM platforms, all system and.

Held increasing positions of responsibility including computer operator, shift supervisor and operations supervisor processing all payroll and tax reporting for 10,000 clients.

Associates Degree, Computer Sciences

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