Daniel Horowitz Email & Phone Number

• Manages the planning and designing of business processes and formulates recommendations for areas of improvement to support FDA business initiatives.
• Conducts extensive user research to promote transforming product visions into cutting edge solutions as a part of the product roadmap.
• Collaborates closely with other product leaders and subject matter experts to drive adoption of new features that improve customer operations effectiveness and efficiency.
• Partners with other cross-functional teams to define and develop process, strategies, and measure impact of system redesign.
• Participates in technical reviews and inspections to verify the intent of change is carried throughout all phases of the SDLC.
• Defines and provides detailed user stories and success criteria to the technical team to support sprint planning activities.

• Lead efforts with both internal and external key project stakeholders to develop and maintain the product strategy, vision, and roadmap while ensuring value was delivered to the end user.
• Transformed features into user stories within the team’s backlog while managing and prioritizing the backlog to accurately reflect stakeholder requirements.
• Acted as a liaison between business, sales, & IT teams to refine the product and launch new features based on market demands.
• Guided users throughout all stages of business analysis, construction of user-interface design, testing, deployment, & training.
• Launched multiple projects to implement to a D365 CRM solution while always delivering on time and under budget.
• Designed and architected custom tables and flows in collaboration with the software engineering team resulting in a seamless enterprise deliverable and ROI.

Basking Ridge, New Jersey

• Elicited functional requirements and acceptance criteria for system enhancements to consistently provide business value to the end-user.
• Collaborated with project team to ensure a cohesive delivery and traceability.
• Assisted with gathering reporting metrics and building dashboards to help track burn-up and delivery.
• Lead meetings with project team to guarantee agile practices were implemented and that the team’s output was robust, flexible, and scalable.
• Removed development team impediments resulting in sprint goals being achieved and velocity increasing over each iteration.
• Facilitated sprint reviews with user testing groups and business product owners to generate a consistent feedback loop on software solutions.

Warren, NJ

• Documented business analysis and production support workflows to ensure best practices were followed.
• Clarified user problems by defining symptoms and expected behavior and confirming reproduction steps.
• Directed meetings with user groups and vendor to identify requirements as well as business impact while prioritizing the backlog, determining workarounds, and escalating/tracking the status of bugs.
• Defined and executed detailed test plans/cases and to guarantee solutions satisfied business requirements and would be accepted by the customer.
• Tested system issues by reproducing behavior on internal staging environments to assist the development team in fixing system defects.

Rochelle Park, NJ

• Assisted with the management of ten different projects; responsible for deliverables, reporting scope changes, and risk/issue tracking to ensure delivery on time and in budget.
• Conducted audits of project SharePoint project sites to ensure best practices were followed and standards were met.
• Drafted project artifacts including project plans, status reports, communication plans, training manuals, and test scripts.
• Executed testing of SharePoint intranet sites in desktop and mobile versions to assist with quality assurance efforts.

Greater New York City Area

• Audited project document folders to validate project managers were following internal best practices and methodologies
• Worked with MS Project, SharePoint, and databases critical to effective project management
• Documented IT/PMO processes, workflows, and best practices
• Developed training tools to assist future PMO new hires
• Shadowed Sr. Program Manager to gain an understanding of day to day project management work