Daniel Mckinnon Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

• Lead a global organization of 125+ developers, analysts, and Chapter Leaders responsible for the support, maintenance, enhancement, and modernization of two key products of the brokerage platform
• Grow and develop Chapter Leaders into excellent engineering managers and leaders
• Collaborate with Product Area Leaders, Squad Leads and Chapter Leaders on workforce strategy, planning and execution including hiring, squad composition and associate mobility
• Drive adoption and maturation of software engineering practices and responsible for technical excellence of associates
• Cocreate technical product roadmaps and plans for cloud migration of legacy systems with Product Area Leaders
• Partner with architecture team on design and architecture of cloud native systems including integrations to forward and back bridge from and to legacy systems

Boston, MA, US

• Lead a team migrating legacy brokerage applications to cloud of 20+ Software Developers
• Provide technical and architectural guidance for modernizing applications to cloud native tech stack across multiple scrum teams and product areas
• Collaborate with other Chapter Leaders and Chapter Area Lead on workforce strategy, planning and execution including hiring, squad composition and associate mobility
• Provide career, technical, and personal development coaching, and guidance to associates across multiple Business Units
• Led the effort to migrate real-time cost basis calculation system from legacy mainframe to cloud native application in Amazon Web Services, fully migrated expected to be greater than 90% savings ($1M+) in.
• Organize and facilitate Business Unit wide Chapter Lead community of practice for 50+ Chapter Leads to share knowledge, challenges, and establish best practices

Boston, MA, US

• Transformed development organization to Agile working model. Advocated for, facilitated, and led transformation into 6 dedicated Agile teams and approximately 60 associates
• Proactively embraced agile ahead of business unit transformation and included team training, acquiring Agile coaches and integration of business partners
• Created Agile Engage Team including leaders from the technology and operations group to monitor agile progress and be an escalation point for squads, reducing decision making time and increasing efficiency and.
• Supported teams executing on Cloud and Technical Modernization, providing technical, subject matter and architectural guidance
• Managed $1M statement of work and relationship for external Cloud technology consulting company contributing

Boston, MA, US

• Led of team of 10+ software engineers, systems analysts, and scrum masters developing web services and user interfaces to support end customer and back-office interactions with tax and cost basis functions
• Provided technical oversight and subject matter expertise for development projects and associated maintenance plans
• Interfaced with business representatives to understand requirements, regulations, and challenges
• Set the strategy for modernization of legacy mainframe systems cloud migration efforts, with emphasis on reducing maintenance and infrastructure costs

Boston, MA, US

• Provided business solutions by architecting and developing software applications
• Provided technical leadership and onboarding support to junior team members on multiple projects
• Developed original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts
• Supported and performed all phases of testing leading to flawless implementation
• Established project plans for projects of moderate scope meeting deadlines and ensured projects were delivered within budget

Boston, MA, US

Boston, MA, US

Boston, MA, US

Technical intern exposed to a wide variety of technologies including SharePoint, COBOL Mainframe Development, Enterprise Java and Service Oriented Architecture.