Daniel Reed Email & Phone Number

Macedon, New York, United States

Mature and develop the portfolio of digital solutions which support internal customers from the production floor through marketing, sales, and new product development.Maximize the value of tools, solutions, and products created from configuring off-the-shelf solutions, transitioning tools to citizen-developers, and creation of custom.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Managed a portfolio of $15M+ concurrent cross-functional and multi-industry project teams in federally funded research and technology development in digital manufacturing via a public-private partnership, consortium.
• Contributed to organizational design and change management for transition to a formal project management office (PMO) growing from 4 to 12 full-time, hybrid-remote project managers and engineers over a two-year period.
• Architect and champion of PMO transition to Monday.com, leveraging automation for efficiency and transparency. Infrastructure enabled scale-up from $5 to $19M annual portfolio and ultimately led to company-wide adoption.
• Performed research, concept ideation, RFP development, and evaluation of proposals in technology areas including artificial intelligence, digital twins, and cybersecurity. Contributed to strategic investment plan as.
• Provided thought leadership through whitepaper submission, speaking engagements, and facilitation of interdisciplinary workshops attended by industry executives, governmental stakeholders, and academic researchers.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Manage multiple technology projects from ideation and scoping to execution and deployment following MxD’s gate PM process
• Lead cross-functional and multi-industry project teams including solution providers, manufacturers, and academics
• Drive project planning and development, including requests for proposals, statements of work, deliverables, schedules, reporting requirements and intellectual property assertions
• Conduct primary and secondary market research to translate industry needs into project requirements
• Support other MxD teams by contributing technical expertise to shape workshops and identify synergies across other institute initiatives

Schaumburg, IL

• Led the Custom Made-to-Order (MTO) Development team from creation of customer-facing interfaces through digital manufacturing integration with physical machine tools
• Leveraged machine knowledge technologies and integrated existing MRP and ERP systems to automate production of unique high-mix low-volume parts achieving 84% success rate

Greater Chicago Area

• Project managed and designed production lines for food, petrochemical, packaging and light industry applications up to $2.5M in custom equipment
• Responsible for project scoping, requirements gathering, timeline creation and management of engineering team members, improving on-time project delivery from 64% to 87%

Countryside, IL

Greater Chicago Area

• Used SolidWorks to design custom material handling systems for food, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries
• Scheduled production of all projects through in-house assembly/fabrication and subcontracted vendors.