Daniel W. Tobias, Pmp, Csm Email & Phone Number

Mississauga, ON, CA

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

• Reporting to the VP Information Technology, responsible for a department of twenty-five, to oversee network security and infrastructure, the IT Help Desk, and strategic project initiatives.
• PMO program and project oversight for IT optimization of network security and infrastructure, Internet and wireless upgrades, and VOIP communications.
• Developed a three-year strategy for enhancing network infrastructure, bolstering data security, and modernizing the IT help desk services.
• Administered the integration of Wajax's new business acquisition infrastructures.
• Ensuring superior customer support for various technology platforms across more than 118 branch locations in Canada.
• Devised and executed a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy across the entire enterprise, rooted in the NIST framework.

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

• Reporting to the SVP HR & IT, provide portfolio and program governance by supporting Wajax’s strategic projects, Industrial Benefits and monitor and report on enterprise and operational scorecards to provide consistent.
• Successfully delivered annual savings of $15.3 million as the PMO lead for the company's transformation project.
• Collaborated with operational business teams to enhance, standardize, and streamline procedures during policy formulation.
• Successfully deployed the Concur travel and expense reporting system that enhanced efficiency in expense management and optimization of returns from expense investments.
• Implemented a nationwide emergency call dispatch service to provide customers with 24 hour live agent support.
• Built HR dashboards and optimized HR processes for employee onboarding, status changes and offboarding.

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

• Reported to the CFO, provide portfolio and program governance to the Corporate and Divisional business units to create, sustain and improve processes related to business project management, offsets and operational.
• Implemented a PMO including methodology development, procedures, tools and training.
• Developed and executed national training modules for service operations and project management.
• Completed a strategic initiative to improve service operations efficiencies, customer service and profitability by $2.7 million, across 68 branches.
• Project led a national operational excellence program to establish consistent KPIs for service, parts, and sales activities.
• Provided Corporate oversight to advance offset activities, generating over $5 million in credits.

Mississauga, ON, CA

• Reported to the Director PMO MLCF, responsible for training development and implementation of PMO best practices for Sales, Marketing, Six Sigma and Network Transformation stakeholders.
• Developed a master program plan for the manufacturing site closures and product transfers to monitor the consolidation of production facilities.
• PMO lead for the strategic commercial transformation project that delivered over $30 million in savings from product development and consolidation activities.
• Project led the Cappola production site integration of manufacturing, supply chain, planning, sales and marketing functions, delivering profitability of $1.2 million.
• Supported the implementation of Project Server by testing and migrating network project plans into the new database.
• Support commercial transformation activities with key customers including: Loblaw, Sobeys, Walmart, Metro, Sysco, and GFS.

Oakville, Ontario, CA

• Reported to the VP of Operations, led a department of six Project Managers to coordinate productlaunch and manufacturing activities for dietary and food supplements.
• Contributed over $50 million in revenue by successfully leading the product launch and revamp of 218 product SKUs for large retail vendors such as Walmart, Walgreens and GNC.
• As part of the S&OP process, reduced excess inventory by $3 million over a six-month period.
• Process reengineered packaging design processes resulting in annual savings of over $5 million.
• Managed the preparation of major RFPs for the selection of third party manufacturers.
• Collaborated with many large retailers including Walmart, GNC, Walgreens, Sam’s Club, Rite-Aid, AAFES, and 7-Eleven to manage planogram design and product launch activities.

Oakville, Ontario, CA

• Reported to the VP of Operations, responsible for a department of nine Product Development and Project Managers to lead all product launch and manufacturing activities for dietary and food supplements.
• Established a PMO responsible to implement standardized project processes, controls, tools, metrics and capture lessons learned for all product launch activities.
• Structured a project management department and processes dedicated to product launch activities for Canadian, USA, and International customers.
• Contributed over $5 million in revenue growth by doubling year-over-year launch volumes.
• Delivered process improvements that reduced product development scale-up time by 20%.

Oakville, Ontario, CA

• Reported to the Director of Operations, responsible to establish and implement processes for new manufacturing product launches from concept to commercialization.
• Successfully launched 17 new products for the Muscletech, Six Star and Hydroxycut brands.
• Project managed the Arnold Classic and Olympia body building trade shows, with a budget responsibility in excess of $1 million.
• Created a reset date tracking system to aid Sales in meeting annual reset dates for key customers including: Walmart, Walgreens, Rite Aid, and Sam’s Club.

Waltham, Massachusetts, US

• Reported to the Director of Operations, key account and project contact between external pharmaceutical clients and Patheon to coordinate all development, scale-up and commercial production activities.
• Led the $4 million commercial scale-up and market launch activities for the sleep aid Lunesta.
• Negotiated client account pricing initiatives, contracts, RFPs and quality agreements.
• Prepared project plans for technology transfers, product development and commercial launches.
• Developed and measured KPIs for service quality, production yields and response time.

Waltham, Massachusetts, US

• Managed a department of six facility staff to oversee all maintenance activities for a pharmaceutical production facility.
• Developed and improved pharmaceutical facility maintenance programs for building repair, sanitation, pest control and waste management to meet GMPs.

• Coordinate OTC, site transfer, and new product launches for the Dermatology Team.
• Implemented a production change over program to track and reduce down time.

• Project Leader for a 2 year project to relocate a pharmaceutical manufacturing and laboratory facility, on time and under budget.
• Achieved sales of $1 million through the coordination and negotiation of the GlaxoWellcome Canada equipment and site auction.

Integrated Management Thinking (Imt) Mini-Mba Cycle Iii

Advanced Management Course (Amc) Mini-Mba Cycle Ii

Executive Development Course (Edc) Mini-Mba Cycle I

Marketing

Double Honours, Political Science And History