Daniel Priest Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Denver Metropolitan Area

Denver, Colorado, United States

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Operational lead for hStream Solution Area: the development arm of HealthStream’s flagship PaaS capabilities.
• Managed 5 teams (43 team members, 2 Scrum Masters, 10 projects) spanning eChannel/eCommerce, Enterprise Data Platform, Knowledge Management/Recommendation services, and general PaaS services
• Defined strategy and vision for hStream Data Extract, a custom reporting tool anticipated to reduce operating costs by ~$390k/yr by eliminating >90% of ops overhead
• Increased overall resource velocity of department by ~210% after championing and implementing a merger/restructure of 2 development departments, which simplified operations towards project delivery
• Simplified project/cost tracking and release communications for stakeholders by building a Portfolio Management Dashboard tool from scratch using live connections to Azure DevOps, MS Project, and SharePoint data
• Oversaw budget of ~$1m/yr for Offshore Development and QA personnel

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Managed 3 Agile development teams (16 members) working on.NET/MVC web apps and customer-facing BI dashboards, with a focus on improving team output sustainably while meeting business-driven deadlines.
• Reduced operating expenses by $95k and increased velocity of two teams (+120% and 225% respectively) by improving operational workflows, reducing defects introduced to prod, and revising headcount
• Oversaw various IT projects such as M&A infrastructure consolidation,.NET framework upgrades, Oracle + SQL Server database migrations, enterprise software implementation, etc.
• Defined and implemented the Delivery Manager role across the PMO in order to consolidate and improve portfolio ownership at a business unit level

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Implemented Agile Scrum development methodology for department (6 software teams) as part of a 3-person team within the PMO
• Increased velocity of Production Support Team by 40% over a 12-week period
• Managed conversion of TFACTS application to deprecate ICD-9 medical coding standard and adopt ICD-10, which was successfully deployed prior to Oct 2015 federal deadline

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Automated generation of ~1100 monthly reports regarding child welfare and the Department of Children’s Services overall performance to support a workforce of ~5500 employees
• Reduced time spent processing reports from 40hrs/wk to ~5min/wk by personally developing a report processing engine in VBA. The engine then ensured a near-perfect degree of data accuracy, emailed secure report links to.