Daniel Kasmierski Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States

• Own and lead vision, strategy, and execution of onsite/remote research and data collection for government and hedge fund sector clients.
• Manage up to 8 concurrent projects simultaneously, with leadership of 20+ direct reports (manager, department heads, software developers) and ownership of $30M+ budget.
• Hire, train, and mobilize teams to complete all phases of development from creation of scope, requirements gathering, documentation, integration, and deployment.
• Leverage domestic and international media and cutting edge technology tools to curate, collate, and synthesize data to inform clients.
• Partner with C-Suite Executives, DevOps, Sales, and Customer Service leadership to analyze needs, identify and address roadblocks, drive discovery meetings, conduct cost analysis, develop roadmaps, and implement.
• Inform executive leadership regarding operations, personnel management, and budget.

• Served as principal reviewer and final quality assurance on software development features to ensure they met 100% of the customers’ requirements.
• Led and managed day-to-day operations by clearly defining developer roles, functions and developmental processes.
• Communicated with developers to provide concise analysis and descriptions of software defects or issues discovered during testing.
• Prepared and briefed weekly, monthly and quarterly reports on multiple ongoing projects to internal and external key stakeholders. Reports included analysis of work completed during the sprint, as well as identified.

• Served as lead and Subject Matter Expert on a $2M Lockheed Martin contract for open-source intelligence support to the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) on targeted research efforts.
• Grew a team of highly motivated researchers who quickly identified and executed additional critical key avenues of research, which were fused into the development of software tools to aid in data collection and.
• Managed iterative discoveries and findings of interest and maintained strict adherence to project vision.
• Provided extensive training during technical demonstrations to highlight key features of the product.
• Prepared and briefed high-profile individuals, including 2- and 3-Star Army Officers, from the JIEDDO on a weekly basis.