Gene Danilenko, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Our mission is to enable business transformation through strategic analytics and learning innovations.We specialize in bridging the intersection of technology and human behavior to deliver actionable insights and measurable results. Xerebral offers tailored consulting solutions designed to enhance organizational performance, align workforce strategies with.

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• Rotated through leadership of People Analytics functions: Enterprise reporting, data management, data science, employee feedback /research, and Optum analytics and consulting. Led digital transformation, product.
• Consulted with leaders on strategies for using people metrics to inform strategic decision making.
• Led strategy for delivering people data and people reports across the enterprise of 400,000 employees.
• Built out agile methodology and an agile practice across the Analytics Community of Practice.
• Sponsored initiatives to standardize people data definitions and metrics with newly acquired companies.
• Mentored and guided global team on statistics, consulting, storytelling, machine learning, generative AI, process, and data architecture.

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• Led measurement, evaluation, and analysis of organizational performance, leader effectiveness, and employee feedback. Developed human capital measurement, analysis, predictive models, and insights strategies that align.
• Led development and implementation of continuous listening active and passive strategies and measurement to create stronger insight into employee behaviors and the employee experience. Designed real-time collection.
• Developed predictive models for turnover, improved employee experience, and manager effectiveness.
• Led measurement, evaluation, and analysis of organizational performance, leader effectiveness, and employee feedback. Improved transparency of leadership behavior assessments with feedback turnaround reduced 50% and.
• Implemented standardized measurement, reporting/visualization, and collection strategies for surveys, focus groups, and interviews. Cycle time for analyses improved 60% by leveraging machine natural language processing.
• Redesign 360 development assessment and report visualization with Talent Development to align with revised global talent strategy and updated Enterprise business strategy.

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• Led a group of experts who design and implement processes, systems, and technology solutions to measure, reinforce or improve performance, engagement, and other behaviors and values that align with organizational.
• Integrated acquisitions across the globe into employee engagement, measurement, and action planning processes. In 2016-2017, 26,000 Brazilian employees and over 12,000 U.S. acquired employees onboarded.
• Develop predictive models to improve employee engagement. Improved global employee engagement,, leader action planning, and leader measurement core processes. Improved adoption of action planning in new organizations.
• Consulted with and coached others in human capital and business partners in effective employee engagement action planning, employee feedback research, leader effectiveness measurement, and learning measurement.
• Mentored team in research methods, technology, project management, online learning, learning design, user interface design, and consulting. Coached team in living company’s values. Supported team development.
• Contributed to enterprise leadership development, employee development, performance management, and talent management strategies.

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• Led strategy and implementation of new technologies leveraged for leadership, soft skills development, and internal human capital learning and development processes.
• Led requirements definition, test plans, and managed technology development with internal IT departments and human capital departmental technology developers for internal web sites and internal social media sites.
• Develop predictive models to improve impact of learning and knowledge retention.
• Implemented new customized SharePoint course sites, mentored team in SharePoint site administration, and developed SharePoint policy and development guidelines and best practices.
• Developed mobile application pilot to reinforce leadership concepts and corporate cultural values.
• Oversaw revision of curriculum support resources on corporate cultural values.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

• Managed two NIH-funded web-based online learning development projects. Later project was a social networking, online learning, and online support community for medication adherence. This project used scrum methodology.
• Led requirements definition, test plans, and managed technology development with external development companies.
• Wrote and negotiated technology development contracts. Negotiated concessions from external development partner in the challenged project.
• Instituted new change control procedures, developed new critical path sign offs, shortened iterative development and testing cycles, and developed new quality control procedures in the challenged project.
• Oversaw development of curriculum including writing content and creating short videos.
• Conducted formal usability testing in the University’s Usability Lab.

Taught INFM/MIS undergraduate (junior/senior level) courses at the St. Catherine University (formerly College of St. Catherine). Taught Systems Analysis and Design, Systems Implementation, Communications Technology, and Information Resources (Information Literacy).

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

• Directed department that managed the website and intranet and supported technology used for research and teaching in the Law School. Supervised 7 web developers, system administrators, technology specialists, and.
• Led development of new website, new content, new content management system (CMS), new calendaring and class/room/resource scheduling systems which resulted in 15% increase in Law School web traffic and 10% increase in.
• Wrote and managed RFP process for laptop initiative providing laptops to incoming students.
• Improved student engagement in learning by building new educational technologies in classrooms, developing course websites, and training faculty in their effective use in instruction.
• Managed multimedia production and webcasting used for teaching and to enhance continuing legal education seminar revenue.

• Led technology development and operations for several internal start-up web business lines: web legal marketing directory, law firm website hosting, and online continuing legal education. Now Thomson Reuters Legal.
• Defined program development, production, reporting,and customer support for delivery of web-based continuing legal education resulting in 50% increase in revenue in one year.
• Facilitated efforts for implementation of new features and offerings for FirmSite law firm web site hosting products. Enhancements resulted in an additional $1.5 million in revenue over 1999 and 2000.
• Led technology development (JAD) requirements definition and project management for several generations of new online businesses, West LegalEdcenter, LawOffice.com, and WLD.com. Led data architecture and.
• Assumed interim responsibilities for partner relationship and product management for research, directory, and CLE products including PeopleCite, West Legal Directory, UK legal directories, and West LegalEdcenter.
• Reengineered legal directory workflow processes and alignment of data operations staff redeploying 50% of headcount while increasing productivity 50%.

Ph.D., Learning Technologies/Education (Measurement, Behavior)

Mba, Management Info Systems

Master Of Science - Ms, Library And Information Science (Information Science And Research Focus)

Bs, Chemistry