J. Daniel Wilson Email & Phone Number

• Based on the successful Gangplank organization started in Phoenix, Ariz. in 2008, Gangplank Utah (gangplankut.org) brings together individuals, micro-business owners, industry veterans, university students and others.
• Manage weekly forums and meetings for students, industry veterans, and successful businesspeople. Organize, design, implement, and host educational forums, panels and contests.
• Create and facilitate a casual, low-key, yet creative environment to enhance sharing and learning in an open atmosphere, concentrating on person-to-person interaction and brainstorming.
• Work closely with Sorenson Media and the University of Utah’s Sorenson Innovation Center to plan strategy, direction, and the roll of Gangplank Utah in the community.

• The Technology Commercialization Office (TCO) at The University of Utah has managed the University's intellectual property developed by faculty, staff and students since 1967.
• Help start-up companies with various activities such as writing executive summaries, financial projections, and pro-forma statements.
• Work with technology inventors to identify a target market and organize their business strategy.

• Student-run organization that is committed to enriching the educational experience of graduate business students at the University of Utah. The GBSA strives to build a strong sense of community among graduate business.
• Direct and manage multiple student communication strategies including email, social networking, and in-person presentations.
• Organize, implement, and host special events, forums and student-organized activities.
• Collaborate with business school and university-based student leadership organizations.
• Maintain website (within University Standards) content and marketing material.

• Non-profit student-run organization funded by both public and private sponsors. Organization’s goal is to inspire the innovative spirit in students and to encourage students to develop and share new inventions and.
• Manage multiple student directors and their marketing, outreach and operations activities.
• Organize, implement, and host educational forums, panels and contests.
• Coordinate and direct annual competition including project submission reviews, organization of presentations and judging and an awards banquet.
• Assisted in the marketing of the Sorenson Inventor’s Showcase. Contacted approximately 85 different companies and inventors to showcase their company.
• Worked with corporate entities to coordinate presentations and obtain sponsorships. Companies include University of Utah’s Technology Commercialization Office, Thorpe North and Western, Governor’s Office of Economic.

• DJH Engineering is a mechanical engineering firm.
• Work in a team environment to manage, facilitate, and design 4 mobile construction equipment vehicles. Oversee the design and analysis of over 100 individual vehicle parts.
• Coordinate and organize design reviews with project engineers, design engineers, and manufacturers of major client John Deere. Work with John Deere’s marketing team to design vehicles that meet marketing requirements.
• Selected to travel to European office of DJH to develop a software training program and materials used to instruct Slovakian employees on stress analysis software. System Administrator
• Maintain a network of 18 computers and develop strategies to control and forecast processes for future growth of data usage and storage space increases.
• Forecast growth of hard disk data storage and make ongoing purchasing recommendations to manage allocation of space and to protect data.

• Food delivery service
• Recognized a need, organized, and operated a lunch delivery service to doctors’ offices for pharmaceutical sales representatives.
• Defined a target market through personal interaction and networking.
• Developed business model, budget, employee compensation, and customer service process for future growth.

Mba, Finance, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Technology Commercialization Office, Graduate Business Student Association, techTITANS Innovation Society.

B.S., Behavioral Science And Health

History

Study abroad program to help further my degree, and exposure to the world.