Dan Dion, MBA

Kansas City, MO 913-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-dion-mba-lean-six-sigma/ ad0p4c@r.postjobfree.com Financial Technology Professional

Results-driven professional with significant experience leading financial, economic, business development, information technology, transformation, and change management initiatives across a myriad of organizations. Adept at process solutions, budgeting and risk management, automation, analytics, marketing research, and strategic planning. Collaborative and engaging, with a proven track record of bridging relationships, developing, and implementing evidence-based solutions that maximize institutional reach, revenue, and its reputation as an industry leader and premier service provider. Expertise Includes:

- Lean Six Sigma methodology - Process improvement

- Program and project management - Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

- Financial Accounting, Budgeting, and ERP - Building centers of excellence (CoE)

- Executive level oral and written communication - Data synthesis and analytics

- Agile and Waterfall project leadership - Business strategy and strategic planning Professional Experience

T-MOBILE, Overland Park, KS

Senior Manager, Financial IT Quality Assurance 2020 - 2023 Ensured financial transactions were defect-free to external and internal back-office customers, creating an optimal customer experience while mitigating financial risk.

• Enhanced FACT testing process by leveraging emerging technologies and tools, providing robust, seamless, end-to-end, automated, repeatable processes, reducing reliance on manual testing by 60%.

• Standardized policy and testing procedures by developing financial models deployed in both production and non-production environments, increasing testing coverage by 80%.

• Oversaw 25-person team of finance / IT managers, analysts, and contractors throughout assignments, workflows, budget, and development of effective processes for project requirements gathering and financial control testing.

• Created improved Business Process Management (BPM) testing solutions to guide cost-effective IT development and testing while ensuring data security / integrity.

• Designed business intelligence (BI) reports and models to ensure current and future staffing plans were aligned with current and future project resource demands / deliverables, facilitating 100% accuracy.

• Led business development and transformational strategic planning to maximize automation, organization's IT infrastructure, and financial longevity.

• Developed Business Intelligence (BI) key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards to track financial models and testing team performance to guide data-driven strategy and resource decisions, improving performance by 25%. SPRINT, Overland Park, KS

Senior Manager, Strategy 2017 - 2020

Collaborate with cross-functional leaders and their teams in accessing relevant information to guide strategy and transformational solution delivery of process improvements to reduce cost and increase efficiencies.

• Led 15-person cross-functional M&A TSA team, including sales, marketing, IT, billing, and operation professionals throughout development of new monthly billing process for annexed services as part of Sprint Prepaid and Boost Mobile divestiture to Dish Network.

• Designed and developed emerging technologies market research outlook report used for company-wide and strategic partnership summit, guiding topics regarding emerging products to potentially consider for company’s future. Dan Dion ad0p4c@r.postjobfree.com Page Two

SPRINT (continued)

• Increased new customer additions and upgrades by 20% through design of comprehensive data-driven technical retail / digital strategies, collateral, and marketing campaigns.

• Liaised with consultants, IT, marketing, and operations executive management professionals throughout strategic planning, budgeting, and execution of business development and software development life cycles, driving more personalized customer experiences with Sprint’s products.

• Created data analytics center of excellence for market research, competitive insights, and KPI performance and forecasting, driving strategic decisions and transformation initiatives. Senior Technical Program Manager, Finance 2016 - 2017 Audited processes and recommended more cost-efficient and effective policies, technologies, tools, and procedures for standardizing future processes, removing waste, and improving performance.

• Led creation and implementation of business intelligence and data analytics transformation reporting, informing business leaders for strategic planning and revenue generation.

• Managed analytical platforms, budget, solutions development, and integration of essential process and continuous improvement initiatives utilized by finance, marketing, sales, and customer care, leading to design and development of single source of truth BI platform, increasing performance by 20%.

• Collaborated with 10-person cross-functional finance teams throughout research, evaluation, and design and integration of technical simplification and automation solutions, including AI Robotic Process Automation (RPA) that increased synergy and improved business processes by 30%.

Additional roles at SPRINT:

Manager, Business Analysis

Manager, Finance Operations (FP&A)

Education

- Master of Science (MS), Marketing, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA

- Master of Business Administration (MBA), Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO

Member of Beta Gamma Sigma, International Business Honor Society, GPA 4.0

- Bachelor of Science (BS), Finance and Management (Dual Degree), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Awards

- Stock Grant Award, implementing emerging technologies materially improving performance, T-Mobile

- Who's Who Award, leading transformation initiatives significantly reducing cost, T-Mobile Technical Skills

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote) Microsoft Visio SQL Tableau Power BI MicroStrategy RPA RDA Automation Alteryx BI AI Database Management Agile Scrum SDLC Certifications

- Lean Six Sigma

- PMP - Schedule & Cost, Risk Management, Managing Projects, Leadership