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DANIEL M. GEHRIG

562-***-**** - La Mirada, CA 90638

adej7t@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/DanielMGehrig

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Innovative Product Owner / Project Manager with a track record of successfully delivering complex products on schedule according to established timeframes and budgets. Coordinates project activities with team members, customers and stakeholders to ensure accurate requirements and transparency to all key stakeholders. Establishes relationships with key stakeholders and manages the prioritization of all requirements with the team during the product life cycle from conception through implementation to safeguard smooth product development and stakeholder transparency in alignment with the established product roadmap. Embraces extensive knowledge in both Agile Scrum and Waterfall software methodologies with cross-functional development teams. Certifications: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC) Six Sigma Yellow Belt Top Skills: Agile Scrum and Waterfall Methodologies SDLC Innovation SaaS and OOD Architecture JIRA Confluence XML SQL Database Structures Streaming Data Microsoft Office UX/UI Illustration with Wireframes Various Programming Languages Salesforce Compression Algorithms Risk Management Business Analysis Web Design Relationship Management Contract / RFP Negotiations Network Communications Industries: Financial Software Logistics Medical Software Aerospace IFE Automotive Finance PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independent Consultant (La Mirada, CA) February 2018 to Present Project Manager / Business Analyst

§ Managed various third party API implementations.

§ Managed SOAP / XML and EDI API implementations from initiation to completion on schedule and budget.

§ Produced quarterly and annual client activity trend reports given proprietary client data points.

§ Created various custom reports in Excel with advance charting and multi-tier lookup functionality.

§ Evaluated financial sectors to yield strategic reports that minimized trade risk.

§ Generated monthly profit and loss customer analytic reports for comparison analysis. CoreLane Technologies (Santa Ana, CA) November 2016 to February 2018 Product Owner

§ Managed all software product development aspects to build an innovative web-based SaaS solution to link automotive dealerships with financial lending institutions.

§ Translated high-level requirements from internal and external stakeholders into deliverable units, user flow diagrams, use cases and UI design, API XML input and output definitions.

§ Maintained and prioritized JIRA stories to adhere to our established roadmap from an Epic to a deliverable unit within our 3 week sprint timeframe.

§ Coordinated meetings with the top executives, key stakeholders, Development, QA, Operations and Finance Managers to ensure they were engaged in the definition for each sprint.

§ Maintained Confluence pages with links to JIRA for real-time sprint and product transparency.

§ Led the API definition and validation between third party interfaces and our system with the QA team.

§ Established the 12 month prioritized roadmap with key stakeholders to ensure we were all in alignment.

§ Provided product support and release notes to customers prior to each production release as needed.

§ Defined the prioritized scope for each release based on stakeholder input and team capacity constraints.

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§ Identify areas of improvement within our software processes.

§ Participated in change management discussions and provided suggested deployment dates.

§ Met with various dealerships and lending institutions to initiate and refine product requirements.

§ Broke up epic requirements into several stories for incremental releases to achieve stable product deliveries on schedule and budget.

§ Lead the dealership on-boarding strategic planning endeavors and field implementations.

§ Devised the billing methodology process from a transactional SQL database to QuickBooks. TMI Sales (Laguna Niguel, CA) March 2014 to November 2016 Senior Manager - Transportation Logistics

§ Daily leadership guidance for all company initiatives.

§ Successfully managed several carrier supply chain procurement RFP programs for national, regional and local carriers.

§ Performed extensive logistics data analysis estimates and implemented annual cost savings analysis programs internally and for clients with minimal annual savings targets of 35%.

§ Refined processes to streamline employee workflows for corporate initiatives.

§ Cultivated customer and vender relationships resulting in long-term contracts and reoccurring revenue growth throughout the organization.

§ Assisted with HR management and company benefit selection. Zodiac Inflight Innovations (Brea, CA) March 2013 to March 2014 Technical Product Owner

§ Streamlined the SDLC agile processes within the company’s technical tools development group to provide accurate development project targets and transparency to project stakeholders.

§ Engaged product stakeholders to ensure software updates were in sync with the company’s core initiatives.

§ Provided end client support and release notice documentation for each release.

§ Lead multiple projects from initiation to completion successfully on schedule and budget.

§ Maintained and prioritized JIRA stories to adhere to our established roadmap from an Epic to a deliverable unit within our 3 week sprint timeframe.

§ Managed backlog planning meeting with the team.

§ Implemented agile SDLC processes for the group’s core responsibilities: o IFE content upload compression algorithm support o Legacy IFE systems Support

o IFE analytical log file analysis and reporting on a daily, monthly and annual basis Business Development - Independent Contractor (La Mirada, CA) November 2012 to March 2013

§ Performed a corporate business assessment of a distressed company that yielded a 12-month forward financial forecast report and an agile scrum organizational staffing detailed report.

§ Assessed corporate financial accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash position, including monthly reoccurring costs, and produced an assessment report of the company’s current stability and monthly revenue forecasting for 12 months forward.

§ Produced an executive recommendation report for corporate contracts with regards to termination or assignment upon purchase of existing client and vendor contracts.

§ Provided a valuation recommendation for the purchase of the company which was successfully completed by the end quarter 2 in 2013 by the company I was contracted with. Daniel M. Gehrig, Page 3

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Nexa Technologies subsidiary of Desjardins du Québec (Irvine, CA) July 2000 to October 2012 Director, Product Owner June 2011 to October 2012

§ Supervised agile scrum software business development aspects for the company’s top tier clientele.

§ Revamped the company’s software development processes from waterfall to agile scrum.

§ Agile scrum methodology facilitation, corporate product roadmap, customer relationship management including contract negotiations, executive staff ROI analysis reporting, detailed requirements administration, process management adhering to Sarbanes-Oxley (SAS-70) guidelines and SDLC coordination with internal and external team members. Director, Project Management Office (PMO) / Senior Software Engineer October 2000 to June 2011

§ Established and supervised the PMO team comprised of five project managers, one change control manager and one process manager in a waterfall software environment aligning the team to transition to agile scrum.

§ Facilitated planning and prioritization for all software engineering and operational initiatives company wide, ROI analysis, process facilitation and change control.

§ Instrumental in defining and growing processes to strengthen the important “glue factor” between all teams within our organization.

§ Cultivated top tier client relationships with the objective to deliver superior financial products in North America while maximizing profit.

§ Assumed responsibility for customer interaction to define product requirements, as well as contract execution for over 100 concurrent client service agreements and product implementations.

§ Formulated teams of eight to twelve members comprised of software developers, quality assurance engineers and database administrators. Teams comprised of fulltime employees and off-shore consultants.

§ Aggressively implemented the initial real-time client-server product targeted to the North American financial marketplace primarily for equities and options trading and client account back-office management within a team of 4 software engineers.

§ Demonstrated significant influence, as one of four software engineers, in architecture, design and implementation of Web client-server interface. The Web server was implemented as a DLL instance and produced XML output that was transformed with XSL style sheets to produce XHTML output for display within a web browser.

§ Developed a second-generation product, still used by the vast majority of customers, in MS Visual C++, leveraging the Trolltech QT library for UI and multiprocessing tasks. EDUCATION

California State University Dominguez Hills

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and Minor in Business Information Systems CERTIFICATIONS

Issuing Organization: Mountain Goat Software, LLC

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Issuing Organization: 6sigmastudy

Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Issuing Organization: SCRUMstudy - Accreditation Body for Scrum and Agile Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)

Issuing Organization: SCRUMstudy - Accreditation Body for Scrum and Agile Scrum Master Certified (SMC)

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