Results-Oriented Project Manager with Technical Expertise

PATRICK J DAANEN

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De Pere, Wisconsin 54115 ********@*****.***

CAREER

SUMMARY Project Manager with experience managing small to large enterprise wide initiatives from physical and virtual locations. A results-oriented, customer-focused leader with extensive project management experience. Proven ability to build and lead multi-team projects while partnering with business stakeholders and technology specialists to deliver business solutions.

Results-oriented Information Technology Professional with over 35 years of diverse and progressive experience with an emphasis in technical responsibilities. Successful track record in troubleshooting, problem analysis and resolution, software implementation and configurations as well as technical documentation. Detail-oriented and dependable with exceptional analytical skills.

Education

UW Madison School of Business-Manager boot camp

UW Madison School of Business– Masters Certificate on Project Management (MCPM)

UW Madison School of Business-Agile Project Management -Techniques for Iterative Development. License #12239611

UW Madison School of Business - Project Management: Planning, Scheduling, and Control. License # 12087614

UW Madison School of Business - How to Influence Without Direct Authority

UW Madison School of Business - Project Leadership Communications

UW Madison School of Business – Managing Project Risks

UW Madison School of Business – Project Capstone

eLearning Era LLC – Scrum Master Certification – License #750032

eLearning Era LLC – Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification – License #707119

eLearning Era LLC – Scrum Fundamentals Certification. License #746980

CompTIA - Project Management Principles for IT Professionals certificate

CompTIA- CAPM certificate

Projility – MS Project and MS Project Web Application Certificate

Skillsoft Software – Leadership classes.

Skillsoft Software – Problem Management

Skillsoft Software – Project Management

Fox Valley Technical College – Appleton. - Associates of Arts degree in Printing and Publishing Graphical Arts.

Professional Experience

April 2022 to Present ACP CreativIT, 529 N Monroe Ave, Green Bay, WI 54301

Senior Project Manager

oDay to Day leadership of the PMO team, as well as assigned projects

oOversee the technical aspects of various projects

oDevelop and track milestones

oCoordinate with other disciplines, support services and sub-consultants

oImplement and maintain QA/QC procedures

oBuilding the PMO process within the Green Bay, Chicago, Duluth, and Boston offices.

oCreated documentation and process for the PMO dept

oGrow, Mentor, and Train staff

oBuild relationships internally and externally with clients and strategic partners

oWorked with sponsors, engineers, and sales team to develop project scope & schedule

oWorked to determine and define clear deliverables, and timeline

oIdentify risks and develop risk mitigation on any issues to reduce impact to the timeline

oSecure resources with project planning and through execution, working through conflicts as they arise

oLead project teams to meet project deliverables, requirements in order to achieve the project objectives

oManage all project activities in accordance with the project schedule

oAnticipate problems and work with sponsor, and project team to provide corrective actions

oWork with Organizational Change Management members for successful delivery of projects

oCommunicate to stakeholders on project issues, status, and changes on a weekly basis

oProvide lessons learned during the project to better the team going forward

oGain the confidence of key project/program sponsors and stakeholders, building effective, productive working relationships.

Jan 2020 to April 2022 BKD/Ledgeview Partners – 14 Tri-Park Way, Appleton WI 54913

Project Manager/Senior Consultant

Project Manager for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce CRM software applications

oWorked with Management to build the PMO office

oWorked with Management to build documentation and processes for the PMO office

oPlan, organize, control and evaluate cross-functional projects from initiation through implementation to deliver projects consistently, on scope, on time, and on budget.

oResponsible for financials to stay within project budget

oIdentify risks and develop risk mitigation on any issues to reduce impact to the timeline

oCommunication of status reporting, risk management, escalation of issues that cannot be resolved in the team, to ensure that the project is delivered on budget, on schedule, and within scope.

Feb 2017 to Dec 2019 Associated Bank – 433 Main St, Green Bay WI 54301.

Project Manager

Project Manager for small to large size projects IT Technology, Corporate Security, as well as software applications.

oPlan, organize, control and evaluate cross-functional projects from initiation through implementation to deliver projects consistently, on scope, on time, and on budget.

oResponsible for financials to stay within project budget

oIdentify risks and develop risk mitigation on any issues to reduce impact to the timeline

oCommunication of status reporting, risk management, escalation of issues that cannot be resolved in the team, to ensure that the project is delivered on budget, on schedule, and within scope.

Sept 2012 to Feb 2017 Hospital Sisters Healthcare System – 1665 Yellow Briar Rd, De Pere, WI 54115.

IT Project Manager

Project Manager for small to large size projects for both Technology and Epic applications

oPlan, organize, control and evaluate cross-functional projects from initiation through implementation

oCommunication of status reporting, risk management, escalation of issues that cannot be resolved in the team, to ensure that the project is delivered on budget, on schedule, and within scope.

oDevelop risk mitigation on any issues to reduce impact to the timeline.

Project Management Portfolio administration

oReview and update all IT project requests that came into the PMO office.

oWorked with the requestor and selected teams to build the business case and resource availability that would be reviewed by the CIO and other leadership for approval.

Project Administrator

oDaily administration of MS Project, PWA, and Documentation updates when needed.

Feb 2001 to Sept 2012 Schneider National Inc. - 3101 Packerland Dr., Green Bay, WI 54306

Enterprise Systems Administrator

Project Management - Manage Projects & Upgrades within the Technical Services Department with the scope on IBM Z/OS mainframe environment, UNIX applications, and Windows applications using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.

Installation, Maintenance and Upgrades of 3rd party software on UNIX (AIX, Sun, Linux) and Windows Environments. Products include Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Tivoli System Management (TSM), Workload Automation/Dseries, and Unicenter Job Management.

Documentation Analyst – Responsible for documenting all procedures and publishing them on the company’s intranet website using Microsoft Expression Web.

Oracle Enterprise Management Technical Administrator - Install and Maintain OEM product. Performance tuning and Monitoring of applications and directory issues.

Install, Upgrade, Maintain, and Test software applications and Operating System software on an IBM Z/OS mainframe environment.

Responsible for installation, maintenance and support of 3rd party software within the Z/OS mainframe environment. Products that I have installed are primarily Computer Associates Software that include CA-1, View & Deliver, CCS, Workload Automation/Dseries, OPS/MVS, DocView, Sysview.

Maintain the Storage requirements within storage groups on IBM Storage systems for Z/OS environment using IBM ESS800, and IBM DS8100.

Write and maintain REXX programs for Automating Z/OS mainframe using CA OPS/MVS

Monthly IBM reporting for Monthly billing for the Z/OS mainframe environment.

AS400 Administration Support

July 1997 to Feb 2001 Schneider National Inc.

Sr. Production Control Analyst

Change management coordinator

Scheduled jobs within Jobtrac and Unicenter scheduling products

Administered PVCS and Team Server version control tools

Wrote scripts to make production moves easier for Production Control

Moved programs to production

Adding/Deleting/Changing reports

Applying security for View and Deliver.

Sept. 1994 to July 1997 Shopko Stores Inc. - 700 Pilgrim Way, Green Bay, WI 54304

Sr. Production Control Analyst

Lead team members on the daily/weekly projects and tasks to be completed

Change and problem management coordinator

Scheduling of production jobs within the scheduling environment

View and Deliver administrator

Backup for Computer Operations

July 1992 to Sept. 1994 Shopko Stores Inc.

Sr. Computer Operator

Day to Day Operations in the Computer Room

July 1987 to July 1992 H.C. Prange Company - 301 North Washington St., Green Bay, WI 54301.

Helpdesk Supervisor and Computer Operations

HelpDesk Supervisor

Scheduling of Shifts

Day to Day Operations

Computer Room – Daily Operations

Interests and Organizations

Member of the De Pere Police VIPS

Knights of Columbus – De Pere

Motorcycle riding

Snowmobiling

Software Specialties

-Microsoft Office Suite (MS Project, Project Server, PWA, Excel, Word, Visio, Outlook, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Publisher, Expressions, SharePoint, MS Teams)

-Innotas Project Management tool

-Oracle Enterprise Manager

-Adobe Creative Suite

-PVCS Version Manager

-Team Server Version Control

-REXX programming

-Unix/RedHat programming

-HP Service Manager

Technical

Experience Operating Systems: Linux RHEL 3 – 5, Linux OEL 5.x, Solaris 9-10, OS/390, z/OS1.7, z/OS1.9, z/OS1.10 AIX 5.2 – 6.1, and AS400 v5.4

Installed and maintained the following software:

DFHSM DFSMS DFRMM FDR XPEDITER

SYNCSORT SYSVIEW JOBTRAC CA1 OPS/MVS

Computer Associates Suite of Products

CA Workload Automation/Dseries for Unix

CA Unicenter Job Management for Unix

Tivoli Software Manager (TSM)

Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)

SalesForce CRM

Microsoft D365 CRM

Fortinet Cyber Security

HP Aruba software and hardware

Fortinet Cyber Security knowledge

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