Daniel Hettrick

Executive Management Consultant

Location: Greater New York City Area
Industry: Computer Software

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Daniel Hettrick's Overview

Current

Adjunct Faculty at Bloomfield College
Founder and Managing Partner at Division 9 Interactive, Inc.
Board, IGDA NJ Chapter at International Game Developers Association (IGDA)

Past

Senior Program Manager, Gaming Solutions at IPKeys Technologies, LLC
Chapter Coordinator/Advisor, Philly IGDA at International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
Project Manager at UnitedHealth Group

Technical Project Manager at Peterson's
Founder and Managing Partner at Digital Dragon Consulting, Inc.
Technical Lead, Bureau of Technology Development and Systems at New York City Fire Department

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Education

Rochester Institute of Technology
University of Pennsylvania
City University of New York-College of Staten Island

State University of New York at Albany

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20 year professional with 16+ years leading cross-discipline (occasionally geographically distributed) teams in the creation of cutting edge multimedia applications and games.

Proven leader, legendary team builder, and skilled Nerf assassin.

Specialties

Agile management methodologies - Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) by the Scrum Alliance - and phased project management methodologies (PMP certification from the Project Management Institute), Business Intelligence and Analytics (WebTrends Certified Analytics Administrator), Usability Research and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) design and facilitation, team building, communication, negotiation, and leadership.

Adjunct Faculty

Bloomfield College

Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry

2012 – Present (less than a year) Bloomfield, NJ

Adjunct Lecturer teaching project management/collaboration course (Game Project II) starting Spring 2012.

Founder and Managing Partner

Division 9 Interactive, Inc.

2011 – Present (1 year)

Division 9 Interactive, Inc. is consulting and technology startup providing management consulting services, agile practice transition, business process optimization, and human-computer interaction design and research. We specialize in organizations focused on game development, interactive application development, and modeling and simulation.

Board, IGDA NJ Chapter

International Game Developers Association (IGDA)

Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry

2011 – Present (1 year) NJ, USA

Working with regional game developers, universities, and local business owners to coordinate activities of the New Jersey chapter of the International Game Developers Association.

Senior Program Manager, Gaming Solutions

IPKeys Technologies, LLC

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

2008 – 2011 (3 years) Eatontown, NJ

Responsible for leading the Game Engineering and Real-time Simulations (GEARS) group - a talented and motivated team of engineers and artists - in the creation of bleeding-edge, physically-based, interactive 3D simulation technology for an increasingly diverse portfolio of customers in the US Department of Defense as well as the medical and educational communities.

Actively built partnerships with private sector game technology companies to continuously leverage best of breed solutions for our DoD, medical, and academic customers.

Active Government Clearance Level: SECRET

Chapter Coordinator/Advisor, Philly IGDA

International Game Developers Association (IGDA)

Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry

2007 – 2011 (4 years) Philadelphia, PA

Worked with regional game developers, universities, and local business owners to coordinate all aspects of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Game Developers Association. Responsible for massive surge in attendance and chapter activity. Co-founded the Philly Game Jam.
Transitioned chapter leadership responsibilities in early 2009, but continued as an advisor through 2011.

Project Manager

UnitedHealth Group

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; UNH; Hospital & Health Care industry

2007 – 2007 (less than a year) East Windsor, NJ

Tasked by UnitedHealth Group, a Fortune 25 company, to assist with the strategic realignment of a newly acquired health services portal provider.

Reported to the Director of Operations, responsibilities included leading various initiatives aimed at stabilizing the existing infrastructure, code base and other key corporate assets while expanding capability, increasing compliance to ITIL protocols and Six Sigma based UnitedHealth Technology management practices while ensuring continuous service availability, protecting existing revenue streams, and providing increased transparency into operational and development scheduling, resources, and activities for internal customers.

Technical Project Manager

Peterson's

Public Company; 51-200 employees; NNI; Education Management industry

2006 – 2007 (1 year) Lawrenceville, NJ

Led technical development for all Peterson’s corporate and Government web Resource Center products. Scoped, defined, managed, and led the implementation of online resource center projects from inception through production to launch and post-launch assessment based on business requirements gathered from stakeholders. Worked closely with internal and external business stakeholders as well as technical management, QA personnel, programming leads, developers, and designers. Gathered requirements, defined the business goals and managed the expectations of all stakeholders.

Customers included the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, Thomson Gale, American Education Services, and numerous others.

Founder and Managing Partner

Digital Dragon Consulting, Inc.

1995 – 2006 (11 years) Staten Island, NY

Supervised development team to deliver a full range of Web services, games, and interactive application development to a variety of clients utilizing PHP, MySQL, HTML, Java, Flash, Shockwave 3D, and streaming video formats. Manage workflow between technical specialists including database, programmers, 3D modelers, artists, copy writers, etc. Design technical specs for all in-house applications, including help-desk and project tracking software.

Technical Lead, Bureau of Technology Development and Systems

New York City Fire Department

Government Agency; Public Safety industry

1991 – 2005 (14 years) New York City

As Technical Lead: Led technical development projects for the FDNY Web Team and supervised multi-bureau initiatives. Supervised Team in design and creation of proprietary applications. Led strategic planning sessions mapping technical requirements, security issues, and functional specifications through extensive interviews with requesting bureau. Managed vendor relationships. Compiled quality assurance data for all projects. Trained new staff members on core tests and integrated them into workflow protocol.

As Project Manager: Led Project Team in the design, implementation and rollout of Enterprise Content Management System (CMS) for the FDNY Bureau of Technology Development and Systems. Installed and configured Apache web server software, JRun and ColdFusion application server environments on multiple Windows 2000 Server systems. Deployed remote Content Publishing System as a customized J2EE compliant service within FDNY intranet infrastructure. Interfaced applications with Oracle database system running on Solaris SPARC stations, and middleware applications on Linux servers. Oversaw security evaluation. Synchronized client and remote environments. Trained administrators in oversight and maintenance of CMS. Designed curriculum and conducted classroom training sessions to educate multiple groups of Subject Matter Experts in web methodologies and content management protocols. Produced style guide and management documentation.

As Chief Webmaster: Managed all aspects of the Fire Department’s public Internet presence at http://nyc.gov/fdny. Served as Technical Liaison to Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT.) Ensured compliance to department Style Guide and ADA accessibility.

User Interface for Virtual Wound Modules
- United States Patent Application 61,477,997
- Filed April 21, 2011
Inventors: Daniel Hettrick, David Austin, Dr. Heather Hettrick

Named as an inventor for contributions to an innovative training interface. US provisional patent filed 4/2011.

Project Management Professional - PMP
- Project Management Institute
- License 428833
- September 2006 to September 2016
Certified ScrumMaster - CSM
- Scrum Alliance
- January 2008
Certified Scrum Product Owner - CSPO
- Scrum Alliance
- April 2011
WebTrends Certified Professional Analytics Administrator
- WebTrends
- October 2011

Rochester Institute of Technology

MS, Human-Computer Interaction

Graduate studies focusing on usability, gamification, and collaboration.

University of Pennsylvania

N/A - Withdrew to pursue business opportunity, Computer Graphics and Game Technology (CGGT)

Activities and Societies: Philly IGDA, Co-founder Philly Game Jam, Penn SIGGRAPH

City University of New York-College of Staten Island

Bachelor of Science with Honors, Computer Science

Degree Awarded with Honors, Recipient Augustin Tuzhilin Award for Academic Excellence in Computer Science, Dean's List

State University of New York at Albany

Bachelor of Arts, Economics

Activities and Societies: Founding Father - Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) Fraternity

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Interests:

computer games, Tolkien, intelligent systems, interactive technology, shiny electronics, mythology, recipe for awesome sauce

Groups and Associations:

International Game Developers Association (IGDA), Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Special Interest Group for Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Project Management Institute (PMI) Scrum Alliance Agile Alliance

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