Dan McCord

Current

• Branch Chief at USDA

Past

• Enterprise Architect at Sprint Nextel
• Methodology / Quality Specialist - Team lead at Sprint Nextel
• Enterprise Architect at Sprint Nextel

• Senior Manager Platform Network Planning, Enterprise Platform Planning at Sprint Nextel
• Team Leader Capacity / Performance Management at Wal-Mart
• Team Leader at Old American Insurance
• Sergeant - Programmer and Systems Programmer (4063, 4066 and 4069) at United States Marine Corps

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Dan McCord’s Summary

IT leader strong in bringing diverse groups together to achieve the right solution for the business and organization who has increased productivity and produced savings of more than $72 million for my employers.

Highly accomplished technical leader with established record of decisive leadership. Proven success in consistently increasing productivity and reducing costs. Strategic thinker, problem solver, thrives in dynamic and fluid environments while remaining pragmatic and focused.

Dan McCord’s Experience

• Branch Chief

  USDA

  (Government Agency; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

  Mainframe organization

• Enterprise Architect

  Sprint Nextel

  (Public Company; S; Telecommunications industry)

  2006 — August 2009 (3 years )

  Led a cross organizational team governing technologies against corporate technology roadmaps and standards. Manage major development releases and adherence to enterprise architecture strategies, process and standards. Provide technology assistance and direction to other teams, ensuring technologies work effectively together. Deliver application, technical and infrastructure architecture for large initiatives.
  - Streamlined the technology selection / decision processes, increasing efficiency and visibility to the corporation.
  o Reduced the resource needs of managing the process from 1.5 FTE to .25 FTE.
  o Strengthened our ability to enforce the process, stopping unauthorized purchases and installations.
  - Reduced 2008/2009 development costs by over $7.7 million by enforcing enterprise standards and guidelines.
  - Implemented technology and financial policies against the operational maintenance agreements reducing annual expense budgets by more than $20 million.

• Methodology / Quality Specialist - Team lead

  Sprint Nextel

  (Public Company; S; Telecommunications industry)

  2004 — 2006 (2 years )

  Managed the formation and administration of the IT Quality Assurance function. Designed, developed, tested and enhanced the automation ensuring consistency of data and process adherence facilitating reporting that allowed identifying areas of concern, to identify and implement improvements.
  - Created and implemented an automated earned value established pro-active management of projects and crucial to increasing overall project efficiency, efficiency increased over 37%.
  - Managed the rollout of CM Synergy, which was behind schedule and over budget, bringing it back on-target.
  o Identified problem areas, instituted solutions and established reports that were simple to understand enabling proactive management of the rollout.
  o Rollout was in the red and had less than 10% (45 of 480) applications migrated. When I moved on, the rollout was ahead of schedule on budget and had 67.7% (325 of 480) applications migrated.
  - Filed for a patent for how to implement Earned Value. “Project Efficiency Analysis”, (Sprint Docket No. IDF 4442 4000-53300).

• Enterprise Architect

  Sprint Nextel

  (Public Company; S; Telecommunications industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years )

  Identify major redundancies and execute on consolidating the hardware and software portfolios. Catalogue the Service Management, Platform and End User Output domains within Sprint.
  - Identified Software Distribution and Service Center as key Service Management initiatives, conducted Request for Proposal (RFP) sessions. Coordinated to ensure transition plans were implemented to move to the selected solutions.
  - Standardized on Red Hat LINUX and reduced the number of hardware vendors within the INTEL space from five to two.
  - Implemented processes and control structures ensuring a self governing environment that did not require major ongoing interaction.

• Senior Manager Platform Network Planning, Enterprise Platform Planning

  Sprint Nextel

  (Public Company; S; Telecommunications industry)

  1994 — 2002 (8 years )

  Managed a team of 15 direct reports and 4 contractors whose responsibly was to Plan, Design and Engineer solutions for over 2000 distributed enterprise systems. Supported distributed server activities, including budgets in excess of $70 million a year.
  - Provided three performance evaluations annually for all associates, worked with each team member to identify their IDP (Individual Development Plan) and supported their career growth activities.
  - Created a consolidation program with documented capital savings of over $40 million in the first two years.
  - Instituted procedures to formalize and reduce Service Level Agreement times by 60%.
  - Formalized the distributed Capacity planning process by completing a Task on Arrow process for server planning activities.
  - Centralized the capital budgets and planning for servers/storage from the individual business units.

• Team Leader Capacity / Performance Management

  Wal-Mart

  (Public Company; WMT; Retail industry)

  1992 — 1994 (2 years )

  Created the distributed capacity planning and performance team of five whose responsibility was to size, tune and plan capacity for over 2500 distributed servers.
  - Reduced distributed costs by implementing processes to focus on high compute users.
  - Eliminated $5 million in software expense.
  - Reduced overall MVS mainframe expenditures by $2 million annually.

• Team Leader

  Old American Insurance

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  1990 — 1992 (2 years )

  Managed a team of 4 whose responsibility was to support the mainframe system, including system programming and operations activities.
  - Managed the replacement of the data center tape environment (under budget, on time and with no loss of data or service).
  - Reduced cycle times of the primary business applications by 40%.
  o Published findings on the reduction and taught others how to accomplish.

• Sergeant - Programmer and Systems Programmer (4063, 4066 and 4069)

  United States Marine Corps

  (Government Agency; USMC; Military industry)

  1982 — 1990 (8 years )

  Eight years in the Marine Corps have contributed greatly to the skills necessary to be a leader and follower. All positions held have demanded the capability to gather from different levels/abilities from Private to Colonel, hourly associate to President, for a common goal.
  - Implemented process to centralize MVS capacity planning.
  - Created a Fixed Wing application for the Marine Corps.
  o Reduced preparation of orders from 4 hours to less than 10 minutes.
  o Received Navy Achievement medal.