DANIEL PETERSEN

Cell: (303) 915- 7271 | dpeterse@alum.trinity.edu | 1946 NE Loop 410 #271 San Antonio, TX 78217

Business Leader and Innovator

Product Development Stakeholder Collaboration & Support Strategic Planning
Accomplished servant-leader with track record of developing large-scale business and software initiatives from scratch with
strategic financial and technical planning. Effective at collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching business units. Expert at
driving the adoption of agile methodologies and standards to facilitate business growth. Capable of bringing overwhelming
enthusiasm, boundless creativity, and and regulatory oversight to projects, applying expert judgment in removing barriers and
keeping teams focused to successfully provide business value in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

Customer Relationship Management

Predictive Analysis
Agile Software Development

Communication
Team Leadership
Problem Solving

Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Creativity

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Entrepreneurial Leadership:
Developed a new product and corresponding strategic plan for one of our clients to take advantage of their
user base that led to a 3-year increase in valuation from $44M to an acquisition price of $200M
Started a company after college, provided my investors with 25% annual return over six years, sold in 2014 for $5M.
Facilitated the acquisition of a colleagues tech company and led the successful organizational and technological
integration into the acquiring companys portfolio. Enhanced the acquiring companys core products and services,
requiring them to double the number of support and sales team members to meet increased demand.
Agile Implementation:
Delivered technology infrastructure and solutions that reduced the time to market of a software platform from 1
years to 8 months, ensuring delivery on a $10M project that had a truncated timetable due to regulatory changes.
Created and implemented agile testing requirements, quality control standards, and bug escalation procedures that
dramatically improved development resource allocation from 50% new features/50% bugfixes to 80% new
features/20% bugfixes and subsequently reduced the average sprint length from 12 weeks to 2 weeks with no
lapse in burndown rate.
Rebuilt a companys flagship product from scratch in 2 months with successful legacy data migration for 200
hospitals, sparking the sales teams successful acquisition of the most prestigious customer in the industry.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Acquisition Integration Specialist and Scrum Product Owner
San Diego, CA
2014 - 2015
Radconnect Platform at Statrad, LLC
Remotely directed multiple agile software development teams to build intuitive features for a proprietary cloud-based
cross-platform HTML5 DICOM viewer and sharing-focused web application.
Performed Scrum Master and Product Owner responsibilities; planned and organized sprints, built the backlog, ran
daily 10-30 minute Scrum meetings, and worked with sales team and stakeholders to craft requirements.
Worked directly with CEO and CTO to ensure deliverables matched the companys vision.
Designed new structure for Patient & User accounts that significantly streamlines Provider interaction and sharing.
Identified several significant inefficiencies in the companys original software and successfully pitched a plan to
rebuild the entire application with a new data model in MeteorJS, a relatively new platform for a document-based
database that allows more abstract interactions with data than classical SQL databases, a better fit for the industry
and a solution that is totally unique and new to the industry.
Led product line extension and customer relationship building that led to 400% growth in net revenue in one year.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Continued)

Founder, Chief Operations Officer
San Antonio, TX
2008 - 2014
Making Undergraduate Systems Effective, LLC
Designed and delivered dynamic, interactive statistical modeling software to support sales teams.
Directed software development teams through all phases of the software development cycle, applying Agile and
Scrum techniques with rapid prototyping, version control, and test-driven development.
Guided internal and client strategic planning goals with multiple high-level agile collaboration tools.
Researched and collaborated with users and administrators to create simple, high-level interactions with data through
surveys, interviews, and iterative beta testing.
Developed technical and agile development training curriculum and led seminar training sessions for client teams.
Helped clients extend the life of their deprecated product lines and develop new pipelines of product offerings.
Teacher/Tutor; Kaplan Test Prep. for LSAT, SAT, and ACT
San Antonio, TX
2006 - 2009
2007 & 2008 LSAT Instructor Champion, achieved Highest Teacher Excellence Ratings in San Antonio.
Mastered technical AV presentation skills and developed my presentation persona.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

Bachelor of Arts from Trinity University with Triple Major in Business Administration, Classical Studies and History, Minor
in Economics, San Antonio, Texas. Murchison Scholar, cum laude
Self-Taught Full-Stack Ruby on Rails and Javascript Developer
Scrum Master Certified, SMC
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Extensive knowledge of and experience with Agile, Waterfall, and Scrum Product Development techniques
Creating high-level, easy to use Statistical and Analytical Modeling tools to drive sales and business initiatives
Helping companies gain flexibility and cut costs by developing on open-source platforms instead of proprietary platforms
OS Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows
Software: Advanced Excel and MS Suite, Photoshop and Adobe Creative Cloud, Skitch, iShowU, Stomp, Visual Studio
Languages: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, CSS2, CSS3, HTML, HTML5, SQL, Meteor, R, basic SAS
Productivity and Sharing Platforms: Salesforce and Various other CRM Systems, Rally, Jira, Waterfall, Scrum, Planning
Poker, Lighthouse, Git, SVN, ThoughtWorks Mingle, Google Docs, Heroku, Microsoft Team Foundation Server,
Sharepoint, Paper Prototyping
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Lead Volunteer for Daily Bread Ministries

San Antonio, TX
2012
Converted 165,000 square foot abandoned and stripped warehouse into a food bank that supplies over 100 local ministry
partners with fresh food three times per week and distributed 6 million pounds of food and basic necessities to the
community last year.
Set up computer networks, internet and phone system, repaired AC, doors, elevator, built office complex, designed tile
flooring patterns, and more. Fine-tuned the building to pass the fire, plumbing, building, sign, electrical, mechanical, and
comprehensive state inspection requirements.

Daniel Petersen | (303) 915-7271 | dpeterse@alum.trinity.edu

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