Dan Freeman
I am Dan Freeman:
Versatile software development director
Lover of technology
Devoted fitness enthusiast
BBQ expert
Business strategist
Hacker, tinkerer, builder, maker
work
18%
Net Profit of Group
100%
On Time Delivery
100%
Customer Satisfaction
35%
Improved Staff Efficiency
In Dan Freeman’s current position at Evanhoe & Associates, he is the Software Development Director. He has been an instrumental part of the growth of the company and created the development group that he leads. Under Dan Freeman’s leadership, the group has grown from a single project, to multiple projects and products that produce one-third of the company’s revenue. The collective net profit of the group is more than 18%.
The following are a few of the successes Dan Freeman has had as the Software Development Director:
- Conceived and realized a long term vision for support that included:
- Improving hardware infrastructure
- Creating a help/support desk and defining and monitoring performance metrics
- Selecting and implementing bug and trouble tracking system
- Creating a corporate knowledge base and integrated with tracking system
- Creating Service Level Agreements, documented processes, and disaster recovery plans
- Adding a secondary datacenter for backup, recovery and failover
- Moving significant resources to virtualization
- Creating a hybrid-cloud infrastructure using Amazon Web Services
- Defining, implementing and getting certification for ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 quality support processes
- Generating new revenue by establishing new services that reduced the net cost of corporate IT support to zero
- 100% customer satisfaction
- Conceived and realized a long term vision for development that included:
- Introducing Agile development practices and mentoring the development team
- Using the corporate knowledge base to implement project based wiki’s for improved team collaboration
- Defining, implementing, and getting appraisal/certification for CMMI ML2 and ISO 9001:2001 quality development processes
- Implementing the use of third-party and offshore resources for staff augmentation (ramp-up)
- 100% on-time delivery
- Using resources across multiple projects realizing 35% increase in staff efficiency
- Integrated the software and infrastructure support staff with the development staff
- Implemented annual appraisal and improvement programs
- Managed budgets in excess of $4M and teams up to 20 people
- Directly interfaced with customers and was responsible for improving customer satisfaction by building relationships
projects
Below are some cool projects that Dan Freeman and his team are working on right now. You can see the wide array of technologies they are using to invent, create, and build new products and software.
Remote Data Acquisition – IoT Prjoect
Project Description: An Internet of Things (IoT) style project that makes use of a mesh network to acquire data from remote devices. Devices report information to an Amazon Web Services based cloud through an API.
Components: Web, Mobile, Data, API, Embedded
Technologies Used: Mesh networking, BLE, PHP, Android/iOS Mobile, AWS, Node.js, Angular.js
Data Acquisition, Management and Hardware Development Prjoect
Project Description: A software and hardware development project that resulted in a new wireless interface to an existing Controller Area Network (CAN) based system. Data is acquired and managed locally using a mobile application, and then synchronized with an enterprise application. Enterprise data is processed into invoicing data into the customer’s ERP
Components: Web, Mobile, Data, API, Embedded
Technologies Used: BLE, PHP, Android/iOS Mobile, ASP.NET MVC, CAN
Hospital Patient Tracking – RFID Project
Project Description: A passive RFID project the involved the development and deployment of a complete system including custom software and RFID hardware. Hospital patients are tracked through the operating room workflow and current location information is displayed on a panel in the waiting room for patients’ friends and families.
Components: Web, Data, Server based Windows Service
Technologies Used: Passive RFID (pRFID), PHP, Java
Data Aggregation Project
Project Description: Multiple data feeds from legacy and current data systems are aggregated in an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process. The aggregated data is then published on an Enterprise Messaging system for consumption by other systems. The aggregation system also includes a dashboard view of processes and statuses of the daily system workflows.
Components: Java Web Applications, Data, Workflow/ETL, Enterprise Messaging
Technologies Used: Java, WebSphere, Informatica, TeraData, Oracle
education
Cedarville University – Bachelor of Arts – Computer Information Systems
Wright State University – Masters of Business Administration (MBA) – Management Concentration
certs & skills
Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Certificant ID: 000406557
APMG International – ITIL Foundation 2011 Certificate number 02349041-01-D34C
Project Management Institute Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) Number 1496947
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