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Daniel Kinney
Seattle,WA
Summary
Technology Executive offering 16-year history of leading strategic and tactical business technology initiatives. Proven expertise in large-scale business transformation and change management through innovation and technology implementation to with a focus on automation through product development. Offering effective communication, team building and coaching skills with commitment to fostering company vision and building professional culture rooted in trust and mutual respect.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Sr Director- Digital Solutions and Automation
Blue Origin
Seattle, WA
1 2021 - Current
- Led the development of a comprehensive transformation product roadmap across all manufacturing functions including materials, quality, planning, process, machine vision, and data
- Accountable for a team of over a 240 and a budget of $125 million to build implementation of a integrated factory 4.0 (IIOT, robotics, digital factory, vision systems) across over a dozen manufacturing, warehouse, and testing sites including the creation and integration of a custom software for Manufacturing Operations Management (MES, QMS, WMS, MRP)
- Directly managed a innovation and development team that both implemented GenAI solutions like Omniverse, AWS Claude, Anthropic as well as leading custom development of both home grown products and growing custom solutions through a variety of partnerships
- Worked directly with the Founder, CIO, COO and CEO in the role of enterprise leader for solution and automation development sitting on the executive team for both CIO and COO as well as being the deputy for CIO
- Reported directly to CIO and responsible for executive and customer communication structuring executive presentations and communications with the appropriate level of storytelling, visuals, and data analysis.
Director Enterprise Data Management
Blue Origin
Seattle, Washington
06.2019 - 01.2021
- Oversee development of end-to-end data management platform at Blue Origin including building a team from scratch to 54 developers and product managers
- Lead teams across the data management spectrum including Data Governance, Integrations, Data Engineering, API Management, Analytics, Machine Learning Engineering and Operational Data Management
- Oversee data transformation through many layers to serve diverse use cases from synchronous system integration, semantic layer for API accessible cross-domain datasets, operational data ingestion, Machine Learning, AI and more
- Owned the standardization of KPIs for Supply Chain, Manufacturing Operations, Program, People (HR) and Product
- Build out the Enterprise Data Catalog to assist with metadata management, search, lineage, access control and data quality
- Orchestrated strategic vendor partnerships, improving data quality, access control, and pipeline orchestration within the commercial, AWS and open-source data ecosystem.
Director of Advanced Analytics and Data Products
iSpot.Tv Inc.
08.2017 - 06.2019
- At iSpot I was responsible for a multidisciplinary team of product managers, data scientists, software engineers, data engineers and BI developers with a focus on right sized data products for iSpot's strategic clients as well as overall product development for iSpot.tv core data products
- Partnered with Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales team members as the responsible party owning the scoping, production, and engineering of a AWS environment that utilized a variety of data sources to drive insights and decision models to customers
- Led the data product development through series C funding and built team from 6 to 35 engineers and product managers.
Practice Lead, Director Advanced Analytics and Data Solutions
Bridge Partners
Seattle, WA
04.2016 - 08.2017
- As the practice leader I led the go-to-market strategy for analytics for a mid-sized consulting firm contributing to a growing a book of business from $28 to over $40 million
- Solution Offerings centered on data and product organization development and developing products and infrastructure for fortune 500 companies and maturing start-ups focused on data collection and availability
- Industries of focus include technology, aerospace, manufacturing, and healthcare
- Collaborated with leaders in various industries to solve business challenges through the solution architecture and delivery of core solutions to reduce cost business and reduction of cycle time for core processes
- Led end-to-end management of client/partner engagements, from requirements, project planning, prototyping, development, UX design, testing, training & support
- Responsible for business development, client management, product/IP development, and talent/technology investment strategy across advanced analytics ML/AI, data engineering, and BI.
Senior Manager, Data Analytics
E15
Chicago, Illinois
05.2012 - 08.2016
- At E15 Group I had the pleasure of leading solution architecture for clients in the hospitality, S&E, education and healthcare industries
- Built models and methodologies to assess, quantify, and forecast various operational and performance metrics focused on end to end solutions for data acquisition to data models utilized for both data visualization as well as ML models for pricing and revenue optimization for Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, as well as a variety of consumer packaged goods teams like Anheuser Busch
- Provided end-to-end product and program ownership utilizing Scrum Agile methodology for 3 teams including data platform, business intelligence, and predictive analytics.
Sr Data Analyst
Rosebud Restaurant Group
Chicago, Illinois
06.2009 - 05.2012
- Reduced manual data entry errors by designing and deploying automated ETL processes to transform raw data into usable formats.
- Contributed to overall organizational growth through continuous improvement of data analytics capabilities and processes.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Economics and Statistics
University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL 01.2005 - 04.2009
Skills
Collaborative Leadership
Organizational Development
Stakeholder Relations
Technical Design
Product Lifecycle Management
Technology Roadmapping
Business process improvement
Data-driven decision-making
Industry 40
Software
Pyhton
Rust
AWS
SQL
Certification
AWS AI Practitioner
Timeline
AWS AI Practitioner
03-2024
AWS ML Engineer
03-2024
AWS Data Engineer
10-2022
Solution Architect-Professional
10-2022
Director Enterprise Data Management
Blue Origin
06.2019 - 01.2021
Director of Advanced Analytics and Data Products
iSpot.Tv Inc.
08.2017 - 06.2019
Practice Lead, Director Advanced Analytics and Data Solutions
Bridge Partners
04.2016 - 08.2017
Senior Manager, Data Analytics
E15
05.2012 - 08.2016
Sr Data Analyst
Rosebud Restaurant Group
06.2009 - 05.2012
Bachelor of Science - Economics and Statistics
University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
01.2005 - 04.2009
Sr Director- Digital Solutions and Automation
Blue Origin
1 2021 - Current
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