Daniel Yunk
Independent Consulting
Fox Point,WI
1
Certification
30
years of professional experience
Daniel Yunk is an IT Project Manager/Analyst having a varied skill set and over twenty years of IT experience. Dan is an analytical, results-oriented professional with proven success delivering multi-disciplinary projects on schedule and within price restrictions. A motivated leader, skilled in strategic decision making, business analysis, needs identification, and solutions development, with a strong background in programming and system design.
Work History
Retail Sales Associate
13 Years 5 Months- Assisted customers in product selection, enhancing shopping experience and satisfaction.
- Maintained organized merchandise displays, ensuring compliance with company standards.
- Operated point-of-sale systems efficiently, processing transactions accurately and promptly.
- Trained new associates on sales techniques and customer service protocols.
Consultant – Project Manager/Analyst
19 Years 7 Months- Provided technological risk assessment expertise: internal controls governing the confidentiality, integrity, and security of IT and financial systems/processes. Recommended controls improvements and system integration.
- Performed Sarbanes-Oxley - 404-compliance reviews and testing.
- Analyzed / evaluated their IT controls, identified gaps, and recommended gap remediation solutions. Tested internal controls to ensure effectiveness.
- Developed process narratives controls, risk control matrix, gap control matrix, and gap tracking report systems.
- Aided non-profit planning council in developing a project plan for the deployment of a database that would provide members of the council and their partners in the non-profit, government and private sectors with remote access to information for purposes of making informed decisions in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Technology Risk Consultant
3 Years- Provided IT risk assessment, evaluation, and documentation of existing information security controls. Designed new controls/processes to satisfy internal and external audit requirements. Effectively managed information security projects; formed project teams, worked within time/budget constraints, provided status reports, and coordinated project work with clients’ daily work activities.
- Identified IT control objectives; created tests to establish the operational effectiveness, oversight, execution, and documented results. Completed tasks in 50% of estimated time at significant cost savings.
- Designed and implemented IT Change Management protocol tailored to the unique environment of a global Fortune 500 manufacturing company. Provided verifiable controls sufficient to satisfy multiple audit types.
- Audited a hospitality management application within a major Midwestern hotel. Significantly improved user capabilities and provided multiple ways for management to ensure system security and integrity.
- Consulting firm providing internal audit, technology risk, accounting, and tax services to Fortune 1000 companies.
- Clients: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and MGIC (Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp)
- Involved with Analysis and performance of Sarbanes-Oxley - 404-compliance reviews and testing.
- Analyzed / evaluated their IT controls, identified gaps, and recommended gap remediation solutions. After remediation, tested the internal controls to ensure they were effective.
- Developed a process narrative of the application and general (operational) controls, risk control matrix, gap control matrix, and a gap tracking reporting system. Finally, after remediation, tested the internal controls to ensure they were effective.
- IT Sarbanes-Oxley compliance controls were based on the COBIT, COSO, & ISO 17799 process.
- Reviewed SAS70s and developed reports for client management relating to client / service providers’ controls.
- Involved with access / segregation of duties (SOD) review resulting in a pass from the outside accounting firm.
Project Manager/Analyst
7 Years- Developed plans and budgets for various IT projects and system conversions. Met with executive-level managers to develop business requirements and define project parameters. Led project teams, set goals, management milestones, and performed resource management to ensure compliance with schedule and budget commitments. Ensured data integrity by designing and coordinating system implementation projects.
- Instituted systematic testing techniques for a medical patient monitoring system that revealed critical system defects previously undiscovered.
- Client: Pershing LLC
- Involved with team of ten in analyzing, remediating and testing over 300 applications to ensure the applications were Y2K compliant. Responsible for all aspects of project development and execution.
- Project included applications that ran in both mainframe and PC environments. Project team consisted of team of approximately 10 persons with specific skills in: application analysis and design, IT delivery and support, and test design and test execution.
- Project required coordinating activities between project team working primarily in Milwaukee and client’s IT staff located in New Jersey. Project ran for approximately 18 months with a budget of 2+ million dollars.
- Client: Aurora Health Care
- Involved with a team that at sometimes consisted of up to 125 persons in a project that achieved two objectives: 1) the standardization of the organization’s client server hardware configuration, 2) redeployment of an agreed upon “best of breed” application in all cases where the organization deployed multiple applications to perform the same function, and 3) ensure that the revised environment was 100% Y2K compliant.
- Environment consisted of over 500 workstations, 300 servers and applications and ten million lines of code. The project team consisted of a senior project manager, 4 regional project managers, network administrators, PC and server technicians, persons skilled in the areas of testing network configurations, test analysis, load/stress testing and software functionality and performance objectives, trainers, and technical writers.
- The project ran for over 24 month with a budget of over five million dollars and was completed within very stringent time requirements.
- Client: Manpower International
- Assignment included two objectives. The first objective was to assume maintenance and operational control of the company’s legacy mission critical client billing system and the mission critical legacy system to facilitate making payroll payments to thousands of employee’s that a hired on a temporary basis.
- Led a team that had to ensure both systems continued to perform successfully under very strict performance requirements. Team consisted of up to ten programmers and programmer/analysts, and operational personnel and consisted of persons employed by both Manpower and Compuware. This assignment ran for over 30 months. Within that timeframe the team was able to ensure 97% availability of applications within both the billing and payroll systems.
- This work involved analyzing and comparing how these functions were performed on both platforms and then making recommendations for when current practices should be modified to comply with the functionality of the JD Edwards application and when it would be advantageous to modify the JD Edwards application to preserve corporate advantages.
- As part of these also modified the mainframe applications to collect real time data that could be used in running parallel tests of like functions within the JD Edwards application. Real time collection of the data eliminated the possibility of data errors and omissions and reduced the time and effort to collect and synthesis test data by hours per day.
Education
Bachelor of Science
- Programming and Systems Analysis Course Work
Master of Science - Project Management
Skills
Project Management
Program Management
Software Development Lifecycle
Information Technology Security
Information Management
Customer Service
Certification
- Certified Information System Auditor – Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)2007
- Certified Project Management Professional – Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2002
- Certified in the Governance of the Extended Enterprise
Professional Highlights
- Demonstrated success in complex problem solving, process optimization and relationship development with client management at all levels of authority.
- Extensive internal management consulting experience advising on business improvement and transformation through strategy, technology, and process engineering.
- Strong analytical skills, combined with a proven ability to connect strategy with implementation and business with technology, to produce high-valued business solutions.
- Proven experience in working with executive management and diverse stakeholders.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, 2002.
Timeline
Retail Sales Associate
Home Depot
03.2013 - CurrentRead More
Consultant – Project Manager/Analyst
Independent Consulting
01.2007 - CurrentRead More
Technology Risk Consultant
Titus
01.2004 - 01.2007Read More
Project Manager/Analyst
Compuware Corporation
01.1997 - 01.2004Read More
Harper College
from Programming and Systems Analysis Course Work
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University of Wisconsin
Bachelor of Science
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Keller Graduate School of Management
Master of Science from Project Management
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