1. Daniel E. McCollum Jr.
3111 Wesley Avenue, Berwyn, IL, 60402; Phone: (618) 660-8159 DMcCollu@mail.depaul.edu
Seven years proficiency leading and managing projects, culminating custom website
development and launch (SDLC/Agile); infrastructure systems solutions delivery; product
lifecycle design; and, enterprise-level applications software release.
Work History
Prince Castle, Carol Stream, IL: September 2012- Present
McDonald’s Project Manager
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Managed five mid-size foodservice equipment development projects for McDonald’s
Worldwide & Domestic, successfully satisfying project deliverables and product design
Coordinated weekly meetings with cross-functional personnel, tracked systems and
mechanical engineering action items, delivered project status reports to stakeholder
Created and administered SharePoint sites throughout product lifecycle
Led product development project meetings and review sessions with engineering team,
reducing potential scope gaps while accounting for open tasks, issues, and risks
Oversaw 3rd party vendor, facilitating seamless development of digital technical
documentation and language translation for new in pipeline and existing products
EPC Group Inc., Chicago, IL: February 2012 – August 2012
Sr. SharePoint Consulting Implementation Project Manager
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Monitored and applied controls on SharePoint 07/10 projects, mitigating scope creep
while driving weekly deliverables and milestones throughout project lifecycle
Concurrently managed over eight SharePoint projects focused on website development,
platform migrations, upgrade deployments
Successfully developed SharePoint project timelines and established baselines, applying
budget appropriations, PPM scheduling, and clients’ project scope (SOW)
Facilitated status meetings with project resources, stakeholders, and sponsor
delivering/eliciting project status, risks, and action items
Offshore/outsourced vendor management; weekly internal resource timesheet reporting
on .NET initiatives and website development projects
Developed project transition and planning practices, standardizing project processes
company’s technology and SharePoint 07/10 post-implementation/support strategies
Huron Consulting Group, Chicago, IL: March 2011 – November 2011
IT Systems & Business Analyst; Full-Time Contract
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Created structural requirements for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 websites design and
workflows, establishing company PMO framework for future/current project team sites
Analyzed users expectations and developed project requirements for e-signature mobile
application, producing business/use case materials that lead to $10K/year cost savings
Developed project transition planning methodologies, standardizing business processes
while determining IT project post-implementation and support strategies
Identified project requirements for mobile time entry application, enabling 3600 users
the ability to record billable time and expense without accessing client desktop
Discovered and modified faulty test requirements during HR systems testing, producing
more qualitative test cases while reducing future testing process times by 5%

2. Federal Government (USAF), Scott AFB, IL: January 2006 – October 2010
IT/IS Project Manager & Project Lead
 Applying summary of project, prepared weekly project progress reports to c-executives
 Responsible for project assets totaling $450K+, planned, directed, and completed 50
mid size systems/technology projects for 70 businesses within three years
 Engaging technical teams, drove technical solution specifications ($10M+) in success
producing project definition documents - continuous risk evaluation with set of controls
 Improving Air Force’s wide access network (WAN) boundary security, met phasedapproach installation of system software on 7,400 PCs for 10,000 end users; monitored
and recorded key shortfalls throughout project lifecycle remediated via contingency plan
 Delivering network security protocols on 50+ local access networks, directed security
software (McAfee Agent) deployment via Microsoft SMS to 9,500+ client/servers
 Led Internet Protocol TV implementation and installs totaling $500K to over 20 small
businesses; cut comprised cable TV service costs on average by $20K annually
 Orchestrated Virtual Private Network concentrator upgrade with local businesses,
ensuring redundancy and failover capability for 12 metropolitan access networks (MAN)
 Negotiated project resources/capitals with stakeholders and vendors, methodically
performing resource assignment and capacity planning to support project forecasts
 Developed and maintained Knowledge Management database of customer issue requests
resolution, decreasing customer support time by 10% monthly (60 minutes weekly)
 Comprising project deliverables, established IT projects work breakdown structures
(WBS) applying work efforts in lieu of preparing project schedules in © Microsoft Project
 Efficiently provided data center hardware accountability by accurately identifying,
tracking, and managing installations of over 8,100+ servers in excess of $800K
 Consulting with 50+ stakeholders across Air Force enterprise, ordered, tracked, and
issued 150+ encryption devices to 70 AF agencies totaling $500K in expenditures
 Consistently tracked project milestones and deliverables using MS Project, monitoring
project risk; issued team performance; developed lessons-learned artifacts
 Vendor management (outsourcing) with AT&T, Cisco, Dell, and Microsoft
 Led development and implementation of software testing lab (test phases and end user
feedback), creating an integration/test environment – $100K annual cost-savings
 Successfully managed Smart Card Logon systems software deployment to 8,000+ users
 Created SOWs, defining key project deliverables, goals, critical requirements
 Accurately and systematically tracked and handled 100+ communications projects as
procurement manager, staging and organizing $20M in project/program equipment
 Identifying data security and disaster recovery risks, developed hardware recovery
processes, policies, and procedures for information system data
 Troubleshooting application errors, identified legacy code within system to developers,
preventing erroneous automated routing of 33% of future project/requirements requests
Education
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Masters of Science, Information Technology Project Management
G.P.A. 3.9/4.0
University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
Bachelors of Science, Information Technology
G.P.A. 3.6/4.0

3. Technical Skills
Methodologies: SDLC, PMLC, Waterfall, RAD, JAD, ASD, LD, SCRUM, CMM, SOA
Service/Business Contracts: SLA, MOA, MOU, Sole Source, SOW, Business Case
Software: Microsoft Office 03/07/10, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Adobe, ERP, SAP,
Microsoft Office Communicator 07, Microsoft Project Server 07/10
Web: AJAX, HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome
Systems: Mac OS X, Linux, Windows 03/XP/Vista/7, UNIX
Content Management: Microsoft SharePoint 07/10, Microsoft Designer 2010
Project Management: PDD, Project Plan, WBS, Project Charter, Risk Management,
Metrics Reporting, Resource Planning, Process Improvement, Integration Management,
Communication Plan