1. Daniel E. McCollum Jr.
3111 Wesley Avenue, Berwyn, IL, 60402; Phone: (618) 660-8159 DMcCollu@mail.depaul.edu
Four plus years applying business analysis using industry process and workflow modeling
techniques. Masters in Project Management and Bachelors in Information Technology.
Work History
Prince Castle, Carol Stream, IL: September 2012- Present
McDonald’s Project Manager
 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: Jun 2007 – October 2010
IT/IS Business Requirements Analyst
 Identified communication and information system requirements totaling $10M+ utilizing
requirements tracking software to support 4 large businesses and 66 small businesses
 Fulfilling customer requests via Content Management systems, analyzed an average of
900+ communication and information system requirements documents annually
 Evaluated requirements system processes, streamlining over 1,200 customer requests
and integrating process automation decreasing processing times by 48 hours minimum
 © Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Information Management (EIM) 2007 administrator,
managing content, project solutions, and backup storage of system requirements
 Accurately and systematically tracked 100+ communications projects as warehouse
manager, staging and organizing $20M in requirements equipment
 Identifying data security and disaster recovery risks, developed hardware recovery
processes, policies, and procedures for information system data
 Trained over 60+ end users and SMEs on use of cyberspace infrastructure planning
system within initial year of system conception with developed training documentation
 Notified and provided follow-up by telephone or email correspondence for over 1000+
customers annually, ensuring in-depth awareness of customer business requirements
 Troubleshooting for application errors, identified legacy code within communications
and information requirements system to developers, preventing erroneous automated
routing of 33% of future requests
 Proactively studied manuals, periodicals, and technical reports learning to develop
programs and initiate projects that met executive guidelines and user requirements
 Performed analytical assistance for computer related problems by troubleshooting and
advising customers concerning equipment operation, maintenance, or programming
 Modified requirements processing system by integrating automation templates into
workflows, reducing requirements processing times 1460+ hours/year
 Negotiated project resources/capitals with stakeholders and vendors, regularly
performing resource management 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 MS Project
 Efficiently provided data center hardware accountability by accurately identifying,
tracking, and managing over 8,100+ servers in excess of $800K including installations
 Consulting with 50+ security stakeholders across the Air Force enterprise, ordered,
tracked, and issued 150+ security encryption devices to 70 AF agencies totaling $500K
 Consistently tracked project milestones and deliverables utilizing © Microsoft Project,
monitoring project risk and team performance; lessons-learned documented
 Performed relationship management (outsourcing) with AT&T, Cisco, Dell, and Microsoft
Education
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Masters of Science, Information Technology Project Management
G.P.A. 3.9/4.0
University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

3. Bachelors of Science, Information Technology
G.P.A. 3.6/4.0
Technical Skills
Methodologies: SDLC, PMLC, Waterfall, RAD, JAD, ASD, LD, SCRUM, CMM, SOA
Networking: LAN/MAN/WAN/W-LAN/W-WAN, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, RAS
Service Contracts: SLA, MOA, MOU, Sole Source, SOW
Languages: Java, C Programming, UNIX Scripting
Software: Microsoft Office Suite 03/07/10, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Adobe
Acrobat, 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 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7, UNIX
Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Content Management: Microsoft SharePoint 2007/2010, Microsoft Designer 2010
Project Management: Communication Plan, PDD, Project Plan, WBS, Project Charter,
Business Case, Risk Planning & Management, Metrics Reporting, Resource Planning,
Business Process Improvement, Document Management, Integration Management