1. dajomatruax@gmail.com
Dan Truax-Weston
Escondido CA. 92026
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dantruaxweston (619) 889-3870
S U M M A R Y
Information Technology professional with 20+ years of industry experience in the development and delivery of
key information systems through strong project management and the application of sound technical knowledge.
My experience employed within various large corporations and as a technology consultant has given me a strong
understanding of the data dependencies between various business units and the insight to recognize trends and
develop solutions that serve multiple stake-holders across the organization. This understanding enables me to
deliver targeted solutions that enhance the value and scope of a company’s intellectual property, products,
services and profitability.
Held government Secret security clearance from October 2008 to October 2010.
Education
BA in Management Information Systems - 1993
Point Loma Nazarene College, San Diego California
Areas of Knowledge
• Business Development
• Competitive Intelligence
• Customer Intelligence
• Customer Relationship Mgmt. (CRM)
• Staff Development
• Data Center Operations
• Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
• Project Planning and Scheduling
• Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance (SOX)
• Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL
• PHP, Perl, Unix, Apache, LAMP
• IT Security Measures
• IT Service Management (ITIL)
• PMP Methodology
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Contract Negotiations
Industry Experience
• Entertainment & Media
• Software Publishing
• Data Centers
• Hospitality & Leisure
• Telecommunications
• Government
• Military
• Higher Education
• Healthcare
Work History
LPL Financial Inc.
LPL Financial Inc.
LPL Financial Inc.
ViaSat Inc.
Infrastructure Development Corporation
EndGame Advantage LLC
Integrated Ventures LLC
World Share Inc.
Newbridge Networks Inc.
ViaSat Inc.
AVP QA Automation & Prod. Support, Oct 2014
AVP QA Technology Project Mgmt., Jan 2014
Sr. Project Manager, 2011-2013
IT Service Delivery Project Manager, 2009-
2011
Engagement Manager, 2008-2009
Principal, 2000-2008
Vice President Operations, 1998-2000
Director of IT, 1997-1998
Web Manager, 1996-1997
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3. Dan Truax-Weston
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P R O F E S S I O N A L W O R K H I S T O R Y
LPL Financial Inc. San Diego, CA.
AVP Automation and Production Support Oct2014-Present
Reporting to SVP of QA
• Actively manage a 22 person team with a 30/70 split across onshore and offshore respectively.
• Implemented ROI Analysis processes for Automation projects to ensure the firm was focused on long term automation
returns rather than short term gains.
• Through guided direction helped Automation and Prod Support teams develop scorecards to measure and monitor
activities to ensure continuous improvement.
• Brought Automation team into LPL DEVOPS and ensured smoke, sanity, and gatekeeper backlogs had budget to have
repeatable test results.
• Wove tighter processes between Prod Support and Automation teams driving down time needed to test on major DC
Maintenance events by 30%.
• Implemented VirtualBox with Prod Support team to allow for rapid OS/Browser standups and testing, reducing time
needed to test by 40%
• Drove implementation of Selenium into Automation to expand toolset and integrate with Appium for mobile test support.
• Lead engineering effort to develop Selenium parallel execution engine for Selenium IDE, Python, and Java. In the end
creating a farm of 60 vm’s running thousands of jobs a day.
• Working to negotiate external SASS test nodes to extend Selenium farm internally for extended testing. Managed
multiple large complex software releases, ensuring QA was testing to achieve the best coverage results.
• Managed QA Core Service budget and produced weekly reports for senior management.
• Continue Financial Stewardship duties of TCOE while training new staff to take over those responsibilities.
LPL Financial Inc. San Diego, CA.
AVP QA Technology Project Management Jan 2o14-Oct2014
Reporting to SVP of QA
• Recipient of LPL Chairman’s Award in 2014 for outstanding performance.
• Completed SAFE Agile training and SAFE Certified.
• Member of QA Leadership team which was responsible for the negotiation and implementation of the multi-year/multi-
million dollar LPL QA Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) agreement with a premiere offshore vendor.
• Principal QA TCOE operations manager responsible for implementation of contract controls for TCOE agreement
across Finance, Accounts Payable, HR and QA Mgmt.
• Managed QA team and leadership to achieve TCOE contractual goal of multi-million dollar savings 2 months ahead of
schedule!
• Responsible for the onboarding of the initial offshore team of 30 engineers to the LPL QA department. This included
training, HR onboarding, remote access, project introductions, project deliverables, and project closeouts with lessons
learned. Team grew to 50 members by October 2014.
• Developed and implemented centralized knowledge management system allowing both teams to work from the same
documentation and playbooks.
• Held monthly contract review sessions with TCOE offshore vendor management once a month.
• Lead and managed end of year TCOE review with offshore vendor. Review included KPI averages and track history,
customer reviews from anonymous surveys, adjustments to hourly rates based on performance, and action items to
change to ensure positive growth of the relationship and contract.
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LPL Financial Inc. San Diego, CA.
QA Senior Project Manager May 2011-Dec 2013
Reporting to AVP of QA Automation/Performance
• Project Manager and System Architect for QA test farm upgrade project. Seventy five physical servers were replaced
with 150 virtual servers on 8 physical nodes. The new test farm decreased testing time by 50% and doubled the overall
testing capacity available to automation. Project delivered ahead of schedule and 35% under budget.
• Project Manager for Selenium 2.0 deployment. Deployment included Selenium Grid, Selenium IDE, Ruby, and Java to
Production Services Division.
• Project Manager for the deployment of 2 new QA test environments. Each environment consisted of over 150
VMWARE servers, 100+applications, 30TB of SAN storage, and multiple SQL instances. Both environments completed
on time and on budget.
• Project Manager for Test Process Improvement (TPI) initiative. The initiative is centered around putting into practice the
recommendations of an external audit performed in 2013 on LPL QA processes, procedures, and workflows.
• Organized and led thought leadership exercises with Senior Management to create the QA Vision, Mission, and
Strategic Objectives for 2013. Each became governing principals of understanding both inside and outside of the QA
department.
• Envisioned, developed, and deployed multi-user database system for resource planning in the Production Services
Division. System supports 300 users, and is the single trusted book of business for resource planning. System reduced
business process waste by 75%, increased real time data to managers and PM's by 90%, and decreased project
resource forecast errors by 60%.
• Revamped QA Automation employee interview process including OPA’s, testing, scorecards, and business processes to
be applied to new applicants. Process reduced staff turnover by 15% and decreased training time of new employees by
30%.
• Developed, piloted, and deployed Employee Job Shadowing program for LPL Production Services Division. Program
includes handbooks, process guidelines, scorecards (before, during, and after), and syllabus for full transparency of the
program.
• Developed and deployed policies and protocols, along with corresponding technology to ensure offshore outsourced QA
processes were measurable, accurate, repeatable, and in line with internal QA controls and standards.
• Conducted interviews and evaluations of prospective QA Automation and QA Performance engineer applicants.
• Managed the creation of weekly metrics across all projects under the QA Automation portfolio.
• Ensured projects were being managed to applicable PMI standards, with transparent communication and auditable
results.
• Negotiated NDA's, contract terms, and pricing with outside vendors balancing risk vs reward scenarios and ensuring the
proper mechanisms are contractually available if warranted due to project issues.
• Mentored, coached, and trained other managers within the QA group on developing solid and achievable career goals
while still leaving room for stretch goals to enhance their overall personal portfolio.
• Developed and presented the yearly ROI reporting for the QA group, presenting findings and outlining areas of concern
along with future plans of success to Senior Division Management.
• Manage Proof Of Concept exercises with outside vendors across multiple QA disciplines to ensure the firms immediate
and long term goals are being met by best of breed QA solutions.
LPL Financial Inc. San Diego, CA.
Senior Project Manager May 2011-October 2011
Reporting to AVP in BTS Infrastructure
• Worked as a contractor to LPL, employed by Modis Inc.
• PM managing scope, time, and cost on a several concurrent Data Center infrastructure projects. In summary projects
included server upgrades, security software deployments, database upgrades, and network router changes.
• Trained other project managers as they joined the team.
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• Developed training materials and instruments for measuring success across the Project Management team.
ViaSat Inc San Diego, CA
IT Service Delivery Project Manager April 2009 to April 2011
Reporting to ITSD Manager
• Contributing contract author and member of executive negotiating team delivering ViaSat’s next generation terrestrial
network supporting the company’s new ViaSat-1 satellite offering. Final contract delivered network costs per gateway
far below business expectations with extremely favorable IRU lease terms on critical fiber links resulting in a higher
immediate ROI and lower capitalization costs.
• Developed and negotiated Dell Enterprise Service contract covering ViaSat’s 13 locations in the United States. Contract
delivered to ViaSat terms ensuring significant financial penalties to Dell in the event they failed to perform, while
allowing Dell the opportunity to earn back those charges with measurably changed behavior.
• Project manager and lead analyst in the design of ViaSat’s next generation worldwide MPLS backbone. New design
delivered Ethernet circuits to all sites and reduced the MPLS network spend by 45% ($1.5 million over first 3 years)
while increasing network bandwidth capacity by 25%.
• Member management construction team and technical lead for ViaSat's new tier 2.5 datacenter facility in Carlsbad,
California.
• Project Manager responsible for assessment of southern California computing resources, creating migration and
decommissioning schedules for computing resources, and managing multi-discipline teams moving approved
computing resources into the new Carlsbad data center.
• Project Manager responsible for transitioning ViaSat's mission critical 24x7 Network Operations Center to a fully
redundant and fault tolerant Cisco Unified VOIP solution. Project was delivered on time, under budget, and with no
impact to critical customers worldwide.
Infrastructure Development Corporation San Diego, CA
Engagement Manager March 2008 to February 2009
Reporting to the CEO
• Managed IDC Partner Integration Program. The program licensed proprietary IDC software and Intellectual properties
to external qualified IDC Partners for use in their software products.
• Managed all facets of customer engagements for data center audits, enhancements, and consolidations including
contracts, budgeting, resource scheduling, analysis, assessment reporting, and final customer review.
• Developer and project lead for system that performed optimized IO Consolidation Analysis of data center networks and
fabrics.
• Provided Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) to customers for existing and new data center projects.
EndGame Advantage, LLC Escondido, CA
Principal/Owner June 2000 to March 2008
• Founding Member of this successful technology research and consulting firm.
• Managed all company contracts including but not limited to contractor agreements, NDAs, customer agreements, and
licensing agreements.
• Developed and deployed marketing materials for company including the corporate website and logo.
• Managed contractor engagements including interviews, payment terms, training, and review of deliverables.
• Managed cash flow, accounts receivable, and account payable.
• Lead company to half a million dollar in sales by year 3.
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• Developed, and deployed ACID (Analyst Command Interface to Database). System allowed remote and local analysts
to enter, rank, manage, and perform quantitative analysis on intelligence data collected. This technology saved the
company on average $5,000-$25,000 a month in reduced staff and overhead.
• Lead design team in developing a functional design for an automated desktop deployment system. The 475-page
design was developed in 21 days. Design was well received and client built system 3 months later.
• Developed and implemented LAMP project-scheduling engine for military contract. Application monitored and
automatically advanced real time schedules, triggering alerts and notifying stake-holders of issues.
• Provided Sarbanes-Oxley analysis to clients on their IT operations and processes.
Integrated Ventures, LLC San Diego, CA
Vice President Operations June 1998 to June 2000
Reporting to the CEO
• Managed and was responsible for the annual $425,000 internal IT operating budget.
• Performed client IT assessments, and provided detailed turnkey IT solutions, with budgets and expected ROI.
Presented solutions, negotiated the final terms and wrote Statements of Work, SLA’s and Contracts for client
engagements.
• Managed Oracle implementation projects at multiple customer sites, primarily Oracle Financials 9i and the Oracle
Project Management Module.
• Designed and implemented project management and planning tools to accurately forecast IT engagements, increasing
visibility into the revenue stream and reducing distractions to non-essential programs.
• Managed team that created IV Wireless Management / Deployment Kit. Led effort through discovery, design,
development and implementation phases of the project. Software sold for $1.2 million to San Diego wireless deployment
company.
• Managed outsourced IT Directors, IT Managers, as well as an internal staff.
• Performed performance reviews and merit increase authorizations for internal staff.
• Led team on implementation of IT Asset Management tracking and resource end of life programs.
World Share Inc. San Diego, CA
Director of Information Technology July 1997 to May 1998
Reporting to Vice President Finance and Operations
• Implemented new accounting system reducing time to pay vendors and increasing profitability through the reduction of
part-time staff.
• Created new database application for remote site management. Remote sites realized an immediate increase in
revenues and were able to provide payments to corporate office for services in 1/10th
the time.
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7. Dan Truax-Weston
dajomatruax@gmail.com (619) 889-3870
• Developed, and deployed ACID (Analyst Command Interface to Database). System allowed remote and local analysts
to enter, rank, manage, and perform quantitative analysis on intelligence data collected. This technology saved the
company on average $5,000-$25,000 a month in reduced staff and overhead.
• Lead design team in developing a functional design for an automated desktop deployment system. The 475-page
design was developed in 21 days. Design was well received and client built system 3 months later.
• Developed and implemented LAMP project-scheduling engine for military contract. Application monitored and
automatically advanced real time schedules, triggering alerts and notifying stake-holders of issues.
• Provided Sarbanes-Oxley analysis to clients on their IT operations and processes.
Integrated Ventures, LLC San Diego, CA
Vice President Operations June 1998 to June 2000
Reporting to the CEO
• Managed and was responsible for the annual $425,000 internal IT operating budget.
• Performed client IT assessments, and provided detailed turnkey IT solutions, with budgets and expected ROI.
Presented solutions, negotiated the final terms and wrote Statements of Work, SLA’s and Contracts for client
engagements.
• Managed Oracle implementation projects at multiple customer sites, primarily Oracle Financials 9i and the Oracle
Project Management Module.
• Designed and implemented project management and planning tools to accurately forecast IT engagements, increasing
visibility into the revenue stream and reducing distractions to non-essential programs.
• Managed team that created IV Wireless Management / Deployment Kit. Led effort through discovery, design,
development and implementation phases of the project. Software sold for $1.2 million to San Diego wireless deployment
company.
• Managed outsourced IT Directors, IT Managers, as well as an internal staff.
• Performed performance reviews and merit increase authorizations for internal staff.
• Led team on implementation of IT Asset Management tracking and resource end of life programs.
World Share Inc. San Diego, CA
Director of Information Technology July 1997 to May 1998
Reporting to Vice President Finance and Operations
• Implemented new accounting system reducing time to pay vendors and increasing profitability through the reduction of
part-time staff.
• Created new database application for remote site management. Remote sites realized an immediate increase in
revenues and were able to provide payments to corporate office for services in 1/10th
the time.
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