Philip G Danielson

About Philip G Danielson

Experienced Program Manager / Scrum Master / Project Manager (including IT) for strategic and global initiatives. Strengths: leading, organizing, planning, delivering and communicating. Leads regional and country teams in delivery of strategic and global initiatives. Quickly aligns to initiative vision and structures team and organization to effectively deliver. Strong collaborative leadership maximizes team and stakeholder contribution to achieving the objective. Works with Global and country PMO. Takes pride in on-time and on-budget delivery. Executes all phases of the SDLC according to CMMI and ITIL. Has solid background in problem solving, delegating, developing new business, developing strategy, innovating and coaching. Capabilities include ERP and COTS as well as custom development across web, client-server and mainframe platforms. Experienced with proposals, new business development, P&L and supplier management. Methodologies: Risk-based, Agile, Waterfall using Clarity, Rally, MS Project Server, MS Project.Professional designations: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMP Certified, ITIL-Foundations Certified

Experience

1. Vice President - Lead Project Manager

   KeyBank

   Sep 2024 — Present

   Commercial Bank – Recovery Modernization [8/2025 – present] – Leading business team to upgrade the Collections system to industry best practice. I lead the Line of Business team from Requirements through Implementation. Partner with Enterprise Architects for system impacts. Multi-release. Multi-year. Agile / waterfall hybrid methodology. Jira xray, Confluence, MS Project, SharePoint- Commercial Bank – Loan Platform migration [9/2024 – 11/2025] – Flawlessly migrated Private Bank and Commercial loans from legacy platform to modern originations and servicing platform. Partnered with Loan Payment and Operational Services Executive Leadership and team. Worked with Enterprise Architect to understand and optimize End-to-end flow. Led team to write 800+ Requirements, UAT Plan and 1,200+ UAT Test Cases. Created Test Plans, Execution Sets and Dashboards in Jira xray. Organized and led on-site workshops. Guided team of ~25 testers through three Teste Events including test execution and Defect tracking. Partner overall Program Manager to ensure Technology backlog captures needed capability for business team. Partnered with Technology to ensure design meets business needs. Work with Procedure and Training team to update over 400 procedures and ensure accurate and appropriate materials to equip and enable the team. Use Jira, Jira, Xray, SharePoint, MS Project, Confluence.

Education

• Houghton University

  BA, Business Administration, Minor - Computer Science

Skills

• Program Management
• Scrum
• Sdlc
• Project Portfolio Management
• Project Management
• Vendor Management
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Business Analysis
• Strategy