Dane Sauceda

[email protected] | 940.453.7993
840 Fulton St, Apt 304, Brooklyn, NY, 11238

I am a Technical Program and Project Manager passionate about using modern design principles and constant feedback to create beautiful user experiences. My unique blend of leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills, paired with my diverse technical acumen, make me an extremely well-rounded resource capable of leading large cross-functional teams.


I'm looking for my next corporate partnership that will allow me to broaden my societal impact, work among the brightest minds in our industry, and bring my career to the next level.


 Education

University of Texas, Austin

Management Information Systems, BBA

Management, Minor

Aug 2012 - May 2015

 Skills

  • Project/Program Management
  • Product Ownership (Agile/Scrum)
  • Application Development
  • Data Analytics and Reporting
  • Cloud Data Warehousing
  • Big Data Management

  •   Work Experience


    Consultant at Sense Corp, Inc.

    May 2015 – Present, Austin, TX

          Projects and Internal Roles

    Technical Program Manager

    New York Life Insurance Company | Dec 2020 – Present, Brooklyn, NY
    • Run the New York Life account consisting of three concurrent projects and ten team members, resulting in over $1 Million in services revenue
    • Work directly with NYL Insurance Solutions CIO on annual data and digital priorities and implementation strategies to support the entire organization
    • Handle scoping, staffing, invoicing, and time & expense approvals
    • Act concurrently as the NYL Program Manager, Digital Project Manager, and Snowflake Practice Lead

    Snowflake Practice Lead

    Sense Corp | Jan 2020 – Present, Brooklyn, NY
    • Launched the Snowflake Practice at Sense Corp
    • Lead a team in acquiring 17 Snowflake Certifications and successfully contracting over $1 Million in Snowflake Services within one year
    • Collaborate with Snowflake representatives and engineers to support Go-To-Market efforts by building POCs, providing price estimations, and designing new architectures
    • Established Sense Corp as a Select Snowflake Partner (Currently working toward ‘Elite’ status)

    Technical Project Manager

    New York Life Insurance Company | Aug 2018 – Present, Austin, TX
    • Spearhead the Digital Strategy and Application Development Practice for the NYL Insurance Solutions division
    • Led a team of 4-6 developers in developing a web and mobile application that was release to over 4,000 users with overwhelmingly positive reception (OutSystems Innovator of the Year, 2020) 
    • Scoped and executed an aggressive, three-month development plan for the initial release of the application and led seven additional expansions over the next two years 
    • Facilitate work between cross-functional teams including business, communications, security, marketing, legal, compliance, and sales 
    • Saved almost $1 Million annually via an award-winning Pre-screen Tool that resulted in the client sponsor being nominated for a CIO100 Award (Announcement Outstanding) 

    Technical Lead (ETL, Application Development)

    New York Life Insurance Company | Oct 2016 – Aug 2018, Austin, TX 
    • Led a team of developers in establishing the Data and Analytics program at New York Life, which would become known as the DNA Team 
    • Led the DNA Team in developing the NYL Data Warehouse from the ground up in 12 months 
    • Designed an ETL system that reduced daily processing time from 9.5 hours to 2 hours
    • Oversaw nightly delivery processes for business users and led 24/7 triage group for any issues encountered
    • Engineered a form-printing application that led to an estimated cost-savings of $2 million dollars 

    Technical Analyst (Data Governance, Application Development)

    Texas Health and Human Services | Jul 2015 – Oct 2016, Austin, TX
    • Assisted in establishing the Office of the Chief Data Officer 
    • Fulfilled a congressional mandate that HHS create a centralized metadata repository for 36 disparate source systems 
    • Created scripts for identifying and logging metadata deltas between chronological versions of HHS source system data models 

     Technologies

    Application Development:

  • OutSystems
  • SalesForce
  • MS Visual Studio
  • MS SharePoint
  • Excel
  • Programming Languages:

  • MS SQL (T-SQL, P-SQL, Hive)
  • CSS/HTML
  • VBA
  • Java/JavaScript
  • Python
  • PowerShell Scripting
  • C/C#
  • ETL:

  • IBM DataStage
  • MS SSIS
  • Informatica PowerCenter
  • Reporting:

  • Tableau
  • Custom Dashboards
  • Big Data Management:

  • Snowflake
  • Cloudera
  • Hadoop
  • Ambari
  • Hive
  • Pig
  • HDFS
  •  Accolades

    Innovator of the Year

    OutSystems, Next Step Conference 2020

    Innovation Award, Time to Market

    OutSystems, Next Step Conference 2019

    Golden Scorpion Award, MVP

    Sense Corp, 2018

     References

    Available upon request