Dana R. Eccles
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Brenda Melius
I had the privilege of working with Dana for 8 years at LDI/Safco. I was able to accomplish a lot more than expected in my role by partnering and leveraging his abilities to strengthen collaboration across departments, encourage and achieve innovation and creativity, and drive successful strategy creation and deliver results. Dana has an innate ability to bring teams together and focus on the project or task at hand. Not only is he a great listener, but he also easily synthesizes feedback and discussion to actionable tasks to help achieve our goals. He is a kind and empathetic leader cultivating an environment that produces phenomenal teamwork and collaboration, all the while leading without authority. His teams trust his methods and they know he is working to ensure all parties feel supported and are part of the process of change. One of the main reasons I enjoyed working with Dana is his ability to train and educate even when the subject matter is complicated. He helped me learn about our technological capabilities in a way that would not only influence my ability to use systems thinking on the project at hand but would allow me to have a deeper understanding of the leveraged technologies to help me be an improved creative problem solver in the future. Dana was a go-to thought leader for me during our time together. He helped me lead and create during some of the most complicated projects, all the while maintaining honest feedback and support for me and my team. He constructively and carefully helped steer diverse groups in the right direction to keep projects and progress on track. I am grateful for the time I had to work with him. I learned a lot and am a much stronger leader and a contributor because of our partnership.
Brenda Melius
I had the privilege of working with Dana for 8 years at LDI/Safco. I was able to accomplish a lot more than expected in my role by partnering and leveraging his abilities to strengthen collaboration across departments, encourage and achieve innovation and creativity, and drive successful strategy creation and deliver results. Dana has an innate ability to bring teams together and focus on the project or task at hand. Not only is he a great listener, but he also easily synthesizes feedback and discussion to actionable tasks to help achieve our goals. He is a kind and empathetic leader cultivating an environment that produces phenomenal teamwork and collaboration, all the while leading without authority. His teams trust his methods and they know he is working to ensure all parties feel supported and are part of the process of change. One of the main reasons I enjoyed working with Dana is his ability to train and educate even when the subject matter is complicated. He helped me learn about our technological capabilities in a way that would not only influence my ability to use systems thinking on the project at hand but would allow me to have a deeper understanding of the leveraged technologies to help me be an improved creative problem solver in the future. Dana was a go-to thought leader for me during our time together. He helped me lead and create during some of the most complicated projects, all the while maintaining honest feedback and support for me and my team. He constructively and carefully helped steer diverse groups in the right direction to keep projects and progress on track. I am grateful for the time I had to work with him. I learned a lot and am a much stronger leader and a contributor because of our partnership.
Brenda Melius
I had the privilege of working with Dana for 8 years at LDI/Safco. I was able to accomplish a lot more than expected in my role by partnering and leveraging his abilities to strengthen collaboration across departments, encourage and achieve innovation and creativity, and drive successful strategy creation and deliver results. Dana has an innate ability to bring teams together and focus on the project or task at hand. Not only is he a great listener, but he also easily synthesizes feedback and discussion to actionable tasks to help achieve our goals. He is a kind and empathetic leader cultivating an environment that produces phenomenal teamwork and collaboration, all the while leading without authority. His teams trust his methods and they know he is working to ensure all parties feel supported and are part of the process of change. One of the main reasons I enjoyed working with Dana is his ability to train and educate even when the subject matter is complicated. He helped me learn about our technological capabilities in a way that would not only influence my ability to use systems thinking on the project at hand but would allow me to have a deeper understanding of the leveraged technologies to help me be an improved creative problem solver in the future. Dana was a go-to thought leader for me during our time together. He helped me lead and create during some of the most complicated projects, all the while maintaining honest feedback and support for me and my team. He constructively and carefully helped steer diverse groups in the right direction to keep projects and progress on track. I am grateful for the time I had to work with him. I learned a lot and am a much stronger leader and a contributor because of our partnership.
Brenda Melius
I had the privilege of working with Dana for 8 years at LDI/Safco. I was able to accomplish a lot more than expected in my role by partnering and leveraging his abilities to strengthen collaboration across departments, encourage and achieve innovation and creativity, and drive successful strategy creation and deliver results. Dana has an innate ability to bring teams together and focus on the project or task at hand. Not only is he a great listener, but he also easily synthesizes feedback and discussion to actionable tasks to help achieve our goals. He is a kind and empathetic leader cultivating an environment that produces phenomenal teamwork and collaboration, all the while leading without authority. His teams trust his methods and they know he is working to ensure all parties feel supported and are part of the process of change. One of the main reasons I enjoyed working with Dana is his ability to train and educate even when the subject matter is complicated. He helped me learn about our technological capabilities in a way that would not only influence my ability to use systems thinking on the project at hand but would allow me to have a deeper understanding of the leveraged technologies to help me be an improved creative problem solver in the future. Dana was a go-to thought leader for me during our time together. He helped me lead and create during some of the most complicated projects, all the while maintaining honest feedback and support for me and my team. He constructively and carefully helped steer diverse groups in the right direction to keep projects and progress on track. I am grateful for the time I had to work with him. I learned a lot and am a much stronger leader and a contributor because of our partnership.
Experience
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Hercules OEM
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United States
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Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
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1 - 100 Employee
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IT Manager
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Nov 2021 - Present
Responsible for leading, planning and coordinating all technology related activities and initiatives supporting all functional areas with emphasis on Finance/Accounting, Warehouse/Distribution and Sales. Leading the day to day performance, project management, preparation of the IT budget and the strategic planning required to support the Hercules OEM business strategies and operations. Responsible for leading, planning and coordinating all technology related activities and initiatives supporting all functional areas with emphasis on Finance/Accounting, Warehouse/Distribution and Sales. Leading the day to day performance, project management, preparation of the IT budget and the strategic planning required to support the Hercules OEM business strategies and operations.
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Owner
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Mar 2021 - Present
I'm a proven IT leader that believes in collaborative teamwork to solve the business issues we all are trying to improve. Leadership isn't a title, it is moving the needle with the help of others to make the work more effective. My desire is to do whatever is needed to move that needle. I may lead one project, I may assist in another but I will always deliver results and lead with goal completion and collaboration regardless of my role. You can count on me to put my 28 years of IT experience to work for you.
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Liberty Diversified International
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United States
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Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
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100 - 200 Employee
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IT Business Relationship Manager
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Aug 2013 - Mar 2021
IT Business Partner for 2 LDI business units. I was excited to have joined an organization dedicated to Caring, Innovation, Trust and Excellence. I worked directly with my business partners to understand where and how technology will help enable the business operations and strategies. I enjoyed putting my 28+ years of business and IT experience to work every day embracing change in process and technical solutions. I find passion in understanding a process, analyzing possible improvements to that process as well as researching technical solutions that can create efficiency's in making our teams world class. Major Project leadership initiatives:1. Merger/Acquisition - JDEdwards integration with the 3 companies2. Global Website redesign 3. CRM People, Process and Technology redesign4. Manufacturing Process and Technology improvements for 3 plants
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Sr. Manager, IT Business Systems and Enterprise Architecture
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Apr 2005 - May 2013
Held responsibility for the overall application solution architecture for the enterprise business systems AMS relied on to maintain its market growth and dominant leadership in the Male and Female Pelvic Health medical device market. This included all elements of a full suite of ERP applications that run the manufacturing facilities (order Management, financials, manufacturing, materials management and demand planning, HRIS and product service), Cognos Business Intelligence environment, 2 Clinical Trial Management solutions, a global sales force automation/CRM SaaS solution using Salesforce.com, a SaaS travel and expense management solution, as well as 3 custom AMS applications managing compensation, physician registry and patient information. I was appointed as the leader of the AMS Corporate Governance process related to IT investments and project approval. Worked to build a portfolio based team structure to focus investments through an individual portfolio review and recommendation to a broad governance council with membership from the portfolio committee chairperson. Success of this initiative was driven by the collaboration across all of the committee members working to define and support the key initiatives that will help their business operations grow.Specialties: 1. Architecting software solutions that enable business growth 2. Portfolio and Solution Management in CRM, Sales and Order Management3. IT Leadership and strategic planning4. Driving process improvement throughout an organization
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Donaldson Company, Inc.
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United States
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Executive Offices
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1 - 100 Employee
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Solution Manager - Order Management
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2001 - 2005
I worked with a great group of IT professionals and business partners that delivered value to our end user community through implementation of Oracle e-Business solutions. From Order Entry, CRM, & Sales through AR, our team helped build the application to meet requirements and improve order management processes. I worked with a great group of IT professionals and business partners that delivered value to our end user community through implementation of Oracle e-Business solutions. From Order Entry, CRM, & Sales through AR, our team helped build the application to meet requirements and improve order management processes.
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marchFIRST
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Bulgaria
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Information Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Consulting Manager
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2000 - 2002
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Rosemount Engineering
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United Kingdom
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IT Analyst and Manager
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1989 - 1997
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Education
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1981 - 1985
University of Minnesota Duluth
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1978 - 1981
Mound Westonka High School
Diploma
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