David Dion, PMP

David Dion, PMP

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Development Manager at Uhaul Moving and Storage

  • Education

    • Massasoit Community College

      1978 - 1980
      AS Science
    • Bridgewater State University

      1992 - 1995
      BS Management Science
  • Experience

    • Electronic Data Systems

      May 1985 - Jun 1988
      System Engineer

      Software Developer - third party processing for BC/BS medical claims.

    • First Data Corporation

      Jun 1988 - Jun 1997
      Application Development Manager

      Application development for third party mutual fund processing.

    • Sun Life Financial

      Jun 1997 - Jul 2005
      Director Software Development

      Directed team of database architects and subject matter experts on the design, prototyping, and launch of a 3000k enterprise systems re-engineering project for commonly used processes across product lines, resulting in a reduction of 60 FTEs.Modernized company-wide software load testing process that resulted in reduced software performance bottlenecks by 30% during QA testing. Coordinated a team of 20 developers, including 5 in Ireland and provided direction as the Resource and Project Manager, governed all phases of the SDLC process in the Annuities products divisionConverted 20 Visual Basic programmers to Cold Fusion and J2EE, trained and mentored developers and business system analysts to use these new tools to move to an Enterprise focused development platform. Show less

    • Universal Technical Institute

      Jul 2005 - Sept 2006
      Application Development Manager

      Software and Database Development Manager - using Progress and .Net development environments on Microsoft SQL Server and Progress DB.

    • Accenture

      Jan 2006 - Feb 2009
      Project Manager

      Assigned to American Express - Phoenix

    • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona

      Feb 2009 - Sept 2010
      Manager Business Application Development

      Motivate and manage a team of 18 developers, BSAs and contractors using the latest technology from Microsoft, Global 360, File Net and GeneSys to deliver award winning Customer Service solutions to our customers.

    • Intraedge contracted to American Express

      Nov 2010 - Dec 2012
      Project Manager

      Project Manger in Storage Operation; current projects include migration from tape backup system to disk based system for mid-tier servers in multiple American Express Data Centers: legacy migration tier to tier, re-tier to better align application to performance/price on EMC San solutions, volume reduction on over allocated storage using Demand Management statistics.

    • TransCentra

      Dec 2012 - May 2016
      Manager RPS Development and Support

      Managed software development for two Remittance processing platforms.

    • Uhaul Moving and Storage

      May 2016 - Jun 2019
      Software Development Manager

      Managing development project to create a Web based Retirement Benefits system using the Microsoft stack including Biz Talk with the final step resulting in a conversion off the current Mainframe system.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ITIL V3 Foundation

      EXIN
      Sept 2009
    • PMP

      Project Management Institute
      Aug 2008