Daren Teske

Experience

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  Teske Properties, LLC

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2016

  Owner

  Owning and managing rental properties

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  Teske Farm & Country

  Mar 2002 - Sept 2007

  Owner

  • Responsible for general management of a feed & seed company with annual sales in excess of $750,000. Responsibilities include sales, customer service, operational and financial management.

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  UnitedHealth Group

  Sept 2006 - Aug 2008

  Project Manager

  • Serve as main point of contact for 15 COSMOS project managers.• Actively managed small to large sized projects with 10-40 team members and budgets up to $2,000,000.• Performed process improvement for the release management team as the overall COSMOS team grew in size from 35 to 200.• Acted as SOX change management CKE ensuring SOX compliance and leading yearly audits.• Responsible for quality throughout each release by conducting weekly release status meetings to ensure projects are on track.• Coordinated and participated in final testing process, communicated defect status, and conducted go / no go meetings.• Communicated release status with executive management through weekly reporting.• Participate in issue resolution between I/T and business.• Created and managed project risk assessments, communication plans, project plans and status reporting for senior management and executives.• Responsible for enterprise level projects with multiple line of business dependencies. • Led monthly and quarterly deployments averaging 30,000 project hours per release.• Facilitated weekly release planning meetings coordinating new projects to release dates. Show less

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  Wolters Kluwer - Financial Services Solutions

  Aug 2008 - now

  Acted as Scrum Master for multiple software development teams working on 10-15-day sprints.Facilitate / coach creativity and empowerment of the scrum teams.Facilitated a bi weekly scrum of scrums to facilitate a discussion focusing on areas of overlap and integration. Also, responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects and was the single point of contact for those projects. Responsible for defining project scope and objectives, developing detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports. Conducted project meetings and was responsible for project tracking and analysis. Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables. Managed the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables. Provided technical and analytical guidance to the project team and recommended and took action to direct the analysis and solutions of problems. Show less

  • Manager, Technology Project & Program Management

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Project Manager / Scrum Master

    Aug 2008 - Jan 2020