Daniel Gardner
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Baltimore, MD, United States
Toptal member since September 23, 2022
Daniel is an experienced product manager with a penchant for blockchain, travel, and open data. He started his career in banking and later moved into technology. He's currently working on restoring confidence in philanthropy to younger generations by increasing transparency through public data and proprietary tech.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- B2B2C
- Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C)
- Fintech
- International Payments
- Jira
- Leadership
- Payment APIs
- QA Testing
Work Experience
Senior Vice President of Product
RenPSG
- Led a core strategic initiative of the company, which required multiple cross-functional partnerships and working agreements between the CEO, CPO, COO, and CFO and their reports.
- Transitioned key functions of the previous startup to the acquirer, including DevOps, product development, customer support, QA, and reconciliation.
- Split the core product team into multiple agile-based teams and split product responsibilities accordingly. Trained and mentored new product managers to comply with the acquirer's process while maintaining speed and accuracy of development.
Co-founder | COO
Pinkaloo Technologies
- Cofounded, led, and exited this company to RenPSG market leader in the DAF space.
- Led strategic direction and execution of multiple products, including donor portal, administrative portal, public charity pages, transfers, payments, and an Android and iOS mobile app.
- Built and staffed the company from scratch across key functions such as product, sales, operations, QA, and marketing.
Senior Product Manager | Director of Operations
SummitSync
- Joined the company as its first employee. Contributed to zero-to-one activities at a venture-backed startup alongside the CEO and CTO, ultimately leading to an acquisition of the startup by a major event company, Cvent.
- Worked side by side with the CTO to determine MVP scoping. I built the functional requirements and original designs while the CTO broke them into engineering tasks for the offshore team.
- Helped build capital fundraising deck, which ultimately led to $6.9 million in funding. Led strategic conversations with investors, board members, and executives regarding product direction and feasibility.
- Executed the product rollout as the onsite point person for our paying customers. Led the company's user acquisition strategy at each event which ultimately led to the onboarding of over 20,000 users less than a year after product inception.
Vice President of Finance and Operations
Enradius
- Worked with CEO and CTO to develop new revenue-generating products. Also built out the roadmap for integrating said products into an internal reporting tool to measure the impact metrics of our services.
- Designed finance, billing, and operations department from scratch, including key functions such as reconciliation, contract standardization, operations workflows, and capturing accounts receivable balances.
- Led training of the sales team on SaaS services that could be sold on a cost and model that covered areas such as landing page creation, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, drip email marketing, and surveys.
Senior Client Service Associate
JPMorgan Chase
- Managed $3 billion in cash for a multitude of sophisticated hedge fund structures.
- Built, maintained, and advised different onshore and offshore entity structures to enable the movement of funds seamlessly.
- Proposed and executed operational process improvements within my group and team.
Project History
Pinkaloo Modern Giving
https://finovate.com/videos/finovatefall-2019-pinkaloo-technologies/Designed, built, and executed a modern charitable giving platform.
Insurance and Benefits Enrolment Platform
Led the design, development, and execution of a custom enrollment platform that serviced a number of large unions in the USA for voluntary benefits enrollment.
Bounce House Website
Built a bounce house website for a family friend to increase digital presence and streamline potential customer leads.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Risk Management and Insurance
University of South Carolina - Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Skills
Tools
Slack, Hotjar, QuickBooks Online, Sentry, Amazon CloudWatch, Trello, Mailchimp, Jira, GitHub
Paradigms
B2B2C, Agile Product Management, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), Agile
Platforms
Mandrill, Demand-side Platforms (DSPs), Linode
Other
Project Design, Fintech, Manual QA, Swift, International Payments, QA Testing, Management, Staffing, New Products, Payment APIs, Meetings, Websites, Early-stage Startups, New Products & Services, Product Strategy, Product Roadmaps, Go-to-market Strategy, Mobile Payments, Communication, Mobile Apps, Functional Requirements, User Experience (UX), Roadmaps, Feature Roadmaps, Data-informed Decisions, Business Strategy, Startups, Risk Assessment, Product Management, Process Mapping, Financial Software, SaaS, Product Launch, Chief Product Officer (CPO), Digital Product Management, Feature Prioritization, Creative Thinking, Lean Startups, Product Design, Ideation, Product Development, Strategy, Chief Operations Officer (COO), Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Estimation & Planning, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Cypress, Metabase, Leadership, Product-market Fit, Squarespace, Unbounce, Wix, Android, iOS, Salesforce Sales Cloud, API Integration, Financial Modeling, Open Data, Beautiful.ai, UX Design, Advertising Technology (Adtech), Technical Product Management, New Product Development, Mobile Applications, Mobile Wallet, Growth, Mentorship & Coaching, Cryptocurrency Wallets, Small Business, Facebook Ads, Django
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