Dan Schumm

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About Dan Schumm

Senior Professional with proven experience developing, coordinating and managing extensive professional development programs, creating training curriculum and identifying opportunities to develop staff and strengthen the organization. Successfully manages budgets, controlling costs while maximizing effectiveness. Comfortably interacts with professionals at all levels, within diverse groups and complex teams. Well versed in developing training programs, devising effective strategies for skill and competency development through needs assessments. A career of experience designing and producing training, promotional, and corporate presentation materials and computer graphics. Effective at integrating a wide variety of software applications to create refined, multifaceted, practical information solutions. Expert with Newforma, MS Office suite and graphics programs, providing training and support for staff and clients. Specialties include: • Continuous learning as competitive advantage • Translating business goals into learning objectives • Strategic organization development through proven professional development methodologies • Knowledge Building: strategic implementation of collaborative knowledge sharing • Collaboration with subject matter experts for effective course content development • Needs assessments/evaluations for competency improvement & course effectiveness • Presentation skills development • IT Project Management • AV/Copier/Printer/Plotter technologies: specify, negotiate, contract and fleet management