Director Of It
CurrentNFP Executive Benefits (Covala Group) – a proven enroller and administrator of supplemental individual disability benefits for large employers.-- Defined and led the new strategic direction improving productivity, reducing cost, and establishing the IT dept. as a Center of Excellence;-- Advised the company Principal and the Management on advanced technology solutions to meet organization's goals;-- Led analysis of internal policy and procedures to meet information… Show more NFP Executive Benefits (Covala Group) – a proven enroller and administrator of supplemental individual disability benefits for large employers.-- Defined and led the new strategic direction improving productivity, reducing cost, and establishing the IT dept. as a Center of Excellence;-- Advised the company Principal and the Management on advanced technology solutions to meet organization's goals;-- Led analysis of internal policy and procedures to meet information security compliance;-- Planned and successfully implemented data loss prevention, virtual desktop, “data-at-rest” encryption solutions with user training;-- Consolidated and integrated comprehensive workload centric flat-fee backup, archive, disaster recovery, and business continuity managed solution requiring zero reliance on availability of IT staff during a disaster;-- Established and managed the company’s annual $200,000 IT budget;-- Achieved year over year information security certification for company’s security posture and practices saving the company over $250,000 in compliance;-- Consolidated servers into a high-availability virtual environment reducing datacenter footprint, power, heat and improving performance, availability and reliability;-- Integrated mobile (iOS, Android, Blackberry) enrollment and text messaging in overall strategy to maximize participation in disability insurance enrollment campaigns;-- Developed application for generating five payroll deductions feed per month of over 3,000 JPMorgan Chase US executives making over $480,000;-- Setup and managed business phone system with auto failover and failback;-- Established high functioning lean IT team to quickly respond to internal and external IT help support requests;-- Advised insurance administration group in creating and improving internal processes to increase disability policy retention;-- Created and managed internal processes for screening and appointment of new employees and vendor. Show less