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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Woonsocket, Ri, Us

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Eyecare Partners, Partners Group company is the largest vertically integrated medical vision services provider in the US, offering patients end-to-end services covering optometry, ophthalmology, and sub-specialties (retinal, surgery centers) and vision correction products.Role:Strategic Leadership of Software Engineering, Application Development, and Enterprise Architecture teams located globally. Spearheaded development and implementation of integrated Cloud-based software products which would be a differentiator in the market space as well as position the company for further growth and competitive advantage. Lead rationalization of application portfolio for the reduction in TCO ( Total Cost of Ownership) and efficiencies.Software Services Vendor Management. Set vision, mission, and goals; Lead other experience leaders and broader enterprise teams to achieve common strategic objectives.

Lake Forest, Il, Us

Set the overall direction for software engineering organization to deliver on the needs of each of the business units (Health Benefits, Voluntary Benefits, Small Business Benefits & Health Fitness). • Partnered across the business and technology ecosystem to align on priorities, strategy development and execution.• Defined the overall Digital strategy and Lead the software engineering organization of 200 supporting the expanding set of capabilities with a focus on customer engagement and experience.• Worked with business partners and enterprise architecture, developed technology plans in support of key business objectives with consideration of external trends and technical advances. • Provided technical leadership and strategic guidance on application solutions, architectures, integration strategies, governance, quality assurance and business support processes. • Worked with third parties to manage delivery of transform, build and run activities. • Recruit, mentor, develop and retain talented engineers • Change agent that led deployment of transformational IT capabilities while cultivating Agile Application Development methodologies across the organization. • Created an innovative engineering culture of technology innovation and excellence, characterized as highly collaborative, execution-focused, and best in class. • Manage budget ($60M), roadmaps, timelines, and overall execution of the department.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Direct multiple systems/ applications, technology teams, transformation programs with broad scope and strategic impact. Lead team of 200+ consisting of technology directors (with direct reports), chief architects and software advisors by providing oversight, guidance, and direction to meet department objectives. Formulate and implement Technology strategy plan to guide direction of technology area for achieving business goals. ● Developed technology strategy and forecast for enterprise application, owned and managed day-to-day technology solutions delivery of National business supporting, meeting, and exceeding goals of national account business (1B$ business and 40M members/consumers).● Initiated and implemented technology and business process improvements through building CI/CD(Continuous Integration Continuous delivery) pipeline, Testing automation, DevOps automation, which resulted in significant year-over-year cost savings of $5M+.● Owned delivery of several significant technology and business transformation initiatives improving claims auto adjudication, cost of care, focusing on consumer centricity, provider collaboration, and implementing CMS, Federal, State mandates and HIPAA regulations and rules. ● Represented Anthem in vendor facilitated Executive Steering committee meetings, held for Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, speaking for and making IT investment decisions aligned with growth strategy. ● Managed $120M+ budget, negotiating and approving statement of work (SOW) with external vendors and suppliers, and salary planning for entire organization.● Spearheaded Cloud migration initiatives to move accumulator data to cloud(AWS) using hybrid cloud model for better member experience and improvements in cost of care. ● Served as Agile champion for Claims IT Delivery tower, leading transformation across department to exceed stakeholder expectations on delivery and improve productivity.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Led team of software engineers and solution delivery technologists for retail banking indirect channel (B2B) partner initiatives for product build out and new customer onboarding. Oversaw pipeline, customer relationship, resource, and budget management. Drove solution consulting and delivery.● Managed B2B Retail Banking programs through all phases including creation and execution of SOW, master service agreement, IT solution design, development, testing, and implementation, which led to new client wins.● Spearheaded multi-year multi-million-dollar initiative to build retail banking product in conjunction with Oracle, directly contributing to business growth in B2B space.● Analyzed finance data to produce presentations for providing insight to executives on trends, enabling corporate and IT strategy decisions.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Led Enrollment, Billing, Medicare, Medicaid and Enterprise Data and Service application teams. Led large-scale, complex IT programs which were critical for Health insurance business. Oversaw resource planning, hiring, and working with vendors for procurement of resources. Architected, built and owned enterprise asset applications and delivered mastered data through high-availability services to high-volume web applications.● Initiated and led strategic initiatives tied to Enrollment, Medicare, and Technology architecture, which resulted in significant return on investment (ROI) of > $2M. ● Created IT strategy roadmap and delivered IT solutions that align with architectural vision, overseeing all phases of software development lifecycle, by collaborating with cross-functional teams.● Orchestrated software programs to provide 360 view of consumers and members utilizing Enrollment, Medicare, and Shared services domain, improving consistency, recoverability, accessibility, quality of data, and enhancing customer experience, which resulted in seamless integration transparent to consuming applications without any unscheduled downtime, and increased business benefits and delivery within budget and timeline.● Championed initiation process and worked with teams to begin projects by creating scope, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and presenting to funding committee for approval to enable business improvements through technology implementation.● Communicated with business stakeholders and Executive IT leadership on status of significant initiatives to prioritize and re-prioritized work per business demand and growth, proactively identifying and resolving issues, and achieving high level of stakeholder engagement measured through customer satisfaction survey. ● Spearheaded Agile, Scrum, and Kanban adoption, using metrics to enhance productivity.

Louisville, Ky, Us

Led the development team that owned the proprietary Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Electronic Health Record (HER) product called Protouch. Protouch is used by nursing staffs, doctors and other healthcare professionals in the hospitals to paperlessly access and manage patient information.Translated business goals, feature concepts and customer needs into prioritized product requirements, use cases and design.Led, project managed, designed, coded enhancements to Protouch application which resulted in Easy data retrieval, additional features to chart and reports, obtain medical results and changes to reinforce HIPPA rules.

Executive Mba, Management Of Technology

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electronics, Computer Science And Communications Engineering