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IT Program Director is responsible for leading and managing the execution of a strategic portfolio of Specialty Lines IT projects. Responsibilities include but are not limited to : plan, drive, oversee, analyze, and report out on a wide range of technology projects of varying complexity; lead Agile maturity across Project Management & Business Analyst/Business System Analyst teams.

Lake Forest, Il, Us

Lead a team of IT PM professionals focusing on Software Delivery, optimizing multi methodology execution and onshore/offshore delivery model. Partner with Sr Leadership for annual planning, budgeting, headcount planning and capacity/demand management across IT.

Northbrook, Il, Us

Leading the divestiture of Allstate Life & Annuities business (Technology migration & Day 1 Activities) , expansion of Allstate Digital Life & Non Proprietary Offering (Direct to consumer life products via modern SaaS platform), digital transformation of Allstate Benefits Technology and integration of National General Health company. Leveraging multi methodology delivery, global workforce and creative staffing approach to optimize execution, minimize cost and exceed our customer's expectations. Focused on outstanding service, measurable outcomes and excellence in execution. Partnering with internal and external (buyer) clients to deliver best in class IT solutions in support of business goals.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Working as part of a new and improved Sr Leadership team to centralize, streamline and optimize Allstate Benefits Technology to deliver business results. Tasked with implementation of a state of the art Quality Assurance & Project Management organizations inclusive of building out global delivery model, implementation of tools and standards, automation, optimization of reporting .

Northbrook, Il, Us

Hold overall accountability for delivery of Enterprise Testing (eTest), Lower Test Environment and Lab support for all Tier 1 applications across ATSV (Allstate Technology & Strategic Ventures)

Northbrook, Il, Us

Lead a global team of service engineers supporting IT environments across the organization.● Support Testing environment stability and availability for Alliance, NextGen, MyAccount, Mobile, NQ2, DASH, CCET, Billing applications● Saved the company over $100K by customizing an in house Environment Monitoring tool for CTS, resulting in improved support for QA testing, issue resolution and monitoring of build versioning ● Spearheaded process improvement to Alliance Application Builds, yielding a 65% fewer deployment delays and resulting in over 15% less downtime for offshore testing ● Introduced Tier 1 Smoke Testing approval process for Automated build acceptance in partnership with PT DevOps team● Proposed a new Shared Services Group funding approach, which resulted in a more accurate forecasting model and minimized budgetary errors by over 10%● Lead IS/ETRM server alignment and allocation best practices effort to manage and coordination of 100+ servers in Testing Organization. 2016 On boarded 4 outlier Sandbox environments to manage on behalf of PT● Introduced an effective Defect Coordinator role in ETRM, reducing turnaround time of global defects by over 50%● Partnered with Dev Ops team in automation of build and deploy processes to functional test environments, reducing human errors and need for infrastructure support by 1 FTE count ● Addressed downtime impacts of patching and maintenance by implementing a ETRM Change Manager role ● Collected and analyzed feedback for resource’s business delivery, goal achievement as well as provided guidance and coaching to employee’s development● AlnMonitoring tool implemented to manage Alliance test environments and services leveraged by application proactively in lower environments● Team Growth August 2014 to Jan 2016 # of resources 175%, # of Env Supported 275% (15 resources and 20+ application/environment support provided, 20X5 global coverage)

Northbrook, Il, Us

Leading the development of a new technological functionality E-Signature, which differentiates Allstate from its competitors by delivering online form signing capability countrywide to our customers. • Lead a global vendor/employee team of 14 onshore and offshore resources• Manage the growth and expansion efforts of E-Signature capabilities Country Wide• Oversee E-Signature dedicated team effort and project management activities (Infosys)• Deliver E-Signature capabilities within $1.5 M budget and on time with high quality, saving company over $8M (from original estimated cost to implement)• Serve as a liaison between business and multiple technology groups within Allstate Technology Organization• Raise delivery risks associated with timeline, delivery expectations, Change Requests and capacity• Work closely with Testing Organization and Release Management to ship quality code• Motivate a cross continental team to deliver results• Monitor defects, scope creep and code release activities• Review SOW contract and provide feedback to Infosys vendor• Proactively plan out human capital requirements for 4 releases

Northbrook, Il, Us

Serve as the control governance within Allstate Technology Organization – Product Operations, monitoring and measuring to manage efficiently SOX compliance and overall organizational processes, while minimizing redundancies and enforcing adherence & accountability. • Oversee process governance activities to ensure adherence to standards • Address process “pain points”, establish current state, acquire input, make recommendations for improvement, eliminate redundancies, and identify missing• Organize and conduct Product Operations wide Prism Training • Increase Prism time submission compliance to 98.6% (highest for the year)• Facilitate and lead Senior Management Review meetings• Work with Product Operations teams to streamline processes and connect efforts which can leverage resources across the organization

Northbrook, Il, Us

• Cross-trained and worked on multiple internal teams as a Business analyst: PPI (propagator) , Commercial, ALSTAR, Alliance, Auto, Property Personal Umbrella• Represented ALSTAR/Alliance teams at Project Initiation and Handover meetings • Strategically partner with business owners for best project implementation options to reduce risk, cost and timelines of several projects while maintaining focus on project scope.• Developed Business Requirements for IT Projects• Managed projects, served as PM Deviation manager• Created TSP (Test Plan Strategy), FRD (Functional Requirements Document), CRD (Customer Requirement Document) • Developed/participated in BA work intake reviews and estimation • Managed Change Requests, Issues/Risks, Test Results• Managed Project team's estimate hours/efforts (Prism, AeP)• Managed Project folders while adhering to SOX mandates• Performed ICT Testing- in order to catch major project issues/defects prior to code release to the testing organization

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor'S Degree, Communications And Sociology