Responsible for bringing together the best associate mobility, productivity, and collaboration technology experiences, delivering a rock-solid billing and payments ecosystem with high levels of resiliency; develop fiduciary systems with expansive line of sight across AP/AR in real time; and build HCMS systems to manage hiring, benefits, and workforce management platforms. Super excited to be part of Hari Govind’s leadership team at GEICO tech.GEICO is fully owned by Berkshire Hathaway. We are focused on building modern large scale on-prem and hybrid cloud infrastructure and digital experiences powering leaders in the insurance industry. We are investing and interested in hiring the best industry talent to help us get there.I am hiring for number of fully remote senior leadership engineering positions (directors, managers and individual contributors) across full spectrum of domains. Get in touch if you want to find out more.

The Chinese American Service League (CASL) is non-profit agency which is based in Chicago, Illinois and which provides social services such as English language classes, job training and child care for Chinese American immigrants. Started by Ms. Bernie Wong in 1982. In 1998, they sponsored and opened the Senior Housing Facility. In 2007, they built a new headquarters in Chinatown, Chicago, IL.

Leads mission, vision and strategy execution for WWC Chicago network encompassing 1300+ women technologist across the Chicagoland area.Recipient of Women Who Code Global’s Senior Leadership Award for leadership excellence, 2017.Creates and leads monthly meetups for Chicagoland women technologist in areas of leadership development, interview skills, Machine Learning, architecture, programming languages, and networking.

I have the privilege to lead one of the most impactful engineering teams (800+ headcount) at Northwestern Mutual in delivering the best field digital experience for Northwestern Mutual’s inspirational financial advisors and their teams. Bringing together Northwestern Mutual’s holistic approach of insurance + investments to financial planning my engineering teams deliver the end to end digital software solutions to enable the business operations of our financial advisors and their teams; from recruiting talent, compensations/commissions, customer relationship management, book of business insights, illustrations, advisor desktop & planning, trading platforms, broker dealer capabilities and services.

Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach including both insurance and investments, Northwestern Mutual empowers people to be financially confident. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and leading-edge technology to best serve our clients. With $250.4 billion in assets, $28.2 billion in revenues, and more than $1.6 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force, Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to more than 4.4 million people who rely on us for life, disability income and long-term care insurance, annuities, brokerage and advisory services, trust services, and discretionary portfolio management solutions. The company holds more than $150+ billion of client assets as a part of its wealth management company and investment services. My role as CTO for Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company is accountable for all technology to enable Northwestern Mutual's rapidly growing investment management business. I lead our technology teams (headcount 350+) to create the vision, strategy, and execution of our technology strategy by partnering closely with executive business leaders across the enterprise and externally in the industry. Northwestern Mutual's Wealth Management Company is a $150B AUM “startup”, driving change across the organization. Technology team is leading the way in transforming how technology is designed and used at Northwestern Mutual.

Technology executive and influential business partner leading teams for Fortune 100, best in class, mutual insurance company. Responsible for software engineering teams (headcount 300+) that drive mission critical systems used by our highly successful Field Advisors, including CRM, Insights & Analytics, the rewards and compensation as well as our advisor recruiting and licensing applications. This is a critical role in the digital evolution of Northwestern Mutual's field experience and reports into the Chief Technology Officer.

Technology executive and business partner shapes the vision for engineering in Investment Products and Services, and carries it through the engineering organization (headcount 250+). Works in close partnership with Product and other technology teams across the business, as well as strategic vendors and management, to deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations.

Chief is a private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. Chief is the only organization specifically designed for senior women leaders to strengthen their leadership journey, cross-pollinate ideas across industries, and affect change from the top-down.

The NextGen Advisory Task Force is a committee that reports to The American College of Finances Services Board of Trustees. It is comprised of young leaders from across the financial services industry. We advise the College on matters relating to the educational needs of the industry, development of our e-learning programs, marketing opportunities, and many other critical initiatives including how to best help millennial advisors succeed in the industry and how to best serve millennial clients. The Task Force meets two times per year during the College’s Board of Trustee meeting.

Technology Executive and visionary business partner responsible for managed accounts (robo advisor) software solutions serving 1.5M participants with $58B assessments under management and fiduciary services for a total of 3M participants/institutions. Business unit encompassing 100+ employees. Build and manage relationships with clients and vendors’ C-level executives serving as technology advisor and partner for integration and business growth. Influential leadership for Architecture Office direction, establishing alignment & enterprise destination technology patterns, operating modelCreate vision and strategy to multi-skill software engineers, recharge the Scrum Agile transformation setting foundations for Scaled Agile, define quality strategy, accountability along with execution while aligning stakeholders to destination state architecture/stack. Determine phase approach aligning budget, resources structure/plan, and change management strategy for execution. Presented business and technology vision at Company meeting for audience of 2000+ employees globally

Technical accountable executive and business partner responsible for digital customer facing originations, decisioning, and servicing platforms. Influential leader in navigating across corporate technology landscape. Heads a team of 160 within software engineering teams encompassing directors, managers, architects, product managers, product owners, release train engineers, software and devOps engineers leveraging Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for software delivery. Successfully leads AWS (cloud) infrastructure using microservices API based architecture with You Build it You Own it model. Increase engineer excellence, transform monolithic to microservices architecture, created an 18 minute CICD pipeline from code-commit to production deployment using GitHub, Jenkins, Docker.Create strategy, lead execution, drive migration of Version One to JIRA and Confluence leading to more collaborative and efficient teams.Influential leadership for large scale decisioning engine modernization from legacy to microservices opensource technology stack. Accomplished minimal viable product and post production release.Core leadership continuous improvement for microservices target architecture transformation, continuous integration and continuous delivery increasing quality and automation, and target state operation model. Culture leader for Diversity and Inclusion, Women in Technology Chicago lead

Provides strategic leadership, resourcing, and technical expertise for E-Commerce, Mobile, SOA web services, Portal, Peoplesoft HR, Peoplesoft Finance application solution architects and development teams. Partners with Business Solution Services team to ensure IT goals and deliverables are in close alignment with company vision and business strategy.Responsible for the full development life cycle of high quality enterprise business software, which includes solution architecture, SDLC oversight, development, and application deployment support.Championed and led adoption of AGILE development methodology and optimization. Championed and led execution for Mobile Strategy. Led strategy and execution for Continuous Integration for development teams across the enterprise.Led strategy and execution for Agile Development Tools suite enabling close collaboration for project scrum teams.

Provides strategic leadership, resourcing, and technical expertise for E-Commerce, Mobile, SOA web services, Portal, Peoplesoft HR, Peoplesoft Finance application solution architects and development teams. Partners with Business Solution Services team to ensure IT goals and deliverables are in close alignment with company vision and business strategy. Responsible for the full development life cycle of high quality enterprise business software, which includes solution architecture, SDLC oversight, development, and application deployment support.Championed strategy and led execution for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Strategy.Championed strategy and led execution for Portal Strategy.

Key Role in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Platform Transformation, Plus Standards, Governance, & Architectural LeadershipInter-Team Guidance - Leadership & Business Buy-In - On- / Offshore Team Collaboration - Conceptual & System DesignArchitecting SOA Foundations standards, guidelines, and policies required to enable new platform. Designed solutions for complex environments (Web Services, B2B Integration, and ESB integration) and impact across functional areas. Verified design documents, functionality, estimates, and testing deliverables against stringent quality standards and requirements.

Served as technology owner for enterprise service bus and integration on major SOA initiative, assisting to hire team members and delivering on aggressive commitments at #1 customer-owned health insurer in the US.Technical Direction, Team Building, Standards Development, & New Technology ImplementationsSDLC - Infrastructure Collaboration - Legacy-to-Future State Architecture - Project Estimates & Scope - Release PlanningLearned technology stack, and led new team to 100% on-time deployments, taking core role in project strategy, emerging technology usage, Integrated Channel Strategy Plan / Roadmaps, project estimating, resource allocations, release scheduling, and concurrent projects. Used Java / J2EE, Web Services, XML, Services Integration, Websphere Message Broker (WMB), and Datapower on SOA and ESB platforms. Supported ESB projects as Integration Domain Team and Advance The Business member. Managed Production Support rotations.

Held developer and lead roles at AMEX, Micron Technology, McDonalds, Pep Boys (clients), earning promotion from IT Specialist for work in application development with Application Innovation Services team on non-IBM technology.Systems Analysis, Development, Leadership, Design, Architecture, Documentation, & VerificationProduction & Development Support - SME & Stakeholder Collaboration - Team Training & Mentoring - Code AnalysisCustomer Satisfaction - Use Cases & Detail Design - Requirements - Defect Resolution - Offshore Collaboration