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Chicago, Il

Accountable for all business applications that administered to 15M members for a $52B organization. Facilitated application strategy, organization design, process development, and overall transition to a new IT operating model. Utilized extensive sourcing and a centralized delivery center model with distributed business area portfolio support.Saved $X0M annually by defining and managing the sourcing of 80% of the application portfolio consolidating vendors to a couple sourcing partners.Decreased development cost while increasing systems quality by creating a new organizational model utilizing a centralized global delivery center.Re-structured full time employee responsibilities increasing their value by launching a new support and delivery model that utilized employees in customer facing, strategic roles while leveraging consolidated, large scale, offshore partners for development and commodity roles.

Chicago, Il

Oversaw $110M core budget, a $500M project budget for business improvement, and 2,000 associates focused on support and development of all systems and projects, including the project lifecycle from inception, design, code, test, implementation, and support.Served as a subject matter expert and drove health care policies for Health Care Exchange with CMS, AHIP, BCA, and States / Federal Government.Achieved #1 in US in Retail Exchange sales with 1M members sold by delivering a $X00M multi-year ACA project (Obama Care), with 1,500+ employees / contractors. Consolidated and integrated subsidiary retail organizations and systems as part of this initiative.

Chicago, Il

Divisional Senior Vice President and Chief Application Office (2008 – 2011)Oversaw $75M core budget, a $200M project budget, and 1,000 associates who supported and developed all systems and projects. Defined the new CAO role and interacted across IT and the business. Accountable for HCSC’s IT merger and acquisition activities.Established new company vision to enhance the business by partnering with senior management on the strategy, development, and implementation of Mobile, Web, and Retail.Reduced recovery time, from days to hours, and eliminated external resources by insourcing Disaster Recovery of major systems and applications.Collaborated on the design and construction of 2 Tier 4 Data Centers.Eliminated redundant system capabilities by evergreening and consolidating 300 applications usedacross market segments, group, government and retail to a single platform. This initiative freed up staff for new development projects.

Responsible for a $50M core budget supporting major core systems that included Claims, Membership, Billing, Provider, Producer, Web, and EIVR processing. Accountable for all system activities including requirements, design, coding, testing, implementation, and production support with seven direct reports.