Brian Haggerty Email & Phone Number

Owatonna, Mn, Us

IS Director over all Infrastructure domains within Federated including Data Center ownership, networking, voice, storage, processing, Kubernetes, Mainframe, corporate hardware, Microsoft EA, data backups/recovery, CMDB, Site Reliability Engineering, Windows/Linux servers, etc... Also lead our PC Tech and Asset Management teams as IS-specific teams that keep our department running smoothly both within the physical employee hardware and the various corporate contracts/acquisition.*Manage a $20M+ annual budget of Infrastructure hardware/software to successfully run a $2.5B+ Insurance company efficiently and effectively.*Lead 6 Managers and 65+ indirect staff to maintain our high quality along with excellent corporate up-time.*Negotiates large vendor contracts with many partners/OEMs.

Owatonna, Mn, Us

Led a team of developers and analysts supporting our legacy Series III Policy Administration system along with a small analyst team aligned with replacing Series III.*Staff of 10-14 individuals with varying degrees of experience on various work items.*Took on the IS Program Management role of FedOne as an additional duty, which focused on releasing the first CRM (Microsoft Dynamics) at Federated and replacement of our Policy Administration System.*Worked through adversity and successfully implemented a corporate CRM and the first release of Guidewire's PolicyCenter.*Shifted the focus from waterfall to Scrum and advocated for a successful colocation of resources (IS, business, and vendor) in a dedicated space to efficiently accomplish the goals of the program.

Owatonna, Mn, Us

Led successful implementation on various large-scale projects within the IS department with collaboration/communication through our business partners and executive staff.*CAPS Dismantle - Replacing a monolithic legacy technology piece-by-piece via smaller projects.*CMS (Certificate Management System) - Built a system to handle Commercial Certificates of Insurance side-by-side with a vendor (CSC).*Led the Policy Administration software evaluation process with business partners and Executives.

Owatonna, Mn, Us

Support and enhancement requests within the Series III Policy Administration application.*Strong focus on Cobol programming accessing a DB2 SQL environment.*Worked primarily with the Commissions, Statistics, and Print aspects of the application.*Learned to work in a team environment and communicate cross-functionally to get smaller requests/projects completed.*Key resource when enhancing the system to handle a Federal terrorism endorsement, the addition of the Jewelry store line of business, improvements to facilitative reinsurance, the introduction of Captive insurance at Federated, and the usage of web services to access our backend data across various UI's.