Vice President Professional Services / General Manager
The Leverage Group / A Pmsc Company
Glastonbury, Ct
Software and Professional Services company supporting the life insurance industry with policy administration system and agent portal products, along with system implementation, enhancement, maintenance, integration, conversion, consulting and training services.- Acquired the largest amount of annual professional services revenue ($17 million) in this private company's history, through the development of Account Management, Consulting and Training practices and in conjunction with extremely successful initiative delivery. This included consulting with life insurance carrier clients to understand their business strategy and tactical business initiatives and then developing and selling proposals for implementing customized enhancements.- Achieved $30 million of professional services and maintenance annual revenue, with a 16% annual operating margin after being acquired, utilizing similar Account Management and delivery programs which resulted in record setting services revenue acquisition when a private company.- Engineered a dramatic turnaround in client satisfaction through the design and implementation of more efficient project delivery and staff utilization processes and controls, along with the development of Consulting, Training and Account Management practices- Led successful customized life insurance company policy administration system implementations, delivery of client specific enhancements, integrations with carrier back-office administration and financial systems, and policy conversions from existing policy administration systems- Provided PMO leadership by creating project management policies, while mentoring Project Managers- Oversaw effective IT infrastructure and software release operations- Managed on-shore vendor relationships and contract negotiations- Oversaw Division Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Facilities, and general office administrative operations