Driven, and proven Information Technology Director with extensive experience in People Management, Project Management, Application/Asset Ownership, and Production Support. Expertise in managing projects and driving for results, developing and retaining talent, and the ability to execute and implement process. Customer focused and a proven ability to bridge technology and business goals to provide productive and efficient solutions. Demonstrated success in leading and mentoring associates and teams across many different functional areas. Practical experience across many different functional areas within the business and information technology.Excellent communicator, with emphasis on building strong relationships. Financially disciplined, and proven experience managing multiple operational and project budgets. Quick learner that rapidly adapts to emerging technologies. Passionate about people management and personnel development, and works to get the most out of all team members.Served as the Claims Application Owner for our Guidewire ClaimCenter instance. Supporting the P&C Personal and Commercial lines Claims and Claims processes. Technologies utilized include Guidewire, JAVA, ETL (Informatica), Batch, Kafka, AWS, Microservices, Kubernetes, and APIs.

Served as application owner of the Data Services and FIL application teams. I was accountable for the execution and management of the Financial Close process from an IT standpoint. I was also the IT partner for all of our Nationwide Realty & SMS/Vendor Management business applications. Managed design, development, and support of our financial back office environment, Teradata Data Warehouse, Reference Data application, and our Finance Integration Layer application. These applications and technologies are responsible for moving our financial data around within the Finance IT application suite. Technologies include: Informatica (ETL), JAVA, Websphere, Teradata, Oracle, iLOG, Emptoris, Peoplefluent, & Field Glass.

Performed several different managerial roles across IT departments including Finance IT, Pricing, Delivery Services, and I-Net. Served as an application owner, process owner, delivery executive, production assurance owner, and run manager. Managed 8-15 direct reports and budgets between $2M-$10M. Established and executed ITSM processes, led delivery projects and programs, managed development efforts through the software development life cycle, and coached/mentored associates.

Served as a systems and programming project lead. Served as a project lead and business analyst throughout P&C IT departments at Nationwide. Developed online help content, coordinated and led releases, developed training material, gathered requirements, created a web support center, led projects, developed support and outage processes, and implemented infrastructure change calendars.