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West Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Helping with various technology initiatives.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Leading Business Intelligence transformation in conjunction with enterprise system upgrade.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Led migration of claims processing from legacy system to new system for key segment of the business.
• Led all aspects of project from analysis, design, configuration, development, and testing.
• Project involved multiple technical platforms include Mainframe, Unix, Internet and Data Warehouse deliverables.
• Managed and coordinated collaboration between three vendors and two internal company teams to complete the delivery.

West Des Moines, IA

• Helped lead transformation of Actuarial Department to be ready for company to go public.
• Led IT improvements needed to provide adequate Actuarial data needed for firm to go public.
• Coordinated an agile/iterative process with the development team to quickly meet Actuarial data needs as they were discovered.
• Led other related efforts including migration of modeling software to new platform, FAS 133 Partial Withdrawals Process Remediation, Asset Modeling Transition, Cash Flow Testing Transition.
• Led Efforts to Implement New Agency System for Organization.
• Responsible for QA effort including two vendor efforts with off shore teams and UAT effort which involved cross departmental coordination.

• Led migration to Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Solution.
• Managed migration of company Lotus Notes e-mail system to Exchange in the cloud.
• Managed migration of Lotus Same Time to Microsoft Lync in the cloud.
• Managed upgrade to Office 2013 across company.
• Responsible for managing relationship with third party integrator.
• Stood up service desk augmentation to support migration.

• Managed ramp up of team to support multiple parallel initiatives. Initiatives involved multiple releases of new software using both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Improved organizational effectiveness by facilitating the selection and implementation of new workflow tool on time, on budget, and with greater scope of delivery than originally anticipated.
• Supported organizational objectives by transforming the department to align with the strategic IT delivery model.
• Supported organizational objectives by assuming responsibility for support of additional applications allowing other teams to focus on key deliverables.
• Responsible for 2nd tier support for a variety of customer service and processing applications. Improved efficiency of operation by adding the number of supported applications while maintaining the size of support team.

Managed various IT teams and projects.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business

Working on MBA

A. A. S., Computer Programming

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) (Earned), Biblical Studies