John L. Email & Phone Number

London, England, GB

London Area, United Kingdom

IT Domain Owner for London Market (Open Market Underwriting, Delegated Authority, Operations and Exposure Management)

London, United Kingdom

• Founded the CoE, growing the team from 4 staff to 26 at its peak. With stakeholders including the Head of Exposure Management, Chief Pricing Actuary & CUO, my responsibilities included:
• Managing end-to-end delivery/demand (business engagement/analysis, development, maintenance/support) across 30+ apps/functional areas including:o Portfolio modelled loss accumulation for Property and Cyber books using.
• Management of 3rd party suppliers and team/project budgetsKey Successes –
• Migrated business/systems to a new primary catastrophe model
• Played significant role in establishing near-shore technology centre in Canada and sourcing talent
• Delivered industry-leading capabilities around submission ingestion and automated catastrophe modelling which enabled underwriters to retrieve technical prices in near real-time with 10,000s broker submissions also.

• I managed the application tower for Modelling, Pricing, and Internet-based systems (15 staff) and deputised as head of the wider Development Operations function (circa-100 staff). My responsibilities included:
• Development, maintenance & support across BAU, small change and projects for 25 apps including:o Two in-house pricing/portfolio management applications for Property, Marine, Aviation, Casualty, Liability etc lines with.
• Chairing user groups & working with business application owners to prioritise & manage changes.
• Representing Development Operations within the Architecture Review Group with responsibility for approving solution designs and technical standards.
• Management of third-party suppliers & vendors, and management of the tower budget.
• Implementing best-practice & standards, including secure coding standards, project delivery frameworks & driving SDLC processes Key Successes –

London, United Kingdom

• Konetic was a specialist technology company (sold in 2016) providing SaaS-based eRecruitment solutions to leading HR orgs.I headed up the Product & Technology division and had responsibility for Software Development.
• Doubled the development team to meet demand whilst maintaining budgets by moving to a perm-staff base.
• Built up a dedicated System Testing function from scratch and introduced system testing processes and tools.
• Refined SDLC & introduced Agile SCRUM, securing buy-in from our customers to adopt this methodology.
• Vastly improved delivery and helped secure a ‘pioneering’ multi-million-pound contract in the NHS.
• Managed resource allocation and implemented dashboards to track project budgets and expenditure by client.Technology Stack: SQL 2012 /.NET 4.5 / TFS / MTM / ASP.NET / C# / SOAP & Web services / XML / IIS / PHP

Southend-on-Sea

• Hood Group is a third-party administrator of insurance products and policies. They have the pleasure of building services and systems for major insurers in the industry including Aviva, Hiscox, Santander, RSA, and.
• Grew the development team three-fold and delivered programmes of 150+ changes per year.
• Implemented new source-control, project / defect management software, SDLC and training programmes.
• Built a mature System Testing function of seven staff, all qualified to ISEB-standards, and drove forward Test Automation resulting in a 25% reduction in testing timescales and a substantial improvement in software.

Southend On Sea, United Kingdom

• In a more “hands-on” position, I led a team of six developers / DBAs to deliver development functions to the business. This role included personnel management of staff and reviews of their code. The team’s output.
• The development and maintenance of customer and broker-facing sales platforms (ASP.net with C#, AJAX, MVC)
• The integration of these into our back-office systems and third-party websites incl. MoneySupermarket.com
• The build of new insurance products, screens & letter templates onto our back-office system (SSP Sirius)
• The integration of our back-office system with third-party web applications (e.g., Hiscox Online)
• Data migrations from third parties and legacy systems e.g., UNIX (SSIS)Key Success - I designed and oversaw the implementation of a “modular” pricing engine which would allow a client to apply rate and underwriting.

Southend On Sea, United Kingdom

I managed the implementation of an off-the-shelf insurance back-office system (SSP’s ‘Sirius’) and the migration of existing data from the legacy UNIX system.

Southend On Sea, United Kingdom

Support of UNIX back-office system (internal users) & desktop quoting software (external brokers). I was the key liaison between the business and our vendor (Whitespace), so was also engaged in technical & functional specifications.

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Education record

Activities and Societies: Represented school and county (Essex) in chess for several years.