Joseph Steele Email & Phone Number

Hartford, Connecticut Area

• Served as a director accountable for a high-visibility mission-critical portfolio and leadership of a team comprised of more than 40 employees and contractors.
• Budget accountability for $6M+ achieving $1.1M in run rate savings in 2015.
• 2014 Hartford’s Chairman Award recipient.Currently leading an operational command center team of 40+ staff responsible for reducing business impacts to The Hartford’s most critical business applications. The team.

• Led property and casualty (P&C) wide technology standards committee accountable for establishing specific technology standards to be adhered to by business segments. Ratified and implemented over fifty technology.
• Member and vice-chairperson of the architecture review board (ARB) which is the governing board that influences design decisions for each major invest project. Reviewed designs, led review sessions and participated in.
• Led Innovation Lab team responsible for formulating initial mobile computing strategy for CTO partnering closely with business innovation team and Enterprise Architecture. The team also delivered a strategy for.
• Led the Commercial lines delivery architecture team accountable for delivering overall solution designs for major invest project initiatives. Partnered with segment architect and CIO to ensure that the team’s designs.
• Developed business case, plan and CBA for migration of numerous code asset management tools into a single Enterprise code asset management standard.

• Led Claims, Information Management/Data Warehouse, and Shared Service solution architects from 2006-2008. The team was accountable for overall solution design for invest projects. Partnered with CIOs and Lead Line of.
• Co-architected and supported the Personal Lines Client Policy Administration business function. Leveraged CSC’s Exceed framework to replace legacy mainframe client policy administration systems. Accountable for design.
• In 2001, accountable to lead a cross-functional team of data warehouse, data center, and infrastructure support teams to move our large scale data warehouse infrastructure from one data center site to another..
• From 2001-2004, led Enterprise Data Warehouse infrastructure architecture and support team. The team was accountable for establishing an Enterprise Business Intelligence platform. We implemented a SAS Business Objects.
• The team was also accountable for developing the strategy to migrate off legacy DEC Alpha TRU64 servers and storage arrays to HP Superdomes and EMC DMX storage including determining strategies for tiered storage.
• During 2001 through 2003, led the data warehouse DBA team. During this period, we evaluated what would be the strategic data warehouse database platform for the Hartford considering Oracle, Teradata, and Netezza.