Responsibilities include:1 Budgeting and Forecasting 2 Partnerships with Tech Finance and Development Delivery Centers o Scoping new Project Portfolios/Roadmaps3 Supporting/Facilitating the Project Management Office on implementing new processes and metrics.4 Demand Management: Managed Project Pipeline, Solution Design activities facilitating cross functional design sessions, and Initiation.

Requirements Team Lead responsible for 5 streams of requirements gathering timelines supporting 4 separate business units.

Assisted individual clients on financial solutions to meet their goals.* Licensed through the Illinois Dept. of Insurance for Life & Annuities* Licensed through NASD for Illinois (Series 6 & Series 63)

Worked within Kemper Insurance Co. and Kemper Reinsurance Co.* Business Requirements gathering countrywide and Business Modeling * Database Modeling – Responsible for working with DBA’s to create the physical database model.* Development Use Cases – Using these artifacts and RUP as the guideline.* Iterative Development – Responsible for developing the approach to be used with Versata based on RUP, Enterprise guidelines, and project requirements. * Test Plans: unit, end user, and performance testing.----Site coordinator for North America (Home Office) in gathering international business requirements. Collaborated with international coordinators in London, Liege, Sydney, and Singapore on the consolidation of all business requirements for global process re-engineering and software selection.Researched and developed Request For Information (RFI) for software selection that encompassed international requirements and coordinated the international activities associated with vendor presentations and evaluations for single system implementation and consolidated business results.