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Medfield, Ma, Us

Quincy, Ma, Us

Member of Arbella's Executive Leadership team with responsibilities for Application Development, Information Security, and Infrastructure Services. Leading team of 150 including 2 Assistant Vice Presidents, 1 Director and a budget of $40M.

Boston, Ma, Us

Member of the Bank’s Executive Committee with responsibilities for Information Technology, Information Security, Data & Analytics, Cash Services, and Wholesale Payments. Member of the Federal Reserve System’s (FRS) Technology Delivery Leadership Committee and System wide leader for the Federal Reserve’s Advancing Hybrid Work and Collaboration working group. Led team of 160 including 3 Vice Presidents, 2 Assistant Vice Presidents, 2 Directors, and a budget of $30M.

Quincy, Ma, Us

Quincy, Ma, Us

Member of the IT Senior Management team reporting directly to Arbella's CIO. Leading all application development and production support areas of IT to deliver technology solutions to all Arbella business units. Responsible for team of 92 including 1 Director, 8 managers and a budget of $18M. Additional responsibilities include Vendor Management, Strategy & Architecture, and Project Management. - Key member of Digital Strategy team focused on establishing mobile application approach while identifying opportunities for increasing digital engagement of customers and agent partners.- Overseeing application development efforts for Arbella Omni-Channel Program. Program is focused on expanding communication channels for customers and agents in addition to driving consistency in customer service delivery.- Leading Agile Transformation within IT and Business units to reduce delivery timelines, increase solution quality, and improve solution responsiveness to business needs.- Directing Arbella Data Strategy Program with focus on improving Data Governance, increasing analytics capabilities, and creating a more extensible data architecture. Led implementation of Arbella Data Lake built on Cloudera, Talend, and multiple open-source Big Data technologies.- Leading working group that engages all AVPs at Arbella in ongoing business planning and enterprise wide coordination activities.- Driving ongoing effort to connect Arbella with Boston startup and venture capital community to initiate exploration of potential partnerships.- Implemented new IT wide portfolio prioritization approach to drive increased focus on critical business priorities and improve resource alignment. Led implementation of Project Portfolio Management solution (Planview.). - Successfully led definition of organizational structure and rollout plan for new Application Development organization.

Quincy, Ma, Us

Member of the IT Senior Management team reporting directly to Arbella's CIO. Responsible for team of 45 including 4 managers and a budget of $10M. Directing application development and portfolio management for Customer & Agent systems, Information Management, and Shared Technologies. Leading Project Management Office, Continuous Improvement, and Enterprise Architecture. Responsible for Vendor Management, Strategy, and Financial Management within portfolio while providing leadership across IT organization.- Led product selection and implementation of Workday HCM, Payroll, and Financials. Utilized strong vendor management and business partnership to Implement full Workday suite in 7 months replacing 19 applications and 25+ manual integrations.- Directed implementation of Arbella’s first online consumer portal - MyArbella.com - exceeding user adoption estimates by 100%+ in first year.- Designed and led rollout of new, business aligned, Application Development organization resulting in increased resource mobility and a streamlined IT management structure.- Oversaw delivery of Next Generation Personal Auto product technology that enabled Arbella to reverse market losses and achieve exposure growth of 75% through innovative use of legacy technologies.- Led delivery of technology for Arbella Service Center enabling premium under service to exceed targets by 50% utilizing CRM technology and agile development methods.- Invited to present at Workday 2016 Global Sales Kickoff sharing perspective of IT Executive and providing thought leadership to the entire Workday global sales force (1200+ sales professionals). Also featured in an interview on the Workday Community Voices blog.- Conducted 2 webinars for the CIO Executive Council “Competing with Big Tech to Recruit for Your IT Operation” and “Managing a Multi-Generational IT Workforce.”

Quincy, Ma, Us

Responsible for application development and portfolio management for Consumer and Agent systems, Information Management, and Enterprise Architecture. Managed full time staff of 25 including 2 managers as well as multiple vendor engagements for staff augmentation and full project delivery.- Led statistical reporting rewrite initiative designing and implementing a scalable and extensible architecture to support major Commercial Lines products. Gained executive buy in to change original direction and fund initiative.- Established IT Entry Level Hiring program focused on millennial college hires. Program became template for organization wide entry level hiring program and enabled IT to increase capacity while reducing average cost per employee.- Defined new Enterprise Architecture organization driving maturity into application and infrastructure development through the use of standards, communication of principles, and ongoing review.- Led effort with Corporate Finance team to gain executive approval and funding for a new ERP system to replace multiple legacy vendor and MS Office based solutions. Built business case, financial justification, and presented materials to Executive team.

Boston, Ma, Us

Managed planning, initiation and project startup for the Next Generation Underwriting program, a multi-year, multi-million dollar operational improvement and platform consolidation effort focused on the Liberty Mutual Commercial Lines Underwriting operation. - Partnered with strategic consulting team to clarify business strategy after re-organization and to align the program to operational improvement objectives- Led platform architecture definition and BPMS product selection efforts resulting in clear definition of platform technical vision and acquisition of world class software product to manage user experience- Worked across Commercial Lines division to gain customer buy in and support for program priorities- In partnership with business counterpart, visited underwriting field offices to communicate program goals and gather end user requirements and priorities- Collaborated with business partner to create program roadmap defining a 5 year platform vision, delivery schedule, and annual cost estimates- Managed highly matrixed, multi-site team spread across multiple US offices, Northern Ireland, and India- Managed $5M annual budget covering employee, vendor and software costs

Boston, Ma, Us

Managed team of 20+ full time and internal vendor resources to support a large, complex portfolio of software development and application support projects for the Commercial Property division of Liberty Mutual Commercial Lines.- Oversaw delivery of Equipment Breakdown program resulting in delivery of Underwriting, Claims, and Risk Engineering solutions to meet aggressive business plan for new organization- Executed program management responsibilities for a new Commercial Property Risk Engineering Workstation providing improved data capture, enhanced analytics, and enabling retirement of multiple legacy systems- Provided program management oversight on country wide rollout of the LM Property Workstation including direct end user training and onboarding support during the rollout period- Designed and implemented a revised software development process using Lean Six Sigma techniques resulting in the elimination of critical defects discovered after production deployment of the LMPW platform- Reduced annual maintenance costs by 50% over 3 years through process and resource management improvement initiatives

Boston, Ma, Us

As Project Manager, delivered multiple strategic releases of a Commercial Lines Property Underwriting Platform. Solution resulted in industry leading policy production capabilities supporting all aspects of a Commercial Property policy lifecycle. - Managed all aspects of software development lifecycle including requirements definition, system design, construction, testing and implementation.- Introduced Scrum development methodology to improve quality, agility, and transparency on releases of this core underwriting platform.- Managed policy rating and premium calculation release improving accuracy of premium calculations and reducing policy turnaround time from 60-90 days to 30 days or less.- Developed strong customer partnerships and worked closely with Senior Management to set project priorities.- Managed multi-site team coordinating with Enterprise IT and Infrastructure departments to ensure project dependencies were met inline with project schedule.- Executed field office visits and engaged end users to gather and validate system requirements and design.

Boston, Ma, Us

As the Database & ETL team lead on a Commercial Lines Property Underwriting Platform development project, was responsible for project management, resource allocation, and employee development. Member of the project technical leadership team with continued responsibilities for database modeling, SQL query development, and ETL programming. Introduced ETL development and query design standards to drive consistency in team deliverables. Assisted initiative project manager with master project plan definition and management.

Boston, Ma, Us

In March of 2003 joined a project team focused on the delivery of a new Commercial Lines Property Underwriting platform. Worked collaboratively with web development team with primary focus on application database design, administration, SQL query development, and ETL programming. From June 2002 through March of 2003 continued work as a data warehouse developer on a Personal Lines Data Warehouse project. Expanded data warehouse administration and development responsibilities including ETL development with Informatica as well as complex query development in SQL. Designed and developed data warehouse administration programs using Unix and Perl. Investigated and analyzed database tuning issues with IBM DB2 UDB database including memory analysis, database configuration settings, and query optimization.

Boston, Ma, Us

Joined the Personal Lines Information Management team in January of 2002 as a Software Engineer working as a developer on an enterprise data warehouse development initiative. Primary focus was on data warehouse development, administration, and production support. From June 2000 through January of 2002: Hired into Liberty Mutual's Technical Development Program focused on developing the next generation of leaders for the Information Technology department. As part of this program, completed a rotation as a business analyst working in a new Integrated Disability Management department and served as the data architecture lead on a software development project for Structured Settlements group within Liberty Life Assurance Company.

Masters Of Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General

Professional Development In Leadership, Business, Technology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science