Paul Durrah, Mba Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Director of information technology solutions for the entire policy life cycle of the Ironshore US and Bermuda North America Specialty Insurance operations. Manage digital operations in support of $3.3B cash reserves across the; financial lines, healthcare, environmental, Canada, Bermuda & Bermuda Agency, and GTS Americas segments.

Houston, Tx, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Managed and led team working closely with engineering functional stakeholders to drive execution of project/programs related to software and applications in the engineering project scheduling and requirements management area. Developed and implemented key projects/programs focused on improvement of GET’s engineering scheduling and customer requirements management capabilities. Assisted in delivering overall roadmap with respect to team’s Commercial Program Management, Finance, Sourcing, Project Management and Manufacturing systems application portfolio and aligning it to the overall PLM roadmap. • Functioned as Digital Technology leader for the delivery of critical engineering and engineering finance applications for (2) business P&L(s) with combined program spends over $3.5MM associated to productivity and cost savings of approximately 40,4802 hours year over year. • Executed the design analysis and validation of assigned work scope using systems engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product/program requirements across (37) individual third party and custom developed applications. • Led Agile implementation teams to ensure quality, completeness, and timeliness of solution delivery by providing technical direction at all stages of agile SDLC activities. • Created agile transformation process and engineering roadmap. Used Agile Methodology and actively participated in Scrum meetings to produce quality deliverables within time. • Worked to build an initiative-taking Agile team participating in daily scrum calls, effectively collaborate & work as a team. Lead AWS (Amazon Web Services) project for hosting GE application on Amazon cloud • Knowledge on AWS Cloud, Big Data Analytics, SaaS / PaaS platform and worked on continuous Integration for teams transforming to cloud platform.

San Ramon, California, Us

Manage and led team working closely with engineering functional stakeholders to drive execution of project/programs related to software and applications in the engineering project scheduling and requirements management area. Develop and implement key projects/programs focused on improvement of GET’s engineering scheduling and customer requirements management capabilities. Partner with Engineering functional stakeholders and work to build out application roadmap that aligns with Engineering team’s overall strategies. Create, own and communicate all project/program schedules and owning critical projects, driving them to completion. Assist in delivering overall roadmap with respect to team’s Commercial Program Management, Finance, Sourcing, Project Management and Manufacturing systems application portfolio and aligning it to the overall PLM roadmap. Manage GE employees including but not limited to: yearly reviews and summaries, coaching for change, and growing aspiring careers. Manage contractors, estimate efforts and schedules. • Act as Digital Technology leader for the delivery of critical engineering and engineering finance applications for (2) business P&L(s) with combined program spends over $3.5MM associated to productivity and cost savings of approximately 40,4802 hours year over year• Execute the design analysis and validation of assigned work scope using systems engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product/program requirements across (10) individual 3rd party and custom developed applications• Deliver comprehensive training and employee development processes to drive additional subject matter expertise, customer knowledge, and domain expertise in support of team performance goals• Manage day-to-day responsibilities of four project managers across three active vendor engagements. • Serve on the leadership team of the corporate affinity group, responsible for driving increased employee engagement

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Managed the delivery of innovative automate technology solutions for the portfolio of mobile and digital financial products that support funding transactions for mid-sized businesses. Responsible for providing information technology solutions to support business operations that include risk, compliance, legal, reporting, and funding decision. Led a team of 10 global technical business analyst resources responsible for the complete software development lifecycle and day-to-day support of critical business systems. Led quality review board to support requirements process rigor and business case reviews to improve overall capital allocation of project funding. Managed the develop of business analyst personnel to provide; focused IT business support, enhanced requirements gathering/documentation, use case and test case/scenario generation, regression/smoke testing, and post release business support. • Acted as Business solutions delivery leader on all enterprise information technology initiatives associated with the automated origination platform which contributes to $1.2B of new revenue each quarter• Managed the integration of customer data interfaces, 3rd party services & applications, with proprietary origination systems to drive lowest cost of ownership and productivity gains of +70%• Implement six sigma quality processes to drive a reduction in process/product defects

Schenectady, Ny, Us

Manage New Production Introduction (NPI) and New Technology Introduction (NTI), functioning as the Program Manager/ Scrum Master on Lifecycle Engineering projects, TIBCO Spotfire enabled data visualization for real-time operational monitoring & diagnostic, MATLAB analytics platform for data aggregation with SQL Server data warehouse, TIBCO Statistical Services for R-script business intelligence, and Big Data (Gia w/Pivotal HD) new technology introduction. Act as the single point of contact and provide leadership to cross-functional global teams of engineering and third party development partners in executing NPI projects to ensure customer satisfaction and business success with projects completed on time, within budget, and that meet technical and quality requirements • Managed full migration of the Monitoring & Diagnostic data center(s); (66) servers, 120 TBs of database storage, and (8) operation critical applications into new Infrastructure Shared Services (ISS) data center(s)• Delivered on program budgets of $1.5MM/year across multiple global IT and development teams with less than 1% variance from allocated funding while maintaining 97% Say/Do ratio• Managed the delivery of a Systems Engineering project plan for Lifecycle Engineering leadership to deliver $1B in Contractual Services Productivity• Delivered the realization of $12.444MM in productivity savings to the business as a result of reporting process simplification• Lead a team of highly skilled engineers, Information Technology (IT)/Information Management (IM), software developer, and 3rd party resources to deliver complete business solutions• Serve on the leadership team of the Dallas-Fort Worth AAF, responsible for delivering communications initiatives that have increased employee engagement, recruitment and professional development

Master'S Degree, Applied Systems Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Mangagement Technology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering Technology