 Spearheaded seamless transition as retained CIO during acquisition of Anchor Insurance by Western Insurance, ensuring continuity of operations and strategic technology alignment. Founded InsuredLink, a stealth-mode InsurTech consultancy, to provide ongoing strategic guidance and technology solutions to Western Insurance post-acquisition. Working on AI related products for the insurance industry.  Helping insurance carriers in product selection and implementation.

 Product Strategy: Resolved value-diluting products and engineering issues causing a downward spiral in business by building the company’s engineering and product divisions from the ground up—setting product strategy in alignment with business vision—and building core products and applications. 6-Month Turnaround: Mounted 30-day in-depth evaluation of root causes to long-standing issues and identified need for staff restructuring, replacement of products with one that offered flexible, industry-relevant functionality, and transitioned product development to internal software engineering, vetted vendors and developed cohesive product roadmap.  Transformed to Operations Excellence: Drove efficiencies by introducing an Agile project management process, resource management, capacity planning and software development lifecycle (SDLC).  Positioned company to capitalize on market growth by setting up an agile engineering and product development departments: Created product and engineering teams that became part of an interconnected ecosystem that supports business evolution and customer value creation—evidence in the launch of 12 new products within 5 years.  Equipped organization with next-gen tools: Cultivated a customer-centric culture through use of latest technology to meet customers’ needs of speed and quality through mobile technologies, analytics, enterprise architecture, and service-oriented methodologies.  Organizational restructuring: Cut down cost of idle staff, saving 33% in expenses for workforce while enhancing productivity and transforming product development and engineering.  Created a Cloud environment: Developed foundational architecture enabling competitive cloud business model. Migrated in-house infrastructure to cloud platforms (AWS and Azure). Optimized the overall cloud security posture along with the Cybersecurity and Identity Access Management (IAM) Team

 Product Roadmap and Strategy: Delivered on CEO mandate, with strategic planning and execution oversight of a 5-year product strategy to transform, modernize, and discipline a 100 - member software engineering organization. Exploited technology leadership latitude to strengthen the company's engineering resiliency through product-engineering alignment, cutting-edge technologies, and platforms that dismantled organizational and product silos. Established the company’s first Enterprise Architecture and Engineering group: Amassed and headed a team of ‘top tech minds’ as the Chief Architect, calibrating alignment between engineering capabilities, governance, and business strategy. Translated business goals into clear technology product roadmaps, best practices, and architecture frameworks.  Developed company’s first comprehensive product strategy, inclusive of immediate results and long-term impact: Developed product roadmap; presented to the executive-level board, accentuating ROI with minimal investment by transitioning from licensed and custom-built to open-source product solutions, which resulted in the following benefits: o Cost savings of 25% vs. licensed and custom-built development after implementation.o Speed, flexibility, agility, and efficiency with transformation completed 1/3 faster and reaped the commercialization benefit of product speed-to-market boost by 50%.  Led cloud and mobile products with a focus on mobile access to policyholders: Capitalized on the mobile upward trend and improved company reputation through cutting-edge technology and modernization.  Made company history through change management that harnessed engineering organization to business strategy: Headed complete transformation, refocusing organization on consistency and disciplined activities through several pioneering initiatives. Strengthened customer relationships by regaining trust through excellence in performance, project management, and quality output.

 Architecture and engineering leadership: Drove engineering teams of 50+ in the direction of product needs and values through strategic product and engineering leadership. Evangelized a work-life balance that sustained top performance, despite initiating around-the-clock software development model with distributed team engagement.  Engineering outsourcing and contract management: Engineered firmly rooted technology strategy and product roadmap that convinced executive management. Gained buy-in for a European-based and on-site software development model, which curtailed cost by $5M.  Maximized revenue growth potential: Led the architecture of an innovative commercial market products, leading to a $5B revenue surge. Designed and developed products in-house at only $20M cost versus $50M vendor-based applications. Drove multiple enterprise initiatives and Agile-based performance enhancements for global products, achieving 100% compliance: Focused on process optimization and design of a best-in-class architecture with implementation resulting in completion of high-profile products 3x ahead of schedule and 16% below forecasted budget.

Devised and developed strategic planning for legacy transformations, defining multiyear roadmaps aligned with the strategic business vision and directing platform conversions. Assisted leaders with gaining stakeholder buy-in, a financing program for multiyear execution. Contributed to high-profile initiatives, including leadership through the development of a long-term architecture for global compliance.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:■ Led the development and execution strategy inclusive of leading a 20- person team within a $75M budget, developing and tightening process, technology implementation, directing configuration of iPlanet Message Server for 20,000 users partnering with cross-functional product and engineering teams. Recognized for technical and business leadership with Search Guru Award.■ Delivered efficiency improvement through the introduction of discipline in adhering to standards, best practices, design patterns, and coding guidelines, which enabled the successful execution of new technology harnessed to business needs.■ Equipped company with the technical response necessary to capitalize 20% revenue growth through the successful competition of the company’s first eCommerce website, leveraging a competitive advantage.