- Lead Kemper Auto Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and ContactCenter teams along with Rating.

Responsibility for enterprise software engineering group for the American Access Group family of companies. This included Leadership, Strategy, Operational Execution and Support Activities of the enterprise systems.Built an organization of 20+ employees made up of software engineers, designers, business analysts, quality analysts and application architects, which maintained ownership and Level 2/3 support of systems responsible for a 350+% increase in revenue over the past 6 years.Collaborated with executive management team to define overall SDLC for company to include Agile SCRUM and Kanban style of project management, as well as, Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) methods of development, which reduced project lead times by over 70% and allowed changes to get to market faster, allowing the company to surpass $500M in revenue.Implemented best practice DevOps methodologies that included GIT version control, along with unit testing and continuous integration & delivery (CI/CD) utilizing Jenkins and Octopus Deploy to systematically and continuously build and deploy code throughout the environments. This reduced defects by over 80% and allowed us to cut our deployment process by over 50% in just over 3 months.Responsible for organizational shift from a monolithic core insurance application to a micro service-oriented architecture (SOA), which reduced development time by 30%, as well as created a more scalable product and stabilized system outages.Researched, evangelized, and implemented best in breed development tools for the group. Led multiple cloud hosting provider migrations including SS&C AWD hosting initiative, as well as, Microsoft Azure services to build a webhook framework to both push and consume events from our systems and external vendors such as Docusign, OneSpan, Twilio, SendGrid and Stripe

Responsibility for organizational information technology direction and management, including P&L responsibility for 4 of the associations 5 largest revenue generating programs comprising $5 million in revenue. - Duties encompassed Organizational Technology Leadership and Direction including Staff Direction & Management, Project and Program Management, Application Development Management, Hardware Infrastructure and Architecture, Budgeting, and Vendor Negotiations.- Implemented cloud computing strategy which saw the consolidation of numerous physical servers and hardware, as well as locations to a hosted cloud model which saved the company over $100K the first year. Project included moving all physical resources to headquarter office in Chicago with very minimal downtime to staff and customers.- Implemented Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan for all mission critical IT resources.- Managed organization network including all LAN and WAN resources.- Managed cloud-based VOIP system through RingCentral. Worked with vendors to implement additional bandwidth circuits in the headquarters.- Implemented SSL and IPSec Virtual Private Network (VPN) into the headquarters office, to allow remote workers access to secure resources.- Worked with staff and members to create a more consistent, higher margin pricing model for IT related non-dues revenue programs. - Implemented Asset Management system to track and manage organizations assets through technology.

Served as interim CEO with responsibility for overall organizational operations and leadership during transition between leadership. - Reporting directly to the Board of Directors, with responsibility for all organizational management including accounting, meeting planning, staff management and orchestration of transition plan with the Board of Directors. - Proposed and implemented new organizational benefit structure to align strategic goals with the organizations fiscal realities.- Presented at Mid-Year and Leadership conferences to both the executive committee and the board of directors as a whole.

Responsible for full life cycle critical business application development, Served as Lead Developer and Architect on numerous “Best in Breed” internal web applications and intranet sites within the organizations corporate IT Development group.

Responsible for IT strategy, budgeting, and implementation, as well as digital sourcing of candidates for this mid-sized staffing firm focusing on light industrial and electronics manufacturing.

Responsible for project coordination, resource allocation & budget forecasting for RF Engineering group working on the Sprint PCS rollout.