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Jacksonville, Us

Northbrook, Il, Us

Vendor evaluation, implementation partner selection, hiring and onboarding new teams, diving into resolving challenges of standing up new CaaS environment and multiple other activities required to initiate a multi-year program to upgrade entire portfolio.

Northbrook, Il, Us

Stood up new cross-functional software development team responsible for full-stack JAVA development to reduce vendor dependence while restructuring legacy delivery team.• Improved development teams’ output by over 300% by driving accountability and empowering individual contributors • Flexed technical skills while initially building team, performing a variety of tasks and fulfilling multiple roles

New York, Ny, Us

Managed multiple software development teams responsible for insurance underwriting and group life administrative systems. Eliminated vendor dependence, simplified environment while reducing cost of ownership for applications.• Reduced annual operating cost by 52% while increasing internal capabilities by building a new team to address outside vendor dependence• Rearchitected J2EE underwriting application to resolve stability issues and address throughput issues to handle business volume• Ported legacy underwriting application from VB to JAVA resulting in 40% increased performance and 15% ongoing cost savings introducing over 420K lines of new code that did not require any follow-up bug fix releases• Consolidated multiple in-house underwriting applications to a single SaaS implementation while working with a vendor to build out a cloud environment to host SaaS solution• Transformed a team that was the bottleneck for their business unit into a team whose biggest challenge was keeping the pipeline full after they increased their productivity by 55%• Innovation leader, led teams who were piloting SCRUM, TDD, and DevOps practices prior to any enterprise acceptance• Led 11 high performing agile teams supporting 4 major applications distributed across 5 US location and utilizing 2 separate off-shore vendors• Hired and mentored two IT managers to support teams increased responsibilities and growth• Worked closely with business leaders insuring that systematic capabilities were in place to meet business needs and maintained technical road-map that aligned with business direction

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

• Leader of Health and Welfare information technology division of 30 employees with an operational budget of $5M+ • Responsible for ensuring technology was appropriately used to make the business more efficient and effective• Led and mentored IT management team focusing on strengthening credibility with business partners• Developed reputation with business partners for delivering releases on time and on budget with minimal rework required• Significant improvements for all Six Sigma Metrics despite a significant reduction in staff • Member of the Health and Welfare and Defined Benefits business unit’s executive leadership team representing IT where I was able to establish and maintain strong working relationships

Amsterdam Zuidoost, Nl

• Working manager of the product architecture team responsible for re-engineering the Health and Welfare application with primary focus on reducing implementation and on-going support costs• Learned agile and then trained teams for a product re-engineering project I led which was company’s first introduction to Agile. • ScrumMaster for initial foray into Agile for product re-engineering initiative that involved over thirty team members across multiple business units • Employed modified SCRUM project methodology and ASP to deliver multiple production prototypes to refine final requirements while providing immediate value to the business• Led and managed team of six application architects

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• Department head of nine IT project managers responsible for oversight of approximately 70 IT professionals• Responsible for the Health and Welfare product via the following roles: IT product owner, consultant to business, and new product development• Oversaw the project coordination across IT to ensure that all Health and Welfare initiatives were properly scheduled and resourced• Coordinate activities within IT to size potential new project activity and develop resource plans and delivery schedules for client change orders and internal project commitments• Facilitated risk-assessments, as appropriate, to create additional focus and attention on high risk factors that could negatively impact clients or the H&W standard product• Responsible for IT pricing of multi-million-dollar new business implementations

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