I have thirty-six (36) years of insurance and IT consulting experience. During those years, I have worked in almost all types of insurance companies – group and individual health, group ancillary benefits, life & annuities, surety, along with personal and commercial lines carriers.The first eighteen (18) months of my insurance career was spent as an independent life insurance and annuities agent in the Pittsburgh, PA area. Leaving direct sales, I joined BISYS Insurance Services Employee Health Insurance Brokerage Division (AVP and Divisional Head) where I managed the company through significant growth and profit cycles over 10 years:1. Ramping up the company’s new annualized written premium from $10MM to $140MM in 10 years2. Increased net income from $100K to $5.5 MM per year. For twenty-two (22) years, I have worked as a business and IT consultant for the Property and Casualty & Health Insurance industries. In those years, I provided executive leadership in the areas of Program Management, Sales & Marketing along serving on the executive advisory board. I led clients through multi-phase, multi-year, multi-location and multi-country, enterprise-wide system replacement and business transformation projects - ranging in budget from $2-$20 MM projects.Combining all of these experiences has given me a strong working knowledge of all functions within an insurance company - from prospecting clients to executive leadership.I graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV with a Bachelors of Science in Marketing.Specialties: Contract negotiations, financial reporting and forecasting, sales and marketing, project and program management, managing offshore implementation teams, international project management, mentoring resources, delivering on highly complex and strategically imperative projects.