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Hartford, Ct, Us

Reading, Ma, Us

Reading, Ma, Us

Hartford, Ct, Us

Directed Data Engineering team for enterprise Sales & Distribution; staff of 12 (direct employees and vendor partners), budget of $2M.• Collaborated with technical partners and business users from all 5 enterprise business segments to improve speed, accuracy, and availability of sales data, driving sales activities and improved insights

Hartford, Ct, Us

Program management and delivery for Group Benefits Data; 6 direct reports including Data Engineers and Scrum Masters.• Led multiple data-related initiatives within the Aetna Group Benefits Integration, including Data Separation program to bring critical historical data from 15+ core systems from Aetna to The Hartford, ensuring business continuity and meeting 3-year deadline• Coached 6 data delivery teams in agile practices as department adopted Scrum and SAFe• Drove workforce strategy for department to balance employee/vendor ratio; led hiring effort for 7 employees (Data Engineers, Business Data Analysts)• Initiated Kanban as a leadership team practice, increasing throughput and transparency while modeling agile behaviors

Hartford, Ct, Us

Coached software development teams to operate in Scrum and SAFe, with focus on Small Commercial (SC). Taught company-wide training classes in Scrum and User Story Development.• Coached teams in SC Digital Modernization Program, recognized as first multi-million dollar and multi-year program in The Hartford to implement and prove speed-to-market benefits of SAFe and Agile Release Trains• Created User Story Workshop to train teams how to adapt user stories to specific domains; provided training to 25+ Scrum teams

Hartford, Ct, Us

Managed Data Warehouse and Information Management projects for Group Benefits division, with project budgets ranging from $1M -$4M, through complete development and implementation life cycles• Served as Scrum Master for agile development team on a multi-year effort to enhance actuarial pricing data and analytical rating capabilities - one of first projects in division to use Scrum. Taught team to structure and deliver incremental releases to accelerate business value• Facilitated proactive decision-making in Claims department through delivery of unstructured data from Claims system to predictive models and creation of a rules engine to drive actions based on output of models;, resulting in savings > $6M in first year of operation

Planned and managed application development projects for Personal Lines and Surety divisions of $4B insurance company, with project teams of 8-30 people and project budgets from $500,000 to $3M.• Facilitated sales growth and streamlined workflow for independent agents in 18 states by leading 16-month project to redesign Personal Lines point-of-sale (POS) user interface• Turned around troubled $1M Surety Point-Of-Sale upgrade project. Brought project back on track and re-established confidence with business unit. Delivered upgrade to integrate with data warehouse systems and provide operational reporting• Earned Delivery Excellence Award and nominated for Presidential Service Award for managing operational components of new business acquisition for Surety division. Planned and coordinated employee moves, office moves, data migrations, training, and agency activations

New York, New York, Us

• Directed $1M project to perform critical upgrades to Pfizer Global R&D's Records Management System• Negotiated scope with stakeholders in US and UK across 7 time zones