Robert Strain Email & Phone Number

Erie, Pa, Us

Lead Data Modeler for Personal Lines Technology. Mentoring and coaching data analysts in portfolio. Managing resource project assignments. Scoping and planning data work efforts. Designing and development of cross system data translations. Executing and aligning cross team collaboration in a shared service model within an Agile portfolio. Product Owner of Personal Lines Technology Shared Services, consisting of the Data Architecture, Electronic Data Interchange, Integration Services, and Extreme Print teams.

Software Engineer on agile working team, developing modern full stack web app systems using C# and .Net development for enhancing personal lines business functions for our agents.Also a stretch assignment working on requirement writing and prioritization for enhancements and large projects. Scrum Master experience identifying and escalating roadblocks to management. Also facilitating daily scrums, backlog refinement sessions, and sprint retrospectives.

Erie, Pennsylvania

Part of the IT Apprentice program allowing 6 month rotations between the various families and disciplines of IT at Erie Insurance. Roles consisting of software engineering and analysis. Rotations in:- Enterprise Architecture working on establishing design and architecture patterns for ERIE’s mobile strategy, including development of a customer facing mobile application POC. - Personal Lines IT working with Mendix to rapidly develop web based cloud hosted solutions on a four person cross functional team, in a condensed six month time frame, SDLC project to replace functionality in legacy applications. - Innovation working with IBM Watson, Google Assistant, photo analytics, chatbot functionality, and system architecture. - Performance Engineering & Testing using HP Performance Center and AppDynamics to ensure quality and responsiveness for software applications.

Root Cause Analysis on coding and process errors. Business Intelligence and Data Analysis reporting for staffing and future decision making. Business Process Analysis for project requirements and service tickets. VBA & Visual Basic development for mainframe automation. COBOL / JCL development for mainframe packages.