Stephen Pickell Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri Area

As President and owner of CSP Group, purchased and restructured blue ice, inc. as a consulting organization in January 2000, focusing on process management, technical program management, and systems integration projects in the Insurance vertical.Steve has led successful insurance technology initiatives at market leaders including Fidelity Security Life/Forrest T. Jones, Security Benefit/se2, Scottish Re, Commonwealth, Hannover Life Re, John Hancock, and Transamerica/AEGON.

Kansas City, Missouri

Leading the transition of Carrier client conversions to FTJ's TPA Solutions including Life (WL, UL, VUL, Term), Annuities, Health, and Group Life/Disability business.Provided Project Governance for the conversion of multiple blocks of Life, Annuity, and Health business from the Third Party Administrator’s legacy Administration platform to the distributed GIAS System. Implementing Agile Project Management, Executive Reporting, and Resource Planning for the initiative to help Senior Leadership accelerate their modernization roadmap.

Topeka, Kansas

Program Manager for the life and annuity insurance solutions administrator. Launched a new client’s deferred annuity product utilizing fully automated underwriting with illustrations and eApplications. Managed the conversions of blocks of fixed indexed annuity products and payout contracts to the se2 administration platforms. Provided support for the selection and implementation of a new Professional Services Automation Tool.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Integrated Perceptive Software’s ImageNow enterprise content management (ECM) solution into the specialty insurance provider's operations. Provided guidance in the selection, planning, and implementation of image and workflow processing into the Administration Departments of the local Kansas City underwriting company.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Project Consultant for the oversight and project management support of a feasibility study and selection of a vendor to provide third party administration services for Scottish Re's traditional life reinsurance business.

Greater Boston Area

Provided project management support and oversight of the 2008, $1.6M IT budget for the company’s outsourced Administration of Life Annuity business with processing partner.

Project Manager for the development and implementation of a Reinsurance Underwriting System to support Facultative cases for the U.S. based operations.

Project consultant for the validation of the conversion process of Boston’s TAI V1.10 system to a customized V2.3 to be maintained in Toronto.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Project Consultant for one of the world's leading life insurance and financial services organizations. Responsible for integrating a vendor selected Life Reinsurance product to replace multiple legacy systems. Coordinated business, technology, and vendor resources through the successful implementation of a customized package solution.

Founder, responsible for the direction and management of the business systems development and software reseller specializing in automated tools for enterprise reengineering. Developed partnerships with industry leading hardware, software, and consulting organizations including; Logic Works, PLATINUM Technologies, Computer Associates, Ascend, Attachmate, Grant Thornton, Black & Veatch, and Microsoft.

Responsible for providing a consultative relationship with internal clients to plan, prioritize, and manage the design of business systems solutions for the support of the local Sprint service company staff.

Overland Park, Kansas

Coordinated all facets of end user computing including needs analysis, procurement, education, systems design, implementation, and support for the leader in commercial automobile dealership insurance; Universal Underwriters.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Statistical research and information analyst for the national headquarters of the family practice medical association. Responsible for systems support and application development in a multi-platform systems environment.

Bs, Economics/Computer Science

As, Architecture/Construction Technology