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• Help shape and refine the organizations data strategy and vision, define the technology roadmap for data, and ensure that IT initiatives are aligned with the data strategy
• Progress digital transformation strategy by enabling the build of digital platform and architecture
• Member of both the Chief Data & Analytics Officer leadership team and Chief Technology Officer leadership team
• Communicate with AXA XL C-suite and executive level management, AXA Group, impacted stakeholders, and broader community of architects regarding potential benefits, costs, and risks of new IT projects, technologies, and.
• Built a data architecture capability to support all of AXA XL, averaging approximately 20 concurrent initiatives of various sizes
• Accountable for a global team of architects that span four countries and cover data architecture, solution architecture, cloud architecture, and enterprise architecture for problems in the data domain

• Managed the Center of Excellence (CoE) for Data Architecture in the newly formed enterprise data organization at XL Catlin
• Accountable for all architecture and design for $75 million enterprise data program which drove foundational, strategic, and disruptive solutions, and was comprised of 18+ workstreams supporting all functional areas.
• Design of strategic data and analytics platform that encompassed BI & Analytics, Data Integration, Master Data Management, and Metadata Management that provides a single source of truth for data with reusable data.
• Integration of XL Catlin with AXA CS and AXA Art to provide combined data for new company

• Proposed and stood up the Center of Excellence (CoE) for Data Architecture in the newly formed enterprise data organization at XL Catlin
• Accountable for all architecture and design for $75 million enterprise data program which drove foundational, strategic and disruptive solutions, and was comprised of 18+ workstreams supporting all functional areas.
• Design of strategic data and analytics platform that encompassed BI & Analytics, Data Integration, Master Data Management, and Metadata Management that provides a single source of truth for data with reusable data.
• Led the selection of public cloud provider and the first public cloud deployment at XL Catlin
• Enable a competitive advantage by having a platform that is compliant by nature, not constrained by compliance, with the flexibility to evolve over time

• IT manager accountable for the Data Pillar of the Enterprise Financial Architecture (EFA) program - an enterprise-wide, multi-year, $100 million investment to standardize the financial processing of XL Group, increase.
• Develop budget for the IT Data Pillar of the EFA program and manage execution within that budget
• Consolidated reference data and master data management initiatives and formed a Master Data Management (MDM) Center of Excellence that built and supported the multi-domain MDM at the center of the Enterprise Data.
• Integration of XL Group with Catlin Insurance to provide combined data for new company

• The Enterprise Management Information (EMI) program was an enterprise-wide, multi-year, $100 million investment designed to provide leading management information capabilities for analytics, distribution, risk/capital.
• Recruited, interviewed, and onboarded resources to support 3 concurrent projects.
• Developed deliverable dependency diagram and RACI with architecture review checkpoints.
• Established standards documentation for data architecture, modeling, and cubes.
• Established MDM principles and architecture, and supported the expansion of MDM into an enterprise solution integrated with governance and remediation processes.
• Performed MDM vendor tool selection. Leveraged existing in-house tools and licenses (Microsoft MDS, IBM MDM, Oracle DRM) with a custom built hub, resulting in considerable cost savings.

• I was tasked with managing a team of 30+ developers and working with 25+ technicians, in 9 locations across 5 time zones, to solve one of XL Insurance's most difficult and challenging problems: overhauling the.
• Decommissioned 55 servers & 60 TB of storage in vendor data center in Switzerland and moved the IDW and dependent financial processing applications to a different vendor data center in the US.
• Researched and acquired the infrastructure required to support performance and growth objectives.
• Reduced server footprint in data center by better leveraging virtual servers.
• Upgraded all database platforms from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008, re-wrote all DTS data flows in SSIS, and upgraded Informatica 8.6.1 from 32 bit to 64 bit.
• Re-architected the environment layout and data flow.

• The Insurance Data Warehouse (IDW) was the source of management and operational reporting of conformed and enriched data across a multitude of XL Insurance’s transactional systems.
• Determined the technical project approach, staffing, roles, and schedule.
• Mentored the technical team in design, process, solutions, and procedures/standards.
• Cataloged existing reports, identified report owners, and established SLA's with the business.
• Put in place source control, and created an environment for multi-team concurrent development.
• Motivated team members and facilitated the creation of a high performance team.

• The Underwriting WorkStation (300 users) and Roundtable (200 users) were both composite, n-tier applications with custom built.Net front end and web service layers and a SQL Server back end that integrated with vendor.
• Managed a team of 6 resources using agile techniques.
• Conducted design and code reviews, and operational and production readiness reviews.
• 12 functional, non-bug-fix releases per year.
• Communicated project statuses and ensured milestones were met.
• Transitioned low value functions to offshore vendors to achieve company cost saving targets.

• Assisted in the second phase of the company wide Operational Transformation program. I worked in a group of subject matter experts from XL, Accenture, and Microsoft to take the current state assessment and target.
• My time was split between the Hartford, Zurich, and London offices.
• Estimated rough order of magnitude person day efforts.
• Guided architecture and technology decisions.
• Participated in the vendor selection process for the core underwriting application.

• Designed and built a tool that enabled the automated build, deployment, and unit testing of the Underwriting WorkStation via NAnt and NUnit with TFS integration. This tool also allowed application services technicians.
• Wrote coding standards, namespace standards, and workflow/process standards that were in use by all XL developers
• Managed a small team of developers to add enterprise exception handling to the XL Framework. As a project lead I was responsible for clearly communicating project objectives, assigning tasks, gathering statuses and.
• Coordinated the work of two software engineering interns. I met with and advised each intern on a regular basis and reported their progress back to management.
• Interviewed software engineer candidates to assess their technical abilities and determine if the candidates would be a good team fit.

• Worked with a small team of employees and consultants on several major releases of the Underwriting WorkStation. As one of the primary developers I was responsible for making design decisions, coding new functionality.
• Designed and built Director's Chair, a management console for developer/administrative tools utilizing Microsoft.Net technologies. A Director's Chair utility, called a plug-in, could be created by implementing a simple.
• Organized and documented the XL Framework, the building blocks from which internal XL applications were constructed. This documentation was used to train all new developers on the XL Framework. I also automated the XL.
• Ran the weekly global developer technical meeting with developers from our primary development offices in Hartford, London, and Zurich. I was responsible for coordinating topics and arranging speakers for each meeting.

Storrs, CT, US

• Counseled students regarding personal and academic concerns.
• Worked effectively with a diverse staff of students and professionals.
• Trained in peer counseling, leadership, interviewing and mediation skills.
• Organized cultural, fitness and well being, educational, and social programming.
• Presented a lecture titled, “The Internet: Your Tool for Building a Better Community,” at the 2002 Connecticut State University System and University of Connecticut Resident Assistant Conference.

Hamilton, Bermuda, BM

• Designed and built a standards compliant XL Professional brochure website utilizing Microsoft.Net technologies. XL Professional was a 1 Billion dollar specialty lines insurance company.
• Assisted in the development and deployment of the XL Marine Cargo website utilizing Microsoft.Net technologies. This website generated binding insurance certificates for the customers of XL Marine Cargo.
• Presented these websites to senior management and wrote marketing and technical design specification documents, and performed stress tests utilizing Microsoft Application Center Test.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Executive Program

Education record

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science