Architected a web service solution that delivers big data to the Property and Casualty industry which includes Fraud Predictor Models, Loss History data, Undisclosed Drivers, Policy Pre-fill and Motor Vehicle Data that utilizes .NET, C#, IIS and SQL Server.

Direct and manage customer onboarding/business analysis for Verisk UW solutions with a geographically dispersed team. We focus on superior customer experience while always looking for continuous improvement opportunities.

Developed/implemented analytical models for the P&C Insurance and employment industries that reduce client costs and exposure to fraud. Managed off-shore development team, developed technical requirements, application and database architecture, put in place production monitoring using Applications Manager and automated test framework as well as on-boarded customers and provided 24x7 production support.

Strategic senior technical consultant at Verizon Wireless brought in to make their website more intuitive and content/offers more relevant to their customers yielding increased sales and revenue using Omniture’s Test&Target™ and Product Recommendations tools.

Managed several teams of application developers working on a variety of projects to supply custom solutions for the Claims and Personal lines market of the insurance industry as well as Employment Services. Projects used a variety of technolgies: Java/J2EE, Struts, GWT, JDBC, EJBs, Webservices, Weblogic/JBoss and Oracle (transitioning to Postgress), C, C++, Visual Basic and .NET. In Employment Services, the teams were in multiple geographic locations. Responsible for providing direction and guidance to the developers, determining priorities, developing technology refresh plans, long term strategic planning, staffing, resource planning, providing second level application support, advising senior management, license renewals, ensuring schedules were met and developing budgets. Accomplishments:Established strong software engineering practices, including coding standards, continuous integration, effective prototyping, automated tests, test plans and efficient source code control.Largest project had frequent daily outages; transitioned SW to reliable performance with no customer outages.Drove efforts to resolve persistent billing issues that plagued the major Employment Services product.Began move to open source technologies to eliminate significant licensing costs

Managed several teams of application developers working on new development as well as maintenance for several critical Insurance Services Products using a variety of technologies (C, C++, Java/J2EE).Responsibilities included providing technical direction, ensuring best practices for software development and that the software met the requirements with minimum number of defects, assisting in developing test plans, ensuring schedules were met, staffing, budget responsibilities and strategic long term planning.

Responsible for designing, developing, testing and maintaining Insurance Services knowledge bases in C++/C/Unix on Sun SPARCstation 10 using Oracle/SQLPlus.

Supervised a 12 person team that developed a real-time multi-processing automatic control system in C/C++ for NASA worldwide data communications network. Provided on-call support for space shuttle missions. Supervised software development activities including periodic delivery of operational software releases to NASA, maintenance of operational software, interfacing with the customer, training for operations personnel, technical presentations to the customer, providing test documentation and the development of user and design documentation. Development was in C/C++ on VAX/VMS.