Timothy Collins Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

Billing Center lead for Guidewire implementationKey member of implementation team charged with replacing core transactional systems with Guidewire Suite.Leader of product team charged with maximizing the profitability for every line of businessDevelolp and analyze reports with SQL and MicroStrategy to uncover trends and forecastsInvolved in creating, maintaining and publishing premium forecasts for new markets and new fiscal periodsInitiated meetings with several Department of Insurance departments in order to build rapport and to obtain approval on new products/ideasInitiated and led two cost saving projects to fruition saving more than $1.5 million dollars in their first yearsCreated recommendations for Senior management that detailed plans for product changes in areas that were not meeting profitability standardsInvestigated the use of non-credit insurance risk models in our business environment

Responsible for software development division comprising of 50 peopleLed team on conversion from legacy Delphi code/applications to C#Managed $3.5 million dollar budgetExperienced in vendor management and RFPsInitiated and grew all aspects of SDLCInvolved in the Strategic Planning process for new company-wide initiativesCreated a highly successful review and bonus plan for the employeesHelped lead the company to record growth and profitsSoftware team released over 500 updates in 2006Worked with many State agencies to resolve high profile disputesInterviewed and recruited top IT talentLed a team of efficiency experts to restructure the Claims and Underwriting Departments that realized savings of many hundreds of thousands of dollarsLed initiatives to achieve compliance with numerous internal and external audits

Designed, developed and tested changes in the mission critical application developed in DelphiCompleted studies for the business that analyzed our customer data to predictthe likelihood of success for new products/ideasCo-wrote a program that reduced the company's staff by 15% due to the automation of the entire policy issuance department's tasksHelped develop rating algorithms for state expansionPushed IT innovations forward through the company in order to reduce cost and increase processes quality rateChange agent for interactions between the business and IT

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bs In Economics