Summary
An energetic Solution Architect and an expert on Property and Casualty Insurance Technology.
A strategist with a passion for delivery, and a proven track record of turning business strategy into IT execution.
An MBA and who is equally comfortable building long-term portfolio strategies, walking technical leads through a design, preparing a CBA, or presenting the IT agenda to business executives.
Experience
Solution Architect (2012 - Present)
Insurity
Privately Held, 201-500 employees, Computer Software
• Worked within the Sales Cycle on dozens of engagements with prospective customers to describe Insurity's architecture, demo Insurity's product configuration capabilities, and discuss how Insurity products fit into their IT Portfolio.
• Consulted with current customer base, introducing them to Insurity’s new tooling solution and future Roadmap.
• Worked with several customers to build brand new lines of business in our policy administration product from the ground-up, including the user interface, rates, rules, and forms.
Solution Architect / Product Manager (2010 - 2012)
Sword AgencyPort
Privately Held, 201-500 employees, Computer Software
• Responsible for the management AgencyPort’s newest product, Turnstile, including product roadmap, go to market strategy, sales support, and designing the technical support model.
• Helped establish Product Management as a discipline at AgencyPort by documenting the role based on the output of dozens of meetings with our CEO, CTO, and other senior stakeholders.
• Responsible for general Architecuture for several non-standard implementations of our products.
• Partnered with prospective clients , current clients, and former clients as an architectural consultants., across a variety of different P&C carriers.
• Worked with business executives, IT executives, and both internal and external IT delivery teams to position projects for success.
Senior Program Architect (2007 - 2010)
The Hartford Insurance Group
Public Company, 10,001+ employees, Financial Services
• Responsible for the architecture of an entire program, which is comprised of multiple projects.
• Led and mentored teams of architects
• Conducted peer-reviews on other architect’s designs
• Participated in building strategic road maps
• Projects included:
• A brand-new agency facing front-end for HIG’s Captive and Specialty Program group.
• Project budget of about $15 million
• Project involved a new front-end built in an off-the-shelf vendor product (AgencyPortal), including integration with account management system, policy administration system, U/W workflow, and several smaller services
• Involved with vendor selection for the front-end, setting initial scope with business partners, documenting high-level architecture, guiding project Architects through documenting lower-level architecture, presenting and socializing the architecture
• A rewrite of HIG’s small commercial agency facing front-end (ICON)
• Project budget of about $120 million. The first phase (WC line of business), came in at over $35 million
• Project was a huge rewrite of a third generation front-end. Involved an off-the-shelf vendor product (AgencyPortal and included over 60 services with the first line of business
• Involved with vendor selection for the front-end, setting initial scope with business partners, documenting high-level architecture, guiding project Architects through documenting lower-level architecture, presenting and socializing the architecture
• Responsible for architecture on many smaller projects. This included:
• Partnering with the business to develop and manage scope
• Developing high and low-level architectures deliverables, presenting them to an architectural steering committee, and socializing the designs to many different subject areas
• Mentoring tech leads and leading developers
Systems Analyst / Architect (2006 - 2007)
United Health Group
Public Company, 10,001+ employees, Hospital & Health Care
• Responsible for the small business case management system
• Focused on integration between mainframe and web-based front-end
• Participated in road-mappping, solution documentation, and providing direction to teams of developers
Technical Lead / Developer (2001 - 2006)
The Hartford
Public Company, 10,001+ employees, Financial Services
• Responsible for the mainframe components of the policy administration system, agency quoting system, and several smaller systems
• Led teams of developers on large projects, documented designs, and participated in requirements sessions
• Mainframe Programmer - Business Insurance policy administration system
Skills & Expertise
Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, SOA, SDLC, XML, COBOL, Mainframe, Configuration Management, Agile Methodologies, Software Project Management, Software Development, SQL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, Requirements Analysis, Application Architecture, Requirements Gathering, Systems Analysis, Integration, ITIL, Visio, Databases