Professional Summary

• Results driven Information Technology professional with proven leadership and organizational abilities. Over twenty five years experience in:
• IT Executive Management
• Project Management
• Data Warehousing
• Legacy Systems Replacement
• Reinsurance Information Systems
• Mainframe Systems Development and Maintenance
• Agile and Waterfall Methodologies

Experience

Senior Project Manager Confidential

Software and Tools: Clarity PPM, Project Manager, Migration Driver, Informatica, Netezza, SAS, Sharepoint, Microsoft Office

Working in the Advanced Analytics and Predictive Modeling IT group. Team is comprised of application architects, onshore tech leads and an offshore development team. Work closely with the Integrated Clinical Solutions business team as primary customer. Business develops predictive models with SAS based on a number of algorithims and variables that analyze Humana health care insurance members. Based on a particular model, our team is responsible for identifying needed data elemnts and tables residing in the Enterprise Data Warehouse ED . Using Migration Driver and/or Informatica, our Netezza team maps ED data int Netezza tables where it is then made available t the SAS predictive models. Results from predictive models based on applied algorithms create scores for each member. Highest scores are sent t the clinical nursing team and other business departments for further analysis and phone callls t respective members.

Senior Program Manager Confidential

Worked t gather and document requirements t feed Reinsurance Contract, Premium and Claim data int DataCede applications in order t define Contract attachment points, calculate Ceded recoverables, and feed ceded transactions back t client. Completed and received approval on Customer Requirements Book. Completed estimation worksheet for development hours and initial copy of Requirement Traceability Matrix. Partnered with Insurity wh were installing their entire software suite t process all direct policy and claim data. Development was put on hold due t direct policy and claim requirement analysis being pushed back t April 2014.

Vice President, Program Manager Confidential

Software and Tools: Informatica, DB2/UDB, COGNOS, ERWin, Sharepoint, Microsoft Office

• Participated in the development of a fully functional Data Warehouse as part of a Global Financial Re-engineering and Legacy System Replacement Project called ATLAS. Project goals are t provide a single source of policy, claim, and reinsurance financial data feed t ACE INA's general ledger and populate dimensional data models utilizing COGNOS t facilitate business intelligence, end-user reporting and standardized business metrics. Another project goal is t eliminate aging legacy applications t streamline disparate mainframe systems while reducing cost of applications, as well as outsourced maintenance contracts.
• In 2009, the project completed the capture of 40 years of policy, claim, and reinsurance financial data book of record off the mainframe from tape cartridge storage and created a data mart which was delivered t the business community via COGNOS and DB2. Over a 6 month period in 2009, a business planning team was formed t work with the ACE Data Warehouse team t complete the roadmap for future deliverables. In February of 2010, ACE partnered with Accenture t provide the consulting services for the management, design and delivery of the ATLAS project. Initial deliverables being worked in 2010 include short term options t quickly deliver areas of reporting needs back t the business community while the requirements for the rest of the project roadmap are gathered and analyzed. Various strategic policy, reinsurance and claim registration systems were identified during the planning process in 2009 and will entail 4 strategic source systems t feed the Data Warehouse.

Milestones include:

• Completion of loading the Data Warehouse with 40 years of policy, reinsurance and claim transaction history thereby eliminating the retention and use of mainframe flat file technology
• Completion of a project roadmap that develops and deploys 4 short term options during the course of 2010 deemed t be l hanging fruit that provide immediate benefit back t the business community within a 10 12 week start t finish lifecycle. The project roadmap als contains the strategic direction for future releases:
• Release 2 Policy Data
• Release 3 Reinsurance Data
• Release 4 Claim Data
• Establishment of a ne Software Development Lifecycle methodology within ACE called the Change Delivery Framework CDF . The CDF serves as the cornerstone for all future development projects at ACE, and is tightly controlled through the implementation of approval gates at various stages of the lifecycle in order for the next phase of a project t begin.
• Establishment of a Steering Committee of various senior executives t meet monthly for status updates and guide the project through the approval process.
• Establishment of a Stakeholder Committee of various line of business and operational mid-level managers t participate in the requirement gathering process and User Acceptance Testing.
• Establishment of an Implementation Team of various business people considered t be data and business experts that work with the ATLAS technical teams on a daily basis throughout the entire project roadmap.

Vice President, Business Unit Technology Leader

Confidential.

Software and Tools: COBOL, COBOL II, MVS, ROSCOE, TSO, JCL, Easytrieve, FileAid, Panvalet, VSAM, ERWin, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Microsoft Office

IT executive reporting t the North American Chief Information Officer supporting a 140 person Reinsurance Services Department within ACE INA. Managed a multi-million dollar IT budget supporting all reinsurance processing applications used by the department including both mainframe and client-server applications as well as Schedule F annual processes. Managed a 20 person staff of both internal ACE technical staff as well as various consultants t support the budgeted projects from year t year. Worked closely with the Reinsurance Services Project Management Office t set and agree t the priorities of all technical work on a daily basis.

Milestones include:

• Reduced and eliminated 80,000,000 in statistical loss data issues across systems that automatically process Captive and High Deductible data, thereby improving actuarial calculations and loss triangles
• Reduced outstanding negative case reserves totaling 450 million by cleaning and correcting reinsurance claim reserves and status data issues
• Developed and deployed improved end-user reporting capabilities utilizing Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Reporting Services
• Served as reinsurance project manager within the ACE Legacy Systems Replacement Project t replace or eliminate aging mainframe applications and incorporate functionality int targeted strategic systems.
• Implemented technical modifications t the department's reinsurance loss processing system streamlining system processing, performance, and reducing overnight and weekend batch processing timeframes

Director of Information Systems Confidential

Software and Tools: COBOL, COBOL II, MVS, ROSCOE, TSO, JCL, Easytrieve, FileAid, Panvalet, VSAM, ERWin, Visual Basic, SQL Server, SSRS SQL Server Reporting Services

Managed the company's systems department supporting the business system processes and management reporting responsibilities back t associated client companies. Reinsurance Solutions LLC was a joint venture company owned by both CIGNA and Marsh McLennan t not only support the data and operational needs of both parent companies but t als offer boutique reinsurance services within the insurance market such as reinsurance training, runoff operations, and reinsurance processing projects. Developed and deployed a client server reinsurance processing system called the FIRST System Fully Integrated Reinsurance Solutions Technology . Maintained and implemented ongoing enhancements t the FIRST System that accepted weekly direct loss data from various claim registration systems t monitor reinsurance impact, calculate reinsurance losses, and bill affected reinsurer communities. Assisted the sales team in marketing the company's reinsurance processing system capabilities t potential clients.

Milestones include:

Initially served as Reinsurance Data Modeler and Database Administrator for the reinsurance system development project in 1996 utilizing ERWin, Microsoft Visual Basic and SQL Server technologies

Assigned Project Manager

• Successfully completed Phase One of the project in 1999 Reinsurance Contract, Trading Partner and Loss Identification and Registration
• Replaced several reinsurance mainframe legacy COBOL systems
• Eliminated expense costs of outsourced applications and maintenance
• Ne Reinsurance System helped realize annual collections of 1,000,000,000 in as little as 3 years as opposed t 300,000,000 in older legacy processes
• Successfully completed Phase Tw of the project in 2001 Accounts Payable/Receivable Services
• Developed enhanced end-user reporting by implementing a reinsurance data warehouse utilizing Microosoft SQL Server Reporting Services

Lead Systems Designer

Software and Tools: COBOL, COBOL II, MVS, ROSCOE, TSO, JCL, Easytrieve, FileAid, Panvalet, VSAM, CICS

Joined CIGNA in July 1988 as a programmer trainee and completed a 4 month in-house programmer training class. Assigned t the Ceded Reinsurance Management information processing area of IT. Responsible for the support and ongoing enhancement of tw mainframe COBOL /CICS processes supporting Treaty Premium Registration and Reinsurance Loss Monitoring and Identification. Developed detailed Statements of Work supporting all enhancement requests for both systems along with associated development time and costs.

Successfully deployed the Microfocus COBOL application suite t facilitate maintenance of the application at a desktop level as opposed t mainframe TS processes