Professional Talent

Summary:

Performance driven Senior Project Manager with over 15 years of experience leading the planning,  resourcing, development, execution and delivery of integrated IT and business-management projects in an enterprise corporate environment.  Highly skilled at building successful collaborative relationships with Operations, Finance, Underwriting, Claims, Marketing, Sales, Agent Licensing, Compensation, Product,  Accounting, Legal, Regulatory Compliance and Support services.  Strong background managing multiple high-visibility projects through the entire SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) in either Waterfall or Agile frameworks.

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Over 30 years in the technology footprint, with an emphasis in the Insurance vertical including:  Property and Casualty, Auto, Life, Reinsurance, Health, Annuity, Home, Dwelling, Group and Individual Voluntary Benefits.  Specialize in large transformation and modernization, integration, upgrades and conversions with policy administration systems, claims, billing ,digital document/content/print management systems and IT service delivery.

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Managed projects as Scrum Master and Product Owner with TFS (team foundation server). Agile management oversight using Kanban board for epics, features, stories, sprint planning and retrospectives.  Project tracking includes MS Project, CA Clarity, CA Rally, JIRA,  Service Now, Smartsheet, Workfront.  Over 20 years in insurance technology providing management for large policy administration conversions and acquisitions with budgets from $500K to over $20MM.

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Key Skills:

• Senior Project management (PMO, PMBOK) experience: 15+ years
• Agile and Scrum Methodologies (sprints, features, stories utilizing Team Foundation Server: 5+ years
• Act as Scrum Master and Product Owner using Kanban TFS: 5+ years
• Skilled at leading technical teams including developers, business analysts and QA testers: 15+ years
• Technology strategic roadmap development and execution: 15+ years
• Support IT Governance policies to ensure that priorities are aligned: 15+ years
• Change management experience: 15+ years
• Infrastructure and security upgrades: 10+ years
• Implement business process improvements and best practices: 15+ years
• Life Insurance(Reinsurance) industry experience: 15+ years
• P&C, Auto Insurance industry experience: 10+ years
• Annuity Insurance industry experience: 10+ years
• Healthcare Insurance industry experience: 5+ years
• Financial, Banking, Investment experience: 3+ years
• Content/Digital/ESignature/Mobile Correspondence Document Management experience: 15+ years
• Support Customer relationships with Agents, Producers and Broker-Dealers: 15+ years