Leo Pak ****@****.***
***** ******** *** ***** ? Hamilton, Virginia 20158 ? 703-***-****
Information Technology Executive
Solutions-focused professional equipped with 12 years of progressive
technology leadership success within healthcare and IT arenas. Strategic,
goal-driven manager offering extensive experience applying cutting-edge
technologies and processes, devising creative solutions, formulating
business requirements, resolving complex problems, structuring IT
organizations to align to business strategy and direction, and leading
large software development and project teams. Adept at building and
sustaining strong business partnerships to develop complex solutions and
enterprise-level processes. Well-versed in application architecture using
Microsoft and IBM technologies. Skilled at implementing high-volume,
consumer-facing transactional solutions on large scale. Analytical self-
starter and persuasive communicator exhibiting both technical and business
acumen.
Areas of Excellence
Team Leadership ? Software Architecture ? Strategic Planning ? Process
Improvement ? Operations
Software Development ? Restructuring ? Web Application Security ? Content
Management
Project Management ? Sarbanes-Oxley ? Risk Management ? Scalability ?
Disaster Recovery
Systems Integration ? Budget Administration ? Deployments & Migrations ?
Alliance Building
Customer Service ? Quality Assurance ? Microsoft ? Oracle ? IBM
Professional Track
WellPoint ? Alexandria, Virginia 2001-2010
Largest healthcare insurance company in US, with $65B in annual revenues.
Staff Vice President of Technology (2008-2010)
Defined strategic direction for each portal in tandem with executive-level
management by presenting new and innovative approaches and tools to
facilitate multiple initiatives and execution plans. Coordinated and
facilitated communications with stakeholders to define business and systems
requirements for new and existing technologies; negotiated with business
leads to build consensus across divisions. Aligned IT
goals to support 3- to 5-year company plan of record. Reviewed project-
level hardware and software acquisitions. Controlled $12M operating budget;
mentored and retained 60+ FTEs and 60+ consultants.
- Championed $40M 6-portal consolidation project as led architect, which
resulted in 50% reduction in maintenance costs and single enterprise
platform to address user experience (UX), security, performance,
redundancy, scalability, and content management-related issues to support
35 million members with web 2.0 capabilities.
- Established SOA-based architectural strategy and design standards for
vendor integration to support immediate and future enhancements, which
was later adopted as enterprise architecture standards.
- Improved time-to-market 30% through reengineering and decentralizing
operational procedures for enterprise content management system.
- Increased intake efficiency 25% using TFS and rational tools by designing
and establishing enterprise change management process, integrating
Sarbanes-Oxley-complaint policies for new and existing project
portfolios.
- Decreased software development time 30% by devising comprehensive RUP-
based process model.
- Slashed brokers/sales portal intake process 25% by providing
architectural direction to reengineer existing website as well as address
usability and scalability, leveraging SOA design principles.
- Developed comprehensive reporting systems to proactively increase user
satisfaction metrics.
Director of Technology (2007-2008)
Led integration strategy to define long-term vision of consumer-directed
healthcare products (CDHP) web assets supported by team of 20 senior-level
project managers and developers. Managed all project-level hardware and
software procurement. Defined hosting and operational strategy processes to
align to 3- to 5-year enterprise plan of record; defined business
continuity and disaster recovery plans.
- Reduced production operations 80% through developing robust enterprise-
level reporting capability to support performance and usability metrics
as well as validate ROI on marketing campaigns.
Leo Pak ****@****.***
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Director of Technology (2007-2008), continued...
- Collaborated with a $20M CDHP integration initiative as lead web
architect, on time and within budget while introducing innovative
software based on SOA design principles to WellPoint infrastructure to
support 35 million members.
- Guided production operations department in establishing tier-1 support
for critical system to meet service level agreements (SLAs).
- Integrated back-office CDHP customer support platform to multiple call
centers nationwide.
Director of Application Development (2003-2007) (Lumenos, Inc. - Start-up)
Established strategic technical direction and processes for all
applications supporting operations, call centers, service-providing
vendors, and client services. Managed 15-member team and 8 direct reports;
oversaw customer-facing web portals, back-office portals, and content
management systems. Set strategic direction for enterprise configuration
management team.
- Spearheaded implementation of successful Zagat provider survey
application (SaaS) as led architect, to support 35 million members, which
drove 125 Million media impressions and was considered the most
successful media campaign in company history.
- Lauded for developing and implementing business continuity plan that
supported aggressive SLA as market distinguisher.
- Halved time-to-market for mission-critical system after completing 2-
phased content management strategy to decentralize content contribution
model, extend responsibility across functional divisions, and accelerate
changes while maintaining process and controls.
- Realized overall cost savings in buy-versus-build scenario by designing
and developing custom ETL engine in support of high-volume, mission-
critical claims systems.
- Reduced call time 30% by integrating hosted Siebel software with custom
processes.
- Devised HRA adjudication infrastructure and architecture to support
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield of New York.
- Integrated Siebel CRM application with claims and eligibility data to
decrease overall call time metric.
Configuration Manager (2001-2003) (Lumenos, Inc. - Start-up)
Implemented configuration management plan to support enterprise change
management. Set up tools and processes to address and streamline all
technical projects to identify bottleneck in producing software.
- Improved build and deploy process 75% to 80% for enterprise by
establishing configuration management plan to standardize RUP-based SDLC.
- Increased productivity and reduced maintenance 25% by transition from
PVCS to Microsoft TFS.
- Reduced costs 60% through transitioning server management from external
to internal management.
CardSystems ? Chantilly, Virginia 1999-2001
Start-up SaaS developing client-server credit card dispute management
software.
Development Manager & Software Engineer C++
Controlled daily activities of 10+ developers and established technical
direction for dispute management system utilizing Microsoft, Unix, Oracle,
and various other imaging systems.
- Reduced build and deploy time 70%; cut installation times 40% by
developing installation package.
- Implemented prototype of system using .NET C# 1.0 framework.
- Converted Legacy Unix-based CVS system to Visual Source Safe 6.0.
Additionally served as Programmer II for Stanly Associates and Staff
Consultant for Information Management Consultants (VB6 Developer).
Academic Credentials
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy & Theology: University of Scranton
Technology Stack
Web Services ? SOA ? Test Driven Development ? RUP ? Agile Development
Methodology Multithreading ? n-Tier & Client/Server ? Load Balancing
(active/passive) Web & DB ? VMware
LDAP ? Encryption ? VPN ? Intrusion Detection ? Authentication ? CRM (SI) ?
SEO
Tools & Frameworks
Extensive Experience:
C# ? IIS ? Windows ? MSMQ ? WCF ? ASP.NET ? Web Services ? SOAP ? BigIP(f5)
? SQL Server
Oracle ? Infragistics ? JQuery ? Ajax ? Stellent(ECM) ? Silverlight ? TFS ?
Rational Tools Sets
SQL Server Reporting Services ? Business Objects ? Crystal Reports ?
Active Directory
Experience:
Java ? WebSphere (Portal) ? AIX ? UNIX ? MQ ? Spring Framework ? Hibernate
? Axis SDK
Site Minder ? Data Power ? Siebel