Management Manager

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An Information Technology executive with a proven record of implementing

data management and information delivery solutions to provide business

partners with improved data insight. Expertise in data warehousing,

business intelligence, application development, and project management.

Exceptional communication, organizational and execution skills.

Organizational Leadership / Strategic Planning / IT Governance / Business

Alignment

Selected Career Highlights

> Led the implementation of a dimensional data warehouse that provided

improved data insight for all business areas. Based on the actionable

information, reserving practices were modified, litigation defense

strategies were altered, and unprofitable insurance products were

eliminated. Business savings were estimated at more than $1M.

> Led the implementation of business intelligence capabilities including

production reporting, ad-hoc analysis, OLAP, and visual Dashboards based

on key performance indicators.

> Led the implementation of an automated policy issuance solution that

receives external electronic data, interprets violations via web

services and leverages meta-data tables to apply automated underwriting

rules for new business applications. Resulted in a business expense

reduction in excess of $500K annually.

> Led the re-engineering of critical interfaces, including the GL, DMV and

ISO Statistical reporting, by migrating the interfaces from the OLTP

systems to the data warehouse. Resulted in a business expense reduction

in excess of $300K annually.

Professional Experience

OneBeacon Insurance, Melville, NY 2004 -

Present

Head of Application Development (2010 - Present)

Direct technology operations as a key member of the leadership team,

reporting directly to the Personal Lines CIO. Oversee application

development, business analysis, quality assurance and project management.

The application suite supported includes the policy and claims

administration, broker portal, imaging & workflow, document management,

data warehouse and business intelligence systems. Technologies: Oracle on

RH Linux, MS SQL Server, Java, Spring, Web Services, XML, Business Objects,

FileNet, Mercury, Duck Creek, DocuCorp, Subversion, Apache Tomcat

. Oversee development and maintenance for all discretionary, regulatory

and production support initiatives.

. Support budgeting, staffing, service levels, change management, DR

planning and vendor management.

. Mitigate organizational risk by defining IT policy controls and

ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

AutoOne Insurance, Melville, NY

Senior IT Manager (2008 - 2010)

Managed the development and maintenance of the data warehouse, business

intelligence, and software configuration management systems. The data

warehouse supports financial, regulatory, operational and management

reporting. The business intelligence capabilities include production

reporting, ad-hoc analysis, OLAP cubes and Dashboards.

. Positioned the DW as the definitive source of information and led the

implementation of eight new internal and external data interfaces.

. Implemented data management best practices, including the centralizing

of shared reference data into a master schema, resulting in shortened

development times and improved data quality.

. Led the migration from Rational ClearCase to Subversion and

implemented a continuous build and deploy process using CruiseControl.

. Participated in an architectural assessment of the parent

organization's information management capabilities, documenting the

current state, desired future state and roadmap. The evaluation

included back-end consolidation, an enterprise data warehouse, data

governance, master data management, data profiling and business

intelligence capabilities.

AutoOne Insurance, Melville, NY

IT Manager (2004 - 2008)

Managed the development and maintenance of the data warehouse and business

intelligence systems. The data warehouse supports financial, regulatory,

operational and management reporting. The business intelligence

capabilities include production reporting and ad-hoc analysis.

. Led the implementation of the first generation data warehouse,

including development of ETL processes to load data from internal OLTP

systems and external vendor underwriting systems, and the creation of

detail and summary level snapshot-ed reporting tables.

. Formed and chaired the Data Warehouse Steering Committee to determine

strategic direction, define priorities and ensure business alignment.

. Implemented data governance controls, including the review and

approval of schema changes.

Prudential Financial, Roseland, NJ

1997 - 2002

Systems Manager (1999 - 2002)

Built and managed a shared services group responsible for creating and

promoting a business intelligence self-service model in support of data

warehousing initiatives across the organization.

Technologies: DB2 UDB EEE on AIX, Sybase 11 on Solaris, Business Objects

0. Centralized and directed business analyst and developer project teams

responsible for the development and implementation of thin and thick

client Business Objects applications to support the information

delivery needs of all functional areas.

1. Participated in the data modeling efforts for data warehouses

supporting enterprise customer information, campaign management and

product financial management.

Lead Systems Specialist (1997 - 1999)

Managed an application development group responsible for re-engineering

components of the Life Insurance Actuarial Systems.

. Reduced the reserve calculation cycle time for over 14 million life

policies from 30+ days to 5 days, enabling monthly rather than

quarterly statutory and management reporting.

. Delivered multiple re-engineered systems efforts, leveraging internal

(in-house team) and external (contract vendor) development projects.

Banker's Trust, New York, NY 1996 -

1997

Assistant Treasurer, Application Development

Managed an application development group responsible for the reporting and

analysis functions for an international General Ledger system.

Technologies: Sybase 10 on Solaris, Dodge General Ledger

2. Directed developers responsible for implementing a semantic layer

model that supported account and transaction level reporting and

analysis.

Early Career Highlights

Provided leadership for Chase Manhattan Bank, as a Senior Financial Analyst

for the Financial Management unit and as a Programmer Analyst for the

Information Technology unit.

Education

MBA, Management

Adelphi University, Garden City, New York

BS, Business Administration

SUNY Oswego, Oswego, New York

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