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Customer Service Life Insurance

Location:
Binghamton, NY
Posted:
October 14, 2012

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Name: Larry Butts

Address: *** ******* *****

City: Binghamton

State: NY

Zip/Postal Code: 13905

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E-mail: *****@******.***

Primary Phone: 607-***-****

Background

Most Recent Job Title: Senior Business Analyst

Most Recent Employer: HP Enterprise Services

Career Level: Senior (Non-Manager)

Availability or Timeframe: Immediately

Authorized to work in the US?: Yes

Security Clearance:

Do you have transportation: Yes

Over 18: YesEducation: Bachelors

Languages Spoken: EnglishJob Preferences

Desired Salary: Open

Willing to Relocate:

Desired Job Titles: Senior Business AnalystDesired Job Types: Contract, Employee

Work Status: Full Time

Desired Shifts:

Desired Travel: 25%

Category: Information Technology or Systems

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Copyright c 1997- Lee Hecht Harrison, Inc.Larry J. Butts

212 Rundall Place I% Binghamton, NY 13905 I% 607-***-**** I% ********@*****.***

Career Summary

Innovative Business Analyst with 15 years experience delivering cost effective, high

quality technology solutions to meet complex business demands in the life insurance and

wealth management industry.

Extensive qualifications in all facets of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

including: planning, requirements gathering, design, development, testing and

implementation of an application.

Experience using the Agile Software Development Methodology.

Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, and leadership skills. Detailed-

oriented and accurate. Well organized and adept at multi-tasking in fast paced, time

sensitive environments.

Highly adaptable to new systems and processes. Able to effectively interface with

stakeholders, user community, technical staff, and people of diverse backgrounds and

cultures.

Professional Experience

HP Enterprise Services/EDS-SOLCORP (Plano, TX) 1997-2010

In recognition of consistently strong performance results, promoted through progressively

responsible positions within life insurance and wealth management software enterprise.

Senior Business Specialist (2002-2010)

Gathered and created business requirements in use cases and HTML storyboards for

RADIENCE, a web services based application.

Delivered high quality customer service inquiry solutions on RADIENCE for ASR Netherlands

as part of a project that allowed them to launch a complex Variable Life product into the

European market quickly and within budget.

Led and managed 15 member business team to a successful and on time implementation of a

Fixed Annuity product onto INGENIUM, a COBOL/DB2 application, for Knights of Columbus

Insurance.

Produced innovative solutions for several Fixed Annuity products on INGENIUM that

significantly simplified product administration for GE Financial Assurance.

Evaluated and documented business team members performance on Knights of Columbus project

as part of the annual review process. Established process for team members to work on and

track progress of improvements, which was recognized by project management to increase

productivity.

Gained project management experience in resourcing, establishing milestones and critical

success factors, scheduling deliverables, scope and estimation, and delegating work on the

Knights of Columbus project.

Senior Business Analyst (1999-2002)

Developed testing strategy and managed testing effort on INGENIUM for Hartford Life in

Japan. This resulted in launching a new Variable Annuity product into the Japanese market

within 6 months.

Provided training and documented detailed INGENIUM user guides for large ING/Reliastar

customer service center in Minot, ND. These guides reduced training time by 30% and

improved the timeliness and accuracy of customer service representatives.

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Led and managed 7 member business team in a successful upgrade from INGENIUM 5.6 to

INGENIUM 6.1 for ING/Reliastar in the established timeframe of 15 months.

Collaborated with technical staff to develop and deliver best practice INGENIUM solutions

for implementing a Long Term Care product on INGENIUM for Woodmen of the World Insurance.

Business Analyst (1997-1999)

Performed Disability Life policy data mapping for successful conversion of 100,000

records to INGENIUM for UNUM Insurance.

Led successful Y2K and conversion testing effort on INGENIUM for UNUM that was approved

and signed off by senior management.

Designed best practice INGENIUM solutions for Disability Life accounting issues. These

solutions replaced manual processes with streamlined system processes, and reduced

processing time by 50%.

Security Mutual Life Insurance Company (Binghamton, NY) 1993-1997

Business Analyst (1995-1997)

Promoted to Business Analyst from Customer Service Associate in recognition of strong

business knowledge, ability to multi-task, and excellent analytical skills.

Developed innovative policy administration solutions on INGENIUM that reduced processing

time by up to 75% on several transactions for Traditional and Universal Life products.

Customer Service Associate (1992-1995

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Susquehanna Industries (Susquehanna, PA) 1991-1992

Quality Control

Education

B.A., Mass Communications/Broadcasting

Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA

Continuing Education

M.S., Management Information Technology, 2008 Present, degree expected 2012

University of Illinois, Springfield, IL

Technical Skills

MS Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Access

Software/Utilities: SlickEdit, XML Notepad, XML Marker, DBVisualizer, soapUI



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