IT management

George J. Hrubec

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20+ years of management experience includes IT development, business analyst groups and production support.

Strong technical and business qualification with an impressive track record with more than 15 years of hands-on experience in strategic planning, business unit development and project management.

Able to quickly analyze problems and suggest remediation steps. Able to think tactically and strategically.

Extensive knowledge in the retirement, institutional and retail mutual funds back office IT and operations.

A proven technical leader with a strength for identifying talent, building and motivating teams that work cooperatively to achieve corporate goals.

Experienced in leading financial services customers and their vendors to define business requirements, and then working with line management and IT to deliver efficient solutions to solve business problems.

Proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's critical business requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing competitiveness, increasing revenues, and improving customer service offerings.

Experienced in off and on shore vendor management. Experience

MassMutual Financial Group, RS IT, Boston, MA 2013-2016 Systems Director – IT

Lead a geographically dispersed development team of 15 IT and 30 off/on shore consultants, with team members located in Enfield, CT; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Memphis, TN and Chennai, India

Responsible for the development and on going production support associated with recordkeeping and trading platforms and its peripheral business applications.

Core member of The Hartford IT divestiture team. Worked side by side with EMC/IBM and other vendors to spin off 300+ applications and corresponding hardware assets to MassMutual data center.

Responsible for off and on shore vendor management.

Temporary assignment included the introduction and roll out of Six Sigma principals to RS IT organization. Conducted strategic business reviews for Senior Leadership, including customer, operational, market and competitive analyses. Results included strategy redefinition, new business development, organizational redesigns, process reengineering and cost savings with faster solution delivery. Participated in coaching of IT associates and leaders on Lean and Six Sigma principles, provided One on One coaching etc.

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Boston, MA 2008-2012 AVP / Director – IT Management

Led IT teams during the acquisition of MFS Retirement Services, Inc.

Successfully stood up a portfolio of all internal applications within Hartford data center and disaster recovery sites.

Core member of The Hartford IT Rationalization/Simplification team responsible to simplify applications portfolio from other acquisitions.

Core member of a senior leadership team to outsource back office technology, core development, operations and support to other off shore and on shore vendors.

Proven a track record of maximizing the value of outsourcing agreements involving technical staff augmentation.

Managed a team of ~ 20 FTE IT staff responsible for the development, business analysis and production support associated with financial and reconciliation applications. George Hrubec’s Resume – page #2

MFS Investment Management, Boston, MA 2003-2008

Vice President - Distribution Technology

Expanded existing responsibilities by providing IT support to other divisions within MFS Distributions such as Private Portfolio Services (PPS) and Sales Group.

Responsible for directing the strategy, business analysis, resource allocation and project management for all PPS and RSI systems needs; maintain IT budget and resource forecasting.

Act as the primary liaison to external technology/vendor partners.

Implemented an integrated technology platform to include imaging technology, workflow automation distributions and a portfolio system to increase operational efficiencies.

Participated on a senior team in the decisions to outsource the back office technology and operations to further improve scalability and decrease operating cost by $1M.

Initiated the design of online self-service ad-hoc reporting tool using DB2 tools and SAS language.

Managed a team of ~ 40 FTE IT staff responsible for technical support, operation and the development of internal applications.

MFS Investment Management, Boston, MA 1999-2003

Assistant Vice President - MFS Retirement Services, Inc.

Responsible for the creations of all EDI processing aspects (SPARK, NSCC, etc.) - TPA, Payroll vendors, Plan Sponsors, Brokerage houses, etc.

Designed & implemented process to upload payroll data for mainframe processing.

Core member of Spark project team responsible for the development of retirement industry payroll interface standards currently utilized by payroll vendors and most retirement platforms.

Initiated and participated in design of stand-alone Plan Sponsor application used for daily interfaces with MFS RSI.

Implemented Intranet based solution to address internal reporting needs.

Established SLAs, SDLC workflows and procedures to support all IT activities. MFS Investment Management, Boston, MA 1995-1999

Group Manager - MFS Retirement Services, Inc.

Responsible for establishing retirement division IT standards, SDLC workflows and IT solutions for Payroll Processing and New Business takeovers.

Established centralized process to support ad-hoc and standardized reporting. Fidelity Investments / FIRSCO - Systems, Boston, MA 1989-1994 Senior Programmer Analyst

Assessed and supported the Retirement Services Implementation group with all systems issues during the conversion of a retirement plan from a prior recordkeeper.

Identified data elements needed for conversion, standard and ad hoc reporting.

Designed, created and tested SAS programs combined with DB2/SQL and IBM mainframe/TSO environment.

Two-time winner of the Outstanding Service Award (Raytheon and GTE projects). Education and Advanced Training

Retirement Specialist Program, Fidelity Investments, MA A series of courses specialized in retirement plans and investment strategies Computer Processing Institute, Cambridge, MA

COBOL Programming, MVS JCL, Intro to CICS Command Level and DB2 Application Programming Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, MA

Programming in PASCAL using VAX/VMS

Institute of Technology, Prague, Czech Republic

Mechanical Engineering (Masters'-level courses)

Technical College of Karvina, Karvina, Czech Republic Degree in Mechanical Engineering (B.S.-equivalent) References available on request.

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