Business Technology

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (Full time employment)

Director, Corporate Systems and Enterprise Programs, October 2014 – January 2019

Spearheaded the proposal, roadmap development, executive board approval and initiation of a $30M multi-year modernization program to AWS cloud services
Developed an AWS cloud-stack ready application using lambda service in line with corporate timelines
Executed to CEO goals of broker engagement strategy with cloud ready systems
Modernized HR systems for key executive stakeholders.
Department budget $20M, 3 direct reports and indirectly managed over 100 resources in India through Cognizant and Infosys.

Blue Shield of California (Initially subcontracted and then full time employee)

Director Business Analysis and Business Architecture, December 2012- February 2014

Developed requirements management center of excellence for Blue Shield of California. Trained and led 65 business analysts, systems analysts and business architects.
Improved the requirements management and business analysis processes to allow completion of a $100M enterprise platform conversion and migration of all HMO, PPO and other Blue products and member data to the Facets platform.

Booz Allen Hamilton (Full time employee of The Goal and contracted to BAH)

Sr. IT Portfolio Manager, September 2011- February 2012

Aligned the IS PMO operational capital budgeting process of approximately $70M and prioritized approximately 200 initiatives of $10M.

Lincoln Financial Group (Full time employment)

AVP, Business Technology and Business Recovery Officer, January 2007 – March 2011

Led transformation of legacy systems to strategic service oriented architecture (SOA)
Led the business analysis component of new product development in the dental market to meet 20% CAGR requirements. Grew portfolio from $5M to $20M.
Collaborated directly with head of organization, senior leadership team and extended business owners
Represented IT to the business for one year during vice president vacancy

Ex-Cel Solutions, Inc. (Full time employment)

VP Software Engineering, 2001-2006

Business development activities and closing contracts with fortune 1000 clients.
Accountable for P&L and software development organization opening an offshore development facility
Led Product Management and developed of rules-based claims processing and document automation products for insurance and manufacturing clients. Provided sales team technical support

Software Development Manager, 1995-2000

DSS, Inc. (Full time employment)

Software Engineering, 1994-1995

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS and BOARD INVOLVEMENT

▪ VP Communications and Marketing, IIBA Heartland Chapter Board (2-year term)

▪ VP Finance/Treasurer, PMI Heartland Chapter Board (1-year term)

▪ VP Corporate Relations, PMI Heartland Chapter Board (1-year term)

CERTIFICATIONS

MIT Sloan / CSAIL Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy

deeplearning.ai Neural Networks and Deep Learning

PMP® Project Management Professional (2005-2019)

Federal Concierge Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC),

Cornell University, High Performance Leadership

ICAN Defining Leadership, Institute for Career Advancement Needs

DEGREED EDUCATION

Duke University Health Sector Management Certificate (HSM’14)

Duke University Master of Business Administration (MBA’05)

Kansas State University Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME’93)

Purdue University Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME’90)

Dual Major in Mechanical Engineering and Physics with 1 year of Quantum Mechanics