Experience

Arch Insurance Group Inc.

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President of Software Engineering

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Arch is a leading provider of specialty risk solutions to clients worldwide across a wide range of industries Employees: 2000+ | Revenues: $5B | Territory: Global | HQ: Jersey City, NJ Report to: SVP IT Services | Reports: 9 direct – 75 indirect | Department P&L: $120M | OPEX: $24M I was recruited to Arch for digital enablement and transformation to facilitate operational scale and digital underwriting revenue growth within no touch high volume middle market sectors in specialized industries. Since joining Arch I have ► Accelerated time to review by streamlining submission, intake and clearance using robust scoring models, hyper automation and digital services. ► Enabled rapid new business growth through commercialization of legacy applications into an ecosystem of loosely coupled platforms and components integrated using workflow, orchestration, configuration, automation and externalized decision making abilities to provide quick and cohesive business process assembly Show less



Flexential

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 500 - 600 Employee

• HEAD OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

  • Sep 2018 - Dec 2022

  Flexential is an infrastructure company for colocation, connectivity, cloud, disaster recovery, and managed services with 40 data centers across the US with 900+ employees, $480M ARR, and a global territory. Flexential customers include healthcare, sports, media, finance, retail to name a few. I was recruited to Flexential to lead the digital transformation and rationalization of software products, processes, tools, and people. And then I was promoted for successfully spearheading several critical programs that were delayed, but necessary, for timely business consolidation post-acquisition. I led the product development group which allowed the company to fulfill its digital transformation & innovation goals. Achievements to date: ► Increased employee engagement by 60% through creating a culture of empowerment. ► Built multi-platform global teams with a culture of transparency and empowerment that drove measurable results of 20% increase in velocity and throughput per product increment across cross-functional departments. ► Grew headcount by 80% in 9 months while leading product development with large internationally distributed cross-functional teams. ► Accelerated product time to market by 37% and reduced product development cost by 20% with strengthened vendor relations. ► Implemented public cloud adoption and transformation of on-premises virtualization platforms to AWS, saving hundreds of thousands in capital costs. ► Instituted SAFe agile methodologies and engineering best practices which reduced the development period by 37% and enhanced go-to-market time. ► Influenced the direction in technology & analytics for innovation in customer experience which improved customer retention and satisfaction and MRR growth. ► Reduced yearly licensing costs by $100K by consolidating tools & libraries. ► Mitigated risk and enhanced regulatory compliance by instituting security at design for the B2B SaaS product architecture & improved customer retention. Show less



Sapiens

• Israel
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• HEAD OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

  • May 2016 - Apr 2018

  Sapiens is a leading provider of software solutions for the insurance industry across 25 countries. Employees: 4000 | Revenues (ARR): $380M | Work location: Denver, CO HQ: Holon, Israel I was promoted post-acquisition for successfully completing several critical enterprise customer implementations within aggressive deadlines utilizing large global teams. I raised the quality of installations making customer test cycles relatively smooth and reliable. Additional achievements at Sapiens: ► Developed enterprise engineering teams by recruiting high performing engineers and architects providing supervision, coaching, and feedback to enhance their skills, motivation, and performance. ► Grew revenue by $8 million with rapid product development by instituting SAFe agile methodologies and streamlined operational support. ► Headed development of large-scale cloud native enterprise applications with modern software engineering practices, which allowed streamlined application of DevOps, CI/CD and automation in business process, thereby increasing quality and reliability in operations. ► Eliminated departmental silos by improving communication, collaboration, and instituting knowledge base of designs, architectures and frameworks which increased development speed by 20%. ► Managed 50+ vendors using strategic scalability based on budget and revenue, which reduced costs by $500K during slower implementations and quick 3-sprint ramp-up of teams to support increase in product sales. ► Instituted automation testing procedures and tools which increased the quality and reduced timelines for manual testing by 5 person months of customer implementation, which reduced services cost by $30K for the implementation cycle. Show less



StoneRiver, Inc. - A Sapiens Company

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• DIRECTOR OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

  • Jan 2009 - Jun 2016

  Stoneriver was a leading provider of software solutions for the insurance industry across 25 countries. Insurance software solutions provider for property, casualty, reinsurance, financial, compliance, life and workers’ compensation carriers in the US. Employees: 250+ | Revenues (ARR): $25M | Work location: Denver, CO Reported to: Vice President Engineering | Reports: 4 direct/35 indirect | P&L: $8M | OPEX: $3M Territory: North America Promoted for successfully implementing critical technology architectures for rapid and streamlined application development, raising application reliability and ease of operational maintenance. ► Trained, facilitated, and managed geographically distributed multi-discipline teams, which led to predictable, cohesive, and functionally rich product releases with continuous tracking and timely risk and issue identification and mitigation. ► Improved the quality of client installations by 45% by streamlining and optimizing development processes, tools and program planning to the delight of the senior management team and customers. ► Reduced operational costs by 20% by implementing procedures to scale down teams during slow sales cycles. Instituted branching, intake, implementation and tracking strategy for product development which allowed seamless simultaneous delivery of enterprise software to 4 clients with isolated custom extensions while keeping them upgrade-compatible to the base product. ► Decreased time to market by 15% by expertly prioritizing, planning and executing iterative product releases on a rapid frequency by automating CI/CD/QA with best practices and tools. ► Collaborated with Product Management, Architecture, SCM, DBA, IT and Release Management to establish strategic direction which led to smooth functioning of all development and delivery activities by instituting cross functional tracking and reporting . Show less



Fiserv

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• SR SOFTWARE ARCHITECT & DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

  • Mar 2004 - Dec 2008

  Financial technology and software solutions giant in the global market with insurance solutions. Employees: 44000+ | Revenues (ARR): $15B | Work location: Denver, CO Reported to: Chief Architect | Reports: 3 direct/12 indirect | Budget: $1.5M | Territory: North America Recruited to this role by the Chief Architect to build an integrated insurance platform for digital transformation of the enterprise software architecture geared towards performance at scale while expanding the lines of business ► Architected and designed a modern cloud native technology platform which helped rapid development of a broad portfolio of applications and products for the insurance industry. ► Established component architectures for insurance document management and medical bill processing with payments infrastructure which simplified integrations with 3rd party APIs for a robust business process automation. ► Spearheaded customer facing pre- and post-go live engagement for on-site product support which allowed for repeatable and faster testing and installation timelines. ► Delivered architectural guidance, research and design with implementation oversight, which transformed the service oriented Insurance solution into an Insurance Integration Platform that supported fast feature development. Show less



Spectrum Solutions Inc

• Lancaster, Pennsylvania Area

• SR SOFTWARE ARCHITECT

  • Jan 2000 - Mar 2004

  TTechnology consulting firm which acquired a local ERP product company to expand its market and offerings in sales, marketing, and manufacturing domain. Employees: 50 | Revenues (ARR): $2.7M | Work location: Lancaster, PA Reported to: Chief Architect | Territory North America I was recruited to this role by the Chief Architect to re-engineer and build a robust open technology architecture for rapid development of enterprise scale applications in the sales, marketing and manufacturing domain. Additional achievements: ► Re-engineered the application infrastructure of an ERP application into an MVC architecture using domain driven design and open-source principles and technologies. ► Designed and implemented system frameworks and patterns for rapid application development. ► Implemented critical data structures and business components. ► Contributed to project development and consulting assignments. ► Evaluated new technology components and tools for use within projects. ► Fostered knowledge and expertise to mentor and coach the team in J2EE framework technologies. Show less