Experience

Arch Insurance Group Inc.

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• AVP Software Engineering

  • Nov 2022 - Present



CONNECT, powered by American Family Insurance

• United States
• Insurance
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Manager - Software Engineering

  • Jul 2021 - Nov 2022



PNC

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• VP - Software Manager

  • May 2020 - Jul 2021

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Lead 4 teams of software developers consisting of 40 direct reports. Provide coaching, career development and guidance for employees. Administer yearly performance reviews and maintain monthly one on one's for developers. Partner with Product owners, architecture and business to develop and maintain roadmaps for applications. Work with external partners for staff augmentation when needed. Manage statements of work to meet delivery demands for products.

• Software Architect

  • Feb 2019 - May 2020

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Technical Product Owner for enterprise customer alerts platform. Responsible for legacy system maintenance, support and enhancements while designing and building future state vision for the product. Built transitional strategy to modernize the technical architecture of the platform to utilize modern microservice cloud enabled patterns. Manage and maintain product backlog. Prioritize work based on business needs.

• Platform Engineer

  • Feb 2018 - Feb 2019

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Manage, support and enhance event driven solution that provides customer alerts capability for the enterprise. Develop a future state vision for the solution utilizing modern architecture patterns to increase resiliency, scalability and reliability of the solution.



State Farm

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Solution Architect

  • Jun 2014 - Feb 2018

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Partner closely with business to design solutions to meet business capability needs. Participate in future state visioning efforts building future state architecture to meet business needs. Developing transitional architecture and roadmaps to guide applications from current state to intended future state. Provide support and guidance to developers.

• Systems Analyst Object Oriented Development

  • Feb 2005 - Jun 2014

  Team lead for new business and illustration software development and support team. Extensive experience in building and maintaining calculation engines for Universal Life, Whole Life, Term and Annuity products. Worked closely with vendor software teams. Planned and managed team allocations and resource projections. Reviewed resumes and took part in interviews for potential team members. Worked closely with Actuarial department to understand business rules and product features.… Show more Team lead for new business and illustration software development and support team. Extensive experience in building and maintaining calculation engines for Universal Life, Whole Life, Term and Annuity products. Worked closely with vendor software teams. Planned and managed team allocations and resource projections. Reviewed resumes and took part in interviews for potential team members. Worked closely with Actuarial department to understand business rules and product features. Experience with following technologies: MS Visual C++, VB, ASP, IBM DB2, MS Access, Excel, Java, J2EE, EJBs, JSP, Javascript, HTML, CSS.

• Software Developer Mainframe

  • Jun 2000 - Feb 2005

  Team lead for project development team of 4 systems analysts. Experience maintaining and modifying Vantage - One Policy Adminstration system. Responsible for troubleshooting application errors with back date and reversal processing and all other business transaction processing for Variable Life and Annuity products. Experience updating and modifying business rules and screens used by business end users. Experience with IBM assembler, COBOL, JCL, VSAM files, DB2 for… Show more Team lead for project development team of 4 systems analysts. Experience maintaining and modifying Vantage - One Policy Adminstration system. Responsible for troubleshooting application errors with back date and reversal processing and all other business transaction processing for Variable Life and Annuity products. Experience updating and modifying business rules and screens used by business end users. Experience with IBM assembler, COBOL, JCL, VSAM files, DB2 for Z/OS, SAS.