Experience

Insurety Capital

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Information Officer

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  Miami, Florida, United States Insurety Capital is a specialty finance company driving growth for Medicare agencies by buying their future commissions upfront for cash every week. Insurety Capital also leverages world-class marketing, sales, finance, and technology experts to prepare agency owners for an exit event at no cost until the agency is sold.



Trustmark

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Director, Data Management

  • May 2017 - Jun 2021

  Lake Forest, Illinois, United States - Responsible for the daily management of 100+ database environments across the enterprise to create highly available, resilient, and secure databases to support business goals to increase client satisfaction with our healthcare services and lower claims processing costs - Participate in the development and execution of the enterprise data strategy for operational and analytical uses of data including policy management, claims processing, plan funding, account profitability, et. al. -… Show more - Responsible for the daily management of 100+ database environments across the enterprise to create highly available, resilient, and secure databases to support business goals to increase client satisfaction with our healthcare services and lower claims processing costs - Participate in the development and execution of the enterprise data strategy for operational and analytical uses of data including policy management, claims processing, plan funding, account profitability, et. al. - Responsible for enterprise data security administration with 1,500+ users - Working with external and internal audit teams, design security controls and tests to validate financial transactions Special Projects: - Led the DBA team to design and develop a migration approach to move 90 on-premise SQL Server environments into Azure - Resolved significant performance issues with SQL Transactional Replication - Part of original team to achieve SOC 2 Type 2 certification - Part of current team to focusing on HiTrust certification Show less



Synergistic Gains, LLC

• Information Technology Consultant

  • May 2016 - May 2017

  Mokena, Illinois, United States Client: Grainger - Worked with a client team to develop and execute a comprehensive data cleanup effort and design a star-schema, Kimball-style, data warehouse Client: ADT Security - Reviewed application and data portfolio for consolidation opportunities after acquisition by Apollo Global Management



RSM US LLP

• United States
• Accounting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Applications Director

  • Apr 2013 - Apr 2016

  Greater Chicago Area - Delivered three successful implementations of Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP software - Developed/transformed and integrated financial and production processes



Griffith Foods

• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global Vice President of Information Technology

  • Jul 2005 - Oct 2012

  Alsip, IL Led the worldwide Information Technology team over seven years with significant improvements: - Financial management: ERP, Budget management, IT Controls Audit, Foreign BU tax integration - Data Management: Introduced several data analytics and reporting solutions improving the time and quality of decisions for Pricing analytics, CRM, Sales & Operations Planning, and financial budgeting - Manufacturing operations: Wi-Fi in manufacturing plants, ERP integration with the Shop floor… Show more Led the worldwide Information Technology team over seven years with significant improvements: - Financial management: ERP, Budget management, IT Controls Audit, Foreign BU tax integration - Data Management: Introduced several data analytics and reporting solutions improving the time and quality of decisions for Pricing analytics, CRM, Sales & Operations Planning, and financial budgeting - Manufacturing operations: Wi-Fi in manufacturing plants, ERP integration with the Shop floor and warehouses - Quality management: Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points (HACCP); Certified on the Global Standard for Food Safety (Issue 5) - Project/Portfolio Management: Project tracking tools, process maturity, and training - Global Business Unit Integration: Implemented BaaN ERP, Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP Show less



Synch-Solutions

• Sr. Manager

  • Jul 2003 - Jul 2005

  Chicago, IL • Key sectors of focus were state and local government, and education. • Responsible for the management, architecture, detailed-design, cost performance of customer solutions. • Worked heavily with third-party product vendors to create custom-integrated solutions for our clients.



CNA Insurance

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Solution Architect

  • Feb 2002 - Jul 2003

  Chicago, IL • Led the Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) working group responsible for requirements, organizational and functional area services assessments, alignment to the industry ACORD information model, and service deployment capabilities. • As part of a team of three, developed a application rationalization strategy for consolidation of applications across eight Strategic Business Units impacting 167 applications, including custom and commercial off-the-shelf software, covering the Claims… Show more • Led the Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) working group responsible for requirements, organizational and functional area services assessments, alignment to the industry ACORD information model, and service deployment capabilities. • As part of a team of three, developed a application rationalization strategy for consolidation of applications across eight Strategic Business Units impacting 167 applications, including custom and commercial off-the-shelf software, covering the Claims, Underwriting, and Billing domains. Identified 87 opportunities totaling $62 million in Total Cost of Ownership reductions. Show less



Sears Stores

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager - Enterprise Data Asset Management Group

  • Oct 2001 - Feb 2002

  Hoffman Estates, IL Directed a team of eight Data Architects supporting design of all data across the Sears, Roebuck retail enterprise.

• Technical Architect

  • Jul 2000 - Oct 2001

  Hoffman Estates, IL Lead architect and developer on the Real Time Inventory System enabling the “buy online and pickup in the store” capability. Integrated sales from 742 retail stores. Used Apache, WebSphere, Java, MQSeries, IBM/UDB running on AIX. The system performed in excess of 600 transactions per second.



Innovative Design & Performance Consulting, Inc.

• Owner, President

  • Nov 1994 - Jul 2000

  Greater Chicago Area Key clients were Sears Roebuck & Co., Dominick's Finer Foods/Safeway, Allied Van Lines, and Northern Indiana Power Supply Co. Designed and built the integration solution for Sears Roebuck's enterprise data warehouse - integrating Sears Retail, Sears Credit, and Home Parts and Services. One of the largest (public) data warehouses in the world at the time as confirmed by IBM.