Experience

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  • Louisville, Kentucky Area

  • Independent IT Management Consultant

    • Jan 2011 - Present
    • Louisville, Kentucky Area

    Strategic Consulting including strategy development for Business Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, Governance Programs and Program Management• Identified gaps between business needs and current capabilities for a financial recovery company's BI implementation. Provided technology recommendations and costs for data warehousing tools (ETL, DBMS, and data quality) and business rules engine. Delivered project phases, estimates and preliminary project plans for implementation of their first BI prototype. •Created business intelligence strategy for Internet publishing company. Deliverables included key performance indicators, dimensional models, organizational and resource recommendations and technology assessment and recommendations for all warehouse delivery and analytical components. Technology assessment included evaluation of open source versus Microsoft business intelligence suites.•Provided technology leadership for portfolio modernization initiative at an insurance company. Interviewed senior level business and technology leadership to align future state business needs with existing systems. Identified gaps and business specific logic required along with core data assets. Provided SOA based roadmap to revitalize 20+ year old systems portfolio to support the changing business environment. Built the business and technical requirements for system selection RFP. Supported vendor and product selection.•Created an enterprise architecture playbook for a Fortune 50 financial services company to determine what capabilities could be centralized in their federated architecture model. Playbook included: an enterprise technology reference model, process for new technology introduction with associated centers of excellence, a governance process for high cost projects that could impact multiple business units. Processes were integrated with their portfolio planning process and included artifacts for each process.

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  Humana

  • United States
  • Insurance
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • VP Corporate Information and Architecture Management

    • 2008 - Oct 2011

    Responsible for development of a self-funded Enterprise Architecture capability at Humana which provides increased agility and adaptability for a changing business environment while reducing overall expense. Recruited entrepreneurial team and defined the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Master Data Management (MDM) and Portfolio Modernization strategies and frameworks to migrate to message based transaction environment.

  • Vice President Corporate Information Mangement

    • 2000 - 2008

    Recruited by CIO to build Informatics capability at Humana. Created and championed strategy for leveraging warehousing in managed care organization. Delivered all components of informatics environment, the Enterprise Data Warehouse, data marts, operational data stores, information applications, along with business intelligence and data mining tools. Informatics environment encompasses: Clinical Guidance, Sales, Service Center, Customer Reporting, Special Investigations, Government and Regulatory reporting, Provider Networks, Innovation Center, Finance, Underwriting and Actuarial departments. Also responsible for Web transaction infrastructure and Web Architecture and frameworks.

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  Cigna

  • AVP

    • 1997 - 2000

    Recruited to lead data warehouse initiatives and led informatics transformation activities; responsible for information infrastructure for Managed Care Operations department at Cigna Healthcare. Successfully provided strategic planning, technical leadership and administration of Information Management program for both Enterprise transformation and acquisition and merger activities

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  United Healthcare

  • Director Information Management

    • 1994 - 1997

    Direct accountability for data warehouse integration activities for The Travelers and Metropolitan employee benefits merger, responsible for United Healthcare data warehouse environment after acquisition of MetraHealth.

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  The Travelers

  • Various Leadership and Technical positions

    • Jun 1977 - Jan 1994

    Led technology innovation, application development and data warehousing initiatives. Focused on evaluations and management of new technology implementations. Accountable for introduction of new technology solutions in Life/Health and Financial Services Division. Promoted into technology and leadership position for data warehousing in the Employee Benefits Division