Experience

WYTH

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President Information Technology

  • Aug 2021 - Present



United Airlines

• United States
• Airlines and Aviation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director IT Application Development - Resource Management Systems

  • Jan 2017 - Oct 2020

  Directed all work related to time, attendance, and scheduling systems for employees working gate side and plane side, as well as technical operations and catering services. Managed team of 19 onshore colleagues (four direct reports). Managed and effectively met needs/demands of diverse cross-functional set of stakeholders and internal clients (human resources, finance, labor relations, operations, legal, and technology). Directed all work related to time, attendance, and scheduling systems for employees working gate side and plane side, as well as technical operations and catering services. Managed team of 19 onshore colleagues (four direct reports). Managed and effectively met needs/demands of diverse cross-functional set of stakeholders and internal clients (human resources, finance, labor relations, operations, legal, and technology).



Aon

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Application Development

  • Sep 2010 - Jan 2016

  Responsible for all aspects of delivery (inception to maintenance) for global eBroking and plan management platform supporting hundreds of Health & Benefits clients and over $500M in revenue. IT partner in business strategy planning discussions, as well as primary contact for all U.S. based initiatives. Managed a team of 14 onshore colleagues (4 direct reports), as well as a team of 33 offshore colleagues. Implemented a $2M+ workflow redesign project using AngularJS resulting in a 40% decrease in setup and execution for end users | Managed multi-year feature enhancements to expand eBroking capabilities to support global region and country requirements | Coordinated and led aggressive time to market new revenue opportunity through 3rd party contractors onboarding, creative project management and iterative development | Provided coaching and mentoring to project managers and technical leads Show less



Hewitt Associates

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Manager

  • Oct 1999 - Aug 2010

  My role began as a lead IT business analyst/project manager and grew into portfolio management through the design, development and deployment of many products driving revenue growth and market share for the practice. Through the development of these products, I helped create a platform, Hewitt Health Resource (HHR) which centralized, standardized and grew many of the business services offered to clients.Launched 1st web based ebroking tool in the benefits consulting industry enabling significant efficiencies through standardization and automation, driving double digit revenue growth. Responsibilities included driving and developing requirements, contractor management and significant change management with the business community | Developed firms first centralized plan design benefits setup tool which was integral to new client revenue growth by reducing implementation costs over 20% | Enhanced the Employee Benefits site by developing an innovative feature allowing employees to estimate their medical costs during the enrollment process, this helped retain as well as drive market share | Improved efficiency and quality of shared services setup process through the creation of a web-service transfer of data to client specific databases | Created practice efficiencies by web-enabling and centralizing the data entry of the HHVI (Hewitt Health Value Initiative), resulting in reduced time required by the business, and faster system processing of results along with higher quality | Developed a customized web-based RFI tool allowing consultants to reduce setup costs and collect key program information from Health Plan providers | Implemented key quality metrics and management reporting to CIO on a monthly basis Show less

• Sr. Application Developer / Team Leader

  • Oct 1994 - Sep 1999

  When I started at Hewitt Associates I was a COBOL programmer for a client server product (IHIS) which was sold to clients. This product processed client’s enrollment and claims and allowed them to closely monitor and forecast their healthcare related costs. Before taking on a new opportunity in the firm, I ended leading the mainframe development team.Developed and enhanced various mainframe COBOL programs | Lead mainframe developer for the batch systems | Coordinated and implemented key quality initiatives with data formatting and client server development teams Show less



ComEd

• United States
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Application Development Lead

  • Feb 1989 - Sep 1994

  Started as a mainframe application developer within the Payroll IT department and grew into managing and leading the design of projects across the HR benefit and payroll departments. Responsible for executing full SDLC life-cycle activities and managing end user business requirements specifications. Technologies included COBOL, TSO/ISPF, CICS, IMS and VSAM. Implemented a revamped annual merit processing process, including scheduled promotion processing, variable pay programs and bargaining unit increases | Supported all payroll programs for check production, back end reporting, feeding of general ledger and annual tax reporting | Developed automated federal 401(k) limits into payroll processing and managed all benefit elections as well as Non-Qualified 401(k) plans Show less