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SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
Summary
  • A highly motivated self-starter with over 10 years of project management and business analysis experience in the insurance industry.
  • Proficient business professional with a proven record of leveraging process to provide customer focused solutions that contribute to corporate growth, profitability and productivity.
  • A dynamic communicator with demonstrated project management skills, problem solving abilities and focus on creating an environment of teamwork and accountability.
  • Extensive insurance product knowledge (individual & group).
Highlights
  • PMP Certified
  • Excellent Comms Skills
  • Waterfall framework
  • Scrum methodology
  • Extensive Insurance Product Knowledge
  • Program Management experience
  • Responsible for the Entire Project Lifecycle 
  • Series 6 license retired
Experience
Company NameJanuary 2011 to CurrentSenior Project Manager
  • Responsible for project oversight of the Group insurance pillar CLP (Corporate Life & Pensions).
  • Product suite includes group life insurance, supplemental, AD&D, long term disability (LTD), short term disability (STD), family medical leave administration (FMLA) & administrative services only (ASO).
  • Oversee all project types including technology, operational and facility builds to stand up a new line of business for Zurich.
  • Accountable for the operational business as usual (BAU) project portfolio to enable Zurich to continue to meet customer needs.
  • Accountable for projects from Elicitation through Post Implementation following SDLC standards.
  • Accountable for all project documentation (Business Case through Post Implementation Review).
  • Deliver projects in waterfall and agile methodologies based on vendor requirements.
  • Manage project and program level budgets (planned, actual and forecasted costs).
  • Accountable for all project communication of status, costs, risks, issues, testing, etc.
  • Coordinate the activities of the team, systems scope, project objectives and the role and function of each team member to successfully deliver projects.
  • Diagnose and develop recommendations to solve unique business unit and customer problems.
  • Develop cost-benefit analyses by making decisions, setting priorities and choosing goals on the basis of calculated inputs and outputs to determine if business requests make sense.
  • Constantly learning power relationships, to identify who the real decision-makers are and who can influence them and to predict how new events or situations will affect the organization.
  • Have extensive experience in multiple & diverse environments.
  • Plan, monitor and control projects ensuring efficient utilization of technical, business and administrative resources.
  • Experienced with defining, staffing, organizing and managing multiple projects.
Company NameJanuary 2006 to January 2011Project Manager
  • Responsible for the product and systems development of the Corporate Owned Variable Universal Life products, Bank Owned Life Insurance and Private Placement VUL products.
  • Managed the overall project from Requirements through Implementation.
  • Responsible for the creation & management of all requirements documentation.
  • Accountable for all testing aspects of the project.
  • Includes creation of the test strategy, test cases through performing the testing itself.
  • Verified insurance calculations (Net Amount of Risk, Mortality and Expense Charges, Premium Commissions, Trail Commissions, lag/loss and tax limit calculations such as Modified Endowment Contracts, and Guideline Single and Annual calculations).
  • Provided production support to the policy administration teams.
  • Managed vendor relationships, as development was out-sourced to CSC and Andesa.
  • Responsible for all project communication (status reports, executive reports, etc.) Trained the policy administration teams regarding new and upgraded system functionality through business procedure documents and training classes.
  • Responsible for ensuring that all policy statements are printed and mailed to clients from our policy administration teams.
  • Assisted lass experienced team members with team functions.
  • Oversaw the system fund management activities.
  • This includes ensuring any fund additions, fund name changes, fund mergers, price breaks, and fund reporting such as 38A1 is reported and updated on all system extracts.
  • Acted as the accounting lead for the systems team.
  • This requires having the knowledge of all in depth details of NYL's accounting processes, defining accounting requirements and testing the accounting functionality on the system prior to production implementation.
  • Accountable for the systems document gathering and question answering for the annual SAS70 audits.
January 2004 to January 2006IT Consultant/BA RiverPoint Assurant
  • Managed SQL databases.
  • Technical writing, through flowcharting various systems.
  • Created user manuals for different applications.
  • Used Business Objects daily to create ad hoc reports and designate access for other users.
  • Assisted in coding a financial application for upper management providing them the ability to forecast and project financial budgets.
  • Updated and utilized tables and columns in SQL Navigator.
  • Loaded daily, weekly, and monthly oracle tables into the Data Warehouse.
  • Responsible for the daily production meeting, where failed jobs/databases are discussed and resolved for SOX purposes.
  • Reviewed and logs, financial tables, and audits.
  • Assisted in correcting them when they are out of balance.
  • Edited reports in EasyTrieve Plus on TSOTEST.
  • Tested Business Objects reports to ensure that the correct data was being pulled from the various systems, which included MyEureka, EasyTrieve Plus, and Access.
  • Met with the business side dental end-users to gather requirements on what needed to be pulled from the various systems for reporting purposes.
Education
Kansas City, MO DeVry University2004Bachelor of Science: Business Administration, Computer ScienceGPA: GPA: 3.5/4.00
Also completed 122/140 credit hours of a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems
Skills
Agile, Waterfall, Project Financial Management/Budgets, Program Financial Management, Business Case Development, Procurement/Contractual Execution,End-to-End SDLC, Business Readiness, Project Management, Program Management, Business Analysis, Test Management, Microsoft Office Suite & Business Architecture
Managed projects to build or enhance BOLI, COLI, Variable products, Private Placement Products, Whole Life, Group Life, Group Supplemental and AD&D, STD, LTD, ASO/Self Funded, FMLA and Statutory product plans.
Additional Information
  • Project Management Professional, PMP
  • LOMA I Designation
  • Series 6 (Expired; Zurich not able to sponsor registered representative designation.)
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Resume Overview

School Attended

  • Kansas City, MO DeVry University

Job Titles Held:

  • Senior Project Manager
  • Project Manager
  • IT Consultant/BA RiverPoint Assurant

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Science : Business Administration, Computer Science

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