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Chief Information Officer

Assurance Agency is one of the largest, privately held insurance brokerages in the Midwest. Business Insurance ranks it among the 100 largest brokers public and private in the United States. The company specializes in providing property and casualty insurance solutions and designing and administering employee benefit programs. Its clients include a wide scope of industry: construction, staffing, senior care and manufacturing, to name just a few. Assurance has been inspiring its trust and confidence with service excellence since the company s founding in 1961. Assurance provides access, and in many cases a preferred broker status, to more than 100 of the toprated insurance carriers in the country.

Innovative Information Technology Leader with solid technical, executive management and consulting services experience. Excellent history of building teams and leading strategic technical direction, design and build-out. Skilled at IT cost optimization while increasing effectiveness. Unique ability to establish relationships with stakeholders by emphasizing customer service and support. PMP, CISSP and ITIL certified.Specialties: Strategy, Leadership, Business Communications, Budget development and oversight, Project Management, eBusiness and web enabled solution development, Vendor negotiation, ITIL, Organizational restructuring and skill assessment, Advanced telephony (VOIP, CTI and ACD), Redundant network and server design, Disaster recovery planning, Security and data protection services, Knowledge management, Course Management and Online delivery, CRM and enterprise system deployment, WAN, CISSP, Security.