Twenty years inside insurance operations and systems.

Practical experience in insurance operations, business systems analysis, and the platforms that create and deliver customer documents. Available for paid expert-network consultations.

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For expert-network research teams: email your network or organization, proposed topic, key questions, and timing so I can assess fit.


Enterprise requirements & delivery

Business analysis, stakeholder alignment, and Agile or hybrid delivery inside regulated operating environments.

Systems modernization & vendor migration

Legacy-to-cloud content platform migration, vendor evaluation, and implementation and go-live readiness.

Customer communications & document platforms

Thunderhead, Smart Communications, and Documentum — template design, print and mail, portal delivery, and archive.

Insurance operations

Claims handling, policy administration, and disability and life insurance casework inside regulated carriers.


  • How customer communications move from source systems through templates to print, mail, portals, and archives.
  • Requirements and operational dependencies in Thunderhead, Smart Communications, and Documentum modernization.
  • Vendor migration readiness: testing, cutover planning, and the transition into day-to-day operations.
  • How claims and policy administration workflows shape insurance systems requirements.

Discussions draw on professional experience and general industry practices, within confidentiality obligations.

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Experience spanning insurance casework, business systems analysis, and customer communications modernization.

2025—
AZAD Technology Partners
Business Systems Analyst
Client: Bonneville Power Administration
Infrastructure & operational technology modernization

Requirements, process analysis, and implementation readiness for infrastructure and operational technology modernization.

2022—2024
Sogeti
Senior Manager / Program Manager
Clients: Liberty Mutual, Western Alliance Bank
Platform migration & delivery coordination

Led modernization and platform migration workstreams, coordinating dependencies, testing, deployment readiness, and operational transitions.

2019—2022
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Senior Consultant
Clients: FM Global, Aflac
Content migration & insurance business architecture

Defined requirements for enterprise content and customer communications; supported Documentum cloud migration and insurance platform business architecture.

2016—2019
Cambia Health Solutions
Senior Business Systems Analyst
Portland, Oregon
Customer communications & Facets data flows

Led requirements and testing support for customer communications, including data flows from Facets to portals, print/mail, and archives.

2013—2016
LifeMap Assurance Company
Business Analyst
Portland, Oregon
Thunderhead One modernization

Led business analysis for Thunderhead One modernization, covering templates, communication workflows, output channels, and source-system integration.

2009—2013
LifeMap Assurance Company / Regence Life and Health
Senior Life and Disability Analyst
Portland, Oregon
Life & disability operations

Managed complex life and disability casework and contributed claims and policy administration expertise to early modernization work.

1998—2008
Standard Insurance Company
Senior Disability Benefits Analyst
Portland, Oregon
Disability benefits & claims operations

Managed complex disability benefits casework, customer workflows, documentation, and issue resolution in regulated insurance operations.


Jira Confluence Azure DevOps Visio Informatica
Guidewire EIS Facets Wynsure (Mphasis Wyde)
Thunderhead Smart Communications Documentum Exstream OnBase

B.A. Communication, University of Arizona
SAFe POPM SAFe SM
What the Scaled Agile Framework credentials mean

SAFe stands for Scaled Agile Framework. These certifications were earned for SAFe 5.

POPM
Product Owner / Product Manager
SM
Scrum Master
FLMI ACS AIRC ARA
What the LOMA credentials mean
FLMI
Fellow, Life Management Institute
ACS
Associate, Customer Service
AIRC
Associate, Insurance Regulatory Compliance
ARA
Associate, Reinsurance Administration

Expert-network consultations are focused conversations about a research topic. For broader advisory work, I work through CBA Digital to help organizations clarify requirements, plan systems modernization, and improve operations.

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