Christopher Goetze

Sr VP IT Delivery & Support, Health Life and Annuity at illumifin | Leading Technology Strategy Transformation for Insurance IT

Role
Sr Vice President IT Delivery & Support, Health Life and Annuity at illumifin
Location
Minneapolis, MN, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Christopher Goetze

Sr Vice President Insurance Technology & Product Development known for establishing…

Experience

  1. Sr Vice President IT Delivery & Support, Health Life and Annuity

    illumifin

    Jun 2022 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US

    Head of IT for illumifin’s Health, Life and Annuity business, overseeing GIAS / illumisuite software product development and delivery, as well as illumfin’s TPA IT support services.Accomplishments:• Re-established scrum Product development teams for GIAS core policy administration platform across individual and group lines of business. GIAS is a modern java-based policy administration system with a unique breadth of functionality across the life, health and annuity lines of business, for both individual, group and voluntary insurance. GIAS is the rewrite and modernized version of the legacy Genelco Life+ and Group+ platforms.• illumifin India Global Capacity Center – Partnering with the offshore management team, built-out offshore development capacity from 5 to 50+ in the span of a year. Illumifin India has employees across IT and operations.• Modernization of GIAS core policy administration system – initiated cloud enablement of GIAS on Azure cloud and open-source stack (MySQL, Linux); • Further matured agile practice with DevOps enablement across product and client delivery teams; test automation coverage increased 100% to cover group component.• Reduced vendor spend by roughly 25% by phasing out legacy technology stacks and consolidating internal environment footprint.• Partnered with sales and account management to successfully convert two clients to upgrades from legacy Genelco platforms to GIAS upgrade projects.

Education

  • ESTP - Grande école d'ingénieurs de la construction

    Engineer, Civil Engineering

  • UMN Carlson School of Management

    MBA, Coursework towards MBA

    2007 — 2009

Skills

  • Product Management
  • Global Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Api
  • Integration
  • New Business Development
  • Soa
  • Business Analysis
  • Information Technology
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Health Insurance
  • IT Leadership
  • Api Development
  • Product Development
  • Quality Assurance
  • Consulting
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Management
  • Software Project Management
  • Life Insurance
  • Multi-Cultural Team Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Sql
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
  • IT Strategy
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Software Development
  • Sdlc
  • Aha

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