Tim Poppert

About Tim Poppert

Innovative Fortune 100 business and technology leader who develops overall strategic vision and steers the most impactful and mission-critical projects and upgrades. Delivers large-scale transformation in financial services, while building strategic relationships and driving operational excellence and revenue growth. • Deep experience in building technology teams, managing large complex business and technology initiatives across many lines of business, functions, and products in highly-matrixed organizations, using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. • Highly respected for driving outcomes across large-scale multi-stakeholder transformation portfolios, and effectively building and managing complex executive, client, partner, functional leader, and delivery team relationships. • Stellar situational leadership and risk management throughout program and project delivery, acting as a mentor and guide to team members and to business partners. Passionate about helping individuals develop personally and professionally in their careers.• Awards Include: Gartner Innovation Award, 2016 | Rising Star of Innovation Award from LIMRA, 2017 | Deloitte Distinguished Performer for Innovation Award 2018 | Celent Model Insurer Award for Innovation, 2019

Experience

1. Senior Director - Risk Product Pmo (Insurance and Servicing)

   Northwestern Mutual

   Feb 2020 — Present · Milwaukee, WI, US

   Lead technology portfolio management supporting long-term strategy for all insurance product development and client-servicing programs comprising a $50M annual technology spend, 30+ different technology teams and 500+ technology resources. Delivered all cross-functional programs to create new products, product enhancements, migrations, and transformation of servicing for Life, DI LTC and Annuities, plus portfolio roadmap development, prioritization, planning and ongoing refinement. • Expanded oversight of servicing and claims technical portfolios in recognition of performance replicating operating model and processes. Run all programs for both risk product as well as servicing and claims. • Created risk product program management office, developing processes for work intake and overall impact assessment and design, assembling teams for multi-year execution of roadmap. Perform full portfolio management sequencing and prioritization. • Launched new product entering company into billion-dollar market–life and long-term care insurance product. • Saved Millions annually by overseeing decommissioning and migration of legacy system containing data on hundreds of thousands of policies. • Currently replatforming entire claims system from mainframe green screen to cloud based, API architecture. • Lead, grow and recruit a team of high-performing program managers and business analysts to deliver on enterprise priorities for large corporate program.• Consistently rated as a top performer.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

  BBA, Management Computer Systems

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Db2
• Ibm Content Manager
• IT Strategy
• Pl/1
• Architecture
• Integration
• Business Process Improvement
• Leadership
• Relationship Management
• Application Architecture
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Disaster Recovery
• Team Leadership
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• Microsoft Office
• Websphere
• Solution Architecture
• Program Management
• System Architecture
• Emc Input Accel
• Requirements Analysis
• Msbi
• Cloud Computing
• Requirements Gathering
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Adobe Livecycle
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Javascript
• Uml
• Sharepoint
• Soa
• Process Improvement
• Unix
• Data Modeling
• Product Development