DAVID G.

SEPUHA
13 Willowmere Drive f South Barrington, IL 60010
(847) 304-4179 f e-mail: dsf886e6@westpost.net
OBJECTIVE
Business oriented Information Technology executive with diverse
experience in financial services, health care, commercial property
casualty insurance, transportation, payment processing, manufacturing,
and e-commerce is seeking a challenging CIO / CTO or Senior IT
Leadership position.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
A solid 30 year track record in building, integrating, and delivering
business enabling solutions and services. A strong, direct leader who
acts as a catalyst for change, is willing to take risks, and has a
bias for action. Recognized for reducing IT costs, while significantly
improving service levels and organizational capabilities. Highly
developed skills that enable effective communication of technical and
business issues to decision-makers. Runs IT like a business.
* Proven results in the management of advanced technology, and IT
service delivery teams. Directed Application Design and
Development, Infrastructure Deployment, Strategic Planning,
Finance, Engineering, Architecture, Database, Information
Security, Network, and Data Center functions.
* Delivered major software development projects on-time, and within
budget. Managed complex application environments with a budget of
$55 million / 160 team members. Solid project management and
process engineering skills. Well-grounded in formal systems
development life cycle processes and methodologies.
* Managed large scale multi location infrastructure services
organizations, budget responsibility of $225 million / 300+ team
members. Negotiated favorable terms on multi-million dollar
software licensing, hardware, professional services, and support
contracts. Optimized technology spend resulting in run rate
reductions of greater than $30 million per year.
* Developed sophisticated business case justifications for strategic
and tactical initiatives. Facilitated multiple technology refresh
initiatives resulting in reduced run rate, additional capacity to
support business growth, recovery of finite data center resources
(floor space, power, and cooling), and simplified operations
through the consolidation and standardization of infrastructure
asset portfolios.
* Completed complex in-source, out-source, and offshore service
assessments. Experienced in the transition and transformation of
data center, infrastructure service, application support, and
business process out sourcing / off shoring. Partnered in merger,
acquisition, divestiture, and business integration planning.
* Implemented proactive planning and forecasting processes.
Maximized IT cash flow through precise financial planning
disciplines, prescriptive asset life cycle management, and by
leveraging financial engineering techniques.
* Directed the formulation of enterprise technology architecture
programs. Experienced in large-scale mainframe, distributed,
real-time, and network based systems.
 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
HEALTH CARE SERVICES CORPORATION - Chicago, IL 2007 ~ present
$39.9B. Largest customer-owned health insurer in the United States and
fourth largest overall, operating the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans
in Illinois, Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
Divisional Vice President, Information Technology Group-
Infrastructure Services, Planning & Integration - Responsible for all
core production services and infrastructure engineering functions
including distributed and enterprise server environments, local and
wide area networking, voice and call center services, messaging,
collaboration and groupware, cross platform middleware integration,
enterprise storage services, systems management, and integrated
planning capabilities. Budget responsibility for $225M expense / $45M
capital with a team of 300+ technical service professionals.
* Championed and initaitiated an aggressive self funding server
consolidation program yielding a 5 year cost avoidance benefit of
$16 million.
* Constructed the business case and secured corporate funding for a
$35 million overhaul of the corporate LAN and telecommunications
infrastructure, enabling reduced run rate savings by consolidating
the voice and data networks. Additional business benefits were
accrued by providing enhanced call center, customer servicing and
remote work force capabilities.
* Facilitated multiple technology refresh initiatives resulting in
reduced run rate, additional capacity to support business growth,
recovery of data center resources (floor space, power, and
cooling), and simplified operations through consolidation and
standardization of infrastructure asset portfolios.
* Program sponsor for business continuity initiatives including in
center data replication to protect business information assets,
and disaster recovery capabilities to enable business sustainment.
* Divisional representative to the Government Programs (Medicare /
Medicaide) Affordable Care Act. Worked closely with the business
to interpret recently enacted health care laws, and assess
application portfolio and business process impacts.
* Initiated availability awareness and infrastructure improvement
programs leveraging ITIL v3 concepts. Achieved greater than 99.95%
target availability performance with no associated incremental
costs.
* Envisioned and built an integrated infrastructure planning
function encompassing capacity, asset, resource, finance, and
deployment planning. Scope of planning included mainframe (40,000
Z/OS MIPS), and thousands of devices supporting the distributed
server, network, and storage environments. Using historical
consumption data and forecasted business volumes, a capability was
put in place to predict environment constraints across a rolling
30 month planning window.
* Improved 24x7x365 support model effectiveness by matrixing
engineering support professionals across the incident and problem
management functions. Improved Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
performance by 40%.
ZURICH FINANCIAL SERVICES - Schaumburg, IL 2001 ~ 2007
$12B national / $46B global commercial property-casualty insurance
provider.
Senior Vice President, Information Technology-
Application Services - Enterprise-wide responsibility for the
Information and Financial Management application portfolio. This
portfolio includes all premium booking, billing, compliance reporting,
procurement, SAP FICO, SAP HR, and back office processing
capabilities. The portfolio also includes all data warehousing,
analytical processing, and business intelligence services. Budget
responsibility for $55M+ / 160 team members in a highly leveraged
outsourced environment. Technically diverse portfolio of 85
applications.
* Instituted collaborative release planning review processes to
ensure alignment of IT spend to business priorities. Enabled
systematic reduction of problem backlogs, and increased focus on
new business capability development.
* Managed 5 large scale data warehouse environments. Delivered
sophisticated Business Intelligence tools in support of
underwriting, premium, loss, marketing, and financial analysis
activities.
* Supported global application development and maintenance
outsourcing programs. Hands on team member supporting the RFI /
RFP, due diligence, down select, and transition / transformation
work streams.
* Managed SAS70 Type II certifications, Internal Control Framework,
and regional IT compliance programs. Supported governmental and
regulatory OFAC / OSFI compliance programs.
Technology and Infrastructure Services -. Responsible for all North
American infrastructure services including multiple data center
environments, large scale mainframe and distributed systems,
networking (voice / video / data services), solution engineering, call
center, field services, and information security. Budget
responsibility of $125M+, with a team of 300+ technical service
professionals.
* Consolidated and evolved multiple IT technical support groups into
a regional services organization using a