Describe your career to date
After 12 years of active duty as an USAF, Aircraft Maintenance and Logistics Officer during the first Gulf War, I joined the USAF Reserves and continued with an additional 15 years of service, ultimately retiring as a Colonel. Accomplishments include transformation of largest USAF Engine repair facility, supply chain improvement for nuclear weapons refurbishment, and corrosion identification and repair processes for RAF, F-3 Tornado fleet.
Upon shifting to the Reserves, I joined the first cadre of General Electric’s Six Sigma BlackBelts and Master BlackBelts supporting financial services. With a process focus, data access, refreshed statistical tools, and an emphasis on change management, I initiated Lean and Six Sigma programs at CitiCapital, SAS and The Hartford Insurance Group. I then took my process improvement and strategy expertise to consulting and worked independently and as a Director with PwC. Known as “the Bowtie Data Guy,” I was afforded the opportunity to be the inaugural Chief Data and Analytics Officer at AXA US, in their Life and Annuity organization prior to being spun off as The Equitable.
At AXA, I was responsible for model development in Life Insurance applications and designing agent-based, virtual population for annuity artificial intelligence (AI) model simulations. I then became the inaugural Chief Data and Technology Officer at HSB, a division of MunichRe, for five years. There, I implemented the first MunichRe cloud environment and Master Data Management initiative. I then started data curiosity as a data strategy and technical evaluation venture focused on preparing organizations for generative AI (genAI) opportunities. Recently selected as the Chief Data Officer for Verisk Analytics.