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1 Areas of Expertise: B2B, B2C, B2E, IT Leadership, Program Management, Business Acumen, Business Architecture, Agile Development, Software Development Life Cycles, Mobile Technology, Portals, Metric Management, Web 2.0, Merger & Acquisitions, Vendor Management, Disaster & Security Planning, Mentoring, Profit & Loss, Resource\Demand Management, Budget & Cost Control, Quality Assurance Technologies: Oracle, Informix, MS SQL Server, SQLBase, Sybase, DB2, Java, J2EE, ASP,.NET, Groovy on Grails, SQL, Documentum, Tealeaf, Ultraseek, WebTrends, Clarity, Stellent, IBM Websphere Portal, BEA Weblogic, Oracle Incentives, Kadiri, Windows IIS, zlinux, UNIX, STAT, MS Project, Clarity, SQA Robot, TOAD, SQR, COBOL, C, Smalltalk, VB, Pascal, PeopleSoft: HR/Base Benefits/Benefits Administration/Payroll, CRM, Financials, Enterprise Portal, ZeOmega Education Bachelors of Science, Business & Information Systems, San Diego State University, 1997 Adam Solomon 123 Nob Hill Drive North Gahanna, Ohio (513) cell / (614) home ACHIEVEMENTS/EXPERIENCE: More than 16 years of professional IT experience, creating and implementing business technology systems. 12 years of recognized technology management experience within Insurance, Healthcare and Financials industries. Strong track record of project delivery for large- scale, complex, and cross- functional projects. Extensive experience with cross- location development teams, customer engagement, recruiting top talent, iterative development, architectural/system design, testing, and infrastructure. Responsibility experience over director, manager and SME level resources; Experienced with total teams in excess of 100 members. Controlled an annual budget up to $20 million plus. Active involvement with Executive Management setting IT strategic direction and organizational consolidation. Collaborative, consultative approach with employees and clients; Create, lead, direct, and motivate workforce and offer hands on approach with customers. Go to person for managing through operational challenges with acquisitions and platform integrations. Proven leader in improving applications run time, integration process and capacity of development teams. Brought rapid application systems development methodology to companies by utilizing Agile/Iterative development practices. Passionate about innovation and enabling business partners and customers. EXPERIENCE: Present VP, Application Development Sedgwick, Columbus, Ohio Responsible for application development and management of five claim management systems (TPA) including Sedgwick s self- service and mobile platform. Drove maturity and efficiency in the application management space by implementing software development life cycles (Waterfall & Agile), incident management, configuration management and change management. Responsible for working with executives and business leaders on

2 multiple platform strategies. Created business and product road maps for all applications managed; Wrote and delivered multiple year self- service strategy for company s claims systems. Delivered new web based absence management self- service platform. Manage a 70 plus member team across multiple office locations including Columbus, Atlanta, Northern & Southern California, Memphis and Cleveland; Team consists of Project Managers, Architects, Developers\Engineers, Systems Analysts, and QA professionals. Drove, implemented and managed Sedgwick s first mobile platform for our claim management system called ViaOne Express (ios and Android). Managed vendor relationship with Aon esolutions, for our international and domestic ivos platform, customizations and software issues. Manage budget and resources related to client implementations, client requests, strategic projects and product releases for companies with up to 1.5 million employees. Work directly with clients on roll out and implementation of purchased products and services. Ensure architecturally sound and high performing hosted platforms for both internal and external user base. Manage offshore development within a PCI environment. Ensure team collaboration, drive productivity increases, manage high paced work environment. Responsible for design and growth of IT by adding full time, consulting and project resources for the organization. Engage in cross platform and cross team integration VP, Merchant Acquisition Integrations Vantiv (Fifth Third Processing Solutions, LLC), Cincinnati, Ohio Responsible for all IT application development and infrastructure for company s acquisition of SkipJack, and integrating division into Vantiv s delivery models. Drive maturity in the Service Management space with organized Incident, Problem, Release and Change Management processes. Responsible for working with IT and business leaders to create the roadmap for SkipJack s IT organization. Collaborate with business partners to organize strategic direction for Credit Card, ecommerce gateway products being delivered to customer base. Work closely with the enterprise s business planning leaders to ensure alignment. Set definition and implemented roles, responsibilities and accountability for the IT organization. Sets priorities for the team to ensure task completion; coordinates work activities with managers and peer groups. Manage accountability for milestone deliverables for SkipJack s organization. Manage budget and allocates resources accordingly to follow budget guidelines. Drove adoption of enterprise project management office methodology for delivery of projects. Instrumental in implementation of adding a more robust operational support model to reduce customer interruption. Implementation and oversight of onshore\offshore model and management of the application development efforts from vendor. Manage a global IT consolidation of offices\employees to the corporate office from various existing sites. Responsible for designing and building an aggressive recruitment strategy to build a high performing team. Create succession management/leadership opportunities. Instrumental in platform re- write to configurable and single code base solution.

3 AVP, IT Application Development Nationwide Insurance (Nationwide Better Health), Columbus, Ohio Application Delivery Executive responsible for the consumer- driven health solutions that integrate health and productivity applications for our 350 customers and approximately 3 million employees nationwide. Responsible for the business fit analysis, design, development and implementation of large program delivery for all consumer and customer based applications to include Health Promotion, Work- Site Health Services, Disease, Maternity and Medical Management, Disability Management, Absence and Leave Management, Nurse Advice Line, Incentive Management, Customized Employee Communications and Employee Web Portals. Drove business strategies and created roadmaps that offer solutions for alignment with business systems. Contributed to the strategic and operational plans for all functional areas of the organization. Ensured successful implementations of projects with various technologies including integration with legacy systems. Go To Leader for customer facing pre- sales or issue management procedures. Led the activity of teams to meet department goals in conjunction with company objectives. Led team of $6M annual operating budget and work with division s financial management of a $20M budget; provide monthly, quarterly and annual forecasts on established goals for technology solutions across the organization. Informant to key stake holders on project statuses. Responsible for all application maintenance and production support activities. Responsible for reorganizing the IT organization to a Plan, Build and Run structure to drive efficiency and customer satisfaction. Directed a team of 60+ technology driven experts, including directors and managers. Application owner of all Nationwide Better Health products that are customer and consumer facing. Complete reviews, performance appraisals, salary administration, discipline and career planning. Built strong collaborating cross- functional teams with a decentralized staffing model in 4 separate locations. Advocate and initiator of overall testing and quality assurance best practices. Rebuilt strained business and IT relationships to make IT a business enabler. Responsible for bringing rapid application systems development methodology to division by utilizing Agile/Iterative development. Implemented application development industry best practices for source control, version control, application uptime and escalation processes. Worked with strategic sourcing partner to create a new onshore and offshore model to increase efficiency and reduce cost Director of IT Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, Ohio Brought onboard to reverse negative legacy issues and build high performing teams and applications. Direct a 50- member technical team consisting of managers, developers, architects, analysts and testers; Responsible for the administration of personnel, including hiring, firing, salary administration, promotions, transfers and career planning. Application owner of 35 web applications (internal corporate internet/intranet facing platforms) consisting of ASP, Java, J2EE and packaged application technologies. Created and oversaw the development and implementation of the overall strategic vision of the Intranet/Portal and worked with peers in sharing vision to ensure alignment with roadmaps. Responsible for creating a Shared Services Organization for Common Tools and Web Tools (Tealeaf, WebTrends, Ultraseek, Documentum and Clarity).

4 Managed all development activities within a J2EE IBM Websphere Portal and custom J2EE environment. Responsible for rewriting the IBM Websphere Portal platform to custom J2EE portal utilizing Documentum for content management. Assisted in developing the J2EE Fast Track program for individuals to increase their development skills. Looked upon as a leader within the organization due to a high performing and highly engaged team. Financial management of a budget of 6.5 million; Provided monthly forecasts. Vendor manager for relationships between Nationwide for both software and consulting companies. Responsible for creating and managing a User Center Design team for Intranet/Portal. Worked with Business Partners to create and rollout Clarity modules including Resource Management, Demand Management and Project Accounting. Responsible for creating an onshore/offshore application development model. Created and chaired the Intranet/Portal governance team for project intake and prioritization. Responsible for the creation of Service Level Agreements and Dedicated Service Agreements with Business Partners. Worked on multiple steering committees providing prioritization and governance to numerous IT initiatives across the whole organization. Nominated and served on the Nationwide Activity Association Board to be heard as a voice on technology IT Director City and County of Denver, Denver, Colorado Directed a management team and their members on the PeopleSoft HRMS and Financials Development Team. Project Owner and Lead for PeopleSoft Financial Upgrade from version 7.0 to 8.8. Project Lead for the implementation (CRM). Implemented the overall architectural design of the Enterprise Portal to be used internally and externally. Designed the content management system that will allow for agency liaisons to control all aspects of their Portal content. Gathered technical and functional requirements to implement HR, Benefits, Payroll and other self- service transactions through the Enterprise Portal. Acted as a liaison and main point of contact for Technology Services to gather business requirements for new applications or business processes. Mentored application development teams and guided members to enhance the software development process and life cycle. Participated with Agencies across the City to convey a strategic vision for HRMS, Financials, and Supply Chain and Enterprise Portal systems. Led an effort to streamline and stabilize operational and technical issues with Payroll. Vendor manager for relationships between the City and County of Denver and vendors. Negotiated and purchased over $6 million of software and services (list price) in software for $3.4 million from PeopleSoft (including, but not limited to: CRM, Enterprise Portal, Resume Processing, eperformance, Enterprise Performance Management, Directory Interface). Responded to proposals from vendors; Request and create proposals for any software or consulting service purchases. Wrote and evaluated RFP s, ROI s, and conducted meetings on application strategies. Communicated to Mayoral Appointees, City Council and the Mayor on software technology to ensure the City was purchasing and positioning potential products appropriately. Led the PeopleSoft Steering Committee with Cities Mayoral Appointees. Mentored and partnered with peers to help create development standards, testing procedures and release schedules.

5 Participated in IT consolidation activities across the City and County of Denver Architecture/Software Development Manager Qwest Communications, Denver, Colorado Directed 35 members on the Sales Compensation Development Team and 21 members on the HRIT Architecture/Development team spanning 5 states. Managed an annual operating budget of over $20M. Project Director of Occupational Move Project overseeing 100 plus employees. Directed and supported the infrastructure and development of multiple applications: PeopleSoft HRMS, PeopleSoft Financials, PeopleSoft CRM for HR, Oracle Incentives, Kadiri, BEA Weblogic Portal, Stellent, Custom Web Applications and multiple Sales Compensation applications. Managed the overall architectural design of the BEA Weblogic Portal: web, application and database servers, load balancing, concurrent usage requirements, fail over and disaster recovery. Approved all development and coordinated migration activities with Corporate SCM organization to complete build process. Led the design of the Stellent content management system that allowed departments to manage and maintain their content without IT involvement. Involved business units to insure a user- friendly Portal design that was compliant to industry standards. Acted as a liaison for IT to gather business requirements for new applications or business processes. Deliver proposed solutions to steering committees. Led the application architecture team and guided members to enhance the software development process and life cycle. Approved all technical standards submissions. Directed and supported all SCM activities for specified applications. Point of contact for customers in relation to HR, Payroll and Sales Compensation system issues, resolutions, and Sarbanes- Oxley. Chosen member for an interview panel team for all IT positions. Vendor manager for relations between Qwest and PeopleSoft. Negotiated and purchased over $2 million (listed price) in software for $500,000 from PeopleSoft (CRM, Stock Administration). Responsible for negotiating a $2 million in maintenance fees on our PeopleSoft software. Responded to proposals from vendors; Request and create proposals for any software or consulting service purchases. Wrote and evaluated RFP s, ROI s, and conduct meetings on application strategies. Participated with business partners to convey a strategic vision for HR and Sales Compensation systems. Member of the IT Steering committee for all major IT projects; Communicated to IT leaders on software technology to ensure company is purchasing and positioning potential products appropriately. Directed team members to enhance project management skills, empower career growth and encourage team building skills. Researched a possible upgrade to PeopleSoft 8.8 for HR and Payroll and possible purchase of PeopleSoft Sales and Sales Incentives. Managed the creation of beta environments and the upgrade process. Led PeopleSoft upgrade HRMS 7.0 to 8.0 for 25,000 employees. Directed the conversion of 30,000 employees from Legacy Systems to PeopleSoft Sr. Technical Consultant PeopleSoft Inc., Pleasanton, California Senior Technical Consultant working with various clients across the country to assist and/or run implementation services for PeopleSoft HRMS products.

6 Client: Kings County Hanford, California PeopleSoft HRMS 7.51 Re- Implementation Assisted client in an upgrade/re- implementation of PeopleSoft HRMS, Payroll and Base Benefits from version 3.2 to Worked with the client technical staff in payroll system testing, creating and moving projects from development to production, troubleshooting SQR s, writing Query/Crystal Reports and loading tables with Import Manager. Responsible for various problem support and issues resolution for system testing. Client: Los Angeles Community Development Commission Los Angles, California PeopleSoft HRMS Lab Implementation Worked as Technical resource for PeopleSoft HRMS 7.5 Lab Implementation. Responsible for all aspects of conversion including all HR, Benefits, and Payroll mapping and creating Import Manager templates within PeopleTools. Main contact for all conversion issues with client. Client: Kaiser Permanente Oakland, California Implementation Team Member Engaged in setting up all benefits for a new division being converted into PeopleSoft. Acted as the liaison between technical and functional groups within implementation Senior Technical Consultant Resource Support Associates, Englewood, Colorado Clients include: PeopleSoft Inc., Kaiser Permanente, and Coors Brewery. Worked as Technical Implementation Lead for Kaiser s union/non- union Rocky Mountain Region Conversion to PeopleSoft HR/Base Benefits and Payroll Interface application. Converted 4500 people from an HP3000 to PeopleSoft version 7.5. Responsible for mapping HR and Benefits and assisted with the Payroll mapping for interface. Designed and wrote manual for Query/Crystal class. Performed training class to client and answered any reporting questions. Tested the PeopleSoft 7.0 HRMS/Public Sector Student Administration product through its entire life cycle across most PeopleSoft Supported platforms using SQA Robot and PeopleTools 7. REFERENCES: To be provided upon request.