Regina M. Sipla 132 N. May St. Addison, IL 60101 (C) 847-738-1066 rs11e97e6@westpost.net http://www.linkedin.

com/in/reginasipla ________________________________________ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY An experienced business and technology professional with strong leadership and t eam building skills. Leadership style reflects solid business, analytical and t echnical capabilities focused on company success and innovation. Develops high performing teams achieved through inclusion, empowerment and accountability whil e maintaining project oversight. Possess strong technology, program/project man agement and communications skills. Effectively interacts with all levels of lea dership. Leverages relational expertise to connect and collaborate bringing lin e of sight to strategic initiatives and big-picture perspective. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ALLSTATE Insurance Corp; Northbrook, IL CTS PMO Delivery Manager 06/2009 Present Managing a $2M Development/Operations Budget for 5-7 parallel work streams and daily operations of Project Delivery and Operations(PMO) Team Responsible for the financial oversight accountability of the departments $70M + Annual Budget consumption/forecast. Provided capabilities/tools to 40+ technical delivery teams to increase produc tivity in Capacity Planning and Forecasting, Resource Allocation/Utilization, Ti me Submission/Acceptance, Workplan Management, Issues, Risks and Change Control Management, Financial/Vendor Management, Metrics Reporting & Dashboard Responsible for development and support team of 14+ members; permanent and cont ract employees, who are responsible for developing, validating, training, implem enting, and supporting the technical SDLC deliverables/reporting/tools infrastru cture required to support an Insurance Claims Technology Services Organization( 600+ Resources). Lead and established standard software development and project management metho dologies(FPLC of PMI Best Practices-Waterfall and Iterative/Agile) and operation al support processes. Responsible for coaching, mentoring and building talent within the team and pro viding semi-annual evaluations and development improvements Contribute thought leadership, business/technical knowledge base and communicat ion skills to provide big picture/line of sight impact assessments and solution recommendations Responsible to develop internal/external customer relationships to aid in incre asing customer service support. Data Solutions Data OnDemand Program Manager 01/2008 07/2009 Managing a $6-8M Development/Support Budget for 3-5 parallel work streams for a middleware development/support team of 30-40+ members; permanent and contract e mployees, who are responsible for implementing, developing and supporting a Mult i-Million Dollar Insurance External Product Data Infrastructure System. Provided capabilities to Risk Management and Underwriting to obtain Auto and Pr operty Prior Loss, Current Carrier, Credit & Motor Vehicle Reports from multiple external suppliers Established Iterative/RUP SDLC, Project Management aligned to PMI Best Practice s, Operational Readiness and Disaster Recovery Support Processes Re-established Strategic Approaches to Business/Functional Requirement Reviews, Approach to Map Design Dependencies to multiple workstreams, Testing Strategies (Unit, Integration, Functional, Product, Regression, Performance, etc.) Operatio nal Readiness, Disaster Recovery, Implementation Pilot/Rollout Schedules and com munication plans/schedules to support the Timelines/Milestones and Post-Producti on Support Strategies and Operational Models Claims TIBCO Integration Delivery Manager 10/2005 01/2008

Managing a $10M+ Development/Support Budget for 5-7 parallel work streams of a 50+ member TIBCO middleware team; permanent and contract employees, who are resp onsible for implementing, developing and supporting a Multi-Million Dollar Insur ance Internal/External Transaction Broker Infrastructure System. Provided transaction management capabilities through 80-90 Interfaces engaging 60-80 Internal/External Suppliers of First Notice of Loss, Participant Data, Ass et/Coverages, Estimates/Images from Property, Auto and Casualty Providers, Invoi cing/Payment-EFT, Salvage/Recovery, in support of a multi-line Insurance Claims Handling System Established Waterfall and Iterative SDLC, Project Management aligned to PMI Bes t Practices, Operational Readiness and Disaster Recovery Support Processes Developed Strategic Approaches to Business/Functional Requirement Reviews, Appr oach to Map Design Dependencies to multiple workstreams, Testing Strategies(Unit , Integration, Functional, Product, Regression, Performance, etc.) Operational R eadiness, Disaster Recovery, Implementation Pilot/Rollout Schedules and communic ation plans/schedules to support the Timelines/Milestones and Post-Production Su pport Strategies and Operational Models Claims Application Development/Support Project Manager 7/2001 10/2003 Managing a $2M+ Development/Support Budget for the Loss Information Gathering 1 5 member team of permanent/contract resources who are responsible for enhancing a Multi-Million Dollar Insurance Claims Processing Systems. Established Waterfall and Iterative SDLC, Project Management aligned to PMI Bes t Practices, Operational Readiness and Disaster Recovery Support Processes Software: Requisite Pro, Windows SharePoint, Microsoft Office Enterprise Suite, Microsoft Professional Project/Server, Business Objects, Visual SourceSafe, WinR unner, LoadRunner, TestDirector, QTP, TIBCO Business Connect, Business Works, Bu siness Events, TIBCO Designer, Microsoft .NET Databases: SQL Server and Oracle 10g Operating Systems: Windows NT(Workstation and Server); CICS/IMS; HP & Solaris/Un ix Motorola IT Shared Services; Arlington Heights, IL Applications Development/Support Manager 8/1998 - 7/2001 Managing a $4.5M Development/Support Budget of a client/server(NT/Unix) and 3-t ier web application development and support teams of 20-30+ members; permanent a nd contract employees, who are responsible for all project phases of the Full De velopment Life Cycle in support of a Multi-Million Dollar Enterprise HR Learning Management System containing multiple OLTP and Intranet applications. Managing the daily operations Engineered technical architectures/methodologies and modeling(UML, Use Cases, Oracle Designer, ER/WIN) for user interfaces (OLTP, OLAP, Reporting Applications) utilizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Oracle Forms/Rep orts/Brio Query, Netscape Enterprise Server(NES) and Internet Information Server (IIS) technologies, API layers(Java, Oracle PL/SQL), system interfaces(PL/SQL, C /C++, Perl/Korn shell scripting, ODBC/JDBC), database infrastructures(Oracle/Acc ess) and data integrity standards/practices(Oracle triggers/constraints with bus iness rules). Implemented Quality Assurance checkpoints and measurements in the Full Developm ent Life Cycle of projects/support. Excellent working knowledge of the following technical areas: Relational / Hier archical database structures, application development technologies for client/se rver and internet/intranet architectures and multiple operating system platforms . Implemented standard software development(Exceed, Oracle Designer, ERWIN, Oracl e Developer/SQL Navigator, VISIO) and operational support processes(Remedy/Clari fy) and project management practices and methodologies(CMM, Six Sigma and PMI St andards). Initiated streamlining efforts to improve systems performance(Oracle Enterprise Manager), data integrity and business processes cycle reduction. Develop customer and vendor relationships to aid in managing customer requireme

nts/service support and resource acquisitions. RDBMS: Oracle 8.0.5 (Multi Master and Snapshot Replication), Access 97 Software: SQL, PL/SQL, Plateau, Oracle 8 Client, SQL Plus, Oracle Designer and D eveloper, Oracle Forms and Reports Server Applications, HTTP, HTML, CGI Interfac es, JavaScript, Java, Perl, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, shell scri pting, C and C++, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Replication Manager, VISIO, SQL Navigator, ERWIN, Exceed, BRIO Query, Adobe Acrobat, Clarify, Remedy, PCAnyw here, Microsoft Office 2000 Suite and Project 2000. Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 2.6, Windows NT (Workstation and Server) and 2000 Hardware: Sun Microsystems Servers, IBM NT Servers, Compaq and Dell Workstations AONIX, Inc; Schaumburg, IL Project Lead / Senior Consultant 4/1995 - 8/1998 Responsible for providing the development and support of custom 3-tier applicat ions utilizing HTML, Javascript, BRIO Query, PL/SQL, Nomad, REXX Exec for shell/ CGI scripting technologies for a major telecommunications manufacturing/distribu tion corporation, toy manufacturer and an automotive service company Established standard architectural methodologies(VISIO Diagrams) for common sof tware development efforts to improve cycle reduction. Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, Internet/Intranet, Client Server a nd Mainframe architectures and software development methodologies. Accomplished major interface development, conversion efforts and Y2K solutions and Implemented standard data integrity restrictions to support quality assuranc e. Supplied identification of system improvement opportunities and solution propos als & Conducted user training and user group forums.