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Samuel Rajkumar
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Sam is Strategic thinker with an in-depth understanding of Global Insurance market dynamics, emerging trends, and Technology landscapes, consistently delivering outstanding results in a highly competitive marketplace for the last 26+ Years in Core Insurance & Technology space across North America, Africa, Europe & Asia.

Sam's Career Summary

About Sam

Legal Full Name : SAMUEL KENNET RAJKUMAR THANGADURAI

Work Experience :

Phone : +1 (331)278-0969 | +91 9884346632 | +63 9212284382

Email | Web : [email protected] | www.samuelrajkumar.com

Status : Married to Sita Kunz | Austin | Family - Portal

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SAM'S Core Skills

  • Large Scale App Development
  • 50+ Insurance Technologies
  • Global/Regional Implementation
  • DevOps, Agile, Lean, Waterfall
Sam's Skills Summary

LEADERSHIP

82

INSURANCE

94

TECHNOLOGY

79

BUILD-TEAM

89

AGILE/INNOVATION

79

SOFT SKILLS

75

Achievements

Visited different countries & met lot of executives throughout companies. Share and earned loyalty, respect & trust. Therefore I got some achievements to share.

May, 2014

Opened Entity in Philippines

Won many large-scale projects which eventually led to opening of a branch in Philippines supporting 40+ Countries with 200+FTE's. Wanna know more?

Oct, 2012

Faster Revenue Generator

Ramped up onsite/offshore resources from a 30 member team to 90+ member team in just two quarters for G5, GIFT, FAS Computron Decomposition, ODS, OneClaim, eDSAT and Solvency II Projects for DRTC and AIGSS which is delivered currently from multiple delivery units across geographies.

June, 2016

eMarine Performance Issue

Highly complex Performance issue was resolved with close co-ordination with Networking, Database, Infra, Middleware and Application Team, A award wining case study was also published in Oct 2016 internationally.

June, 2015

High Retention in Volatile State

Kept my team with 91% retention rate for 18 Months to meet 3 critical global deployments

7th May, 2011

Double Promotion

Have won two promotions within 2 years.

Experience

26+ Years of experience and proven track record in Core Insurance(11+ Yrs) & Technology(15+ Yrs) roles in Oriental, RSA, AIG, AXA & Allianz

Sam's Experience Summary
  • Global Insurance Head at ShoreWise (2022 - TILL DATE)

    Currently Manage Global Insurance Practice across 3 Entities(ShoreWise, AxcelBeck & Intelion) with Teams spread across 14 Countries with customers spread across 4 continents and report in to Group CEO.

    Key Technologies
    - Policy Admin (Guidewire, Duck Creek, Majesco, Insurity, OneShield)
    - Broker and Agency ( Applied Epic, Vertafore, Duck Creek DMS)
    - iBPMS (Pega, Appian)
    - CRM(Salesforce)
    - SAP
    - RPA(UiPath, BluePrism)
    - Data (Microsoft Fabric, Snowflakes, Databricks)
    - Document Mgt (Hyland, Kofax, IBM)

  • HEAD OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION at ALLIANZ (2021 - 2022)

    Managed all Core Digital Applications of Allianz from Quote, Policy, Issurance, Claims, Distribution (Agency, Bancassurance & Broker) with diversely spread team across multiple delivery centers from India, Philiipines & Singapore.
    My roles includes setting directions, motivating commitments, Governance, P&L, cost avoidance, continuous value addition, conducting global status meetings with Senior Global Leadership Team.

    Key Achivements
    - Allianz Journey: Core Architecture Issue fixing and increasing adoption from 11% to 88% in less than 3 quarters.

    - Allianz DevSecOps: by using various strategies we brought 3 months to 3 weeks deployment

    - Allianz Expert:upgraded AZ Expert(video training module) which increased Agency Premium on New Product Launches.
    - Digital Bot initiative to save 1.2 million in 2 years.

  • HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS at AXA (2019 - 2021)

    Manage mission-critical Technology Platforms applications across 8 Countries with diversely spread teams (80+ FTEs) across multiple global delivery centers (India, Malaysia, Hong Kong & Philippines) Led and set the direction of Application Development, Production Support, Solutions Design, and Engineering for AXA Global Operations

    Key Achivements
    - The key to Winning Guidewire Policy Admin / Billing / ECM / BPM Rollout.
    - US$600k Savings in Budget Savings & JBoss Migration US$2.2m.
    - DevSecOps and Cloud Migrations across Technology Platforms Apps.

  • GLOBAL INSURANCE IT DELIVERY at AIG (2005 - 2018)

    Currently Manage mission critical Insurance Programs, Projects and application across 10 + Countries with diversely spread team across multiple global delivery centers(USA, Ireland, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Manila & China).
    My roles includes setting directions, motivating commitments, Governance, P&L, cost avoidance, continuous value addition, conducting global status meetings with Senior Global Leadership Team.

    - AIG Shared Services - Mar-2015 to till date - Manage Asia Regional IT Delivery & Operations.

    - AIG Systems Solutions and Mphasis aquired AIGSS     - Aug-2007 to Feb-2015 - Managed AIG APAC and EMEA Region

    - 3i Infotech - Jul-2005 to Aug-2007 - Implemented Premia across AIG EMEA ( Europe, Middle East and Africa Countries )

  • Report Author at RSA (2004 - 2005)

    Royal Sundaram / Royal and Sun Alliance - Promoted overall pixel-perfect report format for Commercial Team, collaborating Cognos Business Intelligence into Insurance for Versatile Quick delivery on-demand or on-schedule

  • Underwriter at OIC (1995 - 2004)

    Oriental Insurance Company (OIC ) Involved in Insurance Underwriting and Claims in various departments (Fire, Marine, Engineering, RID etc., ) and also was part of Implementation Department where we Installed and managed our Integrated Underwriting and Claims Management Systems (Part of MIS Dept).

SAM'S PROJECTS

Here below are my Key Global IT Programs and Project we did in past 27+ decades. Lot of Technologies went in during these Programs/Projects and I learned the value of Smart work by working hard. I am still learning!

if you wanted to understand on the 100+ projects (as of Dec 2023), Please write to me at [email protected]

Sam's Projects Summary

Testimonials

Worked & visited different countries & met lot of leaders throughout my 26+years of my carrier. Earned love, respect & trust. Therefore I got some testimonails too.

CEO at AIG Indonesia

JP Jones

You guys are remarkably and awesome! Super skilled and have a great quantity of patience.
I will definitely recommend to anyone for this Super..
Sam!!

CEO at AIG Australia

Noel Condon

Thanks for the help in making the Binder go live 2 weeks before the promised date using Agile/DevOps and leading us to save millions of AU dollars and winning customers confidence!!
Thanks to you and your team!

Education

As i know Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. I was lucky to get certified from several famous institutions where ever i lived. Here I enlisted my top certifications.

Beside there, I had been awarded as Top Scorer in Marine Insurance in the 2 year Insurance Course.

  • MBA, Alagappa University 2009

    Successfully passed MBA with my Major as Business and Minor as Systems .Start Date : Jun 2005 and End Date : Sep 2006

  • BCOM, Annamalai University 1997

    Successfully passed my Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) with my Major as Commerce & Accountancy and my Minor as Insurance. Start Date: May 1994 and End Date : May 1997.

  • Associate in Insurance, 2003

    Successfully passed Associate in General Insurance from Insurance Institute of India. Insurance Subjects are Rural, Motor , Personal Accident & Miscellaneous , Liability, Fire and Engineering Insurance.

Blog

To share my knowledge, I started blogging, Here I enlisted my top Blogs, which turned things around!

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10 Step's for DevOps Transformation

Blog 2

Leading Global Insurance Programs!

Blog 3

What's Inside an Insurance CIO Mind?

TECHNOLOGIES

Sam has extensive experience in leading, implementing, Supporting from Legacy to Niche Technologies across 4 continents and know to build high-performance Tech Team for quality delivery.
Implemented 100+ Large - Scale Global Roll-outs and have decomissioned 7 Legacy Technologies.

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