David Tunink
Management and Communications graduate from Concordia University. Currently working as Project Manager at Bucher Christian Consulting Company.
| Headline: | Innocent Bystander |
| Skills: | Business |
| Groups: | Linking Indiana |
| Interested in: | Helping friends, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities |
| Schools: | Concordia University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Bucher Christian Consulting Company, Indianapolis, IN |
| Position: | Project Manager |
| Time period: | January 2008 - December 2009 |
| Description: | - Led a project to add non-physicians to their account master file.
- Led a project for the Targeted Pull Through System (TPTS) to expand the use of the system from 100 Account Executes to the full sales force in the diabetes unit. |
| Employer: | Liberty Mutual Agency Markets, Indianapolis, IN |
| Position: | Manager of Quality and Process Improvement |
| Time period: | January 2007 - December 2008 |
| Description: | - Directed DMAIC and Lean Six Sigma projects to implement continuous improvement and quality assurance that saved over $1MM.
- Documented workflows and created metrics that helped business owners decide where improvement needed to be made in core systems. |
| Employer: | Midwest ISO (MISO), Carmel, IN |
| Position: | Senior Vendor Analyst |
| Time period: | January 2004 - December 2007 |
| Description: | - Created software needed to bring up the world’s largest energy Market system by working with MISO business area owners and outside software vendors.
- Used Six Sigma process improvement techniques to decrease time from when MISO received a FERC order to time the vendor delivered the code. Time reduced from 12 months to 3 months. - Facilitated contract negotiations on all contracts with five vendors. - Single point of contact with five vendors for any business communications. |
| Employer: | Conseco Companies, Carmel, IN |
| Position: | Various positions |
| Time period: | January 1988 - December 2003 |
| Description: | Director of Insurance Systems (1988 – 2003)
Six Sigma Certified Black Belt (2001 – 2003) - Participated in two year Fast-Track management program focused on developing strong process improvement skills and process knowledge to support Conseco’s complex and diverse environments. - Led DMAIC Six Sigma teams through project completions that saved over $1MM. o Aligned the Information Technology Service Requests with the SBUs income and expense goals saving over $200,000. o Created a documented and repeatable annual privacy mail process saving over $400,000. o Implemented a solution to reduce errors on agent commission statements and reduced the average time to fix errors from 210 days to 15 days saving $350,000. o Researched and made suggestions to the SVP of Health Sales to improve his placement and retention ratio of his long term care product from under 70% to 80%. Director of Insurance Systems (1988 – 2001) - Managed LAN based life administration system called Life/Pro in a UNIX environment. - Managed multiple mainframe life administration system, i.e., Life/70, Cyberlife, PP1, TAI, OAS, and home grown systems. - Led team of four project managers, a production team, a new modification team, and a conversion team in a matrix environment. Total team of 125 completed conversion while maintaining production systems. - Evaluated acquired IT resources and made personnel recommendations, considering current staff and projected needs. - Participated in strategic decisions to determine which administration systems would become company platforms. Initially selected Life/70 as Life system and later Life/Pro; PP1 as group system; and OAS as Annuity system. - Served as member on strategic decision task force to determine which administrative systems to convert and how. Each of 8 major conversions completed differently based upon the situation. - Oversaw security on 25 information technology administration systems. Responsible for: o All software change management procedures. |
| Employer: | United Companies Financial Corporation, Baton Rouge, LA |
| Position: | Manager |
| Time period: | January 1984 - December 1988 |
| Description: | - Managed life administration systems in IBM environment; managed financial systems in a Burroughs environment.
- Pioneered entry of a fourth generation language into company by writing the Credit Life Insurance System and the Title Insurance System. - Researched and analyzed life insurance systems; made purchase recommendations. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Concordia University |
| Degree: | Management and Communications, BA |
