George J.

Hrubec
Canton MA 02021
geo2003e39@gmail.com

781-821-4214 (Home)
617-784-5780 (Mobile)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-hrubec-3730474

Professional Summary

20+ years of management experience leading IT development, business analyst groups and
production support.
Strong technical and business qualification with an impressive track record with more than 15 years
of hands-on experience in strategic planning, business unit development, technology
implementation and project management.
Able to quickly analyze problems and suggest remediation steps. Able to think tactically and
strategically.
Extensive knowledge in the institutional, retirement and financial back office IT and operations.
A proven goal-oriented technical leader with a strength for identifying talent, building and
motivating teams that work cooperatively and cross-functionally to achieve corporate goals.
Experienced in leading financial services customers and their vendors to define business
requirements, and then working with line management and IT to deliver efficient solutions to solve
business problems.
Possess a powerful and unique combination of business and technology acumen allowing for
definition of cost-effective and innovative business solutions that enhance competitiveness, reduce
costs while improving the customer experience.
Experienced in driving value and innovation by engaging off shore vendors.
Blending Technology and Management Expertise for Business Success

Strategic Technology Planning

Projects Estimation
Business Process Engineering
Resource Planning (internal, offshore &
outsourcing)
Cloud Computing
Negotiation and Vendor Management

Mergers & Acquisitions

SDLC / Agile / Waterfall / Scrum

Project / Program Management

Budget Planning and Forecasting
Business Impacts Identification
Risk / Regulatory / Audit / Compliance
Technology Management
Incident Response Handling
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
Planning
Leadership & Mentoring
Lean Six Sigma

Experience
MassMutual Financial Group, Boston, MA
2013-2016
Systems Director IT
Led a geographically dispersed development team of 15 IT and ~30 off/on shore consultants, with
team members located in Enfield, CT; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Memphis, TN and Chennai, India.
o Responsible for the development and on going production support associated with financial
and legacy recordkeeping platforms and its peripheral business applications.
o Provided development management oversight across multiple technology programs.
Core member of The Hartford IT divestiture team. Worked side by side with EMC/IBM and other
vendors to spin off 300+ applications and corresponding hardware assets to MassMutual Data
Center.
Managed off and on shore vendor relationships including vendor pricing negotiations etc.
o Introduced off shore support model to MM legacy applications resulting in greater
operational efficiencies and $500K annual savings
Temporary assignment included the introduction and roll out of Lean Six Sigma principals to RS IT
organization. Conducted strategic business reviews for Senior Leadership, including customer,
operational, market and competitive analyses. Results included strategy redefinition, new business
development, organizational redesigns, process reengineering and cost savings with faster solution
delivery. Coached IT associates and leaders on Lean Six Sigma principles.

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The Hartford Financial Services Group, Boston, MA

2008-2012
AVP / Director IT Management
Led IT teams during the acquisition of MFS Retirement Services, Inc.
o Successfully stood up a portfolio of all applications within Hartford data center and Disaster
Recovery sites.
o Reduced server hardware spread by implementing VMWare virtual environment.
o Core member of The Hartford IT Rationalization/Simplification team responsible to simplify
application portfolios from other acquisitions.
Core member of a senior leadership team to outsource back office technology, development,
operations and support to other off and on shore vendors while driving its value proposition.
Proven a track record of maximizing the value of outsourcing agreements involving technical staff
augmentation.
Met regularly with business leaders to ensure IT strategy remained aligned with business strategy and
to prioritize and develop solutions for each business unit.
Formed and chaired Solution Review Board to create IT transparency and technological alignment.
Managed a team of ~ 20 FTE IT staff responsible for the development, business analysis and
production support associated with financial and reconciliation applications.
MFS Investment Management, Boston, MA
1995-2008
Vice President - Distribution Technology
2003-2008
Expanded existing responsibilities by providing IT support to other divisions within MFS Distributions
such as Private Portfolio Services (PPS) and Sales Group.
Responsible for directing the strategy, business analysis, resource allocation and project
management for all PPS and RSI systems needs; maintained IT budget and resource forecasting.
Acted as the primary liaison to external technology/vendor partners.
Implemented an integrated technology platform to include imaging technology, workflow
automation distributions and a portfolio system to increase operational efficiencies.
Participated on a senior team in the decisions to outsource the back office technology and
operations to further improve scalability and decrease operating cost by $1M.
Initiated the design of online self-service ad-hoc reporting resulting in shorter SLAs, greater accuracy
and increased customers satisfaction.
Proactively partnered with the business heads to provide consulting, solutions options, and
recommendations around technology, standards, strategies and governance.
Managed a team of ~ 40 FTE IT staff responsible for technical support, operation and the
development of internal applications.

Assistant Vice President - MFS Retirement Services, Inc.

1999-2003
Responsible for the creations of all EDI processing aspects (SPARK, NSCC, etc.) - TPA, Payroll Vendors,
Plan Sponsors, Brokerage houses, etc.
Designed & implemented automated process to upload payroll data for nightly batch processing.
Core member of SPARK Institute, Inc. project team responsible for the development of retirement
industry payroll interface standards currently utilized by payroll vendors and most retirement
platforms.
Initiated and participated in design of stand-alone Plan Sponsor application used for daily data
interfaces with MFS RSI.
Spearheaded back office business process reengineering initiatives improving transaction
processing and service levels by implementing imaging, workflow and automation solutions.
Implemented a division wide self-service Intranet based solution to address internal reporting needs.
Initiated the design and creation of e-commerce site for retirement participants self-service
reporting. Wrote high level requirements and use cases scenarios.
Established SLAs, SDLC workflows and procedures to support all IT core activities.
Group Manager - MFS Retirement Services, Inc.
1995-1999
Responsible for establishing retirement division IT standards, SDLC workflows and IT solutions for
Payroll Processing and New Business takeovers.

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Fidelity Investments / FIRSCO - Systems, Boston, MA

1989-1994
Senior Programmer Analyst
Assessed and supported the Retirement Services Implementation group with all systems issues during
the conversion/take over of retirement plans from a prior recordkeeper.
o Identified data elements needed for conversions, standard and ad hoc reporting.
o Created reusable ETL templates and job streams for all main recordkeeping platforms.
Two-time winner of the Outstanding Service Award.

Education and Advanced Training

Retirement Specialist Program, Fidelity Investments, MFS Investment Management, Boston, MA
Computer Processing Institute, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, MA
Institute of Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
Mechanical Engineering (Masters'-level courses)
Technical College of Karvina, Karvina, Czech Republic
Degree in Mechanical Engineering (B.S.-equivalent)