Barry Staldine

Experience

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  Anthem

  Jun 1987 - Sept 1996

  Director and Other Roles

  Director, Billing and Revenue Control - Participated in a merger/acquisition, re-engineering and centralizing billing, revenue, payment, and collection functions- Developed a single source billing strategy that utilized 14 sources in 3 statesAssistant Controller - Focused operations on profitability by implementing profit center budgeting- Implemented performance profit center reporting and controlsManager, General Motors Claims, Account Services - Reduced inventories, drastically improved turnaround times and reduced error rates- Re-engineered account servicing that resulted in customer-noted improvement- Awarded company leadership award Senior Systems Analyst - Developed the financial consolidation system, developed a model to assure profit in pricing new business- Completed implementation of the most accurate premium accounting system in the company’s history Show less

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  The Haelan Group

  Sept 1996 - Apr 1998

  Chief Operating Office

  - Led the organization with the CEO reporting to the board of directors - Served as COO overseeing the roles of CFO, CIO, and CMO - Member of team developing predictive models of health care utilization based on history claims patterns and individual survey data - Target markets included regional hospitals and partnership development with Merck, Lilly, and Proctor & Gamble

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  CNO Financial Group

  Jan 2002 - Jul 2014

  Offshoring Leadership- Led the company's first commercial IT offshoring contract negotiation, implementation, engagement management, and subsequent shutdown with a tier one offshore provider. Brought the engagement into my captive development centerProject Management Office Leadership- Established governance model for a business aligned portfolio planning process- Moved from spreadsheet-based planning to state of the art project management tools for ongoing management and annual planningApplication Management- On two different occasions, merged divisional teams and systems into a centralized model saving cost and improving service- Drastically improved process cycle times for policy rate increases providing over $10 million of net income annuallyQuality Control- Improved software testing capability through test practice maturity evaluation and targeting improvement- Implemented risk-based testing methodologies improving key process area test case coverage- Initiated ASTQB certification process for the testing team Show less Accomplishments - Improved Medicare Supplement and Long Term Care rate increase process performance by over 300 percent while reducing staff by 25 percent. The process captured $2 million in additional premium- Revitalized a critical Long Term Care compliance project by rebuilding the plan and the team to deliver the project.- Implemented application outsourcing via Infosys on eight core health applications in six months in a 20 percent on-shore/80 percent offshore model. Labor savings are $3 million annually with an ROI of 12 percent- Implemented software release management practice across eight different platforms increasing throughput by over 50 percent without a reduction in quality Show less System Simplification/Consolidation (1/2005 – 10/2005)- Supported a multi-year process to convert over one million health insurance policy holders from multiple administrative and claim systems and processes to a single platformProcess/Strategy (11/2003 – 12/2004)- Implemented divisional-level balanced scorecard management metrics - Team member of the corporate and divisional post-bankruptcy emergence strategyData Management/Data Movement/Agency Payroll (2001) - Led the middleware development team installing a major enterprise application integration (EAI) product- Led the mission critical agent payroll processing system team- Directed a team of two officers and 25 professional staff• Assistant Vice President Financial Systems (1998 - 2001)- Applied six legacy financial system consolidations to corporate based systems in eight months- Improved throughput by an order of magnitude (10 percent of prior run time)- Reduced cycle error rates to nearly zero per month from initial errors of multiple each cycle- Implemented the first upgrades of the corporate general ledger, cash disbursements and tax systems- Installed multiple system management methodologies and quality review processes Show less

  • Vice President Information Technology

    Jan 2011 - Jul 2014

  • Vice President - Insurance Systems

    Oct 2005 - Dec 2010

  • Second/Assistant Vice President

    Apr 1998 - Oct 2005

  • Six Sigma Master Black Belt

    Jan 2002 - Dec 2003
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  Anderson University

  Aug 2008 - Dec 2009

  Adjunct Professor - Graduate Programs

  - Recruited on referral to teach in the MBA program- Taught managerial finance concepts and investment- Explored risk identification, risk management, and risk valuation including the Black Swan Theory (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)- Designed investment beta-to-return evaluation optimization exercise using the student's 401(k) funds as source data. Learning outcomes were spectacular and tangibly profitable for the students- Received excellent performance feedback from both administration and students Show less

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  CNO IT SERVICES (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED

  Jan 2009 - Jul 2014

  Chairman

  Turnaround- Assigned to evaluate and turn around the captive offshore development center. Capitalized on installing strong process discipline, management by metric and CMMI 5 capabilities to improve performance- Reduced rampant turnover from 45 percent to a better than industry 12.5 percent- Enabled the center as the key supplier of IT talent saving over $12 million annually and subsequently doubled the capability and built-out a new Hyderabad (Gachibowli), India, facility in 2012Scope- Managed disciplines including application development, software testing, infrastructure services, actuarial support services, and insurance rate book support totaling 30 engagements Show less

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  Independent Consultant

  Jul 2014 - Jan 2024

  Owner Principal

  Outsourcing, IT, insurance industry management, consulting

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  Fuzion

  Feb 2015 - Mar 2020

  • President and Chief Executive Officer

    Mar 2017 - Mar 2020

  • Acting Chief Executive Officer

    Oct 2016 - Mar 2017

  • Chief Operating Officer

    Oct 2015 - Mar 2017

  • Vice President - Business Management, Business Development

    Aug 2015 - Oct 2015

  • Vice President - Business Management

    Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
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  Senior Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania (SHIP)

  Mar 2017 - Mar 2020

  President and Chief Executive Officer
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  None

  Jan 2024 - now

  Retired