Our Team

Jim is a technical lead at FAST. He has more than sixteen years experience developing software for the financial and insurance industries. For eleven years Jim worked at NaviSys/Accenture, filling various technical and business roles. His past clients have included MetLife Mexico, HSBC China, Guardian Life, SunAmerica and Securian. Jim particularly enjoys the challenges involved in internationalizing solutions. Prior to NaviSys, Jim served as a developer at Dow Jones and AT&T. Jim holds a B.S in Computer Science from the University of Scranton, as well as a M.S. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Jim has hiked some 250 miles of the Appalachian Trail – including the entire New Jersey portion.

Mike is currently focused on building a next generation agent administration and commission management system. Mike has fifteen years experience designing and implementing mission critical solutions. Prior to FAST, Mike spent nine years as an implementation lead at NaviSys supporting multiple life insurance clients, including: Security Benefit Group, Conseco, Baltimore Life, Prudential and Western Southern. Earlier in his career, Mike spent six years at Prudential building and implementing enterprise-wide tax compliance systems for life and annuity operations.

Mike enjoys mountain biking, running and spending time with his wife and daughter.

In addition to leading human resources at FAST, Steve provides deep operational expertise in a number of areas. Steve has more than 20 years HR experience in diverse industries. Prior to FAST, Steve spent 7 years as an HR Director for NaviSys/Accenture. At NaviSys, Steve was accountable for all HR, payroll and facilities. After the Accenture acquisition, Steve helped drive the integration of NaviSys employees into the new organizational model.

Earlier in his career, Steve was the HR Director for a marketing and promotions company. Steve also directed the HR efforts for a defense contractor which produced electro-mechanical assemblies.

Steve enjoys sports photography and boutique acoustic guitars.

Bob has over twenty-five years of experience in the life insurance industry in both consulting firm and insurance company settings. His expertise includes product design and pricing, product implementation, illustration and administration system development, and insurance product tax compliance. Prior to joining FAST, Bob held the position of consulting actuary and partner at the Norton Consulting Group as well as officer-level positions at several large life insurers including New York Life and Mutual of New York. As a consultant, Bob spent twelve years providing product expertise to insurance company clients with a focus on design, implementation, and delivery of product functionality including extensive tax compliance logic. He has worked with all types of domestic insurance products and in several international markets including the UK and Asia. Bob is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Bob enjoys reading, cooking, and spending time with his wife and two teenage daughters.

Cecilia has gained broad experience implementing life and annuity systems over the past fifteen years. Prior to FAST, Cecilia worked for 9 years at Hartford Life, where she focused mainly on system development and illustrations for individual and corporate clients. She also served as the liaison between the IT and business teams. Prior to Hartford, Cecilia served as an actuarial analyst for NaviSys where she implemented complex life and annuity products on the NaviSys platform. She holds a BA in Mathematics and an MS in Mathematical Finance from Rutgers.

Cecilia plays volleyball in various leagues and in her free time enjoys going to concerts and spending time with her husband.

Martin provides expertise in application architecture and design in C# at FAST. Through his work as a software architect and senior engineer at CGIForMe, Martin has designed and implemented web applications from the ground up. Before working at CGIForMe, Martin was a senior software engineer at EMC where he was involved with implementing and supporting a new architecture for a legacy system and supporting an application containing over one million lines of code. Martin graduated with bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and statistics with a minor in computer science from StonyBrook University. His research in college included working on parallel computing and molecular dynamics applications.

For fun Martin writes mathematical algorithms and develops 2d video games. His hobbies include skiing, volleyball, and Ballroom and Latin dancing.

Tom has more than 20 years experience in consulting and systems implementation in the insurance industry. He has a deep expertise in systems implementation and producer systems. Prior to FAST, Tom was the Director of Business Consulting at E-Z Data for four years where he served various carriers and producers helping them optimize their implementation of CRM solutions. Prior to E-Z data, Tom was vice president of marketing strategy at National Financial Partners for two years. Tom started his career with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he focused on providing solutions to the insurance industry. Tom earned a bachelors' in engineering science from Trinity University and holds an MBA from University of Texas at Austin.

Tom is a native Texan and has lived in Austin for the last ten years. His hobbies include and seem to be logistically limited to attending swim meets, football games, baseball games, wrestling matches, band concerts, dance recitals, and other such activities with his four children.

With nearly thirty years of product experience in the life and health industry, Jim's strong actuarial and technical background allows him to facilitate communication between business oriented and technically oriented project team members. Jim has worked with many clients to help them build systems that were well suited to satisfy immediate processing requirements and to serve as an adaptable foundation for robust future functionality. Jim has provided his expertise across a full spectrum of life and annuity products on domestic and international projects for insurers of all sizes including American General, HSBC, ING, John Hancock, MetLife, Securian and Security Life of Denver.

Though Jim generally suffers through a lot of frustration on the golf course, he seems to have a high tolerance for that particular form of torment.

John is a business systems analyst with 25 plus years experience in insurance and financial services.

John has been a pioneer in the development of automation solutions and data communication standards for the independent life and annuity distribution channel. After earning a BA and MA from Catholic University, John began his career as a programmer at First Colony Life Insurance Company where he later served as vice president of field automation services. He followed that with stints at GE Financial Assurance and ChannelPoint as director of independent distribution services. Prior to joining FAST, John was General Manager of BGA Services at E-Z Data.

When he is not occupied with the needs of his clients, John has plenty to keep him busy on the farm he shares with his wife and daughter in the Virginia Piedmont.

Don provides oversight on infrastructure design, setup, and maintenance. He is responsible for integrating third party technologies with software and systems FAST develops. Don has been in the technology field for ten years. At his previous job with Accenture, he supported an internal development and delivery automation system that supported over 150 builds for 25+ clients every night. He was also responsible for client installations and production issue resolution. Prior to Accenture, Don worked as a desktop services technician resolving hardware and software issues for Hewitt Associates.

Prior to working at FAST, Kim worked at NaviSys for over ten years, where she spent the majority of her time as a QA Lead and QA Consultant. Her clients included Prudential, Conseco, Phoenix, Penn Mutual, Mass Mutual and Bankers Life. Earlier in her career, Kim worked for Prudential Property and Casualty for 13 years, where she worked in business operations, claims processing and software quality assurance (internet and mainframe applications).

Kim is an identical twin. In her free time she loves to garden, take Zumba classes and spend time with her family.

Narayan is a technical architect at FAST. He has more than eighteen years of experience in the technology industry with eleven years in the insurance space. Narayan has been involved since the early stages of the design/development of the Fast8x framework. Prior to FAST, Narayan worked as a Development Manager at Deloitte on their Audit product. Earlier on, Narayan worked with Accenture for over nine years as Senior Integration Architect and Technical Lead. He was also involved in establishing and training the offshore team for his business unit. Narayan launched his career with Tata, spending over five years learning various technologies ranging from IBM mainframes to cutting edge Multimedia. Narayan is a certified Project Management Professional with a Masters in Computer Science.

In his leisure time Narayan loves to read fiction and spend time with his children solving puzzles and riddles.

Sharon is currently performing dual roles as a project manager and a business analyst at FAST. Sharon brings expertise in process reengineering, risk management and IT consultancy. Prior to FAST, Sharon was a Vice President in the information technology group of J.P. Morgan, where she focused on security, data integrity and information risk. Sharon started her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where she consulted large telecom companies such as AT&T, SNET and NYNEX in information systems development. Sharon has a BS in Computer Science from Boston College.

In her spare time, Sharon captures the momentum, joy, spirit and grit of games as a professional photographer.

Dave provides both project management and solution design consulting for our clients. He has more than 20 years experience providing business consulting, implementation leadership and systems integration services to life insurers including: MassMutual, Conseco, Bankers Life and Casualty, Guardian Life, Vanguard and AIG/SunAmerica. Dave worked for NaviSys/Accenture for ten years as a Principal Consultant where he focused on implementing large-scale policy administration and new business solutions as well as redefining business operations. Prior to NaviSys, Dave was a project manager at IBM and spent 8 years as a systems architect with The Copeland Companies.

Dave has four children including one graduate of and one current student at Brown, and two bright young soccer players.

Abhay is a technical lead at FAST focused on policy administration systems. Abhay worked 5 years at NaviSys/Accenture as a developer and technical lead. He was actively engaged in all stages of application development from architecture to development to performance testing and tuning. Abhay worked on larger-scale projects for multiple clients, including: Nationwide, Fidelity, TIAA/CREF and Principal. Prior to NaviSys, Abhay spent four years as a senior software engineer for Telecordia and CSG Systems. Abhay holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and Computer Engineering from University of Toronto.

Abhay enjoys playing tennis and cricket and continues his attempts to improve his golf game.

Ron is currently a project manager and senior consultant at FAST responsible for building case management and underwriting capabilities with our clients. He has more than twenty years experience implementing systems in the insurance industry. Ron worked for NaviSys/Accenture for 9 years as an implementation lead for policy administration and new business systems. His clients have included Western & Southern, Guardian and Allianz. Prior to NaviSys, Ron spent many years in Prudential's Group Insurance and Life and Disability business units as a developer, business analyst and project manager. Ron also worked as a developer supporting the sales and marketing group of Schering-Plough.

Ron enjoys spending time around anything horse related whether it be riding or handicapping races.

Rob is currently a project manager and a senior technical architect at FAST where he brings expertise in application and relational database design across various technology platforms such as .Net, C#, Java, SQL Server, Oracle & DB2. Rob has 25 years of engineering experience in multiple disciplines including technology, finance, defense, manufacturing, healthcare and retail. Prior to his association with FAST, Rob has worked in business settings from startups to Fortune 500 companies including Philip Morris, AOL Time Warner, Norden Systems, JP Morgan & the NHL

Rob has 3 boys including four year old twins and a one year old. When not busy with them, he restores muscle cars from the 60's and 70's.

Shawn is currently a technical lead at FAST. Immediately prior to FAST, Shawn worked at AdminServer for 7 years as a Senior Applications Developer. At AdminServer, he was responsible for client facing development, new feature development, data conversions and production support. His clients included Mutual of New York- AXA Financial, Fidelity Investments, ING, Phoenix Life, Aviva, Securian, Ameriprise and Western United Life Insurance.

Shawn is an avid Philadelphia sports fan.

Bill is a lead software developer at FAST with expertise in C# and the .Net framework. Bill also helps with some of our networking server needs on platforms such as Biztalk, Oracle and SQL server. Prior to FAST, Bill worked at MassMutual where he helped guide the migration of a legacy policy administration system to the new .NET and Java platforms. Bill holds a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Western Connecticut State University where he graduated cum laude.

Bill enjoys giving back to the community by fundraising for the city of Torrington and volunteering as a state certified firefighter.