Liberty Mutual's Jim Sweeney Teams Up With Business, IT To Optimize Solutions Delivery

Jim Sweeney has built a career on partnering with business and IT to optimize solutions delivery, as exemplified by his recent role as second vice president at Guardian Life (New York), where he transformed the carrier's corporate project management office, and as a consultant before that.Sweeney is now applying his expertise to support the delivery of state-of-the-art technology to agents as vice president and manager of systems development planning and management for Liberty Mutual Agency Markets (a unit of Liberty Mutual, Boston; total assets of $88.1 billion).

Sweeney will work closely with IT and the business, beginning with a review of the current state of process and technology, in order to chart a course forward. "The CIO James McGlennon and I are going to work with the business people to help them shape what they want to do, based upon where they are today," Sweeney says. He describes his role as "partnering with IT for the business."

Sweeney will also oversee Liberty Mutual Agency Markets process reengineering department with a view toward formalizing a continuous improvement process based on feeding metrics into ongoing initiatives, and he will engage with project teams to assist them in execution.

- Anthony O'Donnell

Anthony O'Donnell has covered technology in the insurance industry since 2000, when he joined the editorial staff of Insurance & Technology. As an editor and reporter for I&T and the InformationWeek Financial Services of TechWeb he has written on all areas of information ... View Full Bio