Bob Finger

Technology executive, enterprise architect, and advisor with 30+ years of experience helping insurance and software organizations solve complex architecture, modernization, scalability, and product challenges. Combines deep technical expertise with the ability to work directly with executives, product leaders, customers, and engineering teams to assess technology environments, define future-state architecture, improve software delivery, and align technology investments with business growth.

Chief Information Officer (Acting CTO) - PENN RIVER - Chadds Ford, PA

(2024-11 - 2026-04)

Recruited to modernize the AWS policy administration software architecture, strengthen security governance, improve engineering operations, and prepare the organization for future growth.

• Architected the transformation of the CoreFlow Policy Administration System into a modern API-first platform utilizing HATEOAS REST architecture.
• Reduced implementation effort by 12-15% through creation of a comprehensive standard integration framework eliminating custom API development requirements.
• Provided executive coaching to senior leaders on technology choices, contributing directly to $1.5M in new sales.
• Established security governance processes ensuring third-party libraries remained current and free from critical vulnerabilities.
• Led a 12-person technology organization spanning architecture, software development, implementation support, and platform modernization.
• Developed a strategic roadmap for AI-assisted implementation processes designed to improve customer onboarding speed and profitability.

Director, Insurance Architecture - ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE - Philadelphia, PA

(2012-10 - 2024-11)

Provided enterprise architecture leadership for Oracle's insurance technology division while serving as a strategic advisor to executives, sales teams, implementation leaders, customers, and engineering organizations. Led the effort to transform Oracle's insurance software into a vendor agnostic cloud-based system.

• Partnered with sales, marketing, consulting, and executive leadership to grow annual insurance application revenue from less than $1M to more than $8M.
• Served as architecture leader for policy administration, underwriting, rating, claims, and new business platforms used throughout the insurance industry.
• Redesigned platform architecture for deployment across Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud (OCI), and AWS, tripling the system's potential market reach.
• Guided enterprise customers through architecture reviews, modernization initiatives, integration planning, and implementation strategies.
• Developed reusable libraries for a microservices-based document management system.
• Directed architects and senior developers responsible for technology standards, application governance, integration frameworks, security compliance, and future-state architecture.

Director, Group Insurance Applications - ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE - Philadelphia, PA

(2010-07 - 2012-10)

Selected to lead Oracle's strategic initiative to expand a retail insurance platform into a comprehensive group insurance administration solution.

• Designed platform architecture supporting large-scale group insurance administration, more than doubling the potential market value of total policy administration sales.
• Built and scaled global engineering organizations, expanding offshore operations from 10 to 80+ developers and analysts while supporting strategic product growth initiatives.
• Developed innovative processing methods capable of supporting dramatically higher transaction volumes.

Senior Java Architect - ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE - Philadelphia, PA

(2008-05 - 2010-07)

Led architecture and design of Oracle's Java-based insurance policy administration platform.

• Redesigned core processing architecture resulting in a 1,000% increase in transaction throughput.
• Designed and led the implementation of the effort to make the PAS software GDPR and HIPAA compliant.

Chief J2EE Architect - ADMINSERVER - Chester, PA

(2004-04 - 2008-05)

Led architecture and design of Oracle's Java-based insurance policy administration platform.

• Improved developer productivity by 300% by designing a flexible XML-based calculation engine generating executable business logic from defined insurance rules.
• Built the organization's software development lifecycle framework, resulting in a 20% reduction in new feature implementation time.
• Delivered customer-facing architecture presentations ranging from executive overviews to detailed technical workshops.

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics - Maharishi International University

Bachelor of Arts Coursework - Music Education - University of Delaware