Starting here, insurance pundit and networker extraordinaire Barry Klein talks each month to the CIOs, CTOs, and other top techs at carriers around the country. He'll get a bit of insight into what the companies are up to, and the people behind the process.

Roger Buss, Unitrin Property & Casualty

Unitrin Property and Casualty is the main operating company in the Trinity Universal group of companies, writing about $600 million of standard and preferred multi-line business through about 2,000 independent agents in 27 states. Roger Buss is the vice-president of information technology for Unitrin P&C-its top tech.

Buss has had to deal with the consolidation and conversion of the IT operations of two significant purchases Unitrin has made. Buss joined Unitrin (coming from Peoria-based RLI) in 1997, not long after it had bought the Milwaukee Insurance Group in 1995. Then it purchased the Oregon-based Valley Insurance Group in 1999.

The Milwaukee's IT operation is now gone, all its business having been successfully converted onto Unitrin's CSC (PMSC or Mynd, actually) system. Buss still has 30 employees at the Valley operation in Oregon, in addition to the 80 he has at Unitrin's home office in Dallas.

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