Greg Ricker was handed a golden opportunity when he joined Strickland Insurance Group a little more than 10 years ago.
At the time, the Goldsboro, N.C.-based commercial lines carrier was selling its nonstandard personal auto portfolio and starting new initiatives to expand its commercial P&C and brokerage businesses. The move also signaled big changes in IT.
“The beauty of this opportunity was that much of the company's IT infrastructure and applications were being sold, as well, so the technology platform was going to be completely replaced in the coming years,” Ricker explains. “This meant there would be no legacy systems. We were moving to a pure, Windows-based platform, with object-oriented programming and real-time relational databases. This was a dream for anybody in IT.”
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