Sean Hull
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Arlington, VA, United States
Toptal member since February 8, 2019
Sean is an experienced program and project leader with over a decade of transformation expertise, redesigning, optimizing, delivering, and launching operational processes and technologies, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and managing teams and P&L.
Project Highlights
Education Highlights
Certification Highlights
Expertise
- Change Management
- Consulting
- Digital Transformation
- Implementation Project Management
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
Work Experience
Insurance Consulting Partner | Program Lead
Motivf
- Developed and executed strategic account plans and identified partnership opportunities to grow business at the intersection of risk, insurance, and public entities.
- Built and nurtured consultative client relationships, driving the adoption of tailored solutions and increasing customer satisfaction.
- Conducted pre-sales activities, including opportunity qualification, solution framing, and planning.
- Acted as a trusted advisor, providing insights on the insurance industry, technology trends (including AI), and evolving market needs.
- Advised public-sector stakeholders on complex insurance coverage needs, risk profiles, and compliance requirements, delivering tailored insurance strategies and alternative risk solutions that align with regulatory frameworks and operational goals.
- Synthesized insurance trends, data, and documentation into clear recommendations, training materials, and compliance reports, equipping stakeholders with the tools and guidance needed to navigate an evolving insurance landscape.
AI Partner | Advisor
Medici
- Developed a comprehensive brand naming architecture for a pharmaceutical company as a parallel AI-driven strategy track alongside traditional agency work, providing rapid iteration, alternative perspectives, and data-driven validation of concepts.
- Used AI tools to conduct rapid cultural intelligence analysis, competitive benchmarking, and systematic naming framework development while delivering strategic recommendations in a fraction of typical consulting timelines.
- Designed three-tier brand hierarchy integrating €200+ million product portfolio (prescription pharmaceuticals, OTC products, and digital therapeutics) while preserving high-equity "Force Brands" and addressing EU MDR compliance requirements.
- Developed an automated naming framework using AI to generate 300+ candidates across multiple archetypes, then systematically evaluated for trademark availability, linguistic appropriateness, and regulatory compliance.
- Created a reusable AI prompt script enabling the marketing team to independently conduct future brand architecture projects, transforming consulting deliverables into ongoing operational capabilities.
Project Manager
Hadron Insurance
- Provided strategic guidance and drove the implementation of efficient and scalable processes and technologies across core operations and ensured cross-functional collaboration to drive initiatives.
- Managed the successful acquisition integration of a UK-based insurance company post-acquisition, ensuring seamless operational alignment, cultural integration, and strategic synergy across business functions.
- Designed and implemented a project management office (PMO) framework and best practices tailored to the needs of a lean startup and in alignment with strategic business goals.
- Advised on technology trends and industry best practices.
Senior Project Manager
Hiscox USA
- Defined, planned, and guided the transformation of key business operating models and digital technologies, including operations, data, and finance. .
- Engaged with senior-level managers/executives and key stakeholders and worked with cross-functional business units, operations, finance, and IT to facilitate transformational initiatives. .
- Created a transformation roadmap, provided subject matter expertise, and mentored staff on project management.
- Worked side by side with the business to operationalize changes and contributed to other organizational change management (OCM) activities.
Transformation Advisor
Almiral
- Guided a detailed analysis of digital marketing channels, which fed into the overall transformation roadmap.
- Advised on the transformational strategy and plan, including process analysis and optimizing digital technologies.
- Provided subject matter expertise and mentored staff on project management, digital technologies, and transformation best practices.
Project Manager Consultant
Modotech
- Designed and implemented a project (service) delivery methodology for an ongoing stream of SaaS projects, including processes, governance models, and assets.
- Provided subject matter expertise and mentored staff on project management, digital technologies, and consulting best practices.
- Established a program management framework, including assets.
Program Manager
Mountain West Farm Bureau Insurance
- Audited, re-planned, and guided an in-flight, at-risk transformation program, including multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Engaged with senior-level managers/executives and key stakeholders and worked with cross-functional business units, operations, finance, and IT to facilitate initiatives.
- Advised internal stakeholders on vendor and contract management.
- Established a program management framework for future projects, including assets and an organizational change management (OCM) approach.
Program Manager
Allianz
- Led and mentored a team of global project managers in the planning, coordination, and execution of a complex international technology transformation program.
- Organized and facilitated the transformation program across offices, time zones, and hemispheres with cross-service and business teams.
- Managed day-to-day operations, project finances, and over 20 resources across global business units to ensure the proper integration of two disparate technology stacks.
- Contributed to PMO practices and mentored junior project managers.
Program Manager
Chubb
- Established and coordinated a program to manage and track the acquisition integration of multinational business programs for two F500 global insurance companies, including the associated technologies, processes, and financial processes.
- Organized and led cross-functional collaboration with internal global team leads and management to drive project goals and timelines and identify and deploy resources to meet target completion dates.
- Established a program management framework, including assets.
Program Manager
MetLife
- Coordinated pre-sale/business development activities, including contract/statement of work (SOW) negotiations on $1+ million business process management (BPM) implementations.
- Worked with the client as a trusted advisor, analyzing and understanding their business opportunities and needs, then delivering customized BPM solutions, implementation-ready processes, and metrics that supported those goals.
- Established a holistic/common view of the business and technology environments in which the program had to be defined, designed, created, deployed, used, and supported.
Business Consultant
Accenture
- Oversaw front-line teams that married industry and technology experience in the analysis, design, and adoption of multiple operating redesigns and SaaS technology implementations.
- Collaborated with clients and Accenture resources to plan, design, test, validate, and deliver large ($5+ million) enterprise-level process improvement and technology solutions.
- Built out project/service delivery processes, notably an agile approach to analysis and assets for the Accenture delivery methodology (ADM).
Senior Consultant
Aptify
- Defined, planned, and managed multiple nonprofit/association management system (AMS) implementation projects concurrently.
- Played a pivotal role in building a program management practice for the organization by standardizing documents and procedures. Advised client project managers on best practices.
- Was accountable for multiple, simultaneous, small to mid-sized ($200,000+) global implementation projects.
Project History
Global Transformation Program
Created a roadmap for a complex cross-functional acquisition project and led the execution.
Created, owned and led globally dispersed teams through a roadmap for a complex international (acquisition) transformation program, including responsibility for everything from high-level planning to financials and personnel management. Mentored junior-level project team leads/managers throughout.
Process and Technology Transformation
Drove a global process and technology transformation program.
Created a comprehensive plan and drove execution around a major process modeling, analysis, and design effort and the subsequent (enabling) business process management software implementation while fostering relationships with the global team and clients.
Multinational Acquisition Integration Program
Implemented a program and best practices around the merger of two F500 global business programs.
Spearheaded the acquisition integration of two large multinational business programs, including operational business processes, systems, and data, while engaging with senior-level executives, key stakeholders, the business, IT, finance, and vendors to advance the program.
Program Consultant
Rescued a failing transformation program and created a framework for future projects.
Worked with the delivery teams, PMO, IT, and executives to audit, re-plan, and then drive the in-progress core transformation program, including plans, budgets, resourcing, contracts, and vendor management.
Go-to-market Advisory
Thought leadership, including a white paper and webinar with Forrester, on the insurance domain.
Collaborated with the marketing and sales organizations on crafting strategy, tactics, and assets to grow into the insurance vertical. As a part of the effort, contributed to thought leadership, including a white paper and webinar with Forrester Research, to strengthen industry expertise recognition.
Improving a Project Delivery Methodology
Created a robust project delivery method and tools for a technology solution provider.
Brought in to strengthen the project delivery methodology for an ongoing stream of projects to clients, including processes, governance model , and artifacts/templates. A large piece of this engagement was the mentoring of project staff.
Education
MBA Degree in Business Administration
Ashland University - Columbus, Ohio
Bachelor's Degree in International Relations
The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Skills
Tools
Microsoft Project, Jira, Asana
Paradigms
Waterfall Delivery, Agile, Lean Project Management, Change Management, Implementation Project Management, Agile Project Management
Industry Expertise
Insurance, Professional Services, Nonprofits, Financial Services, Life Insurance, Sales & Marketing, Health Insurance
Platforms
Monday.com, iOS
Other
Project Management, Program Management, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Project Management Office (PMO), Management Consulting, Waterfall Methodology, Process Improvement Project Management, Digital Transformation, PMO Development, Projects, Digital Transformation Program Management, P&C Insurance, Project Planning, Consulting, Technical Project Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Project Management Professional (PMP), Process Improvement, Process Optimization, Business Transformation Project Management, Business to Business (B2B), Business Process Optimization, Workflow, Documentation, Project Timelines, Process Mapping, Business Transformation, Business Operations, Software as a Service (SaaS), Client Engagement, Service Delivery Project Management, Project Coordination, Project Delivery, Project Tracking, Reporting, Scope Management, Time Management, Business Process Re-engineering, Business Process Analysis, Process Design, Agile Program Management, Post-merger Integration, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Business Analysis, SOP Development, Agile Coaching, Onboarding, Value Stream Mapping, Vendor Selection, API Integration, Insurance Broking, Insurance Product Manager, Continuous Improvement, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Business Process Management (BPM), IT Project Management, Data Science, Business Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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