About

Hello! I am Gari Gono. Solutions Architect and Podcast host.

I have worked in the Insurance Technology space for most of my career, but I have also dabbled in Law and Retail. Currently hosting a podcast on diversity within the work place, No Brown in Town. Learn More

Basic Information
Email:
me@garik.ai
Phone:
+44 7963 328 501
Language:
English, Shona, A1 German
Professional Skills
Strategy
100%
Cloud Platforms
75%
DevOps
80%
Requirements Analysis
100%
Web Development
75%
Solution Design
100%
Work Experience

December 2017 - Present

INSTANDA
Head of Solutions

Responsible for setting up and leading the Solutions (Product) function. Reporting directly to the CEO, I have built a team of various capabilities to support the entire business in delivering the platform to clients, and prospects. This included working with the sales, account management, configuration, and engineering functions to enable the platform was meeting the clients’ requirements.

January 2017 - December 2017

Deloitte
Technology Consultant

Working in the Financial Services application team with a focus on technology solutions for the insurance industry. The team mainly delivered solutions for Tier 1 and Tier 2 insurers in the UK, focusing on large scale transformations, using technologies such as Xuber, Guidewire, CDL, and SSP. I worked very closely with the Analytics and Information Management team to develop coherent end to end solutions.

September 2013 - December 2016

Zurich Insurance
Solutions Architect

Worked as part of the Strategy, Architecture, and Governance team. My key projects were leading the development of a Customer Engagement Hub for the Municipal clients. I was also responsible for the Claims Technology portfolio and leading on the consolidation of this portfolio. Worked on a merger and acquisition of a smaller broker and the merging of the technology capabilities between the two organisations.

Education

2009-2013

Master's Degree
Master of Engineering

University of Birmingham

MEng in Computer Systems Engineering. Focused on pattern recognition and data mining. Master's thesis was based on automatically finding requirements from Railway Policy documents; using Semantic Analysis and other NLP methods.

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