Rob Beckmann is Principal Business Architect for eFulcrum GLOBE. Rob is responsible for the implementation of eFulcrum GLOBE’s methodology and best practices with our clients. Rob guides and mentors our clients in following a process that will ensure success in delivering applications that meet business requirements. He is a certified IBM Rational Consultant--Rational Unified Process 2003.

Rob has worked with a variety of companies in many different industries including: software product development, publishing, shipping, manufacturing, grocery retail, life and health insurance, casualty-property insurance (in Canada and the United States), and pension administration. Rob has preformed many roles during his career including: data architect, project lead, application architect and component architect.

Since joining eFulcrum GLOBE in 2000, Rob has worked on a variety of projects including: leading the requirements analysis for a major application within a large insurance organization and leading the requirements gathering, design and delivery of an ad copy capture application integrated with an enterprise-wide customer database and financial application for Trader Media Corporation. Most recently, Rob has been advising clients on the best practices in requirements management and realization with use case methodologies and the IBM Rational Unified Process.

Prior to joining eFulcrum GLOBE, Rob worked as an independent consultant, counting Castek and Crown Life as major clients. Rob served as project lead for the development of many of Castek’s business components in support of their INSURE3 policy administration product. He also helped spear-head the introduction of the Rational Unified Process® in the initiation of a new Claims product development effort. At Crown Life, Rob filled the role of Data Architect in the delivery of a pension administration system for Crown’s Canadian book of business.

Rob brings over 25 years of systems development experience to eFulcrum GLOBE. He holds a Business Information Systems diploma from Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. Rob also holds a Fellow, Life Management Institute designation from the Life Office Management Association.