Allianz Life Names Dulka VP, IT Infrastructure and App Maintenance

Allianz Life (Minneapolis) has promoted Andy Dulka to vice president of IT infrastructure and application maintenance. Dulka will be responsible for leadership and oversight of all elements of the company's technology infrastructure and the application maintenance activities.

During the previous five months, Dulka had served as interim leader of Allianz Life's infrastructure and application maintenance team, where he successfully managed the company's strategic outsourcing contracts, according to Allianz CIO Tom Bauer. "We conducted an extensive search and realized the best candidate was already within our midst," Bauer comments.

Dulka joined Allianz in 2003 as chief architect in the company's IT division, where he was responsible for enterprise architecture for application development and infrastructure services, as well as for the core infrastructure services and ITIL services, according to an Allianz press release. In August of 2006, he was named CIO for the Allianz Income Management Services Division, and subsequently served as the VP of Online Channel Management. Most recently, he was the senior director of Enterprise Architecture. Dulka started his career in systems administration at the College of St. Benedict before moving to Flex Solutions as an architect. Prior to joining Allianz, he served as an enterprise architect for four years with Best Buy Co., Inc.

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