(Editor's note: This feature on Joan Falcetta of MetLife is the fourth of five articles we will post this week on our 2011 Insurance IT All-Stars.)

Joan Falcetta has held a variety of positions within the IT operations of MetLife over her 23-year career with the financial services leader—both on the technical side and in leadership positions—but of the technical roles the one she loved the most was that of a data architect.

“I thought that absolutely was fun—taking technology and actually loving what I did everyday,” she says. “I couldn't believe how much fun I was having designing databases and then the systems that use that data. That's kind of geeky sounding, isn't it?”

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