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Jaywant Verma

Heathwood,QLD

Summary

Results-driven Development Manager known for leading projects to completion with efficiency and productivity. Skilled in strategic planning, team leadership, and agile methodologies. Excel in communication, problem-solving, and adaptability, ensuring successful project outcomes through collaboration and innovative thinking.

Accomplished Development Manager with experience in planning and executing viable development strategies. Possess strong skills in team leadership, project management, and strategic planning. Successful track record of driving growth through innovative approaches and fostering collaborative relationships among teams. Demonstrated ability to leverage technology to support business objectives and improve operational efficiencies.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Development Manager

Auto and General Holdings Pty Ltd
Brisbane, Australia
07.2018 - Current
  • Company Overview: Auto and General Holdings Pty Ltd is an insurance underwriter and services provider in the Australian General Insurance Industry. With over 8,000 employees across 31 Global Offices and over 8.9 million customers worldwide. Offering insurance products for Car, Home and Contents, Travel, Life, Health etc. Auto and General has been operating in Australia since 2000 and now issues over 75,000 policies across various products every month and has more than 1,400 employees.
  • Successfully implemented high-visibility and strategically important projects such as Travel DSO, Cloud-based Travel Pricing, Online Policy Manager Password-less login, Roadside Realtime API, Online Policy Manager Partner Branding and Roadmap initiatives, Project Eagle for OPM, etc.
  • Provided reporting and justification to Executive Management team for technology initiatives approval.
  • Successfully implemented process improvements in addressing development environment stability issues.
  • Championed improvements in estimation and project delivery and execution in consultation with General Manager.
  • Established a culture of system monitoring, compliance reporting and quality software delivery in consultation with General Manager.
  • Continuously worked on improving employee engagement scores of development teams.
  • In consultation with senior management spearheaded the successful development and implementation of SFIA 7 based developer skills roadmap providing career and professional growth path for developers.
  • Achieved very high engagement scores for IT services specific to Lifestyle internal customers.
  • Successfully introduced a new Team Lead role across the department while jointly working with fellow Development Managers and General Managers, thereby introducing management career path for aspiring developers.
  • Auto and General Holdings Pty Ltd is an insurance underwriter and services provider in the Australian General Insurance Industry. With over 8,000 employees across 31 Global Offices and over 8.9 million customers worldwide. Offering insurance products for Car, Home and Contents, Travel, Life, Health etc. Auto and General has been operating in Australia since 2000 and now issues over 75,000 policies across various products every month and has more than 1,400 employees.
  • Heading the Digital Home Sales and Service software development in the capacity of Development Manager.
  • Leading two teams of 7 multi-stack developers each and 1 test automation engineer to deliver business priorities from small to large scale.
  • Creating a safe and highly efficient work environment for all agile teams to continuously deliver high-quality software.
  • Championing and embracing Agile Methodologies for Software Development.
  • Mentoring, coaching and guiding developers in the team to enhance their development skills and soft skills.
  • Managing full ownership and accountability of the build and delivery of business opportunities, aligned with the overarching business strategic goals, while following established software design and architecture patterns.
  • Inspecting and adapting the software development best practices continuously to maximise value delivery output with equal focus on cost, culture, customer and employee engagement.
  • Reporting and remediating compliance issues promptly, thereby minimising exposure to regulatory risk.
  • Collaborating with Technology Architecture team to quickly operationalise recommended improvements in technology stack, build pipelines, developer tooling etc.
  • Ensuring build costs are within tolerance by tracking and reporting large initiatives, thereby maximising ROI.
  • Partnering with General Managers to roll out Technology Strategy into actionable operational tasks.
  • Ensuring an always on application and system environment, to maximise the system availability in order to ensure customer satisfaction and meet regulatory requirements.

Developer and Lead Developer

Auto and General Holdings Pty Ltd
Brisbane, Australia
03.2013 - 06.2018
  • Successfully implemented high-visibility and strategically important projects such as Life, Travel, Income Protection, PCI-DSS etc.
  • Played a crucial and key role in the Development and Technical Design of all Life Insurance projects, Travel and Income Protection. Gained essential core business rules experience, which allowed for the delivery of optimal business solutions.
  • Consistently partnered with team members to deliver quality work under strict timelines.
  • Proposed and Championed the build of the Travel Component rating engine as a Java Microservice, allowing the business to transition towards a more modern technology stack for Rating services.
  • Spearheaded development using modern APIs written on IBM i and setting an example for other teams to follow.
  • Encouraged the Lifestyle development team to undertake complex Document Generation work, which at the time was only looked after by a handful of niche developers, thereby creating knowledge and skills within the Lifestyle development team.
  • Became one of the first RPG developers to be nominated for Front-end and Java training, which was accomplished alongside a three-month hands-on training environment within the Front-end support team, allowing for skills development. This enabled me to start transitioning from RPG to Front-End and Java development.
  • Won the QVP award for January and October 2016.
  • Championed and embraced Agile Methodologies for software development during the infancy of the Agile Transformation initiated in 2017.
  • Mentored other developers in the team to enhance their development skills and soft skills.
  • Worked as Senior Developer and Scrum Master for the Lifestyle Digital team.
  • Designed and Implemented solutions, using frameworks such as 3T, XMLI, CSAPI 1.0 and 2.0, AngularJS, AWS, Javascript, CSS and HTML.
  • Embraced the role of key technical person for Life, Travel, Health, Roadside and Income Protection apps.
  • Analysed systems for minor and major project enhancements and provided high level estimates. Ensured sprint goals and story points were aligned with the estimated deliverables.
  • Interacted and engaged with customers and key stakeholders to discuss system requirements, specifications, and agree on timelines for project and feature requests.
  • Coordinated and ensured quality system testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing.
  • Adhered to guidelines of change management processes and recommended improvements in the guidelines and processes where appropriate.
  • Monitored test and production environments and ensured high availability of all systems.
  • Acted as a technical consultant from time to time for key technology decisions within the Lifestyle team.
  • Provided key inputs in Guild meetings, and ensured concerns and queries from other teams were resolved, in the form of recommendations to improve overall system architecture and design.

Software Engineer/Team Lead

Region Technologies Inc.
Madison, USA
02.2010 - 09.2012
  • Company Overview: WEA Trust is a Wisconsin (USA) based, not-for-profit insurer, offering health, dental, disability, life, and long-term care insurance for employees, employers, and retirees.
  • Successfully implemented high-visibility and high-ROI projects under challenging timelines and high-pressure environments. Wisconsin State Health Fund insurance with $100 million plus ROI, Claims Cost Reduction with $200 million plus savings over 5 years.
  • Contributed to solutions for all applications at customer site, including Health Claims, Dental Claims, Disability, Data Warehouse, Underwriting, Actuary, Provider Contracting, Accounting, Workflow Management System (MACESS), and Eligibility Information System.
  • WEA Trust is a Wisconsin (USA) based, not-for-profit insurer, offering health, dental, disability, life, and long-term care insurance for employees, employers, and retirees.
  • Developed and maintained custom RPG applications and solutions.
  • Implemented new solutions for processing XML files using CGIDEV2 toolkit.
  • Maintained existing workflows and data mappings using Informatica PowerCenter 8.5.1.
  • Analysed Systems for minor and major project enhancements.
  • Provided 24x7 production support requiring a high degree of analytical skills.
  • Developed accurate effort estimates for deliverables.
  • Interacted with customers to discuss system requirements, specifications, and timelines.
  • Coordinated system testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing.
  • Adhered to guidelines of change management processes and contributed towards keeping them up-to-date and current.
  • Provided Proof of Concept for new technology implementations, using RPG on AS/400.
  • Applied in-depth knowledge of SQL query tuning and performance improvement of batch queries.
  • Worked with SQL Triggers, Functions, and Procedures; applied concepts of commitment control.

Assistant Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Wayne, USA
06.2006 - 01.2010
  • Company Overview: Toys"R"Us, Inc. is the world's leading dedicated toy and juvenile products retailer with a presence in more than 625 international stores and over 140 licensed stores in 35 countries. It is headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey, USA.
  • Successfully transitioned work from outgoing vendor and established an operational rhythm with onshore and offshore teams in consultation with the Account Manager and the Business Relationship Manager.
  • Maintained and enhanced multi-platform Data Warehouse applications.
  • Managed a team of developers onshore and offshore, in the capacity of a Data Warehouse Lead.
  • Provided 24x7 production support for Data Warehouse applications and resolved production issues quickly and accurately.
  • Toys"R"Us, Inc. is the world's leading dedicated toy and juvenile products retailer with a presence in more than 625 international stores and over 140 licensed stores in 35 countries. It is headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey, USA.
  • Coordinated project tasks between onshore and offshore teams, acting as a single point of contact between functional and technical teams to successfully mitigate issues and communicate requirements.
  • Effectively communicated between IT teams spread across multiple geographic regions, demonstrating team management and coordination.
  • Interacted with key stakeholders to discuss system requirements and specifications, including the Executive Management team.
  • Developed accurate effort estimates for complex applications solutions and ensured on time and on schedule delivery of complex data warehouse upgrades.
  • Monitored key business processes to ensure smooth IT operations and on-time and accurate data reporting to the users of the Data Warehouse.
  • Resolved technical and functional requests from customers and team members.
  • Handled complex data warehouse processes using RPG and CL batch jobs.
  • Successfully deployed Data Warehouse extraction and transformation applications designed in RPG and CL across a multi-server and multi-time zone environment.
  • Designed, coded, tested, and implemented custom RPG applications and Data Warehouse solutions.
  • Analysed systems for minor and major Data Warehouse enhancements.
  • Provided round-the-clock production support with 99.9% Customer Satisfaction Rating.

Education

Masters of Computer Applications -

Hamdard University
New Delhi, India

Bachelors of Computer Applications -

Apeejay Insititute of Technology (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University)
Greater Noida, India

Skills

  • General Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Health Insurance
  • Retail
  • IBM i-Series
  • AWS Cloud Based Web Applications
  • Java Core
  • JavaScript
  • RPG
  • SQL
  • CL
  • XSLT
  • DB2
  • OS/400
  • IBM i
  • Hawkeye
  • Robot
  • Probe
  • Data Mirror
  • Websphere Development Studio
  • SPSS Showcase
  • Hyperion Essbase
  • XML
  • Informatica PowerCenter
  • X12
  • EDI
  • IntelliJ
  • SOAPUI
  • Postman
  • Budokan
  • Aldon
  • Git
  • Microsoft VSS
  • MKS Implementer
  • Bamboo
  • Jenkins
  • New Relic
  • Sumologic
  • VictorOps
  • Project management
  • Agile methodologies
  • Process improvements
  • Compliance reporting
  • Team building
  • Effective communication
  • Solution implementation
  • Team development strategies
  • Training material development
  • Cross-functional team development
  • Staff presentations
  • Employee assessment
  • Time management abilities
  • Workload management
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Staff development
  • Career development planning
  • Management staff collaboration

Certification

  • ICAgile Certified Professional, 12/2017
  • IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 9 Fundamentals, 08/2010
  • Professional Academy for Healthcare Management (PAHM), 03/2009

Professional Recognition

  • Awarded Star of the Month in 2006 with TATA Consultancy Services
  • Received commendation from Regional Manager on successful delivery of Multi-Platform/Multi-Technology Data Warehouse for Toys R Us International, October 2009
  • Earned numerous commendations from various clients on successfully handling and deploying high-ROI and high-visibility projects (over entire career)
  • Won QVP award for January and October 2016 at Auto & General

Timeline

Development Manager

Auto and General Holdings Pty Ltd
07.2018 - Current

Developer and Lead Developer

Auto and General Holdings Pty Ltd
03.2013 - 06.2018

Software Engineer/Team Lead

Region Technologies Inc.
02.2010 - 09.2012

Assistant Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
06.2006 - 01.2010

Masters of Computer Applications -

Hamdard University

Bachelors of Computer Applications -

Apeejay Insititute of Technology (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University)

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