Robert Hays Email & Phone Number

Thousand Oaks, Ca

Summary: Lead on-shore and off-shore teams of analysts and developers during both AGILE/SAFe and waterfall development. Focused on complex financial projection algorithms and "big data" used during the sale and re-sale of Anthem's large group clientele.-- Improved efficiency over 900% on multi-million row monthly data aggregation with newly designed AIX and DB2 batch jobs.-- Improved quoting throughput by 35 times with no FTE change by introducing a new auto-quote batch process.-- Gave new life to dying and over-budget projects through continuous improvement and an unwavering dedication to quality.-- Reduced the need of 5 FTEs for benefit document creation. Leveraged knowledge of document generation to create a powerful and dynamic word report using docx4j as a base. This report integrates with the variable quote being delivered to the client so that benefit information being communicated is directly in line with the quoting package.-- Improved the development team's velocity by 25% through clean coding and a unified design. Transformed a segmented data import/export process into a streamlined and dynamic process. This transformation eliminated over 130 repetitive classes of code and added new flexibility to the deployment of new data and functionality.-- Was chosen to institute and lead an ongoing product management discussion relating to continuous code and performance improvement.-- Consolidated 13 Anthem states onto one unified data model through consistent collaboration and clear communication.

Camarillo, Ca

Summary: Lead Software Engineer for the Enterprise Product Document Generator. The application is used to take Product data from a source system and use that information to create thousands of tailored artifacts (documents, videos, etc.).-- Learned basic PERL scripting within 2 weeks and used this new skill to provide new solution which increased automated document replication 100x.-- Created 150 best practice guidelines for new full off-shore development team. Increased consistency and efficiency of produced code.

Camarillo, Ca

Summary: Business team lead for Enterprise Large Group rating System.-- Coordinated requirements from 5 departments and over 300 users.-- Reduced system defect rate by 250%.

Business Analyst for the Large Group Rating/Quoting tool for CA, CO, & NV. The tool is used by Sales Support and U/W in order to effectively quote health insurance plans for groups with over 51 subscribers.

Advisory Technology Consultant. Implemented large scale Identity Management (IdM) configurations. -- Sold a $13 million project extension.-- Provided an Oracle IdM POC and won the $2 million contract against a competing team from Oracle itself.