Shaun Higgins Email & Phone Number

Centurion

Head of the Telematics team and SmartDrive product.This is a UBI solution, built entirely in-house using smartphones against a serverless AWS backend. The programme provides better rating and pricing for customers based on their usage behaviour, as well as providing lift for the organization through greater sales conversion ratios and higher retention of customers.

Bryanston, Sandton, South Africa

Head of core product development and managing key integration clients.Lead architect and solutions analyst for the UBI (Usage Based Insurance) industry. Designing solutions that allow insurance carriers to use vehicle Telematics data to score and analyse drivers, and provide discounts and other Value Added Services to their clients.Instrumental in setting up a development company from scratch in Riga, Latvia and recruiting 19 staff members (17 developers) who report to me. Frequent travels to Latvia to discuss specifications and project statuses, and everyday remote management from South Africa.Managing key customers in Europe, Asia and the United States. Gathering requirements, documentation and managing the development of the solution, while ensuring requirements meet the customer's needs as well as Scope's product roadmap.

Bryanston, Johannesburg

Responsible for the successful roll-out of a major version upgrade of the core telematics application - this was a 6 month project involving leading 6 developers.Responsible for the highly successful design and roll-out of the internal Billing System, capturing billing data from over 20 servers around the globe.Led the team responsible for rewriting the middle-tier server suite of applications. This suite of 15 applications handles extremely high throughput in excess of 20 million records per day. System is fully scalable and highly-available. Best-of-breed technologies used.

Lead a team of developers with focus on the following:• Head of all new releases.• Managing developer’s workload.• Drawing up and managing of project plans.• Liaising with QA testers and business.• Managing version control.• Design of new features and enhancements

Involved with the development and maintenance of the internally developed Loan Application system.

Involved with the design, development and implementation of the Palladium Safety Health Envrionment Risk and Quality (SHERQ) system.Single-handedly responsible for the specification, design, development and implementation of the Anglo Platinum Rustenburg Training Centre’s electronic training management program. Responsible for the design and development of the Airports Company of South Africa’s (ACSA) Incident Reporting and Management system.

In charge of developing and maintaining applications on the local intranet.Developing and maintaining web-based financial systems using SQL Server Stored Procedures with transaction processing.The development of Executive Information Systems (EIS) and Data Warehouses using Microsoft Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cubes.Customisation of third-party applications such as Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, through the use of the Component Object Model.

Involved with the development of new software for the RefInfo system.Appointed Xcel Site Manager for Denel Aviation’s Technical Documentation department.

Datametrics, Information Technology

Mcad, Microsoft Certified Application Developer

Foundational Management Programme, Busine, 75%

Finished 2nd in class and was the leader of the top syndicate in the programme.