Saul Rodriguez Email & Phone Number

Lansing, Mi, Us

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Denver, Co, Us

• Manage a global team of 200+ software and QA engineers in the product development and daily operations of multiple SaaS-based insurance/securities licensing and compliance solutions.• Drive consistency in practice between locations; help scale an Agile transition with a self-sustaining process and continuous improvement culture.• Maintain relationships with customers who are actively using the software, including Top 100 insurance carriers, Top 10 broker-dealer, and large state governments. • Lead development of a cloud-enabled micro services platform using containerized services (Kubernetes), event-driven architecture (Kafka), and includes data warehouse capabilities (Postgres).• Foster a culture of empowerment by growing leaders, providing transparency, and building camaraderie within teams.

Denver, Co, Us

• Led multiple cross-functional teams in the design and development of an enterprisemicroservice-based platform to serve the insurance and securities industries.• Collaborated with Product Management on identifying business priorities, developing XD prototype that clarified the platform vision, and developed the technical roadmap. • Visited customers to gather requirements, answer RFPs and present on product technical vision. • Led the continuous improvement of security best practices within the SDLC by building a specialized development team that provides scale to the development department.

Denver, Co, Us

• Led cross-functional teams in the design and development of enterprise products for the insurance and securities industries.• Managed offshore development teams and contributed to the development of strategic product roadmaps.• Oversaw the evolution of offshore development from waterfall to agile processes, increasing productivity by 105%. • Led evaluation for direction of new platform development to consolidate the product portfolio.

Denver, Co, Us

• Coached development teams by providing honest, constructive feedback.• Empowered teams by giving individuals freedom to make decisions, while being available for advice and helping them tackle big problems.• Communicated company goals to the team effectively to align, engage, and motivate individuals towards excellence.• Practiced active listening to discover issues and concerns of employees.• Drove continuous improvement of processes, teams, and develop careers.• Fostered a positive, results-driven culture that encouraged an above-and-beyond attitude.• Maintained and grew technical competencies, working side-by-side with the team when necessary.

• Lead systems developer on a J2EE-based licensing system designed for state government use. • Product development, mentored other developers, performed code-reviews, and managed an outsourced development team. • Coordinated with an off-site partner who was responsible for requirements and QA for the system.

• Web developer on key Sircon products: Compliance Express and Sircon for States. • Helped lead the way in converting Compliance Express from a PowerBuilder web application to a J2EE solution. • Participated in the earliest design and development of Sircon for States, a J2EE replacement for COSMOS. • Performed peer code reviews, mentored junior developers, and established code conventions and standards.

• PL/SQL developer and served as a database administrator on the team. • Designed, developed, implemented, and enhanced a PowerBuilder 6.5 state insurance regulatory system, COSMOS. • Performed database administration functions for the support of the COSMOS system for the state insurance regulatory departments in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming. • Assisted in the data conversion for Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Ohio, Indiana and Wyoming insurance departments.