
Roy Effendie
@royeffendie
Senior Technical Program Manager at Uniphore who consolidated infrastructure across three companies and rolled out AI coding assistants, increasing productivity fourfold.
What I'm looking for
At Uniphore, I led a 12-month program to consolidate infrastructure and tooling across three companies after two acquisitions, delivering on schedule with zero customer impact. I also rolled out AI coding assistants across engineering, increasing productivity fourfold.
At Velo Labs, I managed a cross-border payments platform and led partner integrations that reduced settlement times by 70%. At EY, I led a $70M personal auto policy transformation involving more than 300 system integrations, delivered on time. I’m open to Senior and Staff TPM roles working on platforms, payments, or AI infrastructure.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
• Planned and led a 12-month program to consolidate infrastructure and tooling across three companies after Uniphore acquired ActionIQ and Infoworks, delivered on schedule with zero customer impact
• Consolidated AWS accounts and brought GCP and Azure environments under a single operating model; standardized DevOps tooling across all three engineering organizations
• Set up program governance from
• Directed development of AI capabilities on an enterprise data platform, using OpenAI LLMs to generate SQL from natural language and cutting query creation time from days to minutes
• Partnered with enterprise customers to design and deliver data ingestion and pipeline automation, speeding up development by 80% and increasing adoption by 40%
• Established KPIs and operating processes for Customer
• Owned end-to-end program management of a blockchain-based cross-border payments platform, enabling faster, lower-cost transactions across 4+ countries
• Defined and executed the product roadmap with C-level executives, aligning engineering, compliance, and business teams on priorities, scope, and delivery
• Drove partner integrations from technical scoping through launch, reducing settlement tim
• Led development of an analytics platform for a Canadian insurer, enabling real-time reporting across millions of policy records
• Designed a consolidation strategy for P&C policy platforms (homeowners and auto), reducing IT operating costs by $2M annually
• Translated insurance regulatory requirements into architecture decisions across all deliverables
• Managed Fortune 500 financial services clients, driving a 95% renewal rate worth $15M
• Led product implementations and health checks at major financial institutions, securing multi-year renewals worth $10M+
• Led Canada's largest personal auto policy transformation ($70M): 300+ system integrations across policy administration, vehicle registration, and licensing platforms; delivered on time and generated $32M in follow-on commercial auto work
• Led data conversion and integration programs at Nationwide, American Family, and other major P&C carriers, migrating millions of records with 99.9% accuracy a
• Architected Sezmi's customer-facing and internal systems, including the website, customer portal, CSR tools, billing, and user management services
• Designed the end-to-end on-demand ordering flow across set-top boxes, messaging gateway, content ingestion, and billing
• Built the data warehouse and ETL pipelines, and evaluated open-source and commercial technologies for the platform
• Led Siebel data integration with Citrix's legacy systems (Vantive, Lotus Notes, Active Directory) across 12 conversion points
• Built the conversion plan and effort estimates, tracked progress, and reported status to project leadership
• Supervised an offshore team in Pune, India through design, build, and testing
• Led data migration from the Agent Distribution Management system to a new Distribution Channel Management system
• Designed data mapping, migration plans, and traceability documents; built validation and extraction logic in T-SQL
• Delivered data and Siebel projects for clients including Pacific Life, VISA, Bank of America, Juniper Networks, and LexisNexis
• Administered enterprise Oracle and SQL Server databases, including backup and recovery
• Implemented disaster recovery using Oracle Logical and Physical Standby databases
• Integrated Oracle E-Business Suite with legacy HR systems and set up identity management with Oracle Internet Directory (LDAP)
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Golden Gate University
MS DDA, Database Development and Administration
2000 - 2002
Universitas Katolik Parahyangan
SE, Economic Finance
1996 - 2000
Udemy
Go: The Complete Developer's Guide (Golang)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Issued Apr 2021 · Expired Apr 2024
IBM
IBM® Certified Rational Unified Process
Oracle
Oracle8i Certified Professional DBA
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