Jim Janus

Experience

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  Wallace Computer Services (RR Donnelley)

  May 1988 - Dec 2000

  Technology Manager

  - Managed a team of 10 to 15 developers enhancing applications to better meet the needs of Sales, Marketing, and Accounting.

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  Allstate

  Dec 2000 - now

  Guiding engineering leaders in planning and executing the timely decommission of a large-scale ecosystem of applications, infrastructure, and data. - Leading two application teams. Keeping apps available, secure, and on supported technology. Managing seven employees. - Successfully managed the upgrade of hundreds of Windows servers across multiple applications, eliminating extended support and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars.- Led a .NET application team as they enhanced Windows applications to enable third-party servicing of life insurance policies. - Managed a global team of 8 engineers and analysts developing a Windows/.Net/C# platform used for insurance policy administration. - Led a team of business analysts as they defined user stories for various application software upgrades - Led technology launch of a portfolio of new life insurance products. - Collaborated with a team at the Chicago Public Library to launch a revamped library website (chipublib.org). - Led development of technology enhancements to the life insurance sales compensation system. - Led development of electronic payment capability on the web front-end systems that service life insurance policies. - Led developers who enhance and support mainframe systems used for administering life insurance policies.

  • Software Engineering Senior Manager

    Aug 2024 - now

  • Software Engineering Manager

    Oct 2023 - Sept 2024

  • Senior Technology Delivery Lead

    Jan 2022 - Oct 2023

  • Software Product Engineering Lead

    Oct 2016 - Jan 2022

  • Manager of Business Analysts

    Apr 2015 - Oct 2016

  • Program Manager and Senior Technical Project Manager

    Jun 2013 - Apr 2015

  • Allstate Fellow

    Mar 2013 - Jun 2013

  • Program Manager and Senior Technical Project Manager

    Feb 2012 - Mar 2013

  • Technical Project Manager

    Jul 2007 - Feb 2012

  • Technology Manager

    Dec 2000 - Jul 2007