Tony Manavalan

Tony Manavalan is a highly experienced and accomplished enterprise software development and management professional with over 15 years of experience in IT and software development. He has worked in South Africa and the USA and is currently serving as the ICT Manager Modernization. Previously, he has worked as Head of Application Development at FNB, where he led teams of up to 50 people on bank-wide rollouts and was a global award winner for innovation. He has also worked at Eliance, where he cut development team productivity "idle time" by five times.

Tony has a comprehensive background in software development and management, best practices, innovation, architecture, analysis, quality, and problem-solving, as well as in management of resources, teams, and budgets. He has excellent expertise in performance management, risk and cost analysis, business cases, research and development, contract negotiations, training and skills development, and change management. Some of the technologies that he is proficient in include J2EE, JPA, JSF, Facelets, Hibernate, Junit, TestNG, Spring, Oracle SOA Suite, EJB 3, Maven, MQ, TopLink, Java 1.5, JDeveloper, Mastercraft (IDE - Tata Consulting Services), Eclipse, Hibernate UML, Postgres.

Tony has studied various courses, including a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General, PCC, Professional Coaching Course, PGDMP, Post-Graduate Diploma in Management Practice, Management & Strategy, and a Diploma in Datametrics, Computer Science & Mathematics.

In terms of organizations, Tony has served as a Technology Advisor at IdeaGist International Blockchain Incubator and been Chief Opportunity Finder & Co-Founder at www.keto-coin.io. He has also worked as an ICT Manager Modernization at GPAA (Government Pensions Administration Agency), an Applications Development Manager at FNB South Africa, a WEB & R&D DEVELOPMENT MANAGER at Eliance - Bidvest Group, a SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT COACH - JAVA CONSULTANT at (Freelancer), a JAVA ARCHITECT & TEAM LEAD at Old Mutual, a PROJECT LEAD & ARCHITECT - PROJECT MANAGER at Sanlam, a SYSTEMS ANALYST at Magmatec, a PROGRAMMER - TEAM LEADER at UCS Solutions, a SENIOR TRAINER at NIIT, an IT MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN at Rustenberg Chamber of Commerce, a DATA ANALYST at Rainbow Chickens, and an IT TECHNICIAN at Trans Cash and Carry.