Senior Technical Lead and Delivery Manager, Consultant for Guidewire

Project 7:

Client Name : Metlife Auto & Home Farmers Insurance Group
Project Name : Farmers Metlife
Project Duration: March 2022-Feb 2023
Role/Title : Lead Guidewire PolicyCenter/Portal/Billing/Claims Configuration and Integration
Developer/Architect
Environment:Java,Guidewire Billing Center 10.0,Policy Center 10.9,GSCript,Edge API,XML,SOAP,
RestFul services,Guidewire Cloud, InsuranceNow Introduction, InsuranceNow Fundamentals, InsuranceNow
Configuration InsuranceNow Developer,InsuranceNow Completed


ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT


* Enhancing PolicyCenter for other products, states, also handling production support tickets etc.
* Document the User Stories based on client needs
* Strong analysis, planning and organizational and Leadership skills
* Priortise the requirements based on client expectation and resource availability
* Assist the Best Practices like Gunits in User Stories and follow unit testing
* Conduct Software Quality Reviews of developed Software Modules
* Facilitate Interviews & Worshops to gather Inputs for Impact assessment.
* Collaborating with delivery/project teams,stakeholders and executives to ensure successful
execution
Of strategies

* Working on UI, data model, business rules (activity assignment, renewal), UW rules, authority
profiles,validations, GUnits, Product model, diff tree, DBCC work etc. Configured different user
stories from policy info till payment screen for different jobs/transactions, LOB, products, states.
Coordinated BillingCenter, ClaimCenter, Policy Migration, Digital teams. Continues Mentoring,
coaching, team building

* Developed Correspondence address change feature to avoid policy change for address change.

* Worked on Personal lines of Auto, Home (Landlord, Boat, Trailer, Motorcycle, Classic car, Classic
motorcycle, Motorhome), part of 2 releases Go-Live

Project 6:

Client Name : American Modern Insurance Group
Project Name : Guidewire Policy Center/Portal developer
Project Duration: May 2019-Feb 2022
Role/Title : Lead Developer
Environment:Java,Guidewire Billing Center 9.0,Policy Center,GSCript,Edge API

Description:

American Modern is a widely recognized, national leader in the specialty insurance business. With
close to 50 years experience in the manufactured housing insurance sector, the company delivers
specialized products and services for residential property and the recreational market. One of our
newest lines is pet health insurance. The company is headquartered in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio.
American Modern is licensed in all 50 states and offers insurance products through a number of property
and casualty companies which serve more than 1.7 million policyholders. As part of its parent
company, American Modern's companies are rated A+ (Superior) by the A.M. Best Company an independent
analyst of the insurance industry, and is also a Ward's 50® Top Performer another well-regarded
industry standard of stability and excellence.
American Modern joined Munich Re as a key part of the world reinsurance leader's North American
insurance operations in April 2008. Munich Re has approximately 47,000 employees in over 50
locations throughout the world and operates in all lines of insurance. It is among the top 100
companies on the Forbes Global 500 list.

TECHNOLOGIES USED IN THIS PROJECT AND THE EXPREINCE IN USING THEM: (to be explained in detail)

* Guidewire Technology - The essential core systems that support the property and casualty
insurance lifecycle including underwriting, policy, billing, and claims management-a central
source for all critical customer and financial data, rate and product definitions, workflows and
business rules, across all lines of business
* Gosu Programming Language - Similar to Java and compatible with Java and has elements of both
procedural and object-oriented programming languages
* SQL - Query Language used to get data from Database
* Core JAVA - A programming language to support Guidewire.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT

I have played both Guidewire Configuration and Design for enhancements as per project
requirement. I discuss the functional requirements with Business Analyst during grooming and provide
the estimates for development. Then following TDD I write Gunit test cases prior to development.
Then I develop the code according to the requirements given in the functional specification/ user
stories in Jira following Agile methodology. I also give demo to the client at the end of the
sprint. Apart from this I also take care of Sync Point Defect fixing, Planning, execution and
delivery of change requests, major/ minor enhancements. I am familiar with GIT -used for code
storage and JIRA - used for tracking client requirements, defects and test cases. Additionally I
support other junior developers and guide them to complete their task.
Write client-side code in the Guidewire Digital Portal applications platform (Quote and Buy,
Agent Gateway, Claims Portal, Account Management) for the Guidewire web-based Insurance Suite
Applications (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter and BillingCenter) using the Edge architecture
Development of front end digital capabilities that communicate with the Guidewire Core
web-applications through the Edge Services API offering new functionalities to the digital user
community
Develop prototypes quickly to showcase solutions to project/prospective clients to help visualize
solutions
Create fast, easy-to-use, high volume production applications with the Portal applications to
enhance capabilities exposed to the user base
Develop integrations with third-party software systems to provide functional and security
capabilities. Examples include Authentication, SSO and Authorization Agent Licensing, Agent
Management Services
Unit and Functional Test developed using KarmaJS
Prepare Detailed Design Documentation for capabilities developed using UML notations
Work with external consultants & developers
Train and build a team of experienced professionals