SUMMARY:

• Over 4 years of IT experience in the Insurance Industry as a Guidewire Configuration & Integration Developer and Java J2EE Developer.
• Experience with Guidewire Policy Center 7.0, 8.0 Billing Center 7.0, 8.0.and Claim Center.
• Experience in designing and prototyping user interfaces for intranet, web applications using various scripting languages such as HTML, CSS, XML, JSF,XSLT, JavaScript, PHP and AJAX.
• Experience in application/web servers like IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, Web Logic, JBoss.
• Hands on experience in building projects using popular IDEs such as RAD, Eclipse and NetBeans.
• Sound knowledge of various Design Patterns like Façade, Singleton, Factory and Model View Controller (MVC) architecture.
• Through knowledge of underwriting process.
• Proficient in TDD (Test Driven Development) by writing test cases using JUnit Framework.
• Good working experience in Oracle 9i/10g, Microsoft SQL server, and UNIX.
• Strong Experience in Writing SQL queries, PL/SQL stored procedures.
• Good knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies, environments quickly.
• Active participation in entire lifecycle of software development.
• Activities include study of conceptual design as well as detailed design, coding, unit testing, system integration testing and support, and also supported software configuration management.
• Excellent in defect fixing, solving complex problems and Performance Tuning.
• Experience working with HP Quality Center.
• Experience working with Linux and Windows 2003/200/XP/NT platforms.
• Experience in the Agile Development Process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP/00/03, Red Hat Linux, Solaris, Mac OSX

Languages: Java (Proficient) C, C++, PL/SQL, SQL.

Java/J2EE Technologies: Java, JSP, Servlets, JSTL, JSF, JNDI, JDBC, EJB, JMS.

Frameworks/Tools: Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Apache Axis

Design Methodologies: Design Patterns, UML

Web Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, AJAX

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g, MySQL 4.x/5.x, TOAD

Application/Web Servers: IBM WebSphere 6.1 and BEA WebLogic 9, Tomcat 7, JBoss Application server 5.0

IDEs: Eclipse 3.x,MyEclipse, NetBeans, JDeveloper

Products: Guidewire Policy Center 7.0&8.0 Guidewire Billing Center 7.0 & 8.0 and Claim Center 7.0.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Guidewire Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed functionalities to cancel/add a policy to account bill (Payrec).
• Written pre - update rules and event messages, message transport plugins for various scenarios like premium & NP changes from policy center.
• Developed billing inquiry API to send the billing inquiry info, installment info and payment history to the policy center.
• Written stored procedures to retrieve data from db2 tables to get the payment history for a policy from database table.
• Written bill print triggers for a refund, new installment and remove policy from account bill to send the message to PC and update the database with the bill event.
• Designed history log screens for the billing center.
• Created and deployed stored procedures to insert, select or update data from MS SQL databases.
• Used jdbc methodology to call these stored procedures.
• Developed transport plugins to send messages from billing center to Policy center.
• Designed and developed code to display the transaction history summary for a policy. Written stored procedures and made web service calls to accomplish that.
• Executed and generated a force bill for a misapplied payment/ reverses payment with a new revised installment or rebill the installment (if not billed).
• Manual force bill is also been added along with automatic force bill.
• Created invoice items and placed it in invoices for reinstatement of a policy.
• Created Masterfreeforms, which displays each transaction occurred and its details all in one place for user purpose.
• Created SMTP appender to log in the error and fatal messages for custom logs.
• Written gunit and junit scripts to test various functionalities like billing inquiry, payment history screen, billing instructions, Policy issuance, renewal, change, cancellation etc.
• We have done lot of work on integrating billing center with ARMS (KFB insurance tool which has information about policies & accounts and links to policy center, claim center, etc.), cash receipts (a system to make payments), policy center etc.
• Written ant scripts to compile classes and build jars and deploy them into the billing center.
• Also migrated policies of policy center R1 from capers 2 to Billing center. All existing caper 2 policies are loaded into billing center through GW NewRenewal billing instructions.
• Implementation of account creation, policy creation, endorsements, reinstatement, cancellation, renewal, rewrites and trouble tickets in Guidewire Billing Center using Java and Gscript technologies. Used Log4J to maintain the user defined logs on the Guidewire Billing Center system.

Environment & Technologies: Billing center 7.0, Ant, Rally, HP Quality Center 11.00, GOSU, Java, XML, Java Castor, JDBC, MS SQL, CVS, Apache axis, WebSphere 7.0.

Confidential, Stevens Point, WI

Guidewire Developer

Responsibilities:

• Interact with Customer Business analyst group and provide valuable suggestions on System functionality in finalizing the requirements for the project.
• Worked in the agile methodology of software development.
• Designed functionalities to add any unapplied payment to the account.
• Designed and developed a custom batch process for policy initial setup during renewal and new business. Custom batch process is scheduled and UIRunnable
• Work mainly comprise of implementing the Business Requirements by configuring the PolicyCenter and BillingCenter.
• Implemented interfaces to integrate with other external systems and services like Authentication, Rating Engine, Insurance score and Motor Vehicle records.
• Configured the PolicyCenter for all the Lines of Businesses offered by Confidential Insurance.
• Responsible for designing and architecting new functionalities for various user stories related to the PolicyCenter system.
• Prepare Technical specification documentation for code and design changes.
• She will be responsible for development and testing of Policy Administration Guidewire implementation frameworks.
• Participate in daily Scrum meeting to provide daily project status updates.
• Participate in Sprint planning meeting to come up with activities and for the project.
• Manage defect tracking and closure through HP Quality Center
• Assist with setup, configuration, and execution of common tools to increase the performance of the application.
• Coordinate with the LOBA or SMEs for the functional clarifications

Environment: Guidewire Policy Center 7.0, Billing Center 3.1, Java, J2EE, JSP, XML, WebLogic9.0, JavaScript, Ant, Oracle 9i, Eclipse3.2, Oracle 10g, HP Quality Center, Windows XP.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Java J2EE Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis and design of the application.
• XSL style sheets for XML to XML transformations to modify business services XML data as per the UI requirements.
• Performed client validation using the Struts Validation framework and Action form for storing the user data.
• Developing dynamic WebPages using JSP, Struts and Tiles.
• Used spring for implementing the Aspect oriented programming (AOP) feature.
• Developed the checklist PDF Document using Altova Style Vision.
• Uploading the PDF into the Documentum repository.
• Developed business services for the retrieval & saving of data to DB (Oracle 9i).
• Deployed the application on the JBoss server using JBoss-specific ANT targets.
• Prepared Unit Test Cases using JUnit and Debugging of System.
• Configured and deployed the application on Weblogic.
• Involved in documenting the programs and system.

Environment: Java, J2EE, JSP, Struts Framework, XML Beans, JMS, Spring, Hibernate, WebLogic9.0, JBoss 5.0, JavaScript, Ant, Oracle 9i, Eclipse3.2, ShellScript, UNIX, Windows XP.

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, Gap analysis, workflow design, decision-making rules, source and destination of required inputs
• Perform Business analysis and create High-level design and detail design of the entire process.
• Designed and Implemented MVC architecture using Struts Framework, Coding involves writing Action Classes/Forms/Custom Tag Libraries, JSP and EJB’s.
• Created web services using SOAP, to allow application and services to connect to them over the Internet.
• Designed, developed Middleware Components using Weblogic Application Server 5.1, persistence registration object, request entry handling (controller) object, concurrency object, transaction object.
• Developed the Java components to access content from content providers (via HTTP, FTP) to obtain data of various types XML, XSL, XSLT and HTML.
• Developed and maintained GUI using JSP and HTML.
• Used Javascript for client side validations.
• Created stored procedures and Triggers using PL/SQL. Created tables, Views and other database objects in the Oracle database.
• Performed unit and system testing. Created test Plan, test cases. Used JUnit to unit test the code
• Involved in debugging and load-testing of the application. Provided production support to the end users and performance tuning.

Environment: JAVA J2EE, Application Server 5.1, JSP, Servlets, MVC, Struts, XML (DOM and SAX), XSLT, Javascript, Oracle 8i, JDBC, PL/SQL, Eclipse, ANT, UML, Linux, Windows NT/2000.