SUMMARY

• 20+ years of diversified experience in designing, developing and testing multi - tier, intranet and internet applications using Guidewire, Java, J2EE, DB2, Oracle and Application Servers.
• 9+ years of experience in Guidewire Suite of products (PolicyCenter / ClaimCenter / BillingCenter / ContactCenter) as architect / lead developer.
• Experienced in architecting and lead developing and testing applications using tools Guidewire Studio, IBM RSA / RAD, JBoss Developer Studio, Eclipse and application servers WebSphere, WebLogic and Tomcat
• Experienced in working as a mentor for team members working in Guidewire, Java, J2EE, and Application Servers
• Experienced in Agile and Waterfall project development methodologies.
• 6+ years of experience in developing applications using JSF, Struts, Spring Framework and Hibernate.
• Experienced in support, maintenance and working on enhancements for production applications.
• Hands on experience in the complete life cycle implementation of software development (SDLC) and Guidewire implementations.
• Quick learner and excellent team player with ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Excellent problem solving skills with a strong technical background and good interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Analysis & Design / Tools: Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML and RSA, Rational Rose, MS Visio

Methodologies / Tools: Agile, Waterfall, SOW (Statement of Work), Rally.

Programming / Frameworks: Gosu, GTest, Java, Java Swing, Servlets, Java Server Pages, Struts, JSF, JDBC, JMS, JPA, Hibernate, Spring Framework, EJB, Web Services, SOA, WSDL, JAX-RPC, JAXB, JAX-WS, JBossWS, HTML, JSON, XML, XStream, Java script, Dojo, JUnit, EasyMock, C, C++, Cobol, Perl.

Development Tools: Guidewire studio, IBM Rational Tools, JBoss Developer Studio, Eclipse.

Application/ Web Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat.

Databases / Tools: Db2, Oracle, MS-SQL Server, h2, Toad, AQT, Oracle Reports.

Source Repositories: Git, Subversion, Rational Clear Case, Dimensions, CVS, Visual Source SafeOthers: Confluence, Ant, Maven, HP Service Desk, HP Service Manager, JProfiler, JProbe, Klocwork, Continuous Integration (CI), Rational Buildforge, Hudson, Jenkins, ActiveMQ, Thunderhead, Imageright.

Operating Systems: Windows10, Windows 7, Windows XP, Unix, Linux, Aix, Ms-DOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Guidewire Architect

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with client business teams to understand business objectives and integration requirements for Workers Comp line of business
• Estimating the effort required to build necessary integration programs
• Detailed Design and Develop an overall integration for integration point identified as part of User Story.
• Producing technical design documents for integration programs
• Working with the Guidewire development team to further develop integration adapters and other integration mechanisms.
• Developing custom integration programs to connect Guidewire applications with other internal and external systems
• Upgrade GW suite from 8.0.1 to 8.0.4
• Upgrade GW suite from 8.0.4 to 10.01
• Coaching and mentoring team members working on integration programs
• Planning integration testing of customer solutions
• Supporting execution of integration tests, including monitoring software incidents and communicating software issues to Guidewire development
• Participate in sprint planning and daily scrum meetings.
• Configuration changes in GW modules.
• Develop Gosu test cases (GTest) for integrations.
• Resolving issues identified in testing.
• Documenting coding standards.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Knowledge sharing regarding products, technologies and systems.

E nvironment: PolicyCenter 10.x, ClaimCenter 10.x, BillingCenter 10.x and ContactCenter 10.x,, PolicyCenter 8.x, ClaimCenter 8.x, BillingCenter 8.x and ContactCenter 8.x, Guidewire Studio, Gosu (Plug-ins, rules, messaging, Web Services etc), GTest, Java, J2EE, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL server, h2, SOA, Web Services, UML, MS Visio, Ant, Subversion, Git, Confluence, Jenkins, Rally, JIRA, Agile methodology.

Confidential

Senior Guidewire Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with ADAs, client business teams to understand business objectives and integration requirements for Personal line of businesses.
• Developing an overall integration for integration point identified as part of User Story.
• Producing technical design documents for integration programs
• Estimating the effort required to build necessary integration programs
• Working with the Guidewire development team to further develop our integration adapters and other integration mechanisms.
• Developing custom integration programs to connect Guidewire applications with other internal and external systems
• Participated in different phases of production roll out and in incremental roll out
• Implemented Personal Lines enhancement as part of sustenance phase.
• Supporting Personal Lines production rollout and application support
• Coaching and mentoring team members working on integration programs
• Planning integration testing of customer solutions
• Supporting execution of integration tests, including monitoring software incidents and communicating software issues to Guidewire development
• Participating in sprint planning, daily scrum meetings.
• Detailed designing and coding integration programs including plug-ins, message sinks (and supporting business rules) and Gosu programs that call the Guidewire application APIs.
• Configuration changes in GW modules.
• Developing Gosu test cases (GTest) for integrations.
• Resolving issues identified in testing.
• Documenting coding standards.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Knowledge sharing regarding products, technologies and systems.

E nvironment: PolicyCenter 7.x, Guidewire Studio, Gosu (Plug-ins, rules, messaging, Web Services etc), GTest, Java, J2EE, Eclipse, Web Sphere application server, Oracle 11g, h2, UML, SOA, Web Services, Ant, Subversion, Rally, Agile methodology.

Confidential

Senior Guidewire Integration Architect / Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with client business teams to understand business objectives and integration requirements for Home Owners line of business
• Developing an overall integration for integration point identified as part of User Story.
• Producing technical design documents for integration programs
• Estimating the effort required to build necessary integration programs
• Working with the Guidewire development team to further develop our integration adapters and other integration mechanisms.
• Developing custom integration programs to connect Guidewire applications with other internal and external systems
• Participated in different phases of production roll out and in incremental roll out
• Implemented Auto enhancement as part of sustenance phase.
• Supporting Auto production rollout and application support
• Coaching and mentoring team members working on integration programs
• Planning integration testing of customer solutions
• Supporting execution of integration tests, including monitoring software incidents and communicating software issues to Guidewire development
• Participating in sprint planning, daily scrum meetings.
• Detailed designing and coding integration programs including plug-ins, message sinks (and supporting business rules) and Gosu programs that call the Guidewire application APIs.
• Configuration changes in GW modules.
• Developing Gosu test cases (GTest) for integrations.
• Setting up and managing automated build and testing process.
• Resolving issues identified in testing.
• Documenting coding standards.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Knowledge sharing regarding products, technologies and systems.

E nvironment: ClaimCenter 7.x, Guidewire Studio, Gosu (Plug-ins, rules, messaging, Web Services etc), GTest, Java6, J2EE, Eclipse, Web Sphere application server, Oracle 11g, h2, UML, SOA, Web Services, Hudson, Ant, Subversion, Rally, Agile methodology.

Confidential

Senior Guidewire Integration Architect / Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with client business teams to understand business objectives and integration requirements.
• Developing an overall integration for integration point identified as part of User Story.
• Gosuwise existing integration point that was developed in java for CC4.x to CC7.x
• Producing technical design documents for integration programs
• Estimating the effort required to build necessary integration programs
• Working with the Guidewire development team to further develop our integration adapters and other integration mechanisms.
• Developing custom integration programs to connect Guidewire applications with other internal and external systems
• Planning integration testing of customer solutions.
• Supporting execution of integration tests, including monitoring software incidents and communicating software issues to Guidewire development
• Participating in sprint planning, daily scrum meetings.
• Detailed designing and coding integration programs including plug-ins, message sinks (and supporting business rules) and Gosu programs that call the Guidewire application APIs.
• Configuration changes in ClaimCenter.
• Developing Gosu test cases (GTest) for integrations.
• Resolving issues identified in testing.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Knowledge sharing regarding products, technologies and systems.

E nvironment: ClaimCenter 7.x, ClaimCenter 4.x Guidewire Studio, Gosu (Plug-ins, rules, messaging, Web Services, batch etc), GTest, Java6, J2EE, h2, UML, SOA, Web Services, Jenkins, Ant, Subversion, Rally, Agile methodology.