SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of experiencein web application development using Java, J2EE and Guidewire technologies including 3+ years of Experience in Guidewire Product Implementation for P&C Insurance domain, with expertise on Various Configuration and Integration Components of, Guidewire Claim Center 7.x. and Guidewire Policy Center 7.x.
• Worked on Guidewire Claim Center 7.x and Guidewire Policy Center 7.x. for Auto and Property Insurance LOBs and experienced in creating new entities and entity extensions, entity enhancements, GOSU classes, PCFs for various Locations and Container Widgets, and Business rule sets along with using Webservices and Messaging frameworks for integration.
• Good working knowledge of J2EE technologies to develop web - based applications using server side components like Servlets, JSP, JDBC, EJB, JavaScript and HTML.
• Have good knowledge on Struts and working experience on Web Services, WSDL, XML, and XSD, LDAP directory services like Active Directory, Open LDAP.
• Experience in analyzing, designing and developing Use case / design documents using UML diagrams like Class diagrams, and Sequence diagrams.
• Extensively worked on J2EE, especially on Enterprise Applications Design under J2EE framework.
• Working experience in Oracle (8.x/9i) SQL.
• Working experience in Apache Tomcat.
• Experienced in Object Oriented Refactoring and Design Patterns in Java and J2EE.
• Implemented J2EE modules based on Design Patterns like Value Objects, Data Access Object, Service and MVC.
• Proficient in core Java Enterprise technologies such as Java Servlet, JSP, Struts, Custom Tag Library, JDBC, Hibernate.
• Good Working knowledge of database design and development, which includes: creating tables, indexes and triggers, writing stored procedures, views.
• Worked closely with clients to evaluate business needs and provide follow-up instructions.
• Good working experience in complete SDLC with Agile Methodologies.
• Strong experience in working with OOP concepts like Inheritance, Polymorphism, Interfaces,, Generics &Collections, Exception Handling and Tracing in web applications
• Experience in Agile/Scrum, Waterfall model Software development process.
• Excellent communication and ability to work independently, internally and externally with minimal supervision as a team member and analyst.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Win 7/95/98/XP/2000,Windows Server2000/2003, Unix

Languages: C++,Java,J2EE, and GOSU

JAVA Technologies: JAVA,JSP,Struts,J2EE,EJB

Internet Programming: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, XML, CSS, XSL, WSDL, SOAP web Server: Microsoft Internet Information Services - IIS (5.0/6.0/7.0), Tomcat, Web logic, Jetty.

Databases: MS SQL- 2008/2005/2000, Oracle - 10g/9i

IDE: Eclipse, NetBeans, Gosu Studio

Protocols: HTTP, SOAP, TCP/IP

Design Pattern: 3-tier,N-tier, MVC

Testing tools: QTP, HPALM, Manual

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chevychase, MD

Guidewire Configurator and Integration consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the ADScheduling / ADRescheduling wizards for appointment and assignment scheduling of vehicle and non-vehicle incidents with different kinds of damage conditions.
• Designed and developed new AddressBook screens for AD Dispatcher appointments / assignments of inspections of vehicle and non-vehicle incident with different kinds of damage conditions.
• Worked on implementing an inbound integration of the CCC with ATLAS Claim Center by processing XML payload of auto estimate data using WS-I Webservices exposed to the external vendor.
• Designed and implemented the integration of the ECF (Electronic Claim File) with Atlas for creating / updating appointments / assignments of inspections by ADScheduling wizards being invoked from ECF.
• Designed and developed the complex assignment logic for assigning the appointments based on FCC codes, Vehicle Type, Shop type and zip code with load balance logic.
• Upgraded AD Assignment and scheduling module from Guidewire claim center 6.0 to Guidewire claim center 7.0 and actively involved in fixing various issues resulting from the upgrade process.
• Worked on creating new activity patterns as per business requirements for Team tab and Desktop views and also worked on creating activities to send notifications or assign work to different adjusters like liability, Auto damage & salvaging adjusters.
• Extensively worked on Claim & Activity Pre-update rules, Activity Escalation rules, Exposure Validation rules, Activity & Claim Closed rules for handling complex business functionality.
• Conducted regular Peer Code Reviews to give valuable design and implementation suggestions and also to follow the standard guidelines by the Project Management.
• Capturing FNOL snapshot values and logging claim history entries for AD Scheduling related data items.
• Extensive hands on experience on Agile methodology and actively took part in daily Scrum meetings, monthly Sprint planning & Exit meetings.
• Used SOAP UI for unit testing CCC inbound integrations using the external vendor provided WSDLs and sample data values.
• Extensive use of UML diagrams in the development of various design documents for assignment logic, CCC integration and ADAssignment scheduling documents.
• Extensive use of people’s skills and communication skills in coordinating and working with cross teams in client's organization as required for delivering the planned tasks in time.

Environment: Guidewire ClaimCenter 6.0/7.0 Guidewire Studio 6.0/7.0, WebSphere Application Server (WSAD), MyEclipse, XML, GScript, Guidewire Contact Center 6.0.3, Perforce, Oracle 11G.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Guidewire Claim Center Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Claim Center data models, screens, flows and business rules - enabled customers to tailor the solution to the unique business needs
• Used Agile development approaches in implementing Guidewire configuration and integration tasks.
• Configured, developed, integrated, implemented, involved in end-to-end Claim processing solutions - related to assignment, work plan, processing claims, recovery stage, review etc.
• Developed an inbound integration of Claim Center to accept Checks data from the external system by means of flat file uploaded by the external system.
• Designed and developed Claims Management screens, Bulk Invoices screens, Inbox, Exposure, workplan and related Data Model extensions
• Configured various new custom Policies & as many as new custom Coverage’s, designed & configured corresponding new exposure screens
• Interacted with all editors in the Guidewire Studio to modify PCF files and the screen elements they contain.
• Worked on many Business Rule Sets - Claim pre-update, assignment, event message, setup, update, Segmentation, Transaction approval - developed as per client requirements
• Experience in linking the ClaimCenter User Interface to other web applications associated with the claims.
• Developed business solution within the Personal Markets Insurance Claims industry for Subrogation process.
• Involved in development of User Interface Design and Web Services principally using GScript alone.

Environment: Guidewire Contact Center 5.x, Guidewire ClaimCenter 5.x, Guidewire Policy Center 4.0,, GuideWire Studio 4.x, CVS, MyEclipse, MQ Broker, XML Studio.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Guidewire Policy Center Configuration and Integration Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis, Design and development of customization of wizard screens for various jobs (Submission, Policy Change, Rewrite, Renewal, Cancellation) for Commercial lines of business.
• Worked on implementing various stages of automatic (and manual) renewal process, specifically related to customized discount verification and discount approval processes.
• Worked on Policy Renewal timeout workflow for implementing customized discount verification process as per business requirements.
• Worked on validation and evaluation business rules for implementing customized general entity validation and underwriting issue logic
• Used Scrum development methodology in Agile Process model.
• Worked on developing WS-I Webservice collection for consuming a Webservice made available by ICS (Integrated Claim System - the legacy claims application) for retrieving the claims against the given policy.
• Worked on implementing integration of Billing and Policy Center systems using the inbuilt adapter, specifically on building the payload for financial and non-financial data.
• Provided detailed estimates for development and testing efforts of allocated modules
• Created and modified the ETI, ETX and Typelists files based on the Business requirements.
• Contributed to the team members on implementing Guidewire best practices in GOSU code, specifically on writing business rules.
• Developed the Unit Test plans for the given Usecases and worked on Unit testing and Smoke testing of the application

Environment: Guidewire Policy Center 4.0 Guidewire Billing Center 4.0, Guidewire Studio, Websphere Application Server(WSAD), MyEclipse, XML,GScript, IBM clear case, Tomcat, Oracle 11G

Confidential, NY

Sr Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Working as a technical lead for the product development and IT operations
• Writing JMS code to consume the published messages.
• Supports the product development to its entirety of its life cycle phases
• Supporting the enterprise testing to develop the test strategy building
• Developed the code to consume web services provided by RDT Team
• Design the batch jobs and written Shell scripts to invoke reconciliation jobs.
• Designed and coding JMS classes as Multithreading

Environment: Java Multithreading Programming, Web Services, JMS, JANUS, Java, spring, SOAP, MQ Series, Oracle, Shell Scripts, PL\SQL.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user & business requirements, convert into functional use cases, class and sequence diagrams.
• Handled cross culture and supported multiple time-zones of clients in USA
• Prototyped use of JSF for presentation development and Spring for middle tier development to analyze if use would ease development
• Designed and developed Self contained web flows, clearly visible UI flows by defining in XML and order state cache maintained across the flow using Spring Web Flow.
• Configuring and deployed multiple applications in Websphere clustered environment.
• Designed and developed Synchronized Multithreading logic per order approach across the application.
• Defined XSD for various XML transactions.
• Developing complex PL/SQL procedures, UNIX Shell Scripts for comparison of legacy data.
• Handled JDBC, authorization and authentication implemented using single sign-on process.
• Developed Scrum methodology approach using JUNIT and Easymock.
• Created Local debug environment with simulators using JBOSS with Tomcat.
• Successful supporting all applications for Units, Functional verification and System Integration.
• Single point of contact for production support and investigating severity-1 defects and met SLAs with no slippages

Environment: J2EE, Ajax, Java, JMS, Hibernate, Apache, Tomcat, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, JSP, Servlets, HTML, Oracle 10g, JANUS. Web Services, Java 1.6, JavaScript, JSP and servlets.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed JSP pages using Struts Custom Tag Libraries such as HTML tags, Bean Tags, Logic Tags and Template Tags.
• Developed several web pages using JSP and JavaScript to perform checking and validations at client side.
• Transformed XML in JSP Tags using XSL, XSLT functions and Tags.
• Utilized core J2EE design patterns like Front Controller, Facade in the design and development of the entire system.
• Parsed XML data using XML4J SAX Parser.
• Developed and deployed Servlets and JSPs on Web Logic 6.1
• Closely involved in the analysis, design, development and performance testing of the system.
• Used JDBC, JNDI for Connection Pooling, Java Beans, JSP for Presentation and Servlets to process validate and transit the data between the server and the client
• Developed and deployed Entity & Session beans on Web Logic 6.1.
• Wrote stored procedures to solve the complexity of database
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing
• Coding the framework for data access layer (with JDBC, DBI).
• Responsible for writing the Design Specifications for the user interfaces and the business logic layers.
• Involved in the configuration management of CVS, the version control tool. Responsible for the eDoc metadata search engine module (both user interfaces and the core search module).
• Implemented the full-text search module.
• Implemented the XML based search interface for the Research Institutes in extracting the data.

Environment: Java, J2EE, WebSphere application server, XML, XSL, JSP, Struts, XSLT, HTML, Java Script, JDBC, Oracle 8i.

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirements and Implemented the MVC architecture.
• Web components developed using JSP, Servlets, and JDBC, JavaScript.
• Applied J2EE design patterns like Service Locator, Value Objects, DAO, Singleton etc.
• Deployed and tested the application using Tomcat Application Server.
• Interfaced with end-users, production staff and business units for the purpose of gathering requirements
• Responsible for creating Java modules for checking and savings account, and customer database
• Independently developed authentication procedures using JSP and JDBC
• Involved in developing Java modules to generate reports and statements.
• Involved in creating test cases for Unit testing and Integration testing using Test Director Tool.
• Worked with business users to implement their functional knowledge into business workflow and processes.
• Worked on optimizing existing procedures and functions.
• Used JavaScript for client-side validations.

Environment: Java 1.4, JSP 1.2, JavaScript, Servlets 2.3, Struts 1.1, JDBC, Tomcat Application Server 6.0, Eclipse 3.0, SQL.