Candidates About

 

Ravi Bomma

Certified Guidewire Consultant

 

 

Professional Summary:

·         Proficient in technologies with total 14 years of experience (Banking & Insurance domain) in the areas of Java / J2EE, Web services, XML, Oracle and 9 years of experience in Guidewire products; which includes in Claim Center 8.0.3, Billing Center 7 and Policy Center 9 as a Configuration, Integration Lead Developer role.

·         Received training certificates form Guidewire trainers on Claim Center 5.0, Billing Center 3.0 and certified in SCJP.

·         Experience in working with multiple major Insurance clients from US and Canada to implement the Guidewire products and integrate with external systems.

·         Extensive work experience under agile methodology and scrum.

·         Experience in training around 50 java resources on Guidewire products to work with different clients. 

·         Have a good understanding and hands on experience working in various Guidewire application implementations.

·         Handled technical ownership of migrating 23 web Services from RPC to WSI, as Claim Center 9.0 doesn’t support RPC web services.

·         Experience involves requirements gathering from BA’s, designing and Configuration development and maintaining best practices in various projects.

·         Has worked on Contact Manager 8.0 to sync up the contact info with different versions of Claims, Billing & Policy Center versions.

·         Has 5 plus years of onshore (client location) experience with multiple insurance companies (MeM Insurance, Hanover Insurance, CAA Canada, Liberty Mutual, CNA Insurance, Farm Bureau Insurance and SafeAuto Insurance in Columbus) in implementing Guidewire products and contributed in Claim Center upgrade from version 6 to 8.0.3 for personal auto in Liberty Mutual Insurance.

·         At present working on Claim Center 7.0.3 for my client Safe Auto Insurance Columbus (Personal Auto LOB).

 

Technical Skills:

Langages                      : Pro C, C, C++, Core Java and Gosu

Technologies                : Web Services, XML, Guidewire Messaging, ANT Scripts, Junit, JSP, Servlets, JDBC

Databases                    : Oracle 12c, SQL Server 2008

Development Tools       : IBM Blueworks, Eclipse 3.2, Toad, SOAP UI, IBM RTC, SVN and Microsoft TFS

Application Servers       : IBM WAS 8.5, WebLogic 10 & Tomcat 5.0       

Operating Systems        : Windows, Linux

 

 

Certifications:

·         SCJP 6.0

·         Claim Center 5.0

·         Billing Center 3.0

 

 

Education:

·            M.Sc. (I.T) from Madras University in 2003.

·            B.C.A (Bachelor of Computer Applications) from Osmania University in 2001.

 

 

Employers:

 

·            Samiti Technology Inc (H1 B sponsor) from May 2017 to Present as Senior Systems Analyst

·            Capgemini Technology Services India Private Limited, from Nov-2016 to May-2017

·            CTS India Private Ltd, from Oct-2010 to Nov-2016 as Sr.Product Specialist-Tech

·            HCL Technologies Ltd, from June-2006 to Oct-2010 as Senior Software Engineer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Experience:

SafeAuto Insurance, Columbus, OH                                                                            (Oct-2017 to Till Date)

Onshore Lead Consultant – Guidewire Technical in upgrading Claim Center 7.0.3 to 9.0

 

Claim Center Upgradation implementation for Personal Auto Insurance

 

Technical responsibility for multiple projects in Claims system like migrate Claims System from version 7.0.3 to 9.0, Integrating the Claims System with Mitchell for Loss Estimation, Updating New requirement with Existing CCC Integration for Auto Appraisal process (Method of Investigation), Configuration porjects with change in business for Segmentation and Assignment of Claims and Exposures, Managing the Note Templates and UI related updates (PCF changes).

Responsibilities

·         As an Onshore Lead Developer and Point of Contact to Client manager, assigning the project work to Offshore team and updating the status to client.

·         Educating the Offshore with Business and Technical challenges from Onshore by reaching BA’s and SME’s.

·         Claim Center 9.0 Pre-Upgrade changes related tasks like Data model, Configuration & Integration changes.

·         Creating the technical design document for integrating the Claims Center with Mitchell to calculate Fault % estimation.

·         Attending the Scrum calls with Offshore, Onshore and allocate tasks in TFS to track the Project Progress.

·         Multiple Pre-Upgrade technical tasks like Database consistency issues, Updating Multiple Unsupported Changes, Configuration & Integration changes related to Claim Center version 9.0.

·         Technical Code Review of Offshore team and Individual Contribution in Coding.

·         Helping Onshore client development team in Gosu Best Practices.

Environment: Java. J2EE, GOSU, Guidewire Claim Center 7.0.3 & Contact Manager 7.0

 

 

Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance, Pocatello, ID                                                                    (May-2017 to Oct-2017)

Onshore Lead Consultant – Guidewire Technical in implementing Policy Center 8.0.6

 

Policy Center 8.0.6 implementation for Commercial Property Policy (CPP)

 

The Primary objective of this project is to migrate Commercial Property LOB in to Guidewire Policy Center 8.0.6 from legacy system, current project is on CPP (Commercial Property Policy). Client is expecting to expand the business on CPP for 100,000 Policies on Commercial Line specific to Idaho State.

Responsibilities

·         Communicating the Business requirement from BA’s & SME’s to my team.

·         As a Lead Developer, developed the major components such as Question set Uploader, Adding the parent dependency Question Utility classes.

·         Creating UW (Under Writer) issues and screen level Validations while Quick/Full QUOTE Policy.

·         Creation of Brand New Wizard for CPP submission, assigning the PCF creation to the team.

·         Creation of Custom Data Model entities, that are required for new LOB.

·         Participating in Sprint planning & Scrum meetings with BA’s & QA team.

·         Customized Submission, Renewal, Policy Change, Rewrite

·         Helping development team in writing GUnits test cases.

Environment: Java. J2EE, GOSU, Guidewire Policy Center 8.0.6 & Contact Manager 8

 

 

CNA Insurance, Chicago, IL                                                                                                (Nov 2016 - May 2017)

Lead Consultant – Guidewire Technical in implementing Policy Center 8

 

PARAMOUNT in Policy Center 8.0.4 (Team size 5)

Migration of products from Legacy Policy Administrative System to Guidewire Policy Center 8.0.4. Used Guidewire Policy

Designer for creating Product, adding Lines (personal Liability, Crime, Inland Marine), adding multiple Coverages,

Coverage terms & term limits.

 

Responsibilities:

• Guidewire Configuration/Integration
• Creation of multiple web services Publishing and Consuming

·         Walk through the existing core Policy Administrative System to understand the functional knowledge.

·         Meeting with Database Administrators to understand existing database tables & relation between the tables to create the entities in Guidewire Policy Center.

·         Helping team in Product Designer 9 to create Coverages, Conditions, Exclusions, Availability & Validations

·         As a Lead Developer, created a tool which can load Coverage term limits into Policy Designer 9.

·         Customized the Policy Center OOB (Out of Box) functionalities as per client requirement.

·         Developed multiple Custom Batch Jobs in Policy Center 9

·         Developed the GUnit test cases and performed the testing

·         Creation of new PCF's and modifying the existing UI as per business requirement.

·         Writing new Business Rules Assignment, Preupdate, Validation rule and so on.

Environment: Java, GOSU, DB2, IBM RAD 8.5, SVN, SOAP UI

 

Liberty Mutual Insurance, Portsmouth NH                                                                                 (Jan 2013-Nov 2016)

Onshore Lead Developer-Guidewire Technical

Project #1: Auto Physical Damage (APD) Estimation in Claim Center 8.0.3 (Team size 9)

Claim Center is integrated with multiple external auto damage estimating platforms. The business has determined to move bulk of their auto assessment work to a specific vendor, to improve repair shop relations with Liberty.

Outbound assessment assignments to shops are triggered through Exposure Pre-Update rules, which trigger custom events indicating the estimating platform. Then the mediation layer consumes the messages from vendor and transforms to send to Claim Center via web services. The web services, in turn, update the system of record with the assessment information. These system updates and run a variety of business rules which inform users, including appraisers and claim service representatives, of actions to take regarding customer/claimant contact, repair facility engagement, and automatic as well as payment creation.

 

Responsibilities:

·         To update the current Web service as per the business requirement.

·         Creation of Gosu utility classes that can be used across multiple classes.

·         Adding GUnits for new and modified code changes.

·         Update the UI as per new business requirement.

·         Creation of Business flow diagrams using IBM Blueworks.

·         Modifying the Data model & coordinating with Data architects.

Environment: Java, GOSU, Oracle 12c, BM RAD 8.5, IBM RTC 4.0, SOAP UI, SQL developer

 

Project #2: Guidewire Claim Center upgrade from 6 to 8.0.3 (Team size 15)

 

The primary objective of the project is to upgrade the Claims processing system from Guidewire Claim Center 6 to Claim Center 8.0.3, upgrade Oracle Database from version 11g to 12c and IBM WAS from version 7.0 to 8.5.

Responsibilities:

·         To merge the code form version 6 to 8, remove compilation errors

·         Upgrade the internal tools to version 8(Claim Clone, Data update)

·         As a Lead Developer, developed the major components such as

·         Updating the necessary changes on the existing integration with external systems from claims center.

·         Updating the UI as per new version change and fix version change issues.

·         Fix defects that are raised due to upgrade in JDK and Oracle versions.

·         Update GUnit test classes and its process to accommodate new CC8 version.

·         Creating Guidewire tickets and follow-up on critical defects.

Environment: Java, J2EE, GOSU, Oracle 12c, IBM RAD 8.5, IBM RTC 4.0, SOAP UI, SQL developer, putty

Project # 3: Guidewire Claim Center 6.0 (Team size 9)

The primary objective of the project is to accommodate the new business services in to the existing Claim Center that can add potential benefits to the company as well as provide high level service to the customers.

 

Major projects in this duration are LSVI and DPR (Demand Package Review)

LSVI: The Low Speed Vehicle Impact project is an opportunity for adjusters to identify claims for special handling by specially trained adjusters. The system identifies, based on information input by the adjuster or claim reporter, that the claim is LSVI and then either assigns to an LSVI adjuster or suggests re-assignment to assigned adjuster. When a claim has been positively identified as LSVI, an indicator will be shown on the Claim Info bar.

 

DPR: An outbound request is created on the Evaluation update when the LOB is BI and the evaluation has documents to be sent for analysis. An outbound request to Decision Point application is triggered when the user selects a demand package document to be analyzed by Decision Point. When the user saves an eligible evaluation, an event is registered. The event fired ruleset listens for this event. The event fired rule then queues messages for the Guidewire messaging framework triggering an outbound message from Claim Center to send the documents to End user. The Decision Point Mediation Module calls to the Claims API web service. This service processes each of the XML responses. From Decision Point, Claim Center receives two inbound XML responses acknowledgement and "Final XML".

 

Responsibilities:

·         To meet the SME (subject matter expert) to understand business requirement

·         As a Lead Developer, developed the major components such as

·         Creation of new web services that can be used by the vendor integration

·         Creation of New Activities, loading activity-patterns, task patterns.

·         Configuring the Services screen for Rental, Appraisal, and Repair Status.

·         Developed the GUnits test cases and performed the testing for the custom Gosu classes

Environment: Java, J2EE, GOSU, Oracle 11g, IBM RAD 7.0, SOAP UI, SVN, Beyond Compare

 

 

CAA (Canada Auto Association), Toronto, Canada                                                                      (Jan 2012-Dec 2012)

Policy Center 7, Billing Center 7 Onshore Configurator-Guidewire

 

Guidewire suite implementation (Team size 13)

 

The Primary objective of this project was to replace the legacy systems with Guidewire suite and it is implemented in a phased manner. This project is mainly involved in capturing business requirements, validate and confirm the data mapping of Policy Management and Claim Management system entities against Guidewire, integrate with external systems, develop new UI screens, customizing Guidewire plugins.

Responsibilities

·         Analysis of the business requirement

·         As a Lead Developer, developed the major components such as

·         Worked on the PC Rating Engine based on the external legacy rating system.

·         Customizing multiple payment wizard, trouble tickets, search screens, delinquency and invoice screen (Billing Center)

·         Creation of custom History events for different Activities(Billing Center)

·         Developed Custom Batch Jobs for Producer(Billing Center)

·         Configuration and creation of Coverage’s (Policy Center)

·         Developed new Quick Quote screens for both Property and Personal Auto LOB.

·         Customized the policy center OOB (Out of Box) functionalities as per client.

·         Customized Submission, Renewal, Policy Change, Rewrite (Policy Center)

·         Developed the GUnits test cases and performed the testing for the custom Gosu classes

Environment: Java. J2EE, GOSU, Guidewire Policy Center & Billing Center Oracle 10g

 

 

Hanover Insurance Group, India                                                                                                (Octo 2010- Jan 2012)

Configuration Lead in Billing Center 6

 

Guidewire Billing Center (Team Size 12)

The project is aimed to replace the billing functionality currently performed in legacy billing & commissioning systems with Guidewire Billing Center and it is implemented in a phased manner. The scope includes basic billing requirements such as Billing, Payments, Collections, Payroll deduct, Reporting, Reconciliation, & Escheatment. It also includes interfaces to other systems that require various forms of billing or bill plan information and rating functions that require bill plan information to complete the premium calculation. Downstream systems, such as printing, reporting, finance, and external interfaces and reporting systems will also require interfaces with the GWBC. The main modules involved are Billing Instruction service for New Business, Renewal, Cancellation, Rewrite and Audit, Custom Batched, Custom Event Processors and Document Integration.

Responsibilities

·         Analysis of the business requirement

·         Prepare low level design document by mentioning the business rules implementation, class level information, exception handling mechanism and logging approach

·         Lead a team of 5 members. Provide guidance from a technical standpoint.

·         Gather requirements from Business Analysts to understand the system functionality.

·         Analyze the system data model to understand the business configuration requirement

·         Participate in business user meetings to understand the dependency with other teams

·         Participate in daily standup meetings. Estimate the Sprint tasks.

·         Write custom batch jobs in Gosu for certain critical functionalities

·         Involved in customizing Plug-ins for Billing Center

·         Wrote GUnits test cases to test the upgraded components

·         He was the primary person involved in fixing defects during QA Execution.

Environment: Java, J2EE GOSU, Guidewire Billing Center 7.0, Oracle 10g & GStudio

 

MeM (Missouri Employers Mutual), Missouri, US                                                                      (Aug 2009-Sept 2010)

Onshore Module Lead in Billing Center 3.0

 

Billing Center (Workers Comp) Team size 12

MeM is Missouri's No. 1 provider of workers compensation and are in the business since March 1, 1995. With more than 15,000 policyholders, this client is considered the No. 1 choice for workers compensation for Missouri employers.

The objective of the project is primarily replacing the existing legacy system for WC LOB, development of Policy-Billing System Implementation (PBSI). The Project aims on the functionalities such as End to-end implementation will be a robust system to meet the needs of current and future business requirements of worker of their clients.

Responsibilities:

·         Participated in comprehensive Product training on Guidewire Claim Center 5.0, Billing Center 3.0 training which was conducted by product experts from Guidewire Inc. Training included the major areas of Configuration.

• Gathering requirements for each ‘User Story’ from Business Analysts.
• Coding, Unit testing and Fixing QA issues
• Data Model, Business Configuration
• Billing Center Administration
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