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                   Kesava S Tavva                                                          

PROFESSIONAL summary

Ø  17+ years of diversified experience in architecting, developing and testing multi-tier, intranet and internet applications using Guidewire, Java, J2EE, DB2, Oracle and Application Servers.

Ø  6+ years of experience in Guidewire Suite of products (ClaimCenter / PolicyCenter / BillingCenter / ContactCenter) as architect / lead developer.

Ø  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

Ø  Experienced in working as a mentor for team members working in Guidewire, Java, J2EE, and Application Servers

Ø  Experienced in Agile and Waterfall project development methodologies.

Ø  6+ years of experience in developing applications using JSF, Struts, Spring Framework and Hibernate.

Ø  Experienced in support, maintenance and working on enhancements for production applications.

Ø  Hands on experience in the complete life cycle implementation of software development (SDLC) and Guidewire implementations.

Ø  Quick learner and excellent team player with ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.

Ø  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	Subversion, Rational Clear Case, Dimensions, CVS, Visual Source Safe,
Others	Ant, Maven, HP Service Desk, HP Service Manager, JProfiler, JProbe, Klocwork, Continuous Integration (CI), Rational Buildforge, Hudson, Jenkins, ActiveMQ, Thunderhead, Imageright.
Operating Systems	Windows 7, Windows XP, Unix, Linux, Aix, Ms-DOS

 

           

CERtifications

 

Ø  Guidewire PolicyCenter 7.0 Technical Certified

Ø  Guidewire ClaimCenter 7.0 Technical Certified

 

EDUCATION

 

Ø  Master of Computer Applications from Osmania University, India.

Ø  Bachelor of Sciences from Nagarjuna University, India.

 

PROJECTS SUMMARY

 

The Dentists Insurance Company (TDIC)                          11/2014 – Till Date

Guidewire Suite Implementation – Release A

Role:  Senior Guidewire Architect / Lead Developer

           

TDIC made a decision to implement the Guidewire Insurance Suite (8.x) to support all TDIC product lines and operations, utilizing best practices to create business value and efficiency. In Release A, TDIC wants to replace existing Workers Compensation (WC) Systems (Policy, Claims and Billing) with Guidewire product suite 8.x that includes all 4 Guidewire products PolicyCenter 8.x, ClaimCenter 8.x, BillingCenter 8.x and ContactCenter 8.x.

 

Responsibilities:

Ø  Partnering with client business teams to understand business objectives and integration requirements for Home Owners line of business

Ø  Estimating the effort required to build necessary integration programs

Ø  Detailed Design and Develop an overall integration for integration point identified as part of User Story.

Ø  Producing technical design documents for integration programs

Ø  Working with the Guidewire development team to further develop integration adapters and other integration mechanisms.

Ø  Developing custom integration programs to connect Guidewire applications with other internal and external systems

Ø  Upgrade GW suite from 8.0.1 to 8.0.4

Ø  Coaching and mentoring team members working on integration programs

Ø  Planning integration testing of customer solutions

Ø  Supporting execution of integration tests, including monitoring software incidents and communicating software issues to Guidewire development

Ø  Participate in sprint planning and daily scrum meetings.

Ø  Configuration changes in GW modules.

Ø  Develop Gosu test cases (GTest) for integrations.

Ø  Resolving issues identified in testing.

Ø  Documenting coding standards.

Ø  Participate in design and code reviews.

Ø  Knowledge sharing regarding products, technologies and systems.

 

Environment: 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, Jenkins, Rally, JIRA, Agile methodology.

 

 

 

American Family Insurance (AmFam)                                          06/2014 – 11/2014

Policy and Billing Center (PBC)

Role:  Senior Guidewire Consultant

Phase: G1 States Personal Lines Rollout (Auto and Property)

 

AmFam Insurance has implemented Guidewire Policy and Billing center applications for Commercial and Personal line of businesses and rolled out in Utah and Colorado states. Now planned for G1 states (8 different states) roll out where AmFam is serving its customers by implementing state specific business requirements. This will require customizations to an existing application for state specific rules and requirements and/or add new functional points and integrations on a need basis.

 

Responsibilities:

Ø  Partnering with ADAs, client business teams to understand business objectives and integration requirements for Personal line of businesses.

Ø  Developing an overall integration for integration point identified as part of User Story.

Ø  Producing technical design documents for integration programs

Ø  Estimating the effort required to build necessary integration programs

Ø  Working with the Guidewire development team to further develop our integration adapters and other integration mechanisms.

Ø  Developing custom integration programs to connect Guidewire applications with other internal and external systems

Ø  Participated in different phases of production roll out and in incremental roll out

Ø  Implemented Personal Lines enhancement as part of sustenance phase.

Ø  Supporting Personal Lines production rollout and application support

Ø  Coaching and mentoring team members working on integration programs

Ø  Planning integration testing of customer solutions

Ø  Supporting execution of integration tests, including monitoring software incidents and communicating software issues to Guidewire development

Ø  Participating in sprint planning, daily scrum meetings.

Ø  Detailed designing and coding integration programs including plug-ins, message sinks (and supporting business rules) and Gosu programs that call the Guidewire application APIs.

Ø  Configuration changes in GW modules.

Ø  Developing Gosu test cases (GTest) for integrations.

Ø  Resolving issues identified in testing.

Ø  Documenting coding standards.

Ø  Participate in design and code reviews.

Ø  Knowledge sharing regarding products, technologies and systems.

 

Environment: 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. 

 

 

AAA NCNU Insurance Exchange                                                 11/2012 – 06/2014

Claims Administration System (CAS)

Role:  Senior Guidewire Integration Architect / Lead Developer

Phase: Auto production roll out, Support & Home Owners development

           

AAA NCNU Insurance’s Claims Organization has implemented Claim Center application for Auto line of business. This application has been rolled out in different phases to different user groups in multiple states where company is serving its customers. Multiple incremental rollouts have been released for the new features requested by different user groups and gaps identified after production roll out. Since this implementation went very successfully, organization has decided to implement Guidewire Claim Center application for Home Owners line of business also for replacing all existing legacy Home Owner claim platforms and provide a single Claim Center application for the enterprise.

 

Responsibilities:

Ø  Partnering with client business teams to understand business objectives and integration requirements for Home Owners line of business

Ø  Developing an overall integration for integration point identified as part of User Story.

Ø  Producing technical design documents for integration programs

Ø  Estimating the effort required to build necessary integration programs

Ø  Working with the Guidewire development team to further develop our integration adapters and other integration mechanisms.

Ø  Developing custom integration programs to connect Guidewire applications with other internal and external systems

Ø  Participated in different phases of production roll out and in incremental roll out

Ø  Implemented Auto enhancement as part of sustenance phase.

Ø  Supporting Auto production rollout and application support

Ø  Coaching and mentoring team members working on integration programs

Ø  Planning integration testing of customer solutions

Ø  Supporting execution of integration tests, including monitoring software incidents and communicating software issues to Guidewire development

Ø  Participating in sprint planning, daily scrum meetings.

Ø  Detailed designing and coding integration programs including plug-ins, message sinks (and supporting business rules) and Gosu programs that call the Guidewire application APIs.

Ø  Configuration changes in GW modules.

Ø  Developing Gosu test cases (GTest) for integrations.

Ø  Setting up and managing automated build and testing process.

Ø  Resolving issues identified in testing.

Ø  Documenting coding standards.

Ø  Participate in design and code reviews.

Ø  Knowledge sharing regarding products, technologies and systems.

 

Environment: 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. 

 

California Casualty                                                                      07/2012 – 11/2012

Guidewire Claim Center Upgrade from 4.x to 7.x (GWCU)

Role:  Senior Guidewire Integration Architect / Lead Developer

 

California Casualty Management Company (CCMC) initiated an upgrade project to upgrade their ClaimCenter system that was developed using Guidewire ClaimCenter 4.x. to Guidewire ClaimCenter 7.x. As part of this project, CCMC decided to convert some of the existing integration points that were developed using java to Gosu using CC 7.x features provided by Guidewire platform along with required configuration changes. Also introduced new integration points for development as per business needs to better serve their customers.

           

Responsibilities:

Ø  Partnering with client business teams to understand business objectives and integration requirements.

Ø  Developing an overall integration for integration point identified as part of User Story.

Ø  Gosuwise existing integration point that was developed in java for CC4.x to CC7.x

Ø  Producing technical design documents for integration programs

Ø  Estimating the effort required to build necessary integration programs

Ø  Working with the Guidewire development team to further develop our integration adapters and other integration mechanisms.

Ø  Developing custom integration programs to connect Guidewire applications with other internal and external systems

Ø  Planning integration testing of customer solutions.

Ø  Supporting execution of integration tests, including monitoring software incidents and communicating software issues to Guidewire development

Ø  Participating in sprint planning, daily scrum meetings.

Ø  Detailed designing and coding integration programs including plug-ins, message sinks (and supporting business rules) and Gosu programs that call the Guidewire application APIs.

Ø  Configuration changes in ClaimCenter.

Ø  Developing Gosu test cases (GTest) for integrations.

Ø  Resolving issues identified in testing.

Ø  Participate in design and code reviews.

Ø  Knowledge sharing regarding products, technologies and systems.

 

Environment: 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. 

 

AAA NCNU Insurance Exchange                                                 08/2011 – 07/2012

Claims Administration System (CAS)

Role:  Senior Guidewire Integration Architect / Lead Developer

           

AAA NCNU Insurance’s Claims Organization has identified the need for a new claims administration system since current legacy platforms do not support the capabilities required to provide a customer-centric claims experience, nor do they provide a cost effective foundation for future functionality and process enhancements. To address these gaps, AAA NCNU Insurance established the Claims Administration System (CAS) Project and identified Guidewire’s ClaimCenter product as a suitable product for replacing all existing legacy claim platforms and provide a single ClaimCenter application for the enterprise.        

 

Training:

 

Ø  5 days training on Guidewire Claim Center from Guidewire.

Ø  5 days training on Guidewire Claim Center configuration from Guidewire.

           

Responsibilities:

Ø  Partnering with client business teams to understand business objectives and integration requirements

Ø  Developing an overall integration for integration point identified as part of User Story.

Ø  Producing technical design documents for integration programs

Ø  Estimating the effort required to build necessary integration programs

Ø  Working with the Guidewire development team to further develop our integration adapters and other integration mechanisms.

Ø  Developing custom integration programs to connect Guidewire applications with other internal and external systems

Ø  Coaching and mentoring team members working on integration programs

Ø  Planning integration testing of customer solutions

Ø  Supporting execution of integration tests, including monitoring software incidents and communicating software issues to Guidewire development

Ø  Participating in sprint planning, daily scrum meetings.

Ø  Detailed designing and coding integration programs including plug-ins, message sinks (and supporting business rules) and Gosu programs that call the Guidewire application APIs.

Ø  Configuration changes in GW modules.

Ø  Developing Gosu test cases (GTest) for integrations.

Ø  Setting up and managing automated build and testing process.

Ø  Resolving issues identified in testing.

Ø  Documenting coding standards.

Ø  Participate in design and code reviews.

Ø  Knowledge sharing regarding products, technologies and systems.

 

Environment: 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. 

 

Jewelers Mutual Insurance Company                                          11/2010 – 07/2011

Systems Replacement Project (SRP)

Role:  Guidewire Integration Architect / Developer

           

Jewelers Mutual (JM) wants to replace existing Commercial Lines (CL), Personal Lines (PL), Policy Administration (PAS) Systems with Guidewire product suite that includes all 4 Guidewire products PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter and ContactCenter.  

 

Training:

 

Ø  5 days training on Guidewire product suite integration (PC, CC and BC) from Guidewire.

Ø  5 days training on Guidewire configuration.

           

Responsibilities:

Ø  Estimation of effort required for each integration point.

Ø  Designing the overall integration architecture in conjunction with experts in target systems.

Ø  High level designs and requirements gathering during inception phase

Ø  Proof of concepts (POC) for integrations between Guidewire and external systems.

Ø  Participating in sprint planning, daily scrum meetings.

Ø  Detailed designing and coding integration programs including plug-ins, message sinks (and supporting business rules) and Gosu programs that call the Guidewire application APIs.

Ø  Integration development between Policy Center and Claim Center

Ø  Configuration changes in GW modules.

Ø  Developing Gosu test cases (GTest) for integrations.

Ø  Setting up and managing automated build and testing process.

Ø  Setting up integrations between Rally tool and subversion, Hudson build servers.

Ø  Resolving issues identified in testing.

Ø  Documenting coding standards.

Ø  Participate in design and code reviews.

Ø  Knowledge sharing regarding products, technologies and systems.

 

Environment: Guidewire Studio, Gosu (Plug-ins, rules, messaging, Web Services etc), GTest, Java6, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse, Tomcat, Windows 2008 server, MS-Sql Server, h2, UML, SOA, Web Services, Hudson, Ant, Subversion, Thunderhead, ImageRight, Rally, Agile methodology.  

 

 

State Farm Insurance.                                                                    12/2006 – 10/2010

JEE Engagement

Role: Solution Architect

 

Responsibilities:

Ø  Interact with business partners from different groups / departments within enterprise for gathering technical requirements to provide common architecture across the organization.

Ø  Review all deliverables produced by development teams and make sure that they deliver the products as per the standards defined they technical teams in the organization.

Ø  Provide technology road map for the enterprise in JEE, open source technologies and development tools.

Ø  Provide Architectural / design support for lead developers from different departments.

Ø  Provide SOA Architecture guidance to departments in developing applications that can be integrated with different applications across the enterprise.

Ø  Analyze and address gaps in technology consumption across departments.

Ø  Develop reference application with all recommended design and coding standards and best practices by using different frameworks.

Ø  Research and develop POCs using open source technologies to propose different technology solutions to the departments.

Ø  Develop application services and clients using JSF, Spring framework (modules like Core, MVC, Web Services, ORM and DAO) and Hibernate.

Ø  Develop plug-ins to address common development practice like Project Template Wizards, EJB generation wizards as per the defined standards and etc.

Ø  Develop and maintain development standards, guidance, patterns, best practices etc.

Ø  Educate the department on design standards, guidance, patterns, best practices etc. This will include participation in Dev Days, Dev Forums, JEE Engagement, Consulting, etc.

Ø  50+ applications supported technically across multiple departments like ST, BIS, IFSS, GNC etc.

Ø  Integrate development practices with the appropriate J2EE reference Architecture.

Ø  Maintain production JEE Reference Architectures.

Ø  Develop WIKI documents on JEE guidance.

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