Sr Guidewire Consultant with experience in ClaimCenter, PolicyCenter

Senior Guidewire Consultant / Tech lead

Name: Rajesh Bandaru

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Linkedin Profile: https://in.linkedin.com/in/rajesh-bandaru-39b35358 Summary

Experience in configuring Guidewire applications: 6.5 years (5 Guidewire projects)

• I am a passionate Guidewire consultant and I thoroughly enjoy understanding complex business requirements and translating them in to technical designs.

• Experience in designing some of the most challenging business requirements like rating integration, account grouping, complex assignment rules, etc.

• I see software programming as an art. There can be multiple ways to solve a problem. I carefully analyze pros and cons of multiple design options based on factors like performance, flexibility, security, usability etc., before translating a business case in to a software solution.

• I have gained expertise over Guidewire technology as I got great opportunities to explore and work extensively on most of its features.

• Played a technical lead role for US and Australia based PolicyCenter implementations.

• Played vital roles in 3 ClaimCenter projects (2 US-based and 1 UK-based).

• Travelled to the UK and Australia, and worked at client locations as a trusted advisor who collaborates with customers, partners and colleagues to understand and address complex business problems.

• Won an award for developing an innovative tool which saves a lot of time for Guidewire projects. The tool is now being used across multiple Guidewire projects.

• Experience in leading a team of 14 Guidewire developers in a project.

• Trained three teams of 20 software engineers each, on Guidewire concepts.

• I believe that sharing knowledge among team members, makes the team stronger and eventually helps the project and the team to succeed. So, I love to share my knowledge and I take every opportunity to learn.

Key responsibilities taken up across various Guidewire projects:

• Partnering with client business teams to understand business objectives and integration requirements using both business and technical skills.

• Estimating the effort required to configure the software.

• Using Gosu, Guidewire’s open source language, to configure the Guidewire products to solve customer business challenges as a configuration and implementation resource.

• Reviewing performance, accuracy and standards of the code developed by team members to ensure quality of delivery

Current employer: Capgemini

Current project (Apr, 2016 – Till Date): PolicyCenter 9 implementation for icare, an Australian insurer.

Current role: Configuration team lead (client facing role, onsite) Key skills: Guidewire, ClaimCenter, ContactManager, PolicyCenter, Gosu, PCF, Core Java Certifications

Specialist Certification - PolicyCenter 8.0 Configuration

Specialist Certification - ClaimCenter 9.0 Configuration

Specialist Certification - ClaimCenter 8.0 Configuration

Specialist Certification - ClaimCenter 7.0 Configuration Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics from Andhra University, India Awards/Recognition

Innovator Award – Issued by my employer, Capgemini for developing a Gosu-based Guidewire accelerator that can generate entity builder classes (based on latest data model) in just 2 minutes, which otherwise would have taken around 40 man-days of effort. It was awarded as part of Capgemini's Center level Quarterly recognition program in Chennai, for Q4, 2013

Bronze Star Award – Issued by my employer, Capgemini, for outstanding contribution and continued support in quantitative Guidewire training delivery with high qualitative standards and for facilitating and mentoring in Guidewire training programs.

Kudos Card – Issued by my employer, Capgemini for developing a complex requirement in a very short period

Key Interviewer Award - Issued by my employer, Capgemini, for playing a key role in the process of recruiting Guidewire talent

Spot Award – Issued by my employer, NTT Data for showing exceptional dedication and commitment towards work

Innovative solutions that helped clients substantially In addition to my role in projects, I always try to provide solutions that can help business substantially in terms of time and money. The following are my individual contributions which were appreciated by clients.

Created windows batch scripts for U.S based insurer to monitor financial escalation which runs for 3 to 4 hours, daily. These batch scripts monitor the log files, every 5 mins and generate an updated report of failed transactions.

Developed a Gosu-based developer tool that can generate entity builder classes, based on the latest datamodel. The code generates the classes in just 2 minutes, which otherwise would have taken around 40 man-days of effort.

Project 2

Client: Hartford Insurance Group (USA)

Employer: Capgemini

Application: PolicyCenter 8.0.5

Duration: Feb, 2015 – Mar, 2016

Role: Sr. Guidewire developer, offshore configuration team lead This project was aimed at replacing legacy Policy Administration System of one of the largest and oldest commercial lines insurer based in the US. Responsibility:

• Using Gosu, Guidewire’s open source language, to configure the Guidewire products to solve customer business challenges as a configuration and implementation resource

• Consulting with insurance carrier business and technical resources to produce business requirements and functional design documents as a functional resource

• Partnering with client business teams to understand business objectives and integration requirements using both business and technical skills

• Prepare technical design for complex business requirements

• Estimating the effort required to configure the software

• Developing complex business rules

• Reviewing datamodel developed by team members.

• Developing complex queries using Query API, while taking care of performance

• Mentoring junior colleagues

Project 3

Client: Permanent General (USA)

Employer: Capgemini

Application: ClaimCenter 8.0

Duration: April, 2014 – Jan, 2015

Role: Sr. Guidewire developer

This project is aimed at replacing legacy Claims System of The General Insurance, US with the latest version of Guidewire ClaimCenter (version 8.0). This project is being built as part of Capgemini’s Insurance Connect, a pre-configured Guidewire solution for small to mid-sized carriers to provide increased speed to market, create operating efficiencies and reduce cost and risk of entry.

Responsibility:

• To develop business rules those involve complex logic.

• To develop Gosu classes, Java classes and entity enhancements to support business rules.

• To design and develop Guidewire user interface (UI) using PCFs.

• To review performance, accuracy and standards of the code developed by team members.

• Developing web services

• To mentor a team of 5 Guidewire developers.

Project 4

Client: Aviva (UK)

Employer: Capgemini

Application: ClaimCenter 7.0.4

Duration: December, 2012 – March, 2014

Role: Guidewire developer

The client is UK’s largest insurer. This project was aimed at replacing its existing claims and policy systems with Guidewire applications that would help streamline its underwriting, policy administration, and claims management operations for its UK general insurance operations. Responsibility:

• To lead a team of 9 Guidewire developers.

• To develop business rules those involve complex logic.

• To develop Gosu classes, Java classes and entity enhancements to support business rules.

• To design and develop Guidewire user interface (UI) using PCFs.

• To review performance, accuracy and standards of the code developed by team members.

• To configure XMLs like search-config.xml to implement ‘contains search’ functionality and entity-role-constarints.xml to restrict the roles of an involved party based on the related entity.

• To develop security configuration using ACL concept.

• To support the Client business from onsite, during and after going live. Project 5

Client: Hanover Insurance (USA)

Employer: NTT DATA

Application: ClaimCenter 6.0.2

Duration: November, 2010 – November, 2012

Role: Guidewire developer

The client is one of the largest insurers in the USA, involved in property and casualty insurance. The automation of claims system has been achieved using one of the products of Guidewire called ClaimCenter. ClaimCenter is an application designed to manage the process of reporting, verifying, and making payments on claims against a policy, according to policy rules. ClaimCenter is a browser-based application that supports multiple users like customer care representatives, adjusters and supervisors to handle the claims processing. Responsibility:

• To develop business rules using Gosu and Java.

• To design and develop Guidewire user interface (UI) using PCFs.

• To fix the defects that resulted in the upgrade of ClaimCenter from version 4.0.4 to version 6.0.2.

• To support production application to ensure that the system is up and running. Other Details

Nationality: Indian

Date of birth: 15-July-1985

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