PAULO PAVEL

Guidewire Specialist

Paulo is a Software Engineer and Computer System Analyst with extensive system analysis and application development, as well management experience focusing on development methodologies (Scrum), analysis, solution design, integration and configuration for the Financial Business Domain and others. He has extensive UML and UI ergonomic design experience. In addition, Paulo has a strong knowledge of development technologies like Agile, and more than fifteen years of experience in documenting, team managing, and providing application solutions including over 10 years of Guidewire Suite (9 in PC, 3 in CC) and 15 years in the Insurance Business Domain. Paulo is committed to project success and is always willing to put in the extra effort required to ensure project goals are achieved.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

NORIMA CONSULTING

Senior Consultant Guidewire Sept 2021 – April 2023

Allocations as Senior Developer Consultant at:

Guidewire Software

Upgrade and Migration team / lead and manager of Norima-GW Upgrade Pod Sept 2021 – Mar 2022

Upgrade to Clouds Workshop and Training

Economical Insurance-US Upgrade Project: Upgrade ClaimCenter version 10 to Cortina

Amer Insurance-US Upgrade Project: Upgrade ClaimCenter version 8 to Cortina

La Macif Insurance-France Upgrade Project: Upgrade PolicyCenter version 8 to 10 then 10 to Dobson

UAIC-US Insurance Upgrade Project: Upgrade ClaimCenter, Billing Center and Contact Manager version 8 to 10 then 10 to to Dobson

Paulo’s responsibilities include:

Upgrade Merge, Compiling, Test and Debug:

Guidance and Agile daily scrums mastering to new Junior Developers at Norima-GW Upgrade Pod team.

Technical Investigation, Technical Analysis, Solution Design Documents, Business Logic Rules and Development for upgrade

Technology: GIT, Bitbucket, GitLab, Guidewire Studio 10, Gunit, Cortina and Dobson, MergeTracker, Beyond Compare, Java and Gosu, XML, Jira, Confluence, Agile Scrum methodology.

146 - Upgrade and Migration Project team at Wawanesa Insurance Group Mar – Dec 2022

Upgrade PolicyCenter version 8 to version 10 Stabilization phase team

Paulo’s responsibilities include:

Debug fix Errors

Participation in Agile daily scrums and meetings

Technical Investigation, Technical Analysis, Solution Design Documents, Business Logic Rules, Rating, Unit Test and Development for upgrade, Integration with BillingCenter, ClaimCenter, and external vendors. Configuration PCF.

Technology: GIT, Bitbucket, Jira, Guidewire Studio 8 and 10, Gunit, GXmodel, MergeTracker, Java and Gosu, XML, Beyond Compare, PostMan, Jira, Confluence, Agile Scrum methodology.

MERCURY INSURANCE GROUP

Computer Systems Analyst - Guidewire Consultant Jun 2021 – Sept 2021

Home and Auto team

Configuration: Analysis, PCF, Design and Development in PolicyCenter version 10.

Participation in scrums and meetings.

Enhancements to Rate Level project for Guidewire Production System for Auto and Homeowners.

Technical Investigation, Technical Analysis, Solution Design Documents, Unit Test and Development.

Technical environment: Guidewire 10 Java and Gosu, XML, Git version control, SQL Server, Guidewire Studio 10, Gunit, GW Product Designer, SoapUi, Jira, Confluence, GitLab.

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Guidewire Manager / Product Specialist Jun 2019 – Mar 2021

TD Bank Insurance

Senior Lead Developer at: BAU/Enhancements and Maintenance – Home and Personal Auto

Configuration, PCF Development, Analysis, Design Documents, Data Model in PolicyCenter and BillingCenter version 8.

Participation in Agile daily scrums and meetings, technical User Story creation from BA requirements, and guidance to new Junior Developers.

Enhancements to Guidewire Production System for Auto and Homeowners.

Enhancements in Edge for Digital Quoter.

Participation as Senior Lead Developer in the Payment Fee Optimization Project.

Technical support to Business Analysts, User Stories development tasks splitting.

Technical Investigation, Technical Analysis, User Story creation, Solution Design Documents, Business Logic Rules, Data Model, Data Mapping and Data Gap Analysis, Rating classes, Development, and Unit Test.

Technical environment: Guidewire BC and PC 8, Java and Gosu, XML, Agile Scrum methodology, Git version control, Guidewire Studio 8, Gunit, GXmodel, ETL, GW Product Designer, PostMan, GW Edge, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket.

DELOITTE

Guidewire Consultant Dec 2018 – May 2019

Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group – Project Phoenix - Business Owners, Property, Residential, Farm, Auto, Commercial and Umbrella

Configuration: Analysis, Design and Development (PolicyCenter version 9).

Participation in daily scrums and meetings.

Development, Technical Analysis, General Configuration, Data Mapping, UW Rules, Coverages Rules and Bug fixing.

Technical environment: Guidewire 9, Java and Gosu, Gunit, XML, Agile Scrum methodology, Git version control, Guidewire Studio 9, GW Product Designer, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket.

GFT GROUP

Guidewire Specialist Apr 2018 – Oct 2018

AXA Insurance Bruxelles - Project RDR - Personal and Commercial Auto

Guidewire ClaimCenter Application Architecture Consulting and expertise for RDR implementation module.

Technical support to Business Analysts and Architects, User Stories development tasks.

Configuration and Integration Technical Analysis, Solution Design, Data Model, Data Mapping and Data Gap Analysis.

Agile daily scrums mastering and meetings as offshore technical team lead.

La Macif Insurance – Niort - Project Flottes - Personal and Commercial Auto

Data Model, Configuration and Integration Analysis and Development (PolicyCenter and ClaimCenter):

Participation in Agile daily scrums and meetings.

Installation and evaluation of Guidewire Accelerators like CodeNarc, SEPA and BatchRunner.

Functional and Technical Analysis.

Technical support to Business Analysts.

Data Mapping and Business Rules for Integration. Design, GX model for integration payloads implementation, Payloads and Events implementation.

Analysis, Data Model, Data Mapping and Data Gap Analysis Development and Implementation for the integrations: Darva (Claims services request), Sepa (Direct Account Debit) and Documents.

Technical environment: Guidewire 9, Java and Gosu, Gunit, GXmodel, UML, XML, ETL, Web Services, Agile Scrum methodology, Ant, Git version control, Guidewire Studio 9, Jira, Beyond Compare, Notepad ++, Confluence and Teams.

Insurance Company of British Columbia

Guidewire Consultant Oct 2017 – Mar 2018

ISAS Maintenance Project - Personal and Commercial Auto

Give Solution to defects and implementation, Data Model, Business Logic Rules, PCFs.

Perform specific queries and in Production DB reports for business purposes, like extracting Data for business analysis and integrate with external system.

Solution Design Documents elaboration for Guidewire development of defect solutions and implementation.

Participation in scrums and meetings.

Technical support to Business Analysts, User Stories development tasks splitting.

Technical analysis, Guidewire Design and Gosu implementation of Data Fix scripts to be applied in Production.

Technical environment: Guidewire 8, PC, BC and CC. Java and Gosu, GXmodel, UML, XML, ETL, Web Services, Agile Scrum methodology, SVN / CVS version control, Guidewire Studio 8, Oracle SQL Developer, Oracle DB, GW Studio 8, Ant, Jira, Confluence, Tortoise.

ACCENTURE

Application Solution Architect / Guidewire Technology Manager Feb – Oct 2017

WSIB –Ontario – ACES 32 Enhancements Project Claim Center - Workers Compensation

Responsibilities in response to RFP:

Solution Design Documents elaboration, User Story Creation from requirements, Business Logic Rules, PCFs, LOB mapping, Software Configuration management, Data Model, ETL, Data Mapping and Data Gap Analysis.

Use Cases and Process Flow Diagrams elaboration.

Technical support for the estimation phase.

Technical and functional analysis and Design.

Project Responsibilities:

Agile Scrum Master, team lead and guidewire manager to onshore/offshore development team..

Technical implementation solution.

Technical environment: UML, ClaimCenter Guidewire 8, Java and Gosu, XML, Agile Scrum methodology, SVN / CVS version control, Visio, Guidewire Studio 8, SQL server, Jira, Confluence, Tortoise.

PWC CONSULTING

Computer System Analyst Sept – Dec 2016

AF Group Insurance Company of Michigan – Workers Compensation

Guidewire Policy Center Form Patterns Inference configuration and Gosu implementation of the Custom Form Inference Classes.

Functional and Technical Design analysis and implementation.

Technical environment: Guidewire 8, Gosu, Git version control, Guidewire Studio 8, H2, Tortoise.

WAWANESA INSURANCE COMPANY

Guidewire Integration - System Analyst Jan – Jul2016

SSR R2 Project - Personal and Commercial Auto

Guidewire Policy Center application integration development.

Agile daily Scrums, user stories specifications and build task detachments, training and coaching less experienced developers.

Data Model, Data Mapping and Data Gap Analysis, Solution Design and Java/Gosu code and implementation of the VIN search and MVR Integrations.

Technical environment: Guidewire 8, Java and Gosu, GX model, UML, XML, ETL, Soap, Web Services, Agile Scrum methodology, Git version control, Guidewire Studio 8, H2, Jira, Tortoise, SoapUI and Rally.

ERNST & YOUNG CONSULTING

Guidewire Integration Developer Aug 2014 – Jul 2015

Insurance Company of British Columbia - ISAS Project - Personal and Commercial Auto

Java/Gosu integration development.

Data Model, Data Mapping and Gap Analisys for integration.

GX model for integration payloads implementation.

Participation in Agile daily scrums and meetings.

Technical Analysis, Design and Java/Gosu code and implementation of the:

oIntegration with Legacy System for Debt Check.

oIntegration application with EngageOne (Corporate Document Management System) using Mappings, JMS/XML/XSD SOAP/WebServices for Forms/Documents generation and printing in pdf format,.

oIntegration with KOFAX for scanning and archiving of the issued Forms/Documents, Gap Analysis at each DataModel Change.

oDebug of several Integration and Configuration defects in the Debugging Phase of the project.

Technical environment: PolicyCenter Guidewire 8, Java and Gosu, UML, XML, ETL, Data Mapping and Data Gap Analysis, Soap, Web Services, Agile Scrum methodology, SVN / CVS version control, Guidewire Studio 8, Oracle, H2, Eclipse, Ant, EngageOne, Jira, Tortoise, Microsoft Visio, SoapUI and Rally.

INTACT FINANCIAL INSURANCE COMPANY

Guidewire Solution Design Architect Mar – Aug 2014

ProgiSync Project – Personal and Commercial Auto

Give integration solution, design, implementation, specifications and ClaimCenter configuration in the scope of the project.

Functional and Technical analysis.

Technical support to Business Analyst, development tasks specification.

Integration Design Specification Document presented to the Integrators Manager Group Meeting for the integration implementation approval, 100% approved with no changes.

Design of the new ClaimCenter side module and Integration.

Design of the necessary changes and additions to the existing ClaimCenter Data Model, Data Mapping and Data Gap Analysis.

Specification, Design, and implementation of Guidewire WebService (SOAP) in ClaimCenter exposed to consume requests from PROGI to change appointments Data directly in ClaimCenter Data Base.

New screen design, functional analysis, creation, configuration, and code for the display of the appointment’s date/time availability and selection. Integration of the screen in the existing Claim Center application.

All necessary Java/Gosu code and implementation for the Integration.

Technical environment: Java/Gosu, Guidewire Claim Center 5.9, UML, XML, Data Mapping, Soap, Guidewire Webservices (SOAP), Tools used: Eclipse, IBM RTC version control, Guidewire Studio 5.9, Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Project.

THE CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE COMPANY

Guidewire Developer Jul 2013 – Mar 2014

Auto CGI project – Farm, Personal and Commercial Auto

General Analysis, Design, Configuration, Unit Tests with Gunit, Java/Gosu code and implementation according to User History and assigned tasks in several Sprints.

MVR module in PolicyCenter.

Participating in business meetings to elicit MVR user interface requirements.

Creating and implementing MVR adaptive screen (different MVR requirements for different provinces).

Creating Data Mapping from MVR reports from each province to PolicyCenter DataModel.

Working with Data Architect for PolicyCenter: Data Mapping, Data Gap Analysis and DataModel implementation.

Working with Business Analyst for Vehicle screens: Technical support to Business Analysts, User Stories development tasks splitting.

UI solution, PCF design, configuration, and implementation.

Working with Rating Architect: implementing Rating Classes and Rule based Logic.

Working with Business Analyst: Rules implementation.

Participation in Agile daily scrums and meetings. Training and coaching less experienced developers.

Forms and Document printing and archiving with PolicyCenter out-of-the-box features.

Technical environment: Guidewire PolicyCenter 7.5, Gosu, Java, UML, XML, ETL, Agile Scrum methodology.

Tools used: Eclipse, Ant, Guidewire Studio 7.5, H2, Oracle, Toad, CVS version control and Rally.

SSQ AUTO INSURANCE

Java/JEE Analyst Jun 2011– Feb 2013

ADN project – Personal Auto

Improve/update existing functionality and development of new functionalities implementation in Java/EJB components for Integration with Guidewire.

Refactoring/version update of Java applications to Maven standards.

Technical support to Business Analysts, User Stories development tasks splitting.

Guidewire Policy Center 7.5 general analysis, design, configuration, and integration according to Sprint user history and tasks.

Guidewire PolicyCenter, Data Mapping, Data Gap Analysis and Data Model implementation.

Java/Gosu front and back-end analysis and code.

Work closely with Business Architect and Analyst lead for new PolicyCenter modules specifications and development such as Affinity Groups and Credit History analysis, design, and implementation.

Participation in Agile daily scrums and meetings.

Technical environment: Guidewire 7.5, UML, JEE, Gosu, Struts, Spring, Enterprise Java Beans, Design Patterns, Java Faces, JSP, JDBC, JUnit, XML, Oracle, SOA, Legacy integration, Agile Scrum methodology, Guidewire Web services, JBoss Application Server, Eclipse, Maven, SVN version control, Guidewire Studio 7, Jira, Rally, Ant.

POUSADA VILLAGE ALPINO

System Analyst and Project Manager Feb 2008 – Feb 2010

Functional and technical analysis.

Design for the new corporate site.

Web based e-business system conception, analysis, and development.

Technical environment: UML, HTML, JavaScript (DOM), Java, JSP, TomCat, MySQL, BlueFish, Eclipse, Microsoft Visio, Open Office, Linux, Windows.

ARTES GERAIS COMPUTING INC.

Java Trainer/Teacher Mar 2006 – Dec 2007

Course program, didactic content, and courseware elaboration.

Didactic strategies definition, Teaching/Training and Coaching.

Didactic material conception and implementation.

Teaching, coaching and Final Project follow-up.

CAXIAS DO SUL UNIVERSITY – RG – BRAZIL

Computing Department Professor/Discipline Responsible Mar 2004 – Feb 2006

Software Engineering and Java Programming.

LIBERTY INSURANCE Inc.

Consultant Java/J2EE lead system analyst and developer Aug 2001 – Aug 2004

From The Agency.com 2 months Knowledge Transfer at Boston – USA offered to the 12 developers of the Offshore Brazilian Java development team, of the new Liberty Mutual world wide policy issuing systems that was a Java Internet Distributed System composed of a Shared Core hosted in the Agency.com servers in Boston with little backend and user interface hosted in each Liberty’s branch in several counties in North and South Americas, Asia and Europe, Paulo issued as the responsible for the Java Swing User Interface and as the Java Programmer Lead. The System Development was based in a geographically distributed team (Boston - USA and São Paulo - Brazil).

SEL Project Personal and Commercial Auto

●Responsible for the graphic user interface (implemented in Java/Swing with MVC pattern),

●Front end analysis, design, programming, testing, and debugging.

●Development of new functionality and modules like Renewal and Endorsements (Policy Change),

●Analysis to Improve existing functionality and new versions implementation.

●Back-end analysis and programming lead.

●Solution Documentation, Specification and UML modeling for the GUI migration from Swing to JSP/Servlet.

ZURICH INSURANCE CARACAS inc.

Project Manager / Java business analyst Apr – Jul 2001

Banca Seguro Project – Homeowners

●Participation in the Response to RFP winning Project.

●Solution Design

●Creating and managing developer tasks

●Monitoring progress to ensure all work was getting completed within deadlines.

●Mentoring/coaching team members onshore and offshore.

●Data Model, Data Gap Analysis, Technical Analysis and Design.

●Documentation.

●Java development.

●System implantation in both sides of the integration.

●Project Management, Business Analysis and System requirements.

Applied Technology: HTML, JavaScript, Java applets, XML, JDBC, DLL, Visual Basic.

Tools used: IBM Visual Age for Java, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office, Rational Rose, Dream Weaver, Visual Basic Studio.

IBM SÃO PAULO BRAZIL

J2EE/Java Manager Consultant - Business Analysis and Development Mar 2000 – Mar 2001

e-business group

As a Business Analyst and Developer Paulo had the opportunity to work on every part of the client facing J2EE projects right after sales, gathering requirements, business analysis, training and coaching companies’ IT staff for Java Projects at Itaú Bank, Maritma Insurance, Casas Bahia, Citibank and Brazil Telecom

Responsibilities in RFP Response:

●ERP and/or Financial System Architecture, Data Model, Data Gap Analysis

● and Data modelling, including Legacy integration with Java.

●ERP and/or Financial System Analysis and Design for the enterprise’s e-business system.

●Web migration strategies and objectives specifications

●Business Relational model conversion to Object Oriented with UML data modeling.

Project responsibilities:

Project and Team Management

●JSP, JavaBeans, Applets, Swing and Servlets design, development, and documentation.

●Coordination of the Implementation of the Project and Technical Solution

●Java specific training ministration for IT employees with courseware design.

●Didactic material elaboration

Applied Technology: UML, J2EE, Applets, Servlets, JSP, Swing, JDBC, JavaBeans, Enterprise Java Beans, ETL

Tools used: IBM Visual Age for Java, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Rational Rose, Microsoft Office.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Java, Gosu, XML, JavaScript, JSON, Web Services, Web Design, Java Server Pages (JSP)

Servlets, MVC Spring, GW Edge/Digital. Agile Scrum methodologies.

Guidewire PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter and BillingCenter v 7 to 10, Cortina and Dobson.

Eclipse, GW Studio,

IntelliJ, Oracle Developer, AnyPoint Platform, AnyPoint Studio, Mule Software, SoapUi, Advanced REST Client,

Object Oriented Architecture, Distributed Systems, SOAP, Java Enterprise Edition (JEE), UML, ETL.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Insurance

Banking

eBusiness

eCommerce

EDUCATION

Doctorate(PhD) in Computer Science, Internet/Java Distributed Systems

Master’s (MSC) degree in software engineering, development methodologies

Engineer, Geodesic and Geometric structures.

TRAINING

MuleSoft Software

AnyPoint Platform and AnyPoint Studio – Fundamentals Training for Certification – Jan- Apr 2023

Guidewire Education Cloud Certified Training Curses 2021:

1.Insurance Suite Developer Aspen New Features

2.Insurance Suite Developer Benff New Features

3.Insurance Suite Developer Cortina New Features

4.Insurance Suite Developer Dobson New Features

5.Insurance Suite Cloud Developer Best Practices

Guidewire Upgrade and Migration Workshop at Guidewire Software Inc. Nov 2021

Guidewire Suite Configuration v9 Certification May 2018

Guidewire

Configuration Jul 2013

Guidewire Suite v7 Application Configuration by Guidewire Education Jul 2013

e-business Java Knowledge Transfer by agency.com for Liberty Mutual in Boston - US.

Java Programming for the IBM OS390O by IBM Training/Education - Sao Paulo – Brazil - 2001.

IBM ITSO ITS65 WebSphere for OS390 Workshop by IBM -2001

Java Programming with IBM-VisualAge for Java Workshop at IBM-SP - Brazil. Mar 2000

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