Siva Nageswararao

Guidewire Developer

Professional Summary
Senior Software engineer with designing and architecting expertise. Areas of expertise include solution architecture,
requirement GAP analysis, design, development and implementation of Guidewire (Integration/Configuration), Java, J2EE,
Oracle SOA and Portal Applications. Broad experience with business processes across various industries and clients
including P&C Insurance, Telecommunication, Shopping portals, Health Care.
Professional Highlights
 12 years of experience in architecture, requirement analysis, design, development, unit testing and
implementation/deployment of enterprise client/server, distributed internet applications using Guidewire, Java,
J2EE ,Oracle Service Oriented Architecture and RDBMS technologies
 5.5 years of experience in P&C Insurance Industry and Guidewire
 Development with Core Java, J2EE technologies including but not limited to Struts, Spring, JSP, Servlets, JSF,
JSTL, MS (MQ series), JMX, JAXB, JPA/Hibernate, JSR-168, Web Services – SOAP based JAX-WS and JAX-RS, Rest
Services and Oracle SOA BPEL.
 Expertise in GOSU programming language, transforming the complex business requirements into simple, robust,
extendible GOSU components
 Extensive experience in Guidewire Configuration and Integration suite of products
 Expertise in Guidewire PolicyCenter 7.0.x , 8.0.x and 10.0.2
 Architected, Designed, Developed and implemented business critical components applications to communicate
with legacy applications, external systems, third party applications etc. using web services, MQ’s, workflows
 Providing technical assistance and lead the team in identification, troubleshooting technical issues, gap analysis
and provide technical resolutions
 Expertise in development using TDD approach using Unit testing frameworks such as Junit, GUnit testing
 Experience in Database programming in Oracle9i, MySQL, H2 and PostgreSQL
 Well versed in SDLC, Object-Oriented analysis and designing using UML such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity
Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Class Diagrams, Deployment Diagrams using Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio
 Expertise in implementation of J2EE Design Patterns such as MVC, DTO, Adapter, Plug-in and Data Access
Objects etc.
 Resolve complex technical issues, turned business needs into technical requirements, lead other members in a
team, evaluate and recommend technologies and tools to fit the changing business needs within the organization
 Expertise in defining, developing and adhering to coding standards within the organization to improve code
quality and efficiency
 Produced technical documentation for various complex technical functionalities for easy interpretation across
the different teams
 Involved in Performance Tuning and enhancement of applications
 Expertise in Agile software development such as scrums, sprint planning meetings, retrospectives and also
worked on water-fall based development approach
 Expertise in Software Configuration and build tools like ANT, Maven, Jenkins/Hudson, clear case, build forge,
Subversion (SVN), CVS etc.
 Excellent oral and written communication skills, with proven ability to interface with all levels and across
organizational lines, including leading/facilitating meetings and preparing/making presentations to both technical and
non-technical personnel.
Experience Details

Client Name State Farm Insurance, Bloomington, IL Jun/2015 – Till Date

Business/Personal lines modernization is the implementation of new systems, business process leveraging new
technologies
This project was initiated as a partnership between systems and the integrated solutions design and property
and causality business/personal lines( Personal Auto, Commercial Auto, Business Owners) underwriting to
uphold the overall enterprise strategy and vision for providing coordinated and consistent policy acquisition
process.
I am responsible in design, development and implement various products such as:
Guidewire PolicyCenter and Integration layer

Project 1 PLM Aug /2019 -Till Date

Project Role Guidewire Configuration and Integration Developer

Project The objective of this project is to replace the existing legacy Policy System used in State Farm for the Personal
Description lines of business such as Personal Auto, Renters Lines which is implemented for Ohio.
 Implemented “Guaranteed Renewal Policy”.
 Implemented Validation messages for rewrite transactions.
 Implemented display and manage Cross Reference Numbers for PLUP/CLUP.
 Implemented Determine New Submission vs. Policy Change.
 Implemented Non pay Cancellation.
 Implemented Valid Quote

Project 2 BLM Jun/2015 –Till Date

Project Role Guidewire Configuration and Integration Developer

Project The objective of this project is to replace the existing legacy Policy System used in State Farm for the various
Description lines of business such as Commercial Auto, Business Owners Lines which is implemented for IL.
Roles  Responsible for leading the design, architecture and implementation of various modules/user stories
related to the PolicyCenter system right from the inception phase of the project through multiple state
&
rollouts.
Responsibilities
 Worked extensively on the evaluation of multiple products and components to replace legacy Policy Center
application
 Responsible for provide estimates on configuration effort required for user story requirements
 Responsible to design, create new data model entities and extending the existing applications Data model
with new properties including Typelists
 Successfully designed, developed and implemented document generation framework for generating
various forms and documents
 Expertise in development using TDD approach using Unit testing frameworks such as GUnit testing
 Participated in migration of Policy Center 10.0 from Policy Center 8.0
 Responsible for driving the support processes in providing technical assistance and leading the team in
identification, troubleshooting technical issues, gap analysis, including technical resolutions, and detailed
technical review of design and code
 Received multiple recognitions as a SME for end-end implementations of the various Guidewire modules
from the State Farm IT leadership
 Implemented Mortgage Maintenance System Inbound/Outbound integration.
 Implemented Cancellation date calculation for payment delinquency.
 Implemented Vin Validation for Adding a vehicle.
 Implemented the configuration of PolicyCenter Product Model, System Tables and UW Question sets for
the Product Lines, Coverage/Condition/Exclusions, Terms and Limits etc. in Product Designer by writing
Initialization script, Availability script for Coverages, Covterms.
 Implemented custom Covterm Input sets for configuring coverage’s, adding new Cov tables and adding
Covterm columns.
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  Implemented the Policy Search/Retrieve outbound Web Services for Claim System integration, based on
search criteria, to provide different policy line information, coverage, terms, deductibles and limits etc. to
Claim System.
 Extensively worked on Policy Change, Renewal, Cancellation and Reinstatement transactions.
 Implemented the Business Validation, UW Issue Rules, Rule Classes for the Rule Framework, UW Issue,
Activity creation and Assignments.
 Implemented new user interface architecture using PCF file, Containers, Atomic Widgets, Detail view, input
sets, list views, Popup and deployment of UI changes.
 Implemented to bypass Validation Rules, Auto-Approve UW Issue Rules and Hard-Stops of both rules for
the migrated policies from Legacy System.
 Implemented Policy Cancelation, Renewal Not Taking and Consolidation to identify the consolidated
vehicles for agents’ compensation calculation.
 Implemented the carry-over of vehicles' Master Source Risk ID, Prior Risk ID and Agreement ID by the VIN
Search form the inactive policies during Policy Consolidation, for agents’ compensation calculation.
 Implemented Auto Reclamation Batch Process for IL.
 Implemented document generation for cancel nonpayment flow, trigger from billing center.
 Implemented Inbound/Outbound Integrations using JMS,WSC and Web services.
Tools and Guidewire PolicyCenter 8.0 /10 Configuration and Integration suite, GOSU, Guidewire Studio, GUnit Framework,
Environment Java, Web services SOAP, ANT, Hudson, GIT, Jenkins

Project 3 CITI CARDS - AUTOMATED Feb/2010 – Jun/2015

COLLECTIONS SYSTEM
Project Role Java/J2EE Developer

Citigroup is the world’s largest provider of credit card products. CITI Cards North America is the industry leader
Project with some 2.5 percent of GDP spent using its credit cards and with an estimated
Description 10% of CITI Card sales transacted online. It has a customer base of about 150
million in US alone. Outside of North America, the business recognizes tremendous
opportunities for growth in targeted markets through the execution of a global
delivery plan leveraging existing technology and expertise.

Collections system deals with the delinquent and OCL customers and objective is to motivate
the customers by educating different kinds of payment methods, arrangements and to retain the customer

Roles  Involved in developing OES (operation email System) module

 Ability to transform data between disparate applications and the backend systems
&
 Ability to centralize business logic and provide orchestration
Responsibilities
 Ability to allow enterprise-class monitoring and alarming
 Ability to unlock new functionality implemented in the core backend applications and extends to channel
partners quickly with minimal technology impacts. The platform will provide services to support the
following business functions to be developed in three phases:
 Activations (including new customer on-boarding and payment)
 Service Payments
 Account & Service Management
 Effectively interacted with team members and business users from different regions for requirements
capture and Analysis
 Created Service Contracts based on the providers requirements.
 Effectively interacted with team members and business users from different regions for requirements
capture and Analysis
 Created Service Contracts based on the providers requirements.
 Involved in creating Design documents for the Activation and Payments module.
 Exposed webservices for clients for backend services
 Consumed External webservices in payment system.
 Developed processes that contain Exception Handling to capture the Faults.

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  Conversion of different XML formats in each other.
 Implemented container managed transactions between the JMS and database systems;
 Interacting with Client and updating the status.
 Configured JMS resources such as queues, topics and Connection factory.
 Developed EJB for communicated to legacy systems .
 Implemented container managed transaction management..
 Created Manual Test Scripts for few applications of process.
 SOAP UI is used to web services.
 Worked with HP Quality Center for test cases execution and defect tracking .
 Performed Unit testing.
Environment / G Java, J2EE, JSP, Oracle Database 10g, SOA Suite 11g , Oracle Weblogic 10.3 Server, JDeveloper, XML, SOAP,
Skills Toad , Log4J, JUnit, Unix, Windows XP

Education Background
 Bachelor of Technology(B.Tech),Computer science Engineering ,Acharya Nagarjuna University

Certifications.
 Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, SE 8.0.
 Certified SAFe® Practitioner
 Policycenter 10.0 Fundementals
 Policycenter 10.0 Configaration specialist 10.0

Technical Proficiencies

Core Java ( ,1.7,1.8), J2EE,, Gosu, Web Services SOAP, Axis, EJB 3.0, XML, Apache2.0.43, Tomcat 5.0,
Server-side Development
Java Caching System, JUnit, Hibernate,
Frameworks Spring, Spring Portlet MVC, Oracle SOA, Guidewire Suite of Products
Portal Servers and Specifications IBM Web Sphere Portal,
Guidewire Studio, IBM LDAP, Lotus Notes, Domino Applications, Eclipse, Install ,PCF(Pivotal cloud
Tools and Others
foundary)
Application Servers WebSphere,
Analysis Design Unified Modelling Language (UML), Core design patterns, J2EE design patterns
Build & Release Mgmt SVN, Git
RDBMS Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, MYSQL, IBM DB2

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