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Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Led and managed the delivery of Allstate Business Insurance - Commercial Auto Protection product based on Duck Creek platform v7.2 (DCOD), helped drive its transformation into an Agile operation by leveraging the outcome-based delivery goals and built the platform to migrate ABI policies off the legacy system.• Delivered the new product with 20+ integration points/microservices.• Drove Agile transformation as Duck Creek SME, presented creative solutions and demos throughout the SDLC and achieved all the PI objectives with quality.• Contributed to Refinements, user stories, acceptance criteria, OKRs, and KPIs for product backlog support through D&F sessions to sprint retrospectives, incl. an ambiguous feature like ConnExit.• Established version control process for code deployments to PROD reducing maintenance overhead by ~40%.• Reduced end-of-PI code validation efforts from ~26 hours to just 1 hour using automation i.e. ~$30k budget savings.• Monitored latest ISO circulars, scheduled and implemented within defined SLA.• Guided and mentored team members, engaging stakeholders for risk identification and mitigation.• Orchestrated seamless communication between technical and non-technical teams.

CHUBB APAC Modular Insurance Package: Delivery responsibility contributing to program evolution spanning multiple countries in the APAC region.• Prioritized features, reducing scope creep by 15% and improving project efficiency by 20%.• Played a decisive role in quarterly Program Increment planning sessions - prepared roadmaps, identified dependencies and selected valuable story candidates.• Ensured technical components aligned with business goals and standards, eliminating system gaps.• Guided multiple teams in adopting a unified Scrum-Kanban approach for implementing the Forms Library and Self-Service Centre.• Mentored 14 developers with varying career experience about achieving qualitative code and new areas of Duck Creek technologies and Insurance domain.• Incrementally refined and optimized processes, seamlessly adapting to the team's expansion.• Achieved successful testing of web services using SOAP over HTTP.

London, England, United Kingdom

Led development efforts, managed delivery team, and coordinated Product Delivery for client’s Home Insurance product under their P&C transformation project.• Client-Facing Leadership:- Promoted to an on-site client-facing role, leading development, testing, and product delivery.- Orchestrated design workshops with stakeholders and analysts to draft business requirements.- Analyzed architectures, researched solutions, and set long-term project direction.- Experienced in managing client relations within the UK insurance market, collaborating with business users, team members, and executive leaders across distributed geographical units• Cost Optimization and Recognition:- Collaborated with the Chief Marketing Manager to optimize customer communication designs, resulting in a 15% reduction in communication costs.- Received client appreciation for efficient, on-time releases and cost savings.• Technical Expertise and Innovation:- Generated defect root cause analyses, implemented RTM and risk mitigation strategies, and established architectural frameworks.- Resolved 80% of SIT/UAT environment bugs within 45 days, ensuring on-time delivery of the client’s new insurance product to the market.• Data Mapping and Microservices:- Understood, implemented, and supported the integration for ~15 microservices, ensuring a well-formed schema and data mapping.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Contributed to an in-house automation tool, reducing manual dev effort by over 35% across saving time and speeding up the delivery.• Devised an approach to increase development hours fidelity, resulting in an 18% sprint velocity increase.• Single-handedly initiated and managed the implementation of the entire Rating module for Westfield Insurance.• Designed a complex pricing modifier within the Rating logic based as per client specifications.• Recognition and Promotion:- Recognized as a Duck Creek SME within the P&C Insurance practice.- Promoted to an on-site client-facing position in a short period.- Received client’s Einstein Award and later the Accenture ACE Award.

Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

• Understanding the complexities of Rater sheet and its implementation in Duck Creek for Location Level Pricing Program of AIG, a well-known insurer in the North American market.• Developed SQL queries and stored procedures to integrate databases for CRUD operations.• Analysed Requirements and the impacts of proposed coding on the existing application with help of multiple Proof of Concepts.• Facilitated coordination among the offshore team, onsite management, and the client regarding work assignments, requirement clarification, task reviews, and daily status updates.

Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Developer - Policy Admin Configuration using Duck Creek Technologies• Designed and deployed production-ready Commercial Insurance products for Axis Capital Ltd, a major US based Insurance Co. with over 10M customers and over $25B of Total Assets.• Upgraded DCT Example Platform from v4.3 to v5.2 in the client environments responsible for their Policy Administration.• Delivered multiple modules of product development viz. Upgrading Templates, Page Designing, Forms Development, Rating, Debugging et al.• Code Deployment to QA, UAT and Production and version controlling.• Developed product support documentations for better retention of knowledge.• Secured highest performance band: 5 for FY 2013-14.