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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.
• 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.

• 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.

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..
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.