Laxman Kumar Ambadapudi Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

USA

• Responsibilities:
• Utilize system analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine hardware, software or system application requirements.
• Work with programmers to develop strategies for data conversions and data integrations.
• Manage mock conversion processes, including driving analysis, resolution of issues and performing functional testing of data conversions/integrations with other systems.
• Independently perform data analysis for conversions and integrations across data mapping, business rules, and data quality.
• Perform project management tasks such as status reporting, issue/risk management, change management, and action item tracking.

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

Erie Secure Business (ESB) program, development of a Commercial Package Product, carved out from 7 individual products encompassing multi line of business. Supporting this product with Quote and Application System (QAS) UI with real time connection to OneShield (OS) backend through an API Manager (API) is the IT objective of this project.

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

• Responsibilities:
• Contribute to UI/UX design methodologies such as wire framing, prototyping, Use cases, Workflow diagrams, and activity diagrams.
• Identify “as is” GAP and future state of process, design and implement added value processes that eliminate waste and saves operational time.
• Elicit requirements and translate system and user requirements to use cases and decompose epics to user stories for scrum teams.
• Translate functional requirements documents to technical document and detailed Business Process Model Notations using Visio to depict workflow process
• Leads project artifact review sessions for cross browser compatibility with project stakeholders, solicit and incorporate feedback with formal approvals

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Provide planning support for IT capabilities and enterprise technology solutions.
• Provide IT-enabled business solutions across industries, platforms and/or LOBs, including insurance areas such as claims, actuarial, personal lines, direct, agency, specialty, etc.
• Develop IT / business roadmaps in conjunction with multiple business and IT partners.
• Develop business cases, which include hardware, software and resource estimates; identification of hard and soft benefits.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Develop a planning dashboard to communicate progress and maturity. Work Demonstrated –

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Responsibilities:
• As a Business Analyst Manager coordinate with offshore personnel and plan for sprints and deliverables within them.
• Responsible for conducting Business Impact Analysis and Gap Analysis;
• Liaise with stakeholders, business owners, end-users and develop business/system use cases.
• Oversee business requirements for completeness through discussion with stakeholders and SME’s;
• Determine short term and long term project goals.

Scottsdale, Arizona

As a strategic initiative, Scottsdale Insurance Company is to streamline and automate its reinsurance processes, which currently require extensive manual intervention and potential for inaccurate data. To accomplish this initiative, Scottsdale Insurance Company is to implement the Universal Reinsurance System (URS). This system will provide Scottsdale with.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Project: Voluntary and CTA Integration Project (Standard Insurance Company)Standard Insurance wanted to introduce Voluntary Line of Business, to its existing stack of products and wanted a “Go to Market” strategy to.
• Elicit business requirements by organizing workshops with business users, Technical personnel.
• Translate business requirements to system requirements and draft functional specifications suiting the needs of the business stake holders.
• Assess the impact on existing systems with the introduction of new requirements.
• Mock up Data needed for new requirements, suiting system requirements.
• Map data elements aligning as per the system specifications.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Project: L&T Insurance System Integration Project (LTGICL)LTGICL is a green field project, where in L&T, a Construction conglomerate chosen to diversify into Insurance business, and has leveraged on IBM Domain.
• Defining business, organization and data requirements for various Processes of an Insurance company
• Defining business rules to support process and workflow deployment
• Defining high-level functional requirements to support the functionality addressed by Business System
• Conducting the process pilot/model office to illustrate impact of recommended process improvements independent of any new technology.As a Business Analyst on LTGICL Project, I was performing the following activities:
• Provide project teams with process design guidance and coaching to support process-led transformation, this includes process and channel subject matter expert (SME) consultation.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Project: Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company:Project is a Maintenance project for the Non –life Insurance company especially in the Property area where in Application systems with regard to Data Capture, Rating.
• Understanding various systems under the Personal Property Area required for End-to-end business processing
• Analysis around the realistic requirements in terms of effort and time
• Business purpose behind the requirements in relation to business
• Data required for testing the new system after enhancements
• Understanding variety of technologies and platforms

Reading, United Kingdom

• Prudential Insurance Company, UKProject: Annuities Payment SystemAnnuity Payments Application, which helps in streamlining the payments of Annuities and keeps track of the Annuitants, Products and related.
• Define business process and Application/Module/Functional impact of change
• To identify various business processes and interfaces that make up the Payment Application system
• To guide the Development/Testing team in terms of functional aspects
• Usage of gathered data to provide input to or write business specifications and / or requirements clearly and unambiguously.
• Contribute to the production of user instructions, training manuals and appropriate supporting documentation, acting as a contact point for any technical training.

Kenya

• Premia Insurance suite, a flagship of 3i Infotech, catering to the needs of the insurance companies for their Insurance service needs and product portfolio, Is a client server application with an end-to-end.
• Implementer for 3 modules namely Individual Life, Group Life and Group Pension Modules for Ken India Assurance Company Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya
• Setting up of Masters and parameters customized to suit client needs
• Integration of Modules to suit the requirements of the Insurance Company.
• Finalizing Acceptance Criteria for the client with regards to setups, requirements, reports and sign off.
• Identifying gaps with respect to the business requirements drafted and that of the product delivered

Bengaluru Area, India

• Capture, measure, and execute business processes to ensure their effectiveness.
• Responsible for complex business and/or systems process analysis, modeling.
• Serve as an expert in the analysis and modeling of existing and evolving processes, procedures and methods to ensure and promote effective business and systems operations through standardization, improvement.
• Create/promote process change by integrating new processes with existing ones within the evolving system parlance.
• Update management of the “AS-IS” operational business process and “TO-BE” proposed process and the likely impacts.
• Under direction from the Project Manager, coordinate and comprehend changes and to determine and understand business requirements.

• Maintenance of Systems - Write COBOL programs on UNIX environment using shell scripting for specific needs depending on the need of the business users, customers, intermediaries etc., Patch Management, Maintenance of.
• Data Management - Data storage and retrieval, Data entry and maintenance of database, Back up and maintenance of the files, Disks, Tapes, Instrumental in implementing improvements to Software Development, IT.
• Report Generation - Prepare weekly collection reports, Participate in monthly billing process
• Security Management - Responsible for the Security and purification of the data, Conversion of data from tapes, Data backups and Maintenance

• Accounting Services - Maintenance of accounting procedures (Book keeping and Journal entries) for an Insurance branch office. Documentation of summary and posting of invoices into Ledger and generating Balance Sheet.
• Policy Administration Services - Policy servicing aspects dealing with Loans, Surrenders, and Foreclosures, Revivals, Alterations. Settlement of Claims (Early and Non-Early) Maintenance of Speed Ratios
• Commission Services - Settlement of Commissions, Bonuses, Allowances and Incentives for the agents.
• Agency Services - Appointments, Terminations and Re-instatements of the Agents Enlightening agents about the new plans and their benefits
• Appraisal Services - liaison between the Agents, Development Officers, and Branch Managers. Settlement of Appraisal for Development Officers

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics

Graduate Diploma, Computer Applications

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General