Prashant Kumar Shukla Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

Marina Del Rey, California, Us

Advised one of the state Workers Compensation insurance fund clients on the East Coast on industry-leading practices in upgrading legacy policy, billing and claims systems to Guidewire Insurance Suite along with implementation of Customer and Vendor Portals. He provided the Independent Verification and Validation services to oversee all aspects of the project. He reviewed project work products and deliverables to verify that they meet the standards, requirements, specifications and expectations of the client and contractual obligations of the modernization provider. He reviewed and monitored development processes to ensure they are being documented, carried out, and analyzed for improvement.

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Advised a mid-tier P&C insurance client in Mid-West on multi-release implementation of PolicyCenter 10 for commercial lines including Workers Compensation, Commercial Auto, General Liability, Commercial Property and Inland Marine for over 15 states. He helped the client achieve transformation, by leading the requirements for configuration workstream and delivering the program scope. He helped in defining the scope, delivery approach and implementation schedule, as well as led the execution of sprint plan, working with PMO for executive reporting, and with Product Owner and multiple consumers to manage cross track dependencies and acceptance criteria.

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► Functional Lead for a multi-year, multi-release core transformation and Policy Administration System implementation at a mid-tier niche P&C Insurance carrier in mid-west. Led the configuration and rating implementation of Workers Compensation, Commercial Auto, Commercial Umbrella, General Liability, Crime, Inland Marine, Commercial Property and Commercial Package Policy, for over 40 states. He guided the team on interpreting ISO/NCCI manuals and ISO ERC, to extract the information about applicable coverages and related limits to define Product Model. He worked with client to frame validation rule, underwriting issues, and defining Form’s existence, availability, triggering rules and redefining Audit workflow. He worked with project sponsor and client stakeholders on change control management, to appropriately plan requested changes in sprints within project timelines.► Program BA Lead for tier-2 P&C Insurance client in east coast on a Pilot implementation of Guidewire ClaimsCenter and BillingCenter, as part of their multi-year, multi-phase Guidewire Suite implementation plan. He was responsible for defining the BA Standards, Requirement Templates and Definition of Done for the project. He mentored project BAs with process related clarifications and helped them following the best practices. He helped junior BAs in the team in setting up and running requirement gathering sessions, provided real time feedbacks for improvements, and performed Peer Review of the final business requirement before sending for client sign-off. He acted as a ScrumMaster for multiple tracks, handled Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Closure, Resource Planning, Backlog Management and Defect Management using Agile Manager and Quality Center. He also handled team’s status reporting to PMO in weekly scrum of scrum meetings.

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Working in a Policy Administration System Transformation Project, helping client to move their existing Workers Compensation business to Guidewire Policy Center, and have successfully implemented 15 states till date. Next set of 32 states are currently in Inception Phase. Leading a team of Business Analysts across Configuration, Integration and Print tracks in the project. Extensively worked on Policy Center Rating Implementation and end to end requirement gathering for complex workflows including Issuance, Audit and Admin Data Load. Working with ISO and NCCI and has worked on interpreting the latest circulars and gathering requirements/rules from these organizations, for current implementation, covering Rate Changes, Taxes and Surcharges and implementation of new Rate Books. Conducted multiple rating workshops for onsite Developer/BA team and offshore DEV resources.

Morristown, Nj, Us

As a Lead Business Analyst for a P&C Insurance product company, he worked on the defining their base Workers Compensation and Businessowners Program products. He worked on ISO Rating Content (ISO ERC) to capture the coverage attributes applicable at each level of BOP Workflow (Policy, Location, Building and Classification) and Workers Compensation Workflow (Line, State, Exposure and Options). He worked interpreting Acord-160 and Acord-130 forms to capture underwriting information related to BOP and WC respectively, as well as State Manuals to create Verification and Validation Rules both for Underwriting and Coverage Attributes. He managed an onsite team of Product SME, Prototype Designer and a developer.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

As a business analyst for a mid-tier P&C Insurance client in east coast, he worked on defining the requirements to facilitate migration of a Mainframe based insurance application on Duckcreek policy administration platform. He worked with Underwriters in creation, change and implementation of Underwriting Rules based on changing business needs. He was responsible for creation, change and implementation of Forms and related business rules to accommodate varied business requirements or changes in ISO norms, as well as defining proposed system functionality and User Interface requirements. He created the functional test strategy document for testing the migrated application and assisted the offshore team in test case design and execution. He was also responsible for identifying, analyzing, and proposing solutions for defects and gaps post migration

Noida, Up, In

Running a complete testing life cycle for e-Learning Related client software.

Ins21 - General Insurance

Master Of Computer Applications (M.C.A.)

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.)