Sharan Kumar Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Brighton, Ma, Us

Selected as a Member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, an exclusive research community of business leaders. * Actively contribute to research studies* Engage in Online Discussion Forums * Offer Strategic Feedback and Innovative Ideas to HBR Editors and Product Developers * Shape new content and products with focus on Management and Leadership

Greater New York City, Ny, Us

Guidewire Cloud PolicyCenter Architect: Spearheading Integrations for Auto & Umbrella LinesLeading Earnix Powered Rating, Pricing, and Underwriting for Personal Auto

Paris, France, Fr

♕ Leading and managing implementation of Guidewire Product Suite to P&C Insurance Carriers across the United States👉Client: State Farm Insurance Company, Texas | Project: Guidewire PolicyCenter Implementation♦ Spearheading a team of 5 developers across offshore and onsite to implement PolicyCenter for billing and payments integrations, while reporting to the Senior Director♦ Formulated product strategies and developed Restful APIs to send policy and billing data from PolicyCenter to Majesco Billing systems♦ Transformed Traditional Loggers to Guidewire Structural Loggers for the Guidewire PolicyCenter app👉Client: Farmers Insurance Company, CA | Project: Guidewire ClaimCenter and Contact Manager Implementation♦ Led a team of ~20 developers across geographically distributed teams to implement solutions for Guidewire ClaimCenter and Contact Manager for HomeOwners ♦ Implemented Integrations for HomeOwners and Commercial Lines for a Large Insurance Carrier in CA as a Lead Architecture for CC Integration Team♦ Honored with ‘Innovative Thinking Award’ for providing an excellent architecture solution to the client for Xactimate Vendor Integration♦ Formulated and executed impactful project strategies to optimize cost and reduce man hours ♦ Developed solutions for Policy & Coverage Search, Doc Generation Integrations and Xact Property Estimation solutions as a Lead Designer and Architect♦ Managed vendor integrations for Guidewire ClaimCenter and PolicyCenter like Enterprise Car Rental, DocuSign, LegalX, BottomLine, and LexisNexis etc♦ Represented Guidewire Health Check and Audits

Gb

♕ Supported Property & Casualty Insurers by implementing Guidewire PolicyCenter and ClaimCenter👉 Key Projects: CopperPoint Mutual Insurance, GuideOne Insurance, Hawaii Employers Mutual Insurance Company, Republic Insurance Group, Liberty Mutual Insurance [Refer Projects Annexure]👉 Environment: Guidewire ClaimCenter, Guidewire Contact Manager and Guidewire PolicyCenter♦ Pioneered the first customized solution in Guidewire ClaimCenter technology by designing and implementing a complex Arizona 108 form with 30+ business rules capable of calculating monthly wage for workers compensation line of business♦ Received appreciation from PwC Leadership and client for initiating a custom batch process in Guidewire Product Suite (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter) to monitor Message Queues Health

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

♕ Worked as a Technical Project Lead for one of the Top Insurance carrier to migrate a legacy Insurance systems to Java J2EE Web Application using Struts, JSP and SOA architecture.♕ Planned and created a Single Page Architecture framework for the development of Specialty Products Application EAR across ~5 insurance products in a single EAR to reduce the development time and to make it live in multi-states within 1 years’ time span♕ Contributed in design, solutions architecture, data modelling, and implementation of 5+ development releases♕ Strategized an execution plan to move and implement Specialty Products line of business from legacy Mainframes application to Java/J2EE Web Application before Mainframe sunset♕ Designed and implemented Web Applications for Motorcycle, Off Road Vehicles, Personal Umbrella Policy and many other lines of Businesses.♕ Led and managed Policy Admin, Web Services, Specialty Products LOB and Policy View Global (Infosy and Client) teams.👉 Key Projects: Motorcycle Insurance, Speciality Products Implementation, Java WebServices Team Lead, PolicyView Team Lead 👉 Environment: Java (JDK 1.6), Struts, Spring MVC, HTML, CSS, JSP, JQuery, SQL, PL/SQL, Design Patterns, Web services using SOAP and REST, JSON, Java Script, AJAX

Dublin 2, Ie

👉Worked for about 15 + Maintenance releases and 6+ Development releases including minor and major enhancements of Java and J2EE modules for Web sites, Call Center Web Application and User Portal Applications. Worked across India Delivery Center and at US Client location♦ Conserved ~USD 2 million within 3 years’ time span by optimizing the web page load times, building responsive sites, and integrating booking websites with adobe analytics ♦ Enhanced catching size by performing Heap dump analysis using IBM Heap Analyzer and Eclipse MAT (Memory Analyzer Tool) and by reducing redundant objects to performance tune the branded web applications♦ Implemented Splunk Tool to scan logs in production environment♦ Fixed 404, 500 errors throughout applications to improve application performance♦ Enhanced Robots.txt files to prevent Starwoodhotels.com website from spider attacks

Dublin 2, Ie

Java J2EE Developer

Dublin 2, Ie

👉 Worked at client site and Accenture location in UK during a complex development release and involved in all the phases of the SDLC methodology from conceptual design phase till the go-live phase of the development releases.♦ Actively involved in conceptual design phase with the client leadership team to conceptualize the design of the application, gathered High level system requirements (HSRs) during this phase♦ Involved in design of ~3 complex Java/J2EE Web Applications and two oracle forms reporting♦ Performed analysis on the existing systems to enhance and build the new requirements gathered during the conceptual design phase♦ Estimated Java and Oracle modules using custom estimators and Function Point Analysis♦ Created Graphical User Interfaces at client site during Conceptual Design and Functional Design Phase to demonstrate and walkthrough♦ Led client workshops to review the design documents and clarify the requirements to meet the client needs ♦ Created Physical and Logical Data models for the data base components required for the modules♦ Developed technical design documents and was the reviewed TDs for other modules♦ Built the Web Applications using Java, J2EE, Struts, JSP, JSTL and JDBC♦ Fix lead during the Application testing, Application integration, UAT and BRT phases

Dublin 2, Ie

👉 RPA is an executive UK government agency which makes payments to farmers in UK using the RPA IT Application (RITA). Farmers get payment based on the scheme paper form they fill up and submit at the RPA.👉Worked for 6+ development cycles which lasted for about 6 months each, involved in multiple roles across India Delivery Center and at client site – Reading and New Castle, UK. Following describe nature of my job during various releases and phases at RPA.♦ Web Application Development using Java/J2EE technologies♦ Worked in agile methodology for a release, developed UI prototypes of Web applications using Java, JSPs.♦ Involved in code merging using CVS and Release management activities during different phases of development life cycle.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In