Abhijit Shinde
Senior Guidewire Developer @ The Co-operators
About
• I am a seasoned software developer with over 14 years of experience in development and implementation for various projects using Guidewire PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, ContactManager, BillingCenter, Java/J2EE, Struts, JSF, Spring, Hibernate, JSP, Servlets, Web Services, XML/XSD, SOAP, Database and related advanced concepts. • Have more than 10 years of Guidewire development experience in both configuration and integration on PolicyCenter 10.0/8.0/7.0, ClaimCenter 9.0/7.0 and ContactManager 10.0/8.0/7.0. • Have more than 10 years of extensive project experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies. • Have more than 10 years of Insurance industry experience. • Have around 4 years of experience in JAVA/J2EE development in Banking domain. • Working as Senior Guidewire Consultant in “Aviva Insurance, Canada” from Oct 2023 to till date. • Worked as Senior Guidewire Consultant in “The Co-operators Insurance, Canada” from Jan 2022 to May 2023. • Worked as Senior Guidewire Consultant in “The Co-operators Insurance, Canada” from Jan 2018 to March 2020. • Worked as Assistant Consultant in “Tata Consultancy Services” from April 2012 to Dec 2017 • Worked as Analyst Programmer in “Syntel Private Limited” from May 2010 to Dec 2011. • Worked as Software Engineer in “Capgemini Private Limited” from Sep 2008 to Feb 2010.
Canada
Mississauga
Insurance
REST APIs, Guidewire, ClaimCenter 9.0, PolicyCenter 10.0, Contact Manager 10.0, Guidewire PolicyCenter 7.0, Guidewire PolicyCenter 10/Cloud, Guidewire PolicyCenter 8.0, Guidewire ClaimCenter 7.0, Guidewire Contact Manager 8.0, Sun Certified Java Programmer, sun certified web component developer, Struts, Core Java, Java, Spring, Spring Framework, JavaScript, Hibernate, JSP
Experience

Guidewire Developer(Assistant Consultant)
Toronto, Canada
Project : Policy System Transformation Program (Guidewire Policy Center Implementation) Customer : Aviva Canada Description : “Policy System Transformation Program” is a long term transformation program for all legacy systems into new platform, by configuring Guidewire Policy Center 8.0 for Personal Auto and Personal Property lines as per Aviva Business. Role & Responsibilities: • Understanding the business requirements in user stories. • Designing multiple entities and their relationship model for New Business. • Involved in the implementation of Policy migration from RBC system (THRapids) to Aviva Policy System (PolicyCenter 8.0). • As a part of Conversion, customized the existing Guidewire policy conversion accelerator according to Aviva Business (Personal Auto and Personal Property lines). • As a part of Conversion, created GX models and populators for each entities. • Created new/Customize Guidewire components based on the Business requirement with respect to UI & Data Migration requirements like creating new Underwriting rules, Activities, validation rules, etc. • Generated and modified the Data Model, PCF (Page Configuration File), Typelists using Guidewire Studio for requirements in FNOL process in Policy Center. • Implemented Policy change notification to Claim Center 7.0 from Policy Center 8.0 using Event Fired rules, Messaging Plugin, Webservices. • Attending scrum meetings and updating status using JIRA. • Tracking the user stories in Agile methodology using JIRA. • Maintain code repositories using GIT. • Maintained the Aviva Code quality standards using “Static Code Analyzer” and proper naming conventions. Environment: • Guidewire PolicyCenter 8.0, Guidewire Contact Manager 8.0, Guidewire Claimcenter 7.0,Guidewire Billing Center8.0, Gosu,SOAP UI, Java 7, XML, WSDL, Agile Methodologies, Rally, GIT (Version Control),H2 DB, Ant 1.6.5, Oracle 10g, Windows 7

Guidewire Developer(Assistant Consultant)
Toronto, Canada Area
Project : Claims System Transformation Program (Guidewire Claim Center Implementation) Customer : Aviva Canada Description : "Claims System Transformation Program" is a long term transformation program of all legacy systems into new platform, by configuring Guidewire Claim Center 7.0 for Auto, Property, and Casualty & Healthcare related claims as per Aviva Standards. This project went with 2 phases. 1st phase includes claims for personal lines (Auto and Property). 2nd Phase is for commercial, which includes configuring claims for Commercial Auto, Property, Liability, Surety, Director & Officers and Error & Omission policies. Role & Responsibilities: • Designing multiple entities and their relationship model. • Create new/Customize Guidewire components based on the Business requirement with respect to UI & Data Migration requirements. • Generating and modifying the Data Model, PCF (Page Configuration File), Typelists using Guidewire Studio for requirements in FNOL process in Claim Center. • Involved in the Integration of Policycenter 8.0 to Claimcenter 7.0 and implementation of modules like Policy Search and Policy Fetch in Claim Center 7.0, creating activities in Policy Center from Claim Center, Policy refresh. • Implemented Policy change notification to Claim Center 7.0 from Policy Center 8.0 using Event Fired rules, Messaging Plugin, Webservices. • As a part of requirement, did the product model merge from Policy Center 8.0 to Claim Center 7.0 • Attending scrum meetings and updating status using JIRA • Tracking the user stories in Agile methodology using JIRA. • Maintained the Aviva Code quality standards using “Static Code Analyzer” and proper naming conventions. Environment: • Guidewire PolicyCenter 8.0, Guidewire Contact Manager 8.0, Guidewire Claimcenter 7.0,Guidewire Billing Center8.0, H2 DB, Oracle 10g, SOAP UI, Java 7, XML, WSDL, Agile Methodologies, Rally, GIT (Version Control),Maven,H2 DB, Ant 1.6.5, Oracle 10g, Windows 7

Guidewire Developer(Assistant Consultant)
Perth, United Kingdom and Bangalore,India
Project : Guidewire Policy Center Implementation Customer : Aviva UK Description : Aviva UK Program is a transformation project aimed to transform legacy General Policy administration systems into Guidewire PolicyCenter product. This project includes Commercial lines of business. This project is also aimed to centralize the policy creation by integrating Guidewire PolicyCenter with Guidewire ClaimCenter Systems, Billing System and other existing system supporting operations. The entire project is divided into three phases for Commercial Lines, Commercial Lines and Conversion of old policies from Legacy Systems. This project involves extracting complex business rules from legacy Mainframes system and porting it to Guidewire systems, along with business critical data from Mainframes. Role & Responsibilities: • Gathering requirements from business and other stake holders and analyzing the feasibility of design solution in Guidewire and Integration perspective. • Create new/Customize Guidewire components based on the Business requirement with respect to UI & Data Migration requirements. • Generating and modifying the Business Rules,Data Model, GX Models, PCF (Page Configuration File), Typelists and Rule Sets using Guidewire Developer Studio. • Implemented Documents Integration using Messaging Plugins, web services, Events and GoSu, enhancements/classes. • Tracking the user stories in Agile methodology using Map Agile 2.0 and Rally. • Maintain code repositories using GIT. • Monitoring the Continuous Integration using Jenkins • Implemented GUNIT for user stories • Maintain the Aviva Code quality standards using Static Code Analyzer and proper naming conventions. Environment: • Guidewire Policy Center 7.0, Guidewire Contact Manager 7.0,H2 DB, Oracle 10g, SOAP UI, Java 7, XML, WSDL, Agile Methodologies, Rally, GIT (Version Control),Maven,H2 DB, Ant 1.6.5, Oracle 10g, Windows 7

Java/J2EE Developer(Assistant Consultant)
Pune Area, India
Project : EMP Development Customer : Morgan Stanley, USA Description : Maintenance and Enhancement for Technology and Information Risk applications like Irespond, RSDC, BUISO. Irespond: iRespond is the process for reporting any event/ incidents that may have resulted in Firm, employee, or client information being lost, stolen, or acquired by an unauthorized party. Removable Storage Device Control (RSDC): This is the web portal by using this Morgan Stanley employee can raise request to get access to use removable storage device (like Flash Drive, DVD, CD, TAP and portable hard disk). This application has work flow management and complete work flow for request life cycle. This portal comes under authentication and authorisation, security domain. The BUISO Portal is a web-based application that provides the Business Unit Information Security Officer (BUISO) with a holistic view of Information Security projects and related initiatives through a single, access-controlled dashboard. The portal also allows the BUISO and the Information Security Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) to proactively identify risks, evaluate the likelihood and impact of those risks, relate them to mitigating controls, and track their resolution in a central location. Role & Responsibilities: • Analyzing business requirements and implementing code changes in Java as well as in Database. • Interacted with client on regular basis for status of project. • Created Web Service client and Autosys jobs for business requirements. • SIT/QA Support. • Implemented JUnit for Business requirement. • Maintain coding standards using Static Code Analyzer. Environment: • JSP, JSTL, Spring,SpringDAO,WebServices,Autosys job, Sybase DB, Eclipse 3.5,Tomcat 6.0

JAVA/J2EE Developer(Analyst Programmer)
Pune Area, India
Project : NASP – RAUplift (New Account Servicing Portal) Customer : Amex, USA Description : The New Accounts Serving Portal(NASP) is being developed to facilitate the card application process. New Accounts operations desire a Graphical User Interface to facilitate card application processing. The portal will cover at least 80% of the processing performed in New Accounts today with an initial focus on the following functions: • Verification / Identifying The Customer, Credit / Underwriting, Application Input, Maintenance and Notes, Balance Transfer / Line Increase, Core Portal Infrastructure (core application decision functions, Reporting, Security, Basic Help Features) Role & Responsibilities: • Involved in the uplifting the technologies previously used. • Was involved in the analysis of existing framework and designing of the new framework. • Migrated Front Servlet based framework to Struts. • Migrated GDAF Framework to Spring DAO. • Migrated EJB Framework to Spring POJO. • Implemented JUnit for Business requirement. Environment: • JSP, Servlet, Struts1.1, Ejb2.0, Spring 2.0,JMS, DB2, RAD 7.5.4,Websphere, TortoiseSVN

JAVA/J2EE Developer(Software Associate)
Pune Area, India
Project : Cassiopae V4 Asset Finance Software Development Customer : Cassiopae, France Description : Cassiopae V4 project is dedicated for migration of Cassiopae V3 asset finance software into a global ERP standard using cutting age RIA technologies and J2EE architecture. The product is a next generation integrated loan and lease processing system that helps to easily track all loan and lease related data including attached parties, properties, construction budgets, sales tracking, other collateral, taxes, and insurance parties. From contract acquisition and funding, through closing, billing, payment and collection, delinquency management, services management, mid-term adjustments, contract end, and document generation, the V4 solution offers a single system that will help to improve the quality of information to rely on while replacing inefficient manual reporting and reconciliation work. Role & Responsibilities: • Understanding of existing V3 Gupta SQL application to gather functional knowledge. • Creating Functional design Documents describing the functional approach • Creating Technical design Documents describing the technical architecture, components and flow to meet the functionality • Understanding the existing data model and creation of Object relational mapping using Hibernate. • Migrated the existing business scenarios from Gupta SQL to a J2EE application using Spring based framework. Environment: Spring 2.0, JSF, Hibernate 2.0, Oracle, JDeveloper, and TortoiseSVN
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