Annie Richard
San Antonio,TX
Summary
Guidewire Ace Certified Professional with 10 years of experience in Property and Causality Insurance.
Skilled in handling various lines of business, including personal and commercial, both onshore and offshore. Proficient in configuration, integration, and management of Policy, Billing, and Claim Center systems. Adept at leveraging extensive experience to drive efficient operations and deliver exceptional results.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Lead - Guidewire
HCLTech
03.2024 - Current
- Implementation of Dwelling (HomeOwners and Landlord's) line of business
- Leading a team of 7 (Onshore and Offshore) for the Policy Center Configuration and Integration for Dwelling line of Business for a leading American Insurance company
- In depth requirement definition and refinement which involves Datamodel , PCF and the helper and enhancement classes updates.
- Worked on requirement gathering for Coverages and Attributes (Home Characteristics) additions to Advanced Product Designer (Jasper Version)
- Coordinated with cross-department teams like Digital (Front End), Integration Partners and Legacy to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
- Worked on Data fields mapping from different integrations partners to Guidewire.
- Enhanced system performance with thorough code reviews, debugging, and optimization techniques.
- Proposed multiple accelerators and value add for better performance and Automation
Guidewire Associate
HTC
01.2023 - 02.2024
- Working with a leading American Insurance Company as Lead BA and Internal Scrum Master
- Working with Advanced Product Designer for configuration of coverages and coverables
- Basic understanding and work experience with AWS
- Working on Auto Line Of Business, requirement gathering on the drivers and vehicle screens and requirement documentation of Underwriting Rule and activities
- Configuration of Coverages
- Managing a team of Guidewire BA, developers and QA and managing the team and sprint planning
- Agile SDLC plan and sprint management
- Conducted requirement sessions with SMEs and Clients and gathered requirements
- Working on GIT Lab for story tracking and team tracking.
Senior Insurance Business Analyst
Birlasoft
11.2021 - 12.2022
- Working with a leading American Insurance Company as Lead BA and Internal Scrum Master
- Working on designing the requirement documents for the Policy Creation, worked on Advanced Product Designer requirement gathering and implementation of coverages and modifiers
- Creating UI mockup and design diagrams for the screen changes and integration changes
- Agile SDLC plan and sprint management
- Conducted requirement sessions with SMEs and Clients and gathered requirements
- Working on JIRA to track issues and Story cards.
GW Rating Business Analyst
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
11.2019 - 10.2021
- Worked with 2 leading American Insurance Company Project as Rating BA Lead for Personal and Commercial Lines
- Determined Rating Algorithm for the Coverages and Coverage parts
- Followed the ISO, NCCI, AAIS, reference connect and various standards to determine the rates
- Worked with rate book, rate routine update and requirement documentation
- Conducted requirement sessions with SMEs and Clients and gathered requirements
- Conducted 3 Amigos session (Requirement Walkthrough Session)
- Developed Rating Accelerators - quick calculation tools to quicken testing.
GW Integration and Underwriting Management Business Analyst
Deloitte
05.2018 - 09.2019
- Worked with 2 leading American Insurance Company as GW UM - BA Lead (Underwriting Management) and Integration BA
- Created requirement document for UM - UI changes and created the UM screen level changes on UM studio
- Provided field level data mapping for internal integration with BC
- Worked on Agile requisites like Burndown chart performed the role of scrum master, sprint reviewer and prepared sprint planning documents
- Created demo documents and conducted demo session with clients, SMEs and product owner to get sign off for the completed user stories.
GW Policy Center Business Analyst
HCL Technologies
10.2017 - 04.2018
- Worked with a leading American Insurance Company as GW PC- BA
- Conducted Requirement session with SMEs and gathered requirement on various policy transaction, UW Issues and Activities and created requirement document on the same
- Configured changes in the Product Designer.
GW Policy Center Developer
Cognizant Technology Solution
09.2014 - 10.2017
- Worked on PC configuration – PC 8 version like pcf changes, rules (Activities, Business Rules, UW Issues etc)
- Worked on defect analysis and fixes
- Created a log generator tools to capture the day to day errors in logs for release in production.
Education
M.Tech -
VIT
01.2017
B.Tech -
Pondicherry Engineering College
01.2014
HSC -
St. Joseph of Cluny
01.2010
Matriculation -
St. Joseph of Cluny
01.2008
Skills
- Guidewire - Cloud Version ( Jasper)
- SQL
- Advanced JAVA
- AWS Basics
- JIRA
- Gitlab
Accomplishments
- Guidewire ACE Certified
- Contributed in RFP and resource planning allocation
- Experience in Policy, Claim and Billing Center
- Proposed Ideas in Ideathon an won best Idea award for AI - Quick Quote and Multi property single Policy Quote
Certification
- GW – Policy Center – Professional Certification
- GW – Policy Center ASPEN and BANFF
- GW – Associate Certification Insurance Suite Analyst – 10.0
Overall Title
Insurance Techno Functional Business Analyst
Timeline
Technical Lead - Guidewire
HCLTech
03.2024 - Current
Guidewire Associate
HTC
01.2023 - 02.2024
Senior Insurance Business Analyst
Birlasoft
11.2021 - 12.2022
GW Rating Business Analyst
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
11.2019 - 10.2021
GW Integration and Underwriting Management Business Analyst
Deloitte
05.2018 - 09.2019
GW Policy Center Business Analyst
HCL Technologies
10.2017 - 04.2018
GW Policy Center Developer
Cognizant Technology Solution
09.2014 - 10.2017
M.Tech -
VIT
B.Tech -
Pondicherry Engineering College
HSC -
St. Joseph of Cluny
Matriculation -
St. Joseph of Cluny