Hanson Joseph Pellissery

• Implemented the Guidewire insurance Now implementation for the insurance giant across the nationwide.
• Worked in contract EC2 products on Insurance now, developed various integration strategies, customized the work flow and designed the solutions for the complex business requirements.
• Implemented various integration work flows in an integrated data report implementation in EC2 Guidewire InsuranceNow Product platform.
• Implemented and solved various performance issues in EC2 GIN layer by usage of enhanced cache and provided solutions
• Worked on various production issues and model bean issues and solved them efficiently
• Implemented and integrated the various services like pricing model Deloitte, AON integration, Betterview/NearMap integrations to EC2 contract applications.
• Implemented effective project management methodologies for streamlined workflows and enhanced team productivity.
• Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring seamless communication throughout the product lifecycle.
• Established long term customer relationships by using effective communication and active listening skills.
• Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
• Achieved successful implementations across various industries by adapting strategies based on client requirements and industry-specific challenges.
• Reduced software implementation timeframes by identifying opportunities for process improvements, leading to increased client satisfaction (New strategy on Reimplemenations).

• Implemented the Guidewire insurance Now implementation for the insurance giant across the nationwide.
• Set up the team for the conversion of the legacy applications into insurancenow implementation.
• Successfully implemented guidewire InsuranceNow GO for the Home and Dwelling Fire Personal lines business.
• Strong Knowledge on Guidewire Cloud Platform (GWCP), Advanced Product Designer (APD) and the new Integration Framework work together to enable speed-to-market.
• Worked on the commerical lines for the excess product implementation in the guidewire.
• Provided the solutions to the customer having the issues in production support.
• Implemented the new design approaches to improve performance of the product/applications.
• Lead the team on implementing, design, worked closely with product owners and business team to resolve the conflicts with tech stack and the business requirements
• Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
• Managed daily operations while overseeing multiple locations to foster increased productivity.
• Planned, created, tested and deployed system life cycle methodology to produce high quality systems to meet and exceed customer expectations.
• Evaluated employee performance and conveyed constructive feedback to improve skills.
• Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.

• Liaised between business and technology units to manage delivery schedules for applications.
• Developed suggestions for technical process improvements to optimize resources and manged the technical resources internationally across the globe including code reviews, technical design and management and code reviews.
• Engaged in web and enterprise application development,configured and customized Java-based Guidewire InsuranceNow product as per company requirements.
• Worked in Java/J2EE,CSS,HTML,JSP,AJAX,jQuery,JavaScript,JDBC,AWS,DocOrgin,Adobe foms and Junit
• Expert in Guidewire Insurance Now Product with API integrations, policy/claims/billing Administration
• Worked in the scrum agile development environment.
• Intergrated the Guidewire InsuranceNow with the external applications such as WIPS for Modelling and breeze apps.
• Worked with third party vendors related to development and integrations.
• Created new batch job for Weston Insurance, Implemented the Java design patterns.
• Responsible for evaluating business requests and determining effort estimates and guide developers to follow best practices and standards in the industry
• Gathered requirements and maintained communication between project teams, internal clients and external stakeholders.
• Communicated project status, delivering audience messages and change management with clients.
• Communicated cross-functionally with technology leaders across analysis, architecture, build, quality assurance, deployment and support teams on project execution.
• Designed, implemented and monitored integration between applications while coordinating updates and developing test cases.
• Recruited and trained IT team members.
• Analyzed company processes to determine outsourcing feasibility.
• Managed deliverable estimates, negotiated resource conflicts and allocated resources.
• Managed implementation of new technological improvements resulting in increased efficiency.
• Assisted product owners with prioritization of backlogs.
• Analyzed project-related information and made recommendations based on discoveries.
• Guided, coached and lead project teams, delegating tasks and evaluating performance and progression of project pace.
• Created, managed and integrated application interoperability while coordinating updates and developing test cases.
• Worked in Gradle and Jenkins automations
• Provided proposals to management for supporting company goals
• Responsible for generating various reports to display meaningful data using datawarehouse tables and SQL language.
• Analyzed,debugged and solved critical Production issues and implemented several complex projects by extending the capabilities of InsuranceNow Product.
• Developed suggestions for technical process improvements to optimize resources.

Worked as a Technical Lead/Architect for Weston Insurance on Java based Platform helping on technical design and code implementation to meet business and Product requirements.

Managing the code reviews and handling the teams across globally for the code delivery ,design and architecture.

Worked on multiple state rollouts for HomeOwners Business, WIPS Modelling FrameWork, API design and Integration architecture.

Hands on Java 8, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML,velocity,AWS cloud.

Providing the design and implementation solutions for the team members

Expert in Guidewire InsuranceNow Product platform.

Worked on various interfaces,batch Jobs and integrations for the insurance and AWS platforms.

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Policy Administration, Billing Systems, Claims Systems, WIPS Integration, IVANS Insurance

Designed and coded application in an agile environment using JAVA and J2EE applications.

Designed the user interface of the application using html,vtl AJAX and JavaScript.

Provided programming estimates, identified potential problems and recommended alternative solutions.

Uses the version control tools like GIT and CVS

Guided scrum team and provided inputs to team to ensure timely sprint delivery.

Co-ordinated with Business, Quality Analyst, deployments and other integration teams during development and testing of the application.

Working with a team to provide software solutions for the business

Designing, Developing, and enhancing complex systems and/or software from general requirements and specifications

Participating as technical expert to analyze technical system problems, and designs and implements effective solutions

Working with Java/J2EE design and product development expertise in Guidewire InsuranceNow Product and upgrades

Utilizing knowledge of Experience in Property and Casualty Insurance and Utilizing knowledge of Experience designing SOAP and REST Webservices or APIs and Cloud Services (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure)

Contributing to the development of project plans and assigns and monitors tasks of lower-level Software Developers as responsibilities and experience grows

Acting as a team leader for complex projects and Assisting in training less experienced software development staff

Contributing to efforts to improve quality of applications and Participating in code and design reviews and providing coaching to other members of the team including Onsite, Offshore and Guidewire Product teams

Assisting in the troubleshooting of code defects and deploy timely fixes and Implementing new tools and technologies for use within the team

Contributing to the continuing technical education of the team and Creating and maintaining technical documentation

Track record as a team lead who has implemented three or more projects for packaged enterprise software, with a special emphasis on Enterprise-wide Web-based applications using XML,REST APIs

Utilizing knowledge of IT concepts, strategies, and methodologies, architectures, and technical standards

Working with web and application servers such as Tomcat and JBoss and databases like Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL and knowledge on Version control software tools like GIT/GitHub, SVN, ClearCase

Utilizing knowledge of design and development tools such as Eclipse, Idea IntelliJ, and build tools like ANT,Maven,gradle

Working with ORM frameworks, Spring MVC framework, Spring Boot and Microservices Architecture and Strong knowledge of scripting languages XML, HTML, Java Script, and Velocity

Utilizing knowledge of layered systems architectures and layered solutions and designs and shared software concepts

Expert in Java / J2EE design and development, Web and Application servers including Tomcat and JBoss, Design and development tools including Eclipse and Intellij, ORM frameworks, including Velocity, Agile development, Layered system architecture and layered solutions and designs, including distributed software concepts, Relational database management systems, including SQL Server, Systems testing and quality assurance.

Worked as Technical Lead/Architect of Projects for Anchor Insurance on Java based Platform helping on technical design and code implementation to meet business and product requirements. Designed and coded application in an agile environment (Guidewire Insurance Now) using JAVA and Apache-Velocity.

Worked on multiple state rollouts for HomeOwners Business.

Hands on Java 8, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML,velocity

Providing the design and implementation solutions for the team members

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Policy Administration, Billing Systems, Claims Systems

Designed the user interface of the application using html,vtl AJAX and JavaScript.

Worked on various interfaces,batch Jobs and integrations for the insurance platform

Provided programming estimates, identified potential problems and recommended alternative solutions.

Uses the version control tools like GIT and CVS

Guided scrum team and provided inputs to team to ensure timely sprint delivery.

Co-ordinated with Business, Quality Analyst and other integration teams during development and testing of the application.

Implemented the requirements using java and vtl with the Guidewire Insurance Now Product Platform.

Designing, Developing, and enhancing complex systems and/or software from general requirements and specifications

Participating as technical expert to analyze technical system problems, and designs and implements effective solutions

Working with Java/J2EE design and product development expertise in Guidewire InsuranceNow Product and upgrades

Utilizing knowledge of Experience in Property and Casualty Insurance and Utilizing knowledge of Experience designing SOAP and REST Webservices or APIs and Cloud Services (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure)

Contributing to the development of project plans and assigns and monitors tasks of lower-level Software Developers as responsibilities and experience grows

Acting as a team leader for complex projects and Assisting in training less experienced software development staff

Working with business analysts and developers to create technical solutions that meet business and technical requirements

Contributing to efforts to improve quality of applications and Participating in code and design reviews and providing coaching to other members of the team including Onsite, Offshore and Guidewire Product teams

Assisting in the troubleshooting of code defects and deploy timely fixes and Implementing new tools and technologies for use within the team

Contributing to the continuing technical education of the team and Creating and maintaining technical documentation

Track record as a team lead who has implemented three or more projects for packaged enterprise software, with a special emphasis on Enterprise-wide Web-based applications using XML

Utilizing knowledge of IT concepts, strategies, and methodologies, architectures, and technical standards

Working with web and application servers such as Tomcat and JBoss and databases like Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL and knowledge on Version control software tools like GIT/GitHub, SVN, ClearCase

Utilizing knowledge of design and development tools such as Eclipse, Idea IntelliJ, and build tools like ANT,Maven,gradle

Working with ORM frameworks, Spring MVC framework, Spring Boot and Microservices Architecture and Strong knowledge of scripting languages XML, HTML, Java Script, and Velocity

Utilizing knowledge of layered systems architectures and layered solutions and designs and shared software concepts

• Technology Lead/Manager of Projects for implementing product customization, new state rollout and enhancement projects for the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company on Java and Guidewire InsuranceNow Platform.
• Set up Run/ Production support team for Nationwide Private client team, Lead and managed teams across the continents.
• Managed multiple teams across the globe with a team size of 13 - 16 Members including Onsite and Offshore.
  
• Hands on Java 8, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML,velocity, Ruby and Guidewire Insurance Now Product development with AWS Platform
  
• Providing the design and implementation solutions for the team members
• Product specialist on the GuideWire Insurance Now product for insurance solutions platform.
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• Policy Administration, Billing Systems,Claims, Multiple integrations and customization and upgraded on InsuranceNow
  
• Basic Multi-factor authentication (MFA/2FA)
• Claim Content Retention Policy
• Designed and coded application in an agile environment using JAVA and Apache-Velocity, Ruby Mine.
• Implemented the requirements using java and vtl with the Guidewire Insurance Now Product Platform
• Designed the user interface of the application using html,vtl AJAX and JavaScript.
• Provided programming estimates, identified potential problems and recommended alternative solutions.
• Uses the version control tools like GIT and CVS
• Guided scrum team and provided inputs to offshore team to ensure timely sprint delivery.
• Responsible for automating the test using Ruby as step definition and gherkin for the scenarios
• Co-ordinated with Business, QA and other integration teams during development and testing of the application.
• Responsible for working with the team on various enhancements on multiple state rollout for Auto, Home, Collections, Umbrella
• Products, Rate Reviews, Rate Capping, New Coverage Implementations, Billing and Payment
• Implementations, Claims Product configurations, Form rule implementations.
  
• He was also involved in rigorous technical analysis, application/solution design, performance tuning, preparing effort
• estimation, profitability analysis, risk and gap analysis, quality reviews and user acceptance testing.
  
• He was responsible for maintaining schedules to ensure projects were completed on time, developing
• applications using agile methodologies like SCRUM, KANBAN.

• Designed and coded application in an agile environment SCRUM using JAVA and J2EE Technologies.

• 5 plus of experience in EIS/Exigen Insurance Product

• Implemented the requirements through Exigen's admin application and through customization on top of Exigen in which business logic resides in java code.

• Used Java 8, Web-Services, Spring, Hibernate,worked on Policy administration system, Billing , Rating,Payments in EIS /Exigen Product Development Environment.

• Involved in various component creations and associated business rules as part of EIS/Exigen product

• Involved in creating new async batch jobs, PREF-API, REST API integrations, payment hub implementations-refunds Evalue programs

• Designed the user interface of the application using JSF, AJAX and JavaScript.

• Provided programming estimates, identified potential problems and recommended alternative solutions.

• Involved in Scrum poker for Story point estimation, peer code review activities and defect fixes for production support during warranty duration.

• Involved in modifying and maintaining OpenL framework to implement rating part of the project.

• Actively participate in build and deploy of artifacts, maintain continuous integration and integrity of source code versioning using below mentioned tools:

• Maven

• Ant

• Jenkins Continuous integration system

• SVN and GIT

• Guided scrum team and provided inputs to offshore team to ensure timely sprint delivery.

• Co-ordinated with Business, QA and other integration teams during development and testing of the application.

Has been part of the offshore Cognizant Technologies India Center and has thorough understanding of above along with good technical skills in the Java, Servlets, Jsp,perl on both Unix and windows environment.

Involved in the Development and Enhancements of the Application

• Involved in Analysis,

• Design and Coding.

• Involved in RAD 7 migration project

• Enterprise Search platform specific enhancements to support to the new platform.

• Release coordination

• Responsible for Support system maintenance activities such as monitoring the application

• Email Alerts when any functionality notification/alerts -> Supported customer specific requests.

• Involved in fixing of issues and bugs based on defined Service Level Agreement.

• Involved in RFC (Release plan) preparation of SCIRUS and the release activities.

Worked with FAST (Microsoft Team) for the Scirus Project Operations. FAST is an Enterprise Search: For the FAST Customers mainly for the indexing and the search engine back end.

Having sound knowledge on the OAI-PMH Protocol for metadata harvesting/data collection process.

Also provided guidance to the Elsevier HUBFAB/INTCON team for the design and implementation of the Royal route pipeline for the content harvesting, conversion and syndication for WINDEX

Has involved in Knowledge transfer/sharing session for the new members to the team

Has been nominated 3 times for the Award of Excellence by the Customer Elsevier LexisNexis Group.

He has been associated with Elsevier – SCITOPICS project at Cognizant Technologies India Center

• Responsible for Involving in the story development meeting, planning meeting, scrum, Release meeting and Retrospective meeting.

• Responsible for driving the daily scrum call to update the status on all story development activities.

• He played a key role in the implementation of the scitopics repository page for the search, enhancing web pages and ensuring W3C compliance for all the pages in SciTopics application.

• He has taken the responsibility of the project deliverable and also worked on enhancements within the application.

• He has involved in the JTRAC fixes for the Scitopics application.

He has been associated with Elsevier – Web services project at Cognizant Technologies India Center

He has been part of the offshore and has thorough understanding of above along with good technical skills in the RAD7, WSDL and SOAP concepts on windows environment.

Involved in the Enhancements of the Application

• He has involved in the Knowledge Transition from the Elsevier Product team to offshore.

• He has involved in fixing the Webstars/bugs that are raised by the product team.

• He has involved in Unit testing and preparation of test case document.

• He has involved in the implementation of the IHUB project and the JUNIT implementation for Elsevier Web services projects.