Venkat Budumuru
Alpharetta,GA
Summary
Technology leader with 23 years of experience in IT project management, specializing in Duck Creek implementations and cloud migrations. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency through AI initiatives. Successfully transformed workflows and improved system stability across various insurance applications.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Applications Delivery Lead/Technology Leader
Axis US Insurance
Alpharetta, USA
01.2025 - Current
- Acting as the Product Owner overseeing all Downstream Integrations across the Insurance application suite
- Led application development and cross-functional maintenance initiatives for core legacy platform stack. Enhancing system stability.
- Championed adoption of Agentic AI technologies, transforming manual processes into intelligent, automated workflows.
- Managed and mentored distributed teams across offshore and onsite locations
- Managed full onboarding lifecycle for Duck Creek Clarity product, ensuring seamless integration for new users.
Application Delivery Lead
Axis US Insurance
Alpharetta, USA
09.2021 - 12.2024
- Managed end-to-end migration of Duck Creek Suite to cloud platforms, ensuring seamless transition.
- Directed development of bordereau processing application from inception to deployment, shaping technical strategy.
- Led insurance DevOps function, supporting implementation of key DevOps initiatives.
Senior Application Development Lead
Axis US Insurance
Alpharetta, USA
02.2015 - 08.2021
- Successfully led migration of Duck Creek Suite from version 6.x to 7.x across all phases.
- Directed transition of business units from legacy applications to Duck Creek platform.
- Managed defect fixes and enhancements across all modules while guiding team on best practices.
- Conducted code reviews and merges, overseeing promotional activities to ensure quality.
- Coordinated release planning and deployment per SDLC, including production hotfixes.
- Resolved integration issues between Agency Portal/Connect5 and Duck Creek Policy efficiently.
- Collaborated with DevOps to configure Dynatrace monitoring across entire Duck Creek platform.
- Analyzed general liability requirements for modules, including forms, pages, and rating interfaces.
Applications Development Lead
Axis US Insurance
Alpharetta, USA
04.2012 - 01.2015
- Worked directly with business executives for enhancing the existing ENPRO application architecture by integrating it through Citrix and leveraging its usage by 3rd party AON external users. Through this initiative DP&E business was able to write 1200 additional policies per year in writing $13M in premiums. Led the IT teams for this end to end implementation.
- Led the complete design and development of ENPRO Bordereaux feed integration through Underwriting Workstation that eliminated manual user errors, greatly improved underwriting efficiency and increased business users' productivity by 30%
- Managed IT teams and collaborated with business to migrate Insurance applications from legacy Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2012 servers, enhancing stability and security of applications while reducing operating costs
- Enabled Claims Business for issuing ACH payments through Claims Workstation. This was a major initiative and led the complete design and implementation. Through this initiative, Axis was able to exponentially cut down on the manual check costs (approx. $500K/annum)
- Coordinated with internal and corporate teams for seamless integration of SharePoint 2013, TIBCO, and Visual Guard upgrades, ensuring operational continuity and system improvements
- Worked with Internal Audit department and helped them to focus on higher risk scenarios thereby increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their testing and decreasing the amount of time required by AXIS management
- Led upgrades of various COTS applications and integrated new COTS applications into Axis environment, streamlining processes and enhancing system capabilities
- Managed and mentored Accenture teams for the seamless transition of the newly on-boarded applications and provided technical guidance to teams
- Led IT teams to enhance and integrate insurance applications
- Drive technical and infrastructure teams for all major incidents (P1/P2) for insurance and bring the issues to closure within the given SLA timelines
- Prepare major incidents executive summary reports for all segments
- Preparing high level design and solution architecture documents for major application enhancements and upgrades
- Implementing reconciliation reports for CWS-IRIS systems and CWS-CAT DB systems
- Involvement in upgrading the SSRS reports from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008
- Developing C-PRO product in VB.NET and ASP.NET
- Supporting the user acceptance testing and UAT/PROD deployments
- Doing the impact analysis of IRIS Syndicate requirements for LCID application
- Providing technical and business solutions to various project stakeholders
- Performing the source code deployments on to INT and QA environments
Senior Programmer Analyst
Axis US Insurance
Alpharetta, USA
05.2009 - 03.2012
- Led a 5-member team to successfully deploy CWS/UWS WinForms applications in C#.NET.
- Developed solution architecture using Visio/UML for CWS/UWS applications, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
- Produced builds for integration and quality assurance testing, facilitating successful server deployments.
- Created and managed project deliverables and defect tracking in team system.
- Designed and developed .NET Windows and web applications utilizing Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010.
- Developed WCF services for generating quote and binder PDF reports, customizing with Aspose.
- Implemented encryption/decryption WCF service for sensitive data on CLMPARTICIPANT screen.
- Created three SSIS (DTX) packages to transfer data between systems effectively.
Senior Programmer Analyst
PNC FX Recon
Pittsburgh, USA
07.2008 - 04.2009
Senior Programmer Analyst
PCA McKesson
Malvern, USA
08.2006 - 06.2008
Programmer Analyst
TNM Application
, USA
08.2003 - 09.2004
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Kakinada, IndiaSkills
- Technical governance
- Insurance technology
- System integrations
- Policy administration
- Cloud computing
- Service-oriented architecture
- Organizational change management
- Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications
- Microsoft technologies
- Knowledge management systems
- Web-enabled applications
- Database management and architecture
- Web application development
- Reporting solutions and analytics
- System and application architecture
- Design and implementation strategies
- Incident management processes
- Agile methodologies and practices
- Knowledge base management systems
- Request and incident management
- Project leadership and oversight
- IT operations management strategies
- Software testing methodologies
- Business intelligence solutions
- Quality assurance practices
- Cross-functional team leadership skills
- Data analytics techniques
- Problem-solving expertise
Certification
- SAFe Scrum Master certification
- Duck Creek Author – Basic Developer (Mastery Certification)
- INS 21: Property and Casualty Insurance
- PM Elite Lite - T100 Certification
- PR Bridge .NET Programming Certification
- .NET Technology TL TR 301
- Infosys - IQ Engineering
- .NET Technology 302
Summary Of Experience
- Having 23+ years of project leadership experience in the IT industry with 17 years of end to end implementation experience of Insurance applications in P&C industry
- Over 9 years’ of experience in leading Duck Creek Commercial lines suite implementation efforts for Policy, Billing, Claims, Insights/Clarity and Downstream Integrations
- Demonstrated expertise in architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade technical solutions meeting complex business requirements while evangelizing integration methodologies.
- Excellent ability to bridge technology and business goals, and successfully lead cross functional teams in a multi-facility environment
- Head a team of technical leads to deliver complex solutions for technology migrations and infrastructure up-gradation
- Lead technical teams (onshore/offshore) through multi-phased delivery projects and provide hands-on delivery guidance to influence standards for development, governance, and operational life cycle
- Hands on experience working with Agile/Scrum/Waterfall methodologies
- Extensively involved and lead multiple platform level upgrade initiatives
- Proficient troubleshooting complex production issues and working with vendors for product side issues
- Expert in creating High Level Design and Solution Architecture documents
- Hands on experience in designing Multi-Tier, SOA and SaaS based applications
- Extensive exposure in managing application deployments and collaborating various teams (IT/Infra) in resolving critical production issues
- Proven hands-on experience automating development workflows with GitHub Copilot AI
- Preparing executive summary reports to segment CIO
Timeline
Senior Applications Delivery Lead/Technology Leader
Axis US Insurance
01.2025 - Current
Application Delivery Lead
Axis US Insurance
09.2021 - 12.2024
Senior Application Development Lead
Axis US Insurance
02.2015 - 08.2021
Applications Development Lead
Axis US Insurance
04.2012 - 01.2015
Senior Programmer Analyst
Axis US Insurance
05.2009 - 03.2012
Senior Programmer Analyst
PNC FX Recon
07.2008 - 04.2009
Senior Programmer Analyst
PCA McKesson
08.2006 - 06.2008
Programmer Analyst
TNM Application
08.2003 - 09.2004
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University