Manikanta has over 7 years of experience in IT and Guidewire product implementation. He has a bachelor's degree in technology and is skilled in Java, J2EE, XML, and relational databases. He has led teams in developing applications for the insurance, banking, and healthcare industries. Currently he is a technical lead at PricewaterhouseCoopers working on Guidewire implementations and interfaces.
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MANIKANTA EETHAMAKULA, Technical Lead
RANGE OF EXPERIENCE
Manikanta, a Technical Lead with PricewaterhouseCoopers holds a bachelor’s degree in technology. He
has over seven years of IT industry experience in Guidewire and Java/J2EE technologies. He has
extensive experience in software analysis, design and development of applications across insurance,
banking, and healthcare domains. He has experience working with technologies and frameworks like Java,
J2EE,JSF,Hibernate,Spring, JDBC, XML, HTML, RDBMS like Oracle, MS-SQL application server like
Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic, Websphere, Unit testing using JUnit and Version Control tools like SVN, CVS,
Clearcase.
Manikanta has strong experience in Guidewire product implementation and development using
Guidewire technologies GOSU, PCF and integrations using Java and J2EE technologies. He is
involved in development of new requirements or enhancements, analyzing and fixing production
issues resolving production cases meeting SLA. He has good experience in meeting SLA and
Quality requirements. He has very good understanding of software development life cycle and
has been practicing agile methodology.
Along with technical skills Manikanta has good interpersonal and client communication skills. He has
experience in working collaboratively on onshore-offshore model.
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS HISTORY
PricewaterhouseCoopers SDC: Technical Lead, 2014 to Present
PricewaterhouseCoopers SDC: Senior Software Engineer, 2013 to 2014
Capgemini : Associate Consultant, 2010 to 2012
Wipro Infotech : Analyst Programmer, 2009 to 2010
CG-VAK : Software Consultant, Mar, 2009 to June 2009
RMS Technologies : Software Consultant 2007 to 2009
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
Amica Mutual Insurance : Guidewire BillingCenter Implementation
Client: Amica Mutual Insurance
Team size: 12
Role: Guidewire Integration Sr.Developer
Duration: 06/06/2013 – Till Date
Scope: Working as a Lead developer for Amica Mutual Insurance BillingCenter implementation project
since June 2013. Amica Mutual Insurance Company is a direct writer of personal lines insurance. The
implementation program spans over 18 months and targets at replacing Amica’s legacy billing system with
Guidewire BillingCenter and integration with other external vendors.
Responsibilities and key deliverables:
Involved in design /development of multiple inbound/outbound interfaces for external (3rd
Party & Legacy) systems.
Involved in the functional & technical architecture sessions with engagement & client
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teams. Leading integration team and mentoring the team in resolving the functional and
technical issues.
Testing the complete end-to-end implementation of the developed interfaces with the
designated data loads.
Involved in implementation of the functional/UI requirements as per the business needs
Involved in implementing architectural practices like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
using custom frameworks provided by client & business process components with
proven design patterns and best practices.
Involved in discussions with client to understand current systems & standards.
Involved in creation of High Level Design documents & Developer Handbooks.
Claim Center CC - Intacct Check Integration
Client: Pure Insurance
Team size: 5
Role: Guidewire Integration Sr.Developer
Duration: 03/04/2013 – 06/05/2013
Scope: Objective is to send out the payments detail of the payment made in CC to Intacct system.
Payments will be in the form of Check / NEFT. Receive the check processed update from the Intacct
system which is asynchronous and update the status of payment accordingly. Also securely allow external
system i.e. Intacct system user to view the documents / invoices associated with the checks
Responsibilities and key deliverables:
Developed code to dynamically check the SMTP server based on the CC deployed
environment and selected the SMTP servers.
Involved in implementation of the functional/UI requirements as per the business needs
Developed functionality to display the details of the voided checks in the excel sheet.
Developed functionality to send e-mail to the recipients (configurable).
Developed functionality to create batch process for requesting checks in the excel sheet.
Developed functionality to find the duplicate vendor ACH number.
Involved in discussions with client to understand current systems & standards.
Involved in creation of High Level Design documents & Developer Handbooks.
Involved in the debugging and testing process.
Personal Loan Online Application(POLA)
Client: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
Team size: 10
Role: Intermediate Developer
Duration: 01/09/2012 – 12/04/2012
Scope: The organization being the one of largest bank in the APAC region, the application is used for
processing the personal loan applications for the customers. Initially the application was developed by
using classical ASP, but due to high cost and other issue in maintaining the application, it was decided to
be migrated to JSF 2.0 based platform. The main business logic resides in the AS/400 systems with which
the application interact through IBM request broker. The team was new in using the JSF technology, which
was the initial challenge and having very little support for existing AS/400 system
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Responsibilities:
Prepared functional requirement documents as per Project requirement Documents.
Involved in requirement gathering, coding and testing of the application using Java,
spring, MYSQL, Maven, JUnit and Web sphere server.
Involved in screen design using JSF frame work.
Involved in creating velocity formatters for interaction to AS400 system.
Worked as a Team member developing Registration Forms.
Involved in developing code for database interaction using Spring IOC.
Responsible for developing server side validation for all the modules
Involved in the debugging and testing process.
Responsible for developing whole Admin Module.
Communicated with the Australia team frequently and built a good rapport with the team.
ILS (Insurance Linked Settlement)
Client: RBS(Royal Bank Of Scotland), UK
Team size: 8
Role: Associate Consultant
Duration: 05/19/2011 – 12/24/2011
Scope: ILS is a core part of the Operating Model Review within GTS FI. It has been identified as a key
revenue driver and will bring substantial liquidity levels due to the large amounts of premium float.
Additionally ILS is expected to generate cross sell opportunities for other GTS products as well as GBM
opportunities. ILS is a unique opportunity to position RBS as an innovative bank in the Insurance industry,
noting that NBFI is being identified as one of the core growth areas within the FI segment, both within GTS
and GBM.
Responsibilities:
Prepared screen shots for all modules.
Worked as a Team member developing Registration Forms for all CA.
Understanding and analyzing the requirements
Involved in developing code for database interaction using Spring IOC.
Responsible for developing server side validation for all the modules
Involved in the debugging and testing process.
Responsible for developing whole CA Module.
Developed server-side validation for all the modules.
Designed screen using JSF framework.
Claim System Replacement(CSR)
Client: RBS(Royal Bank Of Scotland), UK
Team size: 8
Role: Associate Consultant
Duration: 10/13/2010 – 05/18/2011
Scope: The Claim System Replacement (CSR) change programme will include the delivery of a new
browser based claims system provided by ‘ClaimCenter’. It will replace RBS Insurance’s current
mainframe claims handling system – UIS Claims (Unified Insurance System).Delivery of the new
ClaimCenter system will help to support the RBS Insurance 5 year strategic plan to improve customer
experience and reduce claims cost by the £200 million targeted. The cost benefits associated with the
delivery of ClaimCenter are estimated at circa £117m of the total target saving. Recent years have seen
a significant increase in both opportunistic and increasingly sophisticated and organized insurance
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fraud. Bogus and inflated insurance claims and staged motor accidents cost the UK industry, and
therefore policyholders, over £1.5 billion per annum.
Responsibilities:
Implementing counter-fraud solutions using a combination of the Detica, Hunter and CUE
platforms.
Gathering required information from ClaimCenter-initiated Churchill, Direct Line &
Privilege claims to be sent to the Detica, Norkom, Hunter and CUE applications.
Analysis of User Requirements and developing the functional requirement document.
Self/Peer code review to identify the defects either logical or coding conventions related.
Involved in designing XSL templates
Involved in discussions with client to understand current systems & standards.
Involved in creation of High Level Design documents & Developer Handbooks.
Involved in the debugging and testing process.
Involved in implementation of the functional/UI requirements as per the business needs
EVOC (Electronic Voice of Customers)
Client: GE Genpact
Team size: 3
Role: Analyst Programmer
Duration: 01/27/2010 – 06/25/2010
Scope: This application is for getting the response from the customer regarding some surveys.It will
generate reports for the particular survey as well. It’s a web based application which can access through
local intranet and internet as well. It will generate dynamic link to their user to access the different module.
The main feature is it’s a SSO enable application which restrict to user to use the particular feature of this
application.
Responsibilities :
Worked as a Team member
Understanding and analyzing the requirements.
Responsible for developing Questionnaire Module.
Responsible for developing uploading new Sub process details.
Responsible Migrating from Web sphere to Web logic involved in implementation of the
functional/UI requirements as per the business needs
Involved in implementing architectural practices like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
using custom frameworks provided by client & business process components with
proven design patterns and best practices.
Involved in discussions with client to understand current systems & standards.
Involved in creation of High Level Design documents & Developer Handbooks.
eFlexTrial
Client: Ge Healthcare ,USA
Team size: 3
Role: Analyst Programmer
Duration: 07/14/2009 – 01/25/2010
Scope: The eFlexTrial program intends to accomplish a primary goal of allowing GEMS customers to trial
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product software and/or features (referred to herein as an “application”), free, for a 30 to 60-day period.
This provides customers with an opportunity to assess the value of an application in a “try-before-you-buy”
scheme, and is an excellent software marketing tool. Modalities and other product development entities
within GEMS provide applications which can be enabled via an alphanumeric license key. The information
from the modality required by the eFlexTrial system in order to support trials of an application is referred to
as a “package.” The eFlexTrial program will provide an automated mechanism by which modalities can
submit packages that enable product software to be trailed via eFlexTrial. And also along with eFlex there
is another application running, the application is eLicense which is highly have dependency with
eFlex.eLicense is a web based system where valid software option keys can be generated and stored.
This will give Field Engineer/On-Line Engineer/Manufacturing the ability to generate a permanent software
license from an FDO and associate it with a specific piece of hardware/application. A user will also have
the ability to look up all valid keys for a given system in the event of a load-from-cold situation, where all
software must be reloaded.
Responsibilities :
Worked as a Team member
Understanding and analyzing the requirements
Involved in developing code for Xml parsing using Jdom.
Responsible for developing MRFlextrial, CTFlextrial modules.
Involved in implementing architectural practices like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
using custom frameworks provided by client & business process components with
proven design patterns and best practices.
Involved in discussions with client to understand current systems & standards.
Involved in creation of High Level Design documents & Developer Handbooks.
GoToMyApplication(GTMA)
Client: FarHeap,Canada
Team size: 10
Role: Software Consultant
Duration: 03/04/2009 – 06/04/2009
Scope: GoToMyApplication(GTMA) is an online home loan application where in the homeowners can
claim loans for their homes which the firm(GTMA) will find them suitable loans with the required
documents that the user submits through the portal. Developed with this application are modules for
various level users. There are various levels of users in this application such as Homeowners, Affiliates,
who are the Brokers who co-ordinate with the homeowner to get the documents from them and get them
filed, Underwriters, to scrutinize the application and process them to various levels, the telemarketing
personnel and the sales marketing personnel for marketing the application and to assist in finding suitable
brokers,and a management module to configure the application.
Responsibilities :
Prepared screen shots for all modules.
Worked as a Team member developing Registration Forms for all modules.
Understanding and analyzing the requirements
Involved in developing code for database interaction using Hibernate.
Responsible for developing server side validation for all the modules
Involved in the debugging and testing process.
Responsible for developing whole salesman Module and Management Module
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Involved in discussions with client to understand current systems & standards.
Involved in creation of High Level Design documents & Developer Handbooks.
Online Shopping
Client: Deluxe, USA
Team size: 13
Role: Software Consultant
Duration: 05/07/2008 – 02/27/2009
Scope: Basically it is an E-commerce application where user can logged in With his username and
password and can shop through the website by browsing different catalogs and user can purchase what
he wants and he can give his payment information and shipping information and the store people is
responsible in collecting all these information and will deliver the things to the shipping information what
the user provide. And we are responsible in developing all the modules means user registration and
developing different catalogs and mini cart where it will display the similar items of the product and full cart
where it will display the items what the user has selected and it will display the price also and the final
thing is checkout where user can mention his billing and shipping information and in the final page of
checkout he can review his order and payment things and if he wants he can take print out of the final
order page.
Responsibilities :
Involved in developing UML diagrams.
Worked as a Team member developing Registration Forms.
Involved right from the inception phase
Understanding and analyzing the requirements
Prepared screen shots for all modules.
Database design to all modules
Developed Pagination and Navigator.
Involving in developing code for database interaction using Hibernate.
Involved the debugging and testing process.
Auto Business Maintenance System (ABMS)
Client: Mitsubishi, Dubai
Team size: 9
Role: Software Consultant
Duration: 09/04/2007 – 04/08/2008
Scope: The project basically related to automobiles. Main Aim of this project is to maintain the details of all
vehicles, which are manufactured by company in the web based centralized database, also maintain the
distributor’s details. There will be online interaction between distributors and company management taking
the orders from distributors and delivering the vehicles to them accordingly like model, color, type etc. This
will also provide online catalog to customers to choose their preferred choice. Top-level management can
view the sales report of each distributor’s daily basis or monthly basis.
Responsibilities :
Involved in developing UML diagrams.
Worked as a Team member developing Registration Forms.
Involved right from the inception phase
Understanding and analyzing the requirements
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Prepared screen shots for all modules.
Database design to all modules
Developed Pagination and Navigator.
Involving in developing code for database interaction using Hibernate.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Technology degree from JNTU, Hyderabad (2007)
Certification from Sun Micro Systems for Sun Certified Web Component Developer
5.0(SCWCD)(2008)
Certification from Sun Micro Systems for the java 2 platform standard Edition 6.0 (SCJP)(2009)
TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITIES
Language Gosu, Java and J2EE
Applications GuideWire ClaimCenter, BillingCenter
Database Oracle 8.0/9i/10g/11i and MS-SQL.
Platform Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 9x, Windows
2000,Linux and Unix.
Scripting Tools JavaScript
Web Technologies Servlets, JSP, Struts, XML, HTML, DHTML and Web-
Services,JSF,Spring,
Web/Application Servers Apache Tomcat, JBoss 4.0, Weblogic 10.2,
Websphere
IDE Eclipse , Net beans, RSA, RAD
Configuration Tools SVN, Win-Cvs , Clearcase, IBM MQ
Design Tools Microsoft Visio 2002
Server side Technologies JDBC, Web-Services
Frameworks Hibernate, Struts, Apache ANT, Log4J
Unit test tools Junit
Defect Tracking HP Quality Centre