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GuruPrasad TV

Chennai

Summary

Accomplished Domain Consultant with 15+ years of core experience in business/IT transformation programs covering both life and general insurance across geographies, and 9+ years of operational management expertise in life and pensions lines of business.

Wide experience in a range of activities covering business consulting, product development, full project lifecycle from estimation, requirement definition, developing, and delivering solutions, detailed analysis, and feasibility studies, as well as leading an offshore delivery team. Primary responsibilities include conducting requirement workshops, due diligence, as-is and to-be modeling, and developing business and functional requirement specifications.

Career goal: leverage extensive consulting experience to drive strategic growth and operational excellence in a dynamic organization.

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Director

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
03.2016 - Current
  • Functional Lead - Nexus development for Underwriting - Functional analysis and decomposition of new features into user stories.
  • Requirements Manager - Designing and building a policy administration platform for unique COLI/BOLI business - leading a team of BAs to deliver user stories to support the development of a policy administration platform for a very unique line of business, and ensuring requirement governance.
  • Functional Lead - Online Data Hub as a policy administration platform - collate data from 13 policy admin systems (including legacy systems) to create a policy administration layer for operation users
  • Group Product Manager - Building LifeAdminCore, BPaaS platform for U.S. Retail closed block Life & Annuity business - responsible for building the System of Administration using Oracle's OIPA platform, harmonized processes for System of Engagement & System of Insights layer for the policy administration function for the life and annuity closed block for North America.

Managing Consultant

Wipro Technologies
Chennai
09.2005 - 03.2016
  • CoE Lead - Setting up the Center of Excellence to build Composer Platform competency – Building a Composer Center of Excellence to deliver on projects and service requests as a partner to the Customer’s Delivery Services India (DSI) team.
  • Delivery Lead - Distributed Agile delivery model in the Superannuation Business - Knowledge transition roadmap, delivering projects on a distributed agile model, and mentoring the team on the Composer platform.
  • Senior Consultant - Application Portfolio Rationalization (APR) Assessment – consulting engagement to assess and recommend rationalization options for the Annuity application landscape.
  • Senior Consultant - Solvency II Reporting - Bi-directional requirement traceability, testing strategy, and support for the Finance and Actuarial transformation program.
  • Lead Business Analyst - Development and Maintenance of the Superannuation platform - Requirement analysis and estimation of enhancements, BAU support, and creation of functional specifications on the Composer platform to administer the Superannuation business.
  • Test Manager - Multi-state rollout of automated renewal functionality in the personal line of business - requirement analysis, testing strategy, planning and execution, resourcing, quality control.
  • Requirements Manager - Multi-country implementation of an adviser platform for life business to support speed to market, agility, flexibility, and reusability - requirement gathering and elicitation, multi-country implementation planning and estimation, test strategy, and planning.

Senior Business Analyst

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) India
Indore
05.2003 - 09.2005
  • Senior Business Analyst - Product development for end-to-end new business processing for life insurance and annuities business, integrating Lincoln Re’s underwriting rules using the VPMS rules engine - requirement analysis, design specifications, workflow configuration, business rules design, test plan, test case preparation, and execution.

Operations Manager

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)
Chennai
09.1993 - 05.2003
  • Operational aspects across all core insurance E2E value chains of a branch operation, including the development and maintenance of its IT applications. Departments served – Sales, including agency onboarding and compensation, new business, underwriting, customer service, claim management, accounting, and IT administration.

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Management

Bharathidasan University
Tamil Nadu
01.1999

B.Sc - Physics

University of Madras
Chennai
01.1989

Skills

  • Life, Annuity, Superannuation & General Insurance Domain
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Regulatory Analysis
  • Process Optimization
  • Business Analysis
  • Requirement Elicitation
  • Agile Methodologies

Certification

  • Associateship, Insurance Institute of India (AIII), Mumbai
  • Associateship, Life Management Institute (ALMI), LOMA, USA
  • Certificate course in mainframe from Data Soft Research Centre (DSRC), Chennai
  • Diploma in Systems Management from the National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), Chennai

Accomplishments

  • Runner-up in the Insurance Premier League (IPL), a flagship global innovation event in Cognizant, for demonstrating a solution in the Group Employee Benefits domain
  • Awarded FIMC (Feather in My Cap) for planning and successfully delivering due diligence and knowledge transition activities within challenging timelines for Main Street America
  • Nominated for the VIP award by the AVIVA-NUL team and awarded FIMC (Feather in My Cap) by Wipro Technologies for successfully leading a very critical Speed2Market E-Commerce pension project for IFAs in highly challenging timescales
  • Awarded “Player of the Quarter” by Computer Sciences Corporation, US, for successfully leading and mentoring the BA team
  • Recipient of Certificate of Achievements from Computer Sciences Corporation, India, for going beyond call of the duty, ensuring timely delivery during nbA product development

Timeline

Associate Director

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2016 - Current

Managing Consultant

Wipro Technologies
09.2005 - 03.2016

Senior Business Analyst

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) India
05.2003 - 09.2005

Operations Manager

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)
09.1993 - 05.2003

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Management

Bharathidasan University

B.Sc - Physics

University of Madras

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