Harry Narvaez

Experience

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  INSTEC

  Aug 1991 - now

  • Manage and lead a group of Senior Solution Architects with technical expertise in various insurance products/lines of businesses.• Responsible for designing, architecting and developing major application functionality by taking full advantage of the Quicksolver platform, an object oriented technology.• Technical application liaison between application, technology, and integration teams on the implementation of new product features.• Collaborate with business architects by designing solutions based on customer requirements.• Documentation of architectural/technical designs, design patterns and test cases.Major achievements: • Worked closely with technology and business team replacing the company’s forms generating engine. This included evaluating, collaborating, and selecting a document vendor (GhostDraft) that would best suit our company’s and customers’ need. • Continue to expand our application product infrastructure to ensure we stay ahead of the ever-changing insurance industry. This includes continued underlying enhancements that allow for the rapid, parallel development, maintenance and deployment of new products and/or ISO bureau content under very strict timelines. Show less • Worked with senior architects across company departments designing and implementing major product enhancements and functionality.• Led and mentored developers on ongoing product features, maintenance, and best practices.• Worked with business architects on defining requirements and designs which satisfied customer needs.Major achievements:• Lead application architect on major company initiatives to further enhance our product platform and stay ahead of market trends. This included designing, developing and integrating configurable tools which allowed customers to create and configure their own coverages, forms and programs in order to stay ahead of the program business. • Architected, implemented and led a major product feature, Canned Endorsement Wording (CEW), which tracked a wide range of policy mid-term transactions changes for populating and printing on Policy Changes forms. Show less • Lead developer of applications and forms.• Lead expert developer in company’s Report Writer used in the generation of all policy forms.• Responsible for the training of all new application developers and continued mentorship.• Travelled and trained customers’ IT developers on the use of our development tools.• Established standards and best practices that allowed for end-to-end support of our products – from quoting to policy issuance. Major achievements:• Because of my continued desire to simplify and eliminate technical redundancy, I architected and led the development of a Framework platform where all future products would be built upon. This Framework allowed for significantly accelerated and parallel development of all future company base and custom products.• Twenty-one years later (2021), this Framework continues to be the foundation of all company products such as Package, BOP, Umbrella, and many custom products. Show less

  • Senior Solution Architect/Manager

    Mar 2014 - now

  • Solution Architect/Team Lead

    Mar 2009 - Mar 2014

  • Senior Programmer Analyst/Associate Technical Advisor

    Mar 1997 - Mar 2009

  • Programmer Analyst

    Mar 1993 - Mar 1997

  • Programmer

    Aug 1991 - Mar 1993