SUMMARY

designed the end - to-end business and technical solutions for those states with two winnings under his belt.  served as the key subject matter expert in an effort to procure and  contracts throughout .Eligibility Determination Systems.worked on planning, proposals, solution designing, Q and A sessionsl sessions with the client, Requirements and everything else involved with bidding for a proposal. Tony has a wide range of experience including developing and customizing large and mid-scale software systems using  and products as well as business analysis, project and account management, all aspects of software development lifecycle, participate in product demonstrations, conducting sessions, business analysis, pilot projects, documenting, coding, development framework designing, quality assurance, testing, implementing business technology solutions and help with sales activity. Areas of expertise.Eligibility Systems, deciphering various healthcare requirements, business process analysis, managing multiple on-shore and off-shore projects, and system wide  other experience includes large scale, complex and secured web application design, a multi-year government health and human services project which used a hybrid architecture for processing eligibility, insurance also has experience using large health information exchanges for anti-bio-terrorism and health surveillance including and state reportable conditions.

• Java, Curam, J2EE, Struts2, Spring3, Hibernate 
• CMM / ISO / Six Sigma Quality Management and Testing Methodologies 
• Rational Unified Process - RUP 
• Microsoft .NET
• Tandem / Mainframe 
• ISO 9000 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Architect

Served as the key subject matter expert in an effort to procure HIX and MMIS contracts throughout the United States; assisted in the writing, development, review, and approval of HIX and MMIS proposals; provided healthcare IT knowledge, expertise, and healthcare systems solutions for client’s healthcare line of business as a whole. Design state of the art end-to-end solution for Medicaid (MMIS) and Health Insurance Exchanges (HIX/HIE) using Commercial of The Shelf (COTS) products customization and combining with loosely coupled Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Cloud technologies also combining them with custom development and creating mid to large scale solutions.  Proposal writing and provide assistance with overall technical solutions. Participate in Oral Demonstration. Worked on projects for several state governments such as Arkansas, Washington, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio and Colorado. Won two bids worth $225 million.

Confidential,Chicago, IL

 Senior Architect 

Design, build and re-design large scale systems such as NACCRRA, MMIS/SNAP/CHIP/TANF Medicaid eligibility software application,. Direct involvement in RFP and RFI responses, RFP writing, contract negotiation, IV&V, lead JAD sessions, gather requirements, system and business object design, help with high level database design, help creating software framework in Java J2EE using the latest Spring, Struts and Hibernate MVC architecture. Hire developers and analysts. Attend multiple conferences. Provide mentorship to analysts and developers. Received Java, Curam training.

 Project Lead Architect 

Responsible for the management and planning of a Department of Homeland Security and CDC sponsored health surveillance project including quality management, HR and scope management, time/schedule and cost management, release management, communications plan and management, test strategy and plan, risk/issue management, requirements gathering, manual and automated testing, interfaces, project coordination and the implementation of methodologies in launching the new Cerner Millennium healthcare package. Adviser for the management on process improvement, implement industry's best practices, implement CMM level 2, provide valuable feedback to the development team to shorten the SDLC. Work with the State of Illinois health reporting INEDS system. Provide weekly metrics. Work with several ETL type interfaces such as Rhapsody. Proficiency in Disease Report layout and requirements gathering including lab reports sent in HL7 format. Health Surveillance software. HIPAA compliance for using ELR, EMR. CDCs LOINC, SNOMED list. Provide help with Planning, Design, Strategy, Functional, Regression, UAT, Performance and Load Testing. Perform the complete quality assurance, testing life cycle including hiring and managing of resources.

Director 

Project management and requirements gathering for multiple software projects. Help create a structured software development department and create a software QA department from ground-up for the fast paced client. Hire analysts. Interview subject matter experts through  sessions. Help design the defect management system. Design the overall software development life cycle process for a number of complex software.

 Support Developer 

Work closely with the government clients. Established a System Testing organization. In charge of functional,  & regression testing of new features, change requests, installations, implementation, releasing and packaging of RM and MC wireless dispatching software. Implemented RUP. Responsible for coordinating software releases between and customers. Writing codes to create and package software installations. Writing QA process documents. Software release readiness verification. Lead a small team of engineers, develop and Implement test processes & test plans. UNIX, Tandem, Windows 3.1x/95/NT/98/98se/ME/2000 workstation and server setup and testing. Helped company save $250K/year by designing and implementing new QA processes. Manual testing. Used IBM / Rational and Mercury products to perform automated tests.

Project Manager

Started as a developer and then gradually got involved in project management, sales operations and testing. Travel and attend meetings with Department of Health and its contractors. GUI design using C and C++. Implemented QA processes consistent with ASME and ISO world standards. Tradeshow presentation. Tested software integration in Windows and UNIX, designed and developed internet interfaces. Help building teams, sales activities, provide mentorship, provide customer support.

 Grand Forks, North Dakota

Graduate Research Assistant

Research on High Energy Astrophysics. Attended computer science and physics classes. Analysist data received from Hubble and other satellites. Developed web and Internet tools for teaching undergraduates. Managed web servers. As the webmaster, designed

Research Assistant 

Internship under the guidance of world-renowned physicists. Attend conferences. Coding in C and C++ to analyze experiment data from  particle accelerators to discover a sub-atomic dark matter particle like  that makes most of the universe and yet un-captured. Theoretical work on String Theory,Maintaining & help installing cryogenic superconducting super-magnets & optical laboratory equipment.