SUMMARY

• Extensive experience in gathering user requirements, analyzing and preparing project deliverables including: Business and Functional Requirement Documents, Visio and Scope Documents and Feasibility Studies.
• Experience working with HL7 v2.3 - 2.7 and v3.0, X12 and expertise in HL7 segments, fields and transactions.
• Extensive hands on experience developing, updating and maintaining interfaces using integration engines: Mirth, Cloverleaf, and IBM WebSphere (WMB).
• Expertise developing interfaces that support various transaction types; ADT, ORM, ORU, DFT, BAR, SIU.
• Expertise in design, development, testing and implementation of new interfaces and providing support to existing interfaces.
• Extensive knowledge and expertise on various SDLC methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.
• Possesses strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work in diverse team environments.
• Extensive knowledge in clinical work flows and integrating HIS and EMRs with other ancillaries.
• Experience working on Meaningful use stage 1 and 2 deliverables and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Initiatives.
• Experience mapping and transmitting CCDA documents such as CCD, and converting them from HL7 v2.x to XML format.
• Extensive working experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle and EAI Middleware tools and technologies.
• Knowledge about HIPPA policies, PHI, HL7 standards, X12 standards, ICD-9 and ICD-10 conversions and migration.
• Worked on Siemens and Meditech healthcare product suites and many other vendor healthcare applications, includes their HIS, RAD, LAB, EDIS and PHM systems.
• Hands on experience with Real-time (TCP/IP), Batch and File transfer (FTP) protocols, building Interfaces and maps, working on translation tables, user exists, memory and counter variables.
• Expertise working with vendors to define project scope and objectives, identify their needs and requirements, and consulting with business and technical staff to develop HL7 interface integration project plan.
• Involved in Gap analysis meetings to identify and provide solutions to any discrepancy or gaps between the source and destination vendor application requirements and developed field by field mapping documents.
• Participated in full life cycle testing of different applications: Unit testing, field by field testing, Functional testing and Integrated testing, Regression testing.
• Experience in SQL Server, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, Oracle, DB2, CCD and XML.
• Good working knowledge with Software and hardware. Worked on new implementations, upgrades, service packs and hot fixes.
• Excellent Communication skills: verbal and written and ability to learn and adopt quickly, ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Adept in coordinating with stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and end users to understand, analyze, communicate and validate requirements through the use of user interviews, Joint Application Design (JAD), Joint Application Review sessions (JAR), and Requirements Workshops.
• Skilled in transforming business requirements into functional specifications that focus on workflow analysis and design, user interface design, business process reengineering and process flow modeling.
• Experience in Heath information Exchange (HIE) integration. Worked on Community level HIE integration
• Experience with the Change management Process, and working on Remedy for change tickets.
• Expertise in performing GAP analysis, managing Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Data Analysis.
• Ability to create Test Cases, Test Plans, Test Reports and defect tracking as required in HP ALM QC.
• Extensive knowledge in all current HIPAA rules and regulations pertaining to software development and medical coding and extremely well versed in all types of HIPAA and EDI X12 ANSI transactions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Integration Engines: Infor Cloverleaf, Mirth, IBM Integration Bus (WBIMB)

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Spiral, Agile/Scrum, Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Programming Languages: JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, C++, HTLM, XML, ESQL, SQL

Databases: Oracle, IBM DB2, Sybase, SQL Server

Operating Systems: MS Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Unix

Microsoft Products: MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Project

Standards: HL7, HIPPA, X12

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Interface Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing and reviewing HL7 business requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation and test plans.
• Responsible for design, implementation and migration of Health Level 7 Interfaces among multiple clinical and financial systems. Managed the migration to Cloverleaf 5.8.5 Interface Engine with High Availability Failover in a Windows 2003 and 2008 Server environment.
• Work with internal Hospital departments, Interface team personnel and software venders to establish and implement an array of interfaces. Responsible for exceptional customer relations in a Community Hospital environment.
• Closely interact with designers and software developers to understand application functionality, navigational flow and updated them about end-user sentiments.
• Bridging gap between the Business needs and the Technical solutions to ensure user and vendor needs are met.
• Following HIPAA compliance to safe guard patient information by identifying PHI information and doing Privacy Assessment.
• Coordinating with Project Managers to resolve risk issues and ensure compliance of Security System-Related to the HIPAA.
• Working on Meaningful Use stage 1 and 2 requirements including CCDA document transfer, and mapping to XML format.
• Designing, written and compiled multiple Visual Basic executables to automate and solve critical data transfer and maintenance issues.
• Using MicroFocus COBOL, SQL and DB2 on a daily basis to create, modify and test programs and tables.
• Participating in gap analysis meetings developing mapping documents and managing the completion of current state workflow analysis and future state workflow designs.
• Developing new interfaces, modifying existing interfaces and providing support as needed.
• Developed front end and back end of interfaces using Cloverleaf CIS, by creating threads, processes and establishing connections.
• Executed TCL procedures for field-by-field message translation to meet the vendor requirements.
• Worked on Cloverleaf Secure Courier (CSC) to provide a secure bidirectional connection between the source and destination interfaces.
• Use Cloverleaf Global Monitor to monitor and control Cloverleaf Integration and Secure Courier.
• Establishing and maintaining database connections between the interfaces and RDBMS to enable message archiving and data retrieval of outbound messages.
• Working on a HIE integration project on a community level (centralized HIE) between a client and physician clinics.
• Working on ICD-9 to ICD-10 migration projects, identifying ICD-10 impacted interfaces, incorporating General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs) and forward mapping to ensure interfaces adhere to the CMS guidelines for implementing ICD-10 CM and procedure codes.
• Performing unit testing, field by field testing, functional testing, integrated testing and assisting with User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Developing and executing Unit Test Plans for various modules with several test conditions and ensuring all modules are functioning as per the design specification.
• Providing support for new vendor mergers; Meditech, HL7, EPIC, Mirth, Cloverleaf standards and interface experience for clients and drug data per HIPPA standards.
• Liaising with business and technical teams on requirement review and analysis as well as preparing technical specifications.
• Developing HL7 Mirth Channels to support EMR applications that are integrated using Mirth Connect for various transaction types.
• Successfully mapping and creating ETL to load data from multiple relational databases to multidimensional data warehouse
• Creating translation tables in the database, user exists, memory and counter variables.
• Working on Real-time (TCP/IP), Batch, File Transfer (FTP, SFTP) and other message transfer protocols.
• Implementation of Secure Transport for Batch FTP (Push and Pull the messages).
• Troubleshooting problems with live interfaces based on the alerts and trace statements generated in the log files and resolving the issues accordingly and in a timely manner.
• Worked concurrently on multiple projects with keen focus meeting deadlines, providing quality work and on on-time delivery.

Environment: - Infor Cloverleaf Integration Suite (CIS, CSC, Global monitor), Mirth Connect, Windows 7, Windows 2000/XP, TCL, Java, JavaScript, Database.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Interface Programmer /Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as an interface resource Analyst and developer during the analysis, build/configuration, validation and execution of HL7 ADT interfaces between Siemens HIS application and Ancillary (EMR and Ambulatory) Applications.
• Involved in creating business cases and project plans, played a lead role in gathering, analyzing, and writing business requirements.
• Performed Gap analysis on source and destination application vendor requirements and worked with vendor representatives, integration analysts and developers to resolve any gaps.
• Assisted in designing policies and procedures to protect the privacy of Electronic Protected Health Information to ensure data integrity as per HIPAA guidelines.
• Participated in EHR projects that involved integration of various EMR systems in several Confidential facilities by building interfaces such as ADT, Orders, Results, Billing, and Insurance Claims etc.
• Developed real-time interfaces using IBM WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit by creating message flows, message nodes for validation, transformation and routing of messages.
• Created standard HL7 and non-HL7 message sets to be used with the interface message flows based on interface requirements.
• Created Brokers and execution groups for deployment and execution of message flows and message sets in various environments.
• Created database tables (lookup tables) for various interfaces and established connectivity between the database and the interface.
• Created and managed message queues using IBM WebSphere MQ and linked the Queue managers with the brokers.
• Deployed message flows, message sets and other artifacts to various execution groups in the broker runtime environment.
• Built batch interfaces for transferring batch messages via real-time TCP/IP protocol using IBM Message Broker (WBIMB).
• Built file transfer interfaces using Axway managed file transfer (MFT), and salesforce Self Service Portal (SSP).
• Developed custom Confidential file transfer patterns using ISFTP, SFTP, CFT, ASFTP, AFTP, SSF and Web Trader file transfer protocols via Gateway Interchange (GI) and Integrator.
• Created test scripts on HP-ALM Quality Center and executed the test cases manually to test the interface logic for real-time interfaces to ensure that the results meet the business requirements.
• Participated in interface testing sessions including, unit testing, system testing, integrated testing, UAT and sanity testing.
• Reviewed detailed test cases with in-depth description of each test scenario of the system according to HIPAA guidelines.
• Used Interface Explorer to test and debug interfaces by creating instances of source (client) and destination (server) end point applications for sending and receiving the HL7 messages.
• Monitored, documented and resolved defects and change requests raised in QC and used Remedy for ticketing, documenting and initiating the Change Management process.
• Provided support as needed during transition to production and at Go-Live and post Go-Live.
• Created and managed project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships.
• Gathered AS-IS and TO-BE information about work processes and information flows and conceptualized using activity diagrams
• Developed use cases, and traceability matrices to better assist interface development.
• Developed training material for understanding the newly developed applications and interfaces.
• Wrote technical documentation for root cause analysis on customer support issues.
• Worked as part of a team responsible for documentation such as proposal writing, evaluation criteria, proposal approval, design document, project plan, project scheduling and project report.
• Analyzed, organized, and updated database tables and data in the DB2 RDBM by running scripts.

Environment: IBM Integration Bus (Toolkit and MQ), Axway MFT, DB2, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point), Windows XP, XML, ESQL and UNIX.

Confidential, Newark, New Jersey

Business Systems Analyst 

Responsibilities:

• Created Business Requirements Document, Functional Specifications Document and Use Case Specifications based on information gathered through requirements workshop sessions with end users, SME’s and other stakeholders.
• Conducted design sessions with key technical team members to create scope of works documents for prototypes using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Used UML and Object Oriented methods to gather and document business and functional requirements.
• Prepared entity relationship diagrams, class diagrams and activity diagrams to help facilitate written documentation.
• Utilized reporting tools such as SQL and ACCESS for querying underlying database tables and resolve data issues.
• Worked constantly with the development and testing team to improve the quality of the application by conducting regression analysis and User Acceptance Testing.
• Tracked and reported major project milestones by presenting status reports to senior management using MS Project.
• Used Cognos and Crystal Reporting to enhance reporting capabilities.
• Managed outsourced development team, on site development team and testing team to ensure project met all the requirements and that the budget was maintained and project was delivered on time.

Environment: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Project, MS Visio, Oracle, Cognos, Crystal Reporting, UML, SQL, and Rational Unified Process (RUP) Methodology.