Career Summary

Around 5+ years of extensive experience with analyzing, designing, development and maintenance of Health care business applications. Exposure to wide range of platforms and software systems. Well versed with full SDLC
Over 5 years hands on experience in Windows and Unix environments
Strong in C, C++, ProC and Shell scripting
Strong in Oracle 10g/9i, MS SQL Server 2010/2008/2005/2000 and MS ACCESS.
Knowledge of PHP, Java Script, JQuery, XML, CSS and HTML.
Knowledge of tools like AllFusion Gen, CA Report composer and TOAD.
Maintained the different versions of the application using client’s version controller – VCTL, TFS and VSS
Proficient in RDBMS, SQL, Scripting Languages.
Expertise Writing Stored Procedure, Functions, Views, Triggers, Joins, Sub queries.
Very good knowledge and experience in Object Oriented Programming
Expertise in Client/Server development architecture and Distributed Computing Architecture.
Expertise with full project life cycle, QA Management.
Demonstrated the ability to manage client executive relationships and deliver complex Projects on tight timeframes. Worked with interdisciplinary teams to define problems and conceptualize solutions. Implemented these solutions into business units and ensuring results that successfully solved business problems

Skills

Languages
Strong in - C, C++, ProC, Shell scripting
Familiar with - AllFusion Gen, CA Report Composer, PHP, Java Script, JQuery, XML, CSS, HTML.
Software& Technologies
Database: Strong in - Oracle 10g/9i, MS SQL Server 2010/2008/2005/2000, MS ACCESS.
Platforms: Unix, Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
Other: EditPlus, TOAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Flash, Eclipse IDE
Version management: VCTL, Visual Source Safe(VSS), Team Foundation Service (TFS)

Work Experience

Sr. Software Engineer July 2006 – Present

Confidential, Plano TX

Working as part of the batch development team for clients in the US Health Care (Medicaid) domain for the past 5 years.
Working on the complete life cycle of the application starting from requirements gathering to testing and deployment.
Worked on different implementations of the HP MMIS application, which is customized for the different states.
Other duties include managing a small team of 2-3 entry-level employees, mentoring, delegating assignments and monitoring their progress.

Project experience highlights -

1) Project Name: Wisconsin Medicaid Management Information System (ForewardHealth)

Client: State Government of Wisconsin

Project description:
The state of Wisconsin uses the HP proprietary application to provide health care benefits under the Medicaid health insurance program.
The vast project is divided into smaller subsystems like Claims, Finance, Provider, Reference etc and each subsystem has a dedicated team of 20-30 members.
This is an end-to-end solution that efficiently provides healthcare benefits to the recipients who are covered under Medicaid.

• More info: Confidential

Responsibilities:
Currently part of the Reference and Claims subsystemsworking on change orders that span the entire application lifecycle. The reference subsystem deals with processing and management of data from third party venders, which is then used by the claims engine while processing claims for the providers.
The application modules are written in ProC in the UNIX environment and Oracle 10g is the database used.
Each module is worked on right from Design phase to Production implementation.
Major portion of the work includes designing and implementing a mechanism to accept 3rd party vender data and translate it into system recognizable data that complies with the claims rules engine and other business logic.
Other responsibilities include mentoring newer members of the team, assigning work and reviewing.
The application jobs run as part of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly batch cycles.

Duration: October 2009 - present
Operating System: UNIX and Windows
Skill/Tools: Pro C* and SQL/PLSQL in Oracle 10g, Edit Plus, Crimson editors, VNC, VLC, TOAD and Putty.

2) Project Name: MetaVance

Client: Confidential

Project description:
The HP MetaVance Solution automates core administrative processes for a wide spectrum of commercial healthcare payer.
It supports a complete array of standard and specialty including medical, hospital, outpatient, Medicare, long-term care, life/ADD, dental, CDHP and self-funded accounting arrangements.

More info: Confidential

Responsibilities:
Worked as part of the runtime improvements (RTI) team that dealt with reducing the processing time of the various jobs and processes in the system.
The modules that were written in AllFusion Gen were analyzed and alternative mechanisms were used to optimize the run times of the jobs.
The reports produced by the modules were designed in CA Report composer.
Citrix was used to manage the application at a system level.

Duration: September 2008 - October 2009
Environment: UNIX
Skill/Tools: AllFusion Gen, Report Composer, Citrix, WinSQL, Shell Scripting

3)Project Name: USGS-MMIS-iCE (interChange)

Project description:
interChange is a Health Care solutions product that is used my majority of the states in the US to provide Healthcare to the citizens who are covered under Medicaid.
This is an in house project funded by HP to innovate and develop tools and applications that are packaged with interChange.

Responsibilities:
Worked on various subsystems like Claims, Financial, TPL, Managed Care subsystems. The claims subsystem is where the claims from the providers are processed i.e. paid, denied or suspended. Once processed, they are run through the financial system.
Worked on different phases of the software lifecycle right from design to production implementation.

Duration: July 2006 - September 2008
Environment: UNIX
Skill/Tools: Pro C*, C++ and SQL/PLSQL in Oracle 9i, Shell scripting, Edit Plus, Crimson editors, VNC, VLC, TOAD and Putty.

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology
Year passed: 2006

Achievements: Spot Award for Excellence, awarded 3 times, between 2007 and 2009. The Spot Award for Excellence is awarded quarterly to employees who have far exceeded expectations.

Work Status: Currently working in Plano TX on an L1-B visa and would need H1-B sponsorship.