SUMMARY

• Professional technologist with experience in application development, including fourteen years in the Healthcare industry.
• Recently served as the Processing Capabilities Manager for Confidential / Confidential Group of Meridian, ID. Responsible for leveraging technology solutions to maximize efficiency in business processes.
• Proven ability to manage multiple business priorities, demonstrating strong leadership skills and successful implementation of industry best practice policy and procedure.
• Experienced manager of project teams solving business requirements with use of both internal software development as well as integration with vendors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming: C#, .NET, Java, J2EE, EJB, Perl, JDBC, ODBC, PL/SQL, SQLLDR, Korn script, C++, SQL, COBOL, VisualBasic, Focus 4GL, Sybase 4GL

Operating Systems: Windows XP/7, Windows Server, VMS, AIX, Solaris, Linux.

Hardware: HP, IBM, Sun, Dell, EMC SAN, Cisco CSS.

Applications: SQLServer, Oracle, IIS, SharePoint, WebLogic, Apache, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access), MS Project, Visio, SecureTransport, TransSend, WebFocus, SeeBeyond, DB2, SourceSafe, Stellent

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Process Capabilities Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Business Analysts, Reporting Analysts, and Production Support.
• Provide input to strategic objectives and prioritize resources to implement the objectives.
• Drive EDI Initiatives to implement HIPAA transactions including 834, 837, 835, 278, 270/271, and 276/277.
• Respond to technology questions on RFPs.
• Participate in client finalist presentations as needed.
• Coordinate external SAS70/SSAE - 16 audit annually.

Technology Service Center Supervisor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supervise IS and IT staff of 10 employees.
• Build team vision and goals to support company growth.
• Implement standard infrastructure and application framework.

Confidential, Benesight Pueblo, CO

IT Director

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managers of application development, data operations, telecom, network engineering, and Unix administration.
• Project oversight for consolidation of legacy reports into new WebFocus technology. Implementation of new reports to replace 80% of ad-hoc requests.
• Represented Pueblo datacenter in strategic initiative to consolidate systems across Confidential . The project evaluated technologies from six business units and recommended go forward products.
• Lead IT team in consolidation of legacy systems.
• Implemented modified replication layer to an Oracle Data Warehouse to convert legacy data from Unix to Mainframe. This allowed the optimization of internal processes without modifying end user reporting tools.
• Led team to develop historical data extracts from the Unix based system to populate the new Mainframe system.
• Managed IT tasks on project plan and communicated to project steering committee to insure timelines were not jeopardized.
• Coordinated successful completion of audits for the following accreditations:
• SAS-70 - annual review of process, procedure, and risk analysis.
• URAC - HIPAA Privacy
• URAC - HIPAA Security
• Fiserv Corporate - Internal review of compliance with corporate standards.

Business Application Development Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development/support staff of 12 and data operations staff of 7.
• Reviewed system designs for J2EE applications.
• Managed initiatives to automate processes and deliver new functionality.
• Implemented standardized process and procedure.
• Implemented reporting project that required robust reports on high availability systems.
• Managed implementation of Data Warehouse for clients.

Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed IRS 1099 data file application in Unix/Oracle/Perl to provide submission to IRS and follow-up research by the Finance team.
• Developed Unix/Oracle/Java based replication from the legacy system to Oracle data repository used for web inquiries and reporting.
• Build data model for control tables to manage the process.
• Created formal documentation for system.
• Developed Unix/COBOL framework for reading legacy system files.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed components using HP/UX, C++ for real time messaging interface for telecom orders originating from WorldCom.
• Developed Mainframe COBOL/DB2 application to receive flat files and convert them to MQ messages for processing.
• Participated in Local Number Portability project.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Led conversion of legacy data for Massachusetts Teachers to new retirement system with COBOL extracts and loads.
• Participated in building Visual Basic front end for customer input file preparation.
• Implemented local network and workstations with Windows for Workgroups to replace dumb terminals.
• Programmed several reports and on-line applications using templates.