SUMMARY

• Excellent knowledge of the following systems HL7, Windows OS, Linux OS, JAVA, C++, PHP, Oracle, SQL, access, MYSQL, visual basic, In accordance with the above expert user in Microsoft Office.
• Expertise in healthcare standards such as HL7, ICD - 9, ICD-10 and HIPAA, X12, CCDA, LO INC, SNOMED.
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience working with HL7 V2.x (traditional version) and 3.x (XML based version) and FHIR.
• Experience integrating various EMR’s such as Tiger, Allscripts, ML360, Mirth, etc.
• Experience in Health Information Exchange (HIE) integration specifically working on Community level (centralized) HIE integration.
• Experience with the change management process for implementation of interfaces, making changes to existing interfaces and associated documentation.
• Ability to multitask including managing multiple projects, prioritizing and ensuring on-time delivery of all projects.
• Responsible for executing Health Information Exchanges (HIE) and Care Management/Population Health Management strategy.
• Responsible for developing and administering clinical interfaces that support rapid and effective clinical decision making, foster information sharing across the continuum of care systems, make data actionable, and provide the knowledge that leads to improved patient outcomes.
• Hands-on experience working with HL7 v2 message types.
• Detailed understanding of HL7 segments, fields and data types.
• Ability to read/interpret complex interfacing messages and conduct a detailed gap analysis for data conversion/interface design. (e.g. ADT and ORU).
• Experience with requirements gathering and analysis of HL7 and non-HL7 interfaces.
• Analyze and define internal and external customer requirements for clinical data exchange.
• Good experience with tools needed sometimes to develop interfaces like XML, XSLT, XQuery, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2016, Microsoft Office, Excel, Visio, FTP, SFTP Fundamentals, TCP/IP Networking Fundamentals, HIPAA Adherence.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Interface Engines: Mirth Connect, Epic

Databases: MS Access, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server

Languages: PHP, JavaScript, ASP.NET, Java, XML, SQL, HTML, DHTML, CSS, XHTML

Operating Systems: Windows 7/8/XP/Vista, Windows Server 2003/2008, UNIX/LINUX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Philadelphia PA

HIE Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement thoughtful and cost-effective software solutions and applications in support of the Confidential Caritas IS organization.
• Responsible for executing HIE and Care Management/Population Health Management strategy.
• Responsible for developing and administering clinical interfaces that support rapid and effective clinical decision making, foster information sharing across the continuum of care systems, make data actionable and provide the knowledge that leads to improved patient outcomes.
• Develop next-generation HIE using integration tools such as Mirth Connect and customer-facing technology solutions.
• Interpret Business Requirements and Functional Specifications in the delivery of software solutions meeting or exceeding expectations.
• Lead the technical implementations of HIE (Health Information Exchange) using the Mirth tool and support customer-facing applications.
• Function as a solution lead to business initiatives.
• Lead the design and implementation of the real-time solutions for HIE (Health Information Exchange) using HL7 based interfaces and implementation of HIE cross-platform solution.
• Work collaboratively with the architecture team to ensure that the proposed solution is aligned with enterprise architecture direction.
• Develop in the agile development methodology including user stories, continuous integration, and test-driven development.
• Lead, evaluate and provide technical and architectural guidance to team members.
• Lead solution architecture for application enhancements.
• Carries out systematic problem identification, analysis, and resolution.
• Analyzes and reduces complex problems into simple, manageable components.
• Translate Business Requirements and/or Functional Specifications into technical solutions.
• Participate in and/or lead code reviews.
• Lead technical meetings and provides technical directions to Programmer Analysts.

Confidential, Pine Brook NJ

HIE Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, design, lead the development, and implementation of interfaces using Mirth Connect integration engines.
• Detailed understanding of HL7 segments, fields and data types.
• I have the ability to read/interpret complex interfacing messages and conduct a detailed gap analysis for data conversion/interface design. (e.g. ADT, SIU, MDM, and ORU).
• Experience with requirements gathering and analysis of HL7 and non-HL7 interfaces. Experience with standard medical Codes like LO INC, ICD 9, ICD 10.
• Analyze and define internal and external customer requirements for clinical data exchange.
• I have the experience with tools needed sometimes to develop interfaces like XML, XSLT, XQuery, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2016, Microsoft Office, Excel, Visio, FTP, SFTP Fundamentals, TCP/IP Networking Fundamentals, HIPAA Adherence.
• Participation in kick-off meetings and subsequent project meetings as the interface point person to ensure the business needs are clearly outlined in order to facilitate efficient build and delivery of the interfaces and to update the team on the progress of the project.
• Gathering requirements from the vendor and doing an analysis to identify any gaps between source and destination needs.
• Creating specification documents and interface design documents to match vendor requirements and for use as the reference document Building interfaces as per the vendor specifications using Mirth Connect and Cloverleaf integration engines following agile SDLC methodology.
• Working on interfaces for the following transaction types: ADT, ORM, ORU, OMG, OML, RDE, MDM, DFT, SIU, IMZ, etc.
• Mirth Connect: creating channels, configuring source and destination, adding filters and transformers, mapping, testing connectivity, and channel deployment.
• Working on Java and JavaScript in doing mapping/ message transformation while implementing the interfaces with the MIRTH Connect.
• Monitoring HL7 messages for errors in an HIE channel monitor with Mirth Connect and Mirth Results applications.
• Creating sites, processes, and threads, doing translations, establishing routes and messaging protocols such as TCP/IP, FTP, and SFT.
• Testing and deployment of interfaces in various environments including development, UAT, staging, and production.
• Creating test cases and executing them when performing unit testing, connectivity testing, system testing, integrated testing, and assisting with User Acceptance Testing.
• Troubleshooting interfaces, making changes, fixing bugs and errors, and providing support at go-live and post-go-live.
• Creating lookup tables in databases, establishing a database connection with the interfaces and writing SQL queries data migration using IBM Datastage ETL tool.
• Integrating various EMRs.
• Responsible for addressing, diagnosing and resolving issues that arise on a day to day basis for the team. Also responsible for documenting the causes, analysis and final resolution of the issues/errors.
• Converting HL7 V.2 messages to XML.
• Taking lead on assigned projects, working with the project manager to establish the scope and estimates and working as a team to deliver the projects successfully.

Confidential

IT Analysis Lead

Responsibilities:

• Acting as the focal business point for ensuring that all business requirements, stake-holder requirements, solution requirements, and transition requirements support the delivery of business value, fulfills the organization goals and objectives, and meets stakeholder needs.
• Works with business leaders in identifying and bringing strategic initiatives from concept to implementation and validation of benefits realization, guiding the linkage to enterprise strategic initiatives.
• Responsible for reviewing new projects, new requirements, new requirement change requests and Tracking systems defects for the formulation of defect-driven business needs.
• Responsible for definition of the Business Analysis process and procedures, BA practice standards within the organization, the quality of the business analysis documentation and requirements specifications deliverable; directly or indirectly. Ensuring that the standards are upheld in the organization, serving as the internal business analysis SME capitalizing on domain experience, skills, and external resources to continue to improve the business analysis practices within the organization.
• Collaborates with the project managers on the planning and estimating of BA activities, the definition of the BA performance metrics.

Confidential

IT Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Applying relevant knowledge to support the AZ business by understanding the business needs and analyzing, validating and documenting the business and system demands that address these needs either alone on a small project or contribute to a large project. The role assists in designing processes and changes to processes used to implement the business transformation solutions. This is done through situation analysis, research and fact-finding, problem-solving combined with a basic understanding of applicable business processes, systems, and industry requirements.
• Worked directly with vendors and project team to define the project scope, vendor needs, and requirements.
• Collaborated with vendors, business owners, and application analysts through all phases of the project to ensure the interfaces were implemented successfully.
• Created and reviewed specification documents including performing a gap analysis and worked closely with application analysts to understand the interface requirements.
• Created technical, functional specification documents and interface design documents.

Confidential

Sr System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Confidential platform and website.
• Digital Ground news analysis system.
• Optimizer stock market analysis platform and portfolio builder.
• Minbetna Online Retail.
• Etisalat Misr agent tracking and observation system.
• Logic Management Consulting system.

Confidential

Sr System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as IT Technical Manager who responsible for build company profile and participate in systems offers for a client after gathering all data required to build our offers, and responsible for system design, database structure, system analysis, Team build and manage to develop a targeted system in accepted time. this a list of systems already finished and implemented to clients.
• Management Application for TE-Data partners developed and implemented an ERP system for TE data partners to manage TE data’s customer accounts in accordance with their invoices and monthly installments.
• Alf Daar web site and internal management application.
• Rody Class website and internal management application.
• Misr2000, Developed and implemented a web application which registers customers and gives them pin codes/passcodes allowing them to register to take respective courses within the company and maintain their course record and accordingly pay the respective registration fee.
• Data-warehousing for Te-data partners developed and implemented a web application to get hidden patterns by data mining to improve management decisions.
• SIMED, Developed and implemented a web application to manage syndicate processes.
• Lawyer CMS, a system for an international law office in Saudi Arabia, to manage and track in.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work as a Software Engineer in Confidential to improve my experience in development, design, and analysis, in this period I have been involved in many projects as listed.
• UNICEF Reporting System: developed a reporting system to trace/log the Egyptian hospitals being visited by UNICEF and track ongoing action plans and improvement plans in accordance with the health ministry.
• Good Way company management system: responsible for developing and implementing a system that stores data related to company products for customer service and sales.