SUMMARY

• Over 20 Years of experience in the software field working on Research, Design, Analysis, Architecture, Development, Testing and Implementation and Documentation.
• Worked as part of the IBM WMB/WTX, Mercator/DataStage TX professional services Installing, implementing and mentoring Mercator/DataStage TX projects for different businesses.
• Lead Teams effectively in project design and implementation using Mercator/DataStage TX as the tool for middleware and EDI projects.
• Have been leading the Integration and Operations in DHS-State of Minnesota for over 5 years with their Hipaa/WPS/Mercator/DataStage TX Health Care Claim processing Applications among other Real time POS transactions.
• Mercator/DataStage TX integration knowledge from Wachovia Bank, worked on TREC, SWIFT and other financial transaction typical with Financial Investment Firms exchanging data with Custodians, Banks and Portfolio Managers and other Financial Institutions.
• Strong conceptual and practical knowledge in Development of Custom IDocs, User Exits for SD and MM Transactions, ABAP/4 Interactive Reporting and Transactions.
• Main area of expertise is EDI (ANSI X12 and EDIFACT), e-commerce Implementation, SAP R/3, Merger and Acquisition Projects with SAP and Mercator, ECXpert, ALE.
• Worked extensively developing views and stored procedures in Relational Database Management Systems like Sybase, SQL Base, SQL Server Oracle and DB2. Good Command in PL/SQL code for reporting and Database Admin tasks.
• Strong understanding of performance issues and good working experience in fine-tuning of the interfacing Mercator/DataStage TX map along with the system for tangible enhancements in the efficiency and performance while connecting to oracle databases using SAP Adapters (FCNB Project).
• Good functional understanding of Hipaa Healthcare, Banking, Custodial Management, Marginal Shares, Electrical Supply and Distribution, Supply Chain, Treasury Cash Management, General Ledger, Customer choice (Telephone Industry and Electric Supply and Distribution) & other commercial applications.
• Worked on Product Development Projects writing Object Oriented Programming packages and worked on Tech Team for Overseas Customer Support for Financial and Banking Soft wares.
• Extensive Implementation experience, developing command files for Mercator/DataStage TX and production maps troubleshooting. Building requirements documents, completing Project Analysis, Working with VANS and implementing completely hands-free EDI over the Internet.
• Have been working in the capacity of Technical Team lead with eight Mercator/WTX Developers. Developed Best practices documents for intranet and other teams.
• Professional Services Team of TSI Mercator/DataStage TX from 98 Jan to 01 Dec during which period I was trained for Certifications being offered by TSI Mercator/DataStage TX and successfully completed all Certification Courses (See Below for Details).
• Carried out training Classes for Clients during project implementations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IBM WebSphere WMB, IBM Datapower, IBM WebSphere WTX, IBM Websphere WPS, IBM Websphere MQ, Mercator, Gentran, Harbinger, Netscape’s ECXpert, Internet Actuate Reporting, Visio, HTML, Perl, EDISIMS, FTP Voyager, FORESIGHTS, Oracle.
• Gupta SQL, SQL Windows, SQL Base, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Visual Basic, Crystal Reporting, Quest Reporting, C, SQL, UNIX, SAS, Cron, Windows NT, Windows 95 and 98.
• EDI, SAP R/3, IDocs, ALE, SD & MM Functional Modules, EDI over the Internet, Mercator, Actuate HTML Reports for the Internet, Trading Partnership Setup, VAN Setup, Mail group setup for dynamic hands free reporting to handheld devices for online reports. Handling and writing work around scripts for product BUGS.
• UNIX, SUN - Porting from NT and implementation, DB2, ORACLE Admin.
• Visual Basic, HTML, XML, PGP Encryption, TCP/IP, Exchanging Certificates for Trading

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Pennsylvania

SAP, WebSphere Message Broker

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed existing system and identified all the different flows for all existing 600 interfaces for all business flows.
• Worked with TE architecture teams and made proposals for phased wise project migrations. Developed proposal documentation, identifying definitive scope and timelines with clear deliverables and objectives.
• Identified secondary objectives for the project with what was required and what was desirable and worked with management to get appropriate approvals.
• Designed the individual objectives for building servers and installation and deliveries with IBM product support teams.
• Build and worked on proof of concept interfaces that included IIB and WTX interfaces and migrated and coded new ITX interfaces and deployed them in ITX launchers on new Linux server and tested them through UT, IT, UAT to the PROD server launchers before approvals for phase I migration.
• Worked extensively with ITX product support and opened numerous PMRs and worked with IBM for their resolutions to be implemented extensively through TE migration effort. Identified the GAPS identified as a result of the migration efforts resulting from “function deprecation” by IBM.
• Worked on all associated Adapters upgrade, oracle, SAP, SOAP, HTTP, MQ, UNICODE UTF-8, Unicode UTF-16, and BAPI and build appropriate documentation and created templates from the proof of concept interfaces to be used by other tea members within USA and India.
• Worked extensively to upgrade the oracle installed 64 bit 12g client on the Linux, oracle 64 adapters for ITX9.0. Worked with the oracle DBA team and IBM product support teams to configure and document the TE configuration for all 15 launcher instances within the Linux Batch and Real Time servers to best utilize and exploit the upgraded versions for performance.
• Build IIB code within the ITX environment by redesigning and coding the end to end flow of one-way and two-way interfaces. Coded Java logic, database logic, log generation and routing logic within the ITX code from IIB to complete the flows and re-use generic ITX code for all SAP and MQ/DB applications
• Build and documented templates for UT, IT and UAT testing for every interface as part of the upgrade deliverable for every phase of the upgrade.
• Worked with the existing middleware support team in India to transition the KT documentation for the ITX environment and did train for enhanced features within ITX as part of KT.
• Documented, the DB warehousing designs and universal tracking project proposals for better production support abilities.
• Development GO-LIVE documentation and lead the go-live bridge calls for the ITX switchover within the middleware domain.
• Worked on all flavors of retail EDI, 850, 855, 856, 860, 820, 810, 940, 997

Confidential

WebSphere Message Broker, Eclipse Mercator

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for Pricer Application support and enhancements and upgrades.
• Worked on WMB Broker solutions and bug fixing all flavors of Claims applications including ITSHOME Claims.
• Supported Paper claims and redesign efforts and decommission of older applications for papers.
• Supported canonical 27X Responses that EDIFECS and CVT-PA generated in XML to translate and send out to providers.
• Was primary resolution provider and defect in-charge for all inbound claim related issues that arise because of Level1-7 validations and partner level validations.
• Resolved over a 100 Defects and change request in the system and followed procedures to build and deploy it through all the environments.
• Worked on GO-LIVE War room team to ensure timely delivery of IBM Products for Local Claims, MEDIX Claims and ITS HOME claims over duration of 8 months and provided support as part of IBM Warranty.
• Developed MEDIX duplicate claim capture and reporting design and implementation and change request proposal and approval.
• Was responsible for building and redesigning build and deploy procedures for code versioning and bug fixing and deployment.
• Provided PROD SUPPORT for all claim processing and 835 processing for 3 months as part of IBM Warranty.