Profile Summary

During the last six years I was mainly within the financial and public sectors and involve with the applications such as Healthcare, Banking and Credit Card.

During my career, I gained experience in the full project lifecycle from analysis, design, build and test through implementation. I function as a developer, designer, system analyst, production support and software tester in many complex projects and requirements

Professional Experience

Confidential,
Building J UP Ayala Technohub Quezon City

Role: IT Specialist (October 4,2010 – October 16,2012 )

Job Description:
Provide technical and functional support throughout the Software Development Lifecycle.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Senior Developer:

• Translate I.T. requirements in the design, development and assembly components to create custom information systems
• Provide assistance in requirement analysis and design
• Participate and create effort estimation in line with module complexity and needed skills
• Perform coding and unit testing
• Review coding and testing deliverable with client based standards or IBM standard based on work products or templates
• Create document and artifacts as evidences on each phase participation
• Initiate and schedule review meetings with designated requirement POC
• Log all the defects into a defect tracking tool to captured from design, build and test phase

Team Lead:

• Drive delivery excellence in projects
• Drive team members to be highly motivated performer for high quality of deliverables
• Actively participate in technical meetings with onshore technical leads
• Monitor and control technical issues
• Pro-actively identify issues/risks in the project by collaborating with the team members

Assignment History:

Confidential, (April 2012 – October 2012)
ACES Enrollment and Billing
Project Description: To provide AMS services to client application ACES having a subsystem assign as ENROLLMENT and BILLING
Contribution:

• Involve in designing client request changes to support the Member Benefit Inquiry Service
• Develop new codes to support the Member Benefit Inquiry Service in accordance with coding standards and procedure

Chips Claims Management System(CMS)
Project Description: To perform the task of formatting the claims, editing them and routing them to the respective adjudication system
Contribution:

• Involve in designing client request change to support the ICD10 project
• Develop new codes to support the NPI Translator system in accordance with coding standards and procedure

Confidential, (April 2011 – May 2012)
SCF Enforce Project
Project Description: SEC. 3310 of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Acts states that sponsors of prescription drug plans (ESI clients) must require that pharmacies dispense certain covered Part D drugs to enrollees residing in long-term care facilities in increments of 14 days or less.
Contribution:

• Analyze requirements and deliver results accurately and technically as it needed
• As designer, I was involved in designing client request changes or change request from issue encountered. Deliverables covered Design document reviewed by onshore technical lead in coherent with client’s perspective.
• Develop and code online screens and programs, map and batch COBOL programs based on client’s perspective.
• Communicate with onshore counter parts to provide clarity on technical updates and status and relay to team members clearly as discussed

BCBS EHD Enhancements Projects
Project Description: The enhancement will provide the ability to use the greater of Home Delivery product start date or the Group/BPL Association date for retail look-back functionality. The enhancement will improve efficiencies in implementing EHD, SHD and PHD.
Contribution:

• Develop online application programs through a given detailed design documents with client set standards
• Modify existing application programs while retaining program functionality integrity through Microfocus platform using COBOL/JCL programming language
• Debug program execution using MFE debugger to capture modifications in filling up the unit test results from created unit test plan
• Participate in review and rework process through submitted coding and testing deliverable to attain a zero defect deliverable; rework from pointed review points

Reject Code Projects
Project Description: National Council for Prescription Drugs Program (NCPDP) has defined new Reject codes for D.0 in an updated External Code List (ECL). For D.0, the ECL is allowed to be modified without requiring a new version of the Telecom Standard (beyond version D.0).
Contribution:

• As a Developer, Deliver revisions from client perspective or design through revised impacted application modules. Deliverables were in line with client standards, rules and protocols. Such deliverable would cover coding and testing.

AWP Core Phase II Projects
Project Description: The purpose of this project is to use the pricing field from Medispan instead of First Data Bank, and any other fields needed to support the pricing data from Medispan.
Contribution:

• As a Tester, involve in creating Test case for the System Integration and Quality Assurance Test.
• Involve also in preparing the Test Data for System Integration and Quality Assurance Test. During test execution I was responsible in executing the test case that impact the Batch process.

Confidential, (October 2011 – March 2011)
Project Description: HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act version 5010 is an enhancement project to modify California Medicaid Management Information System(CAMMIS) to accept and process electronics transactions in order for CAMMIS and California Department of Health Care Service (DHCS) to continue to be HIPAA compliant.
Contribution:
Performed online trainings to learn the business side of health care project. Also performed online and classroom trainings to enhance technical skills in mainframe.

Confidential,Cybergate 2 Bldg. Pioneer St., Mandaluyong City

Role: Senior Software Engineer (July 10, 2006 – October 1, 2010)

Job Description:
Provide functional and technical support to the application team and supports the Application Architect throughout the SDLC.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with a given design through a Team lead that follows architectural standards and conform to the overall design requirements
• Prepares the Method of Change (MOC) for the reporting application
• Develop several COBOL batch program in the Reporting Application team using mainframe utilities that improved the client’s system processing
• Participate in the performance improvement of several jobs to better optimized client system resources reduce cost of long-running batch jobs
• Execute component testing, assembly testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing (UAT) and production and readiness test
• Load test conditions into Quality Center testing tool, load process request change on Infoweb tool, build test scripts to ensure system integrity
• Prepare test region, test JCL, test data, databases for unit test execution
• Review components of packages before migrated to Production Readiness Test (PRT) region and Production region
• Supports production issues timely and effectively in accordance with the Service Level Agreement (SLAs). Understands the root causes of problems and address these root causes to achieve resolution and closure to the issue and ensures zero defect for all changes being introduced in the production environment

Assignment History:

Confidential, (April 2012 – October 2012)
Project Description: American Express is a diversified global financial services company. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler\'s cheque businesses.
Contribution:

• As an Application Specialist, during analysis stage, I participated in appropriate review and walk through meetings and also assisted in crafting test plan while supporting application related questions to mitigate issues early. My latest contribution was a government mandated requirement where I participated in the analysis meeting to support the Reporting and Data Archiving Application Team.
• I also performed a designer role that gives efficient and effective programs. As a designer my key contribution are as follows: I designed a program for a government mandatory requirements that need to archive demographic data of all the card members for regulatory purpose; I designed a JCL programs for a critical data warehousing requirement that will unload all major DB2 tables that impact the card members; I designed a new program that will load three new DB2 tables and two updated DB2 tables.
• As a developer my key contribution are as follows: developed more than five complex requirements that impact all the ledger to ledger reports of the Reporting Application Team; coded a complex COBOL program that impact the critical daily balancing report and achieved to improve efficiency and yielding cost savings for the client; developed a new complex COBOL program for a critical data warehousing requirement which will do the task of a five COBOL program and impacts all the card members; developed a new complex COBOL program that will purged all valid inactive accounts from all DB2 tables and archived the data.
• As a test planner and test executioner role, I created test events based on the business condition and assumption they provide during analysis stage and also assisted in test execution issues related to my application team. My latest contribution as a test planner was in a government mandatory requirements that impacts all card member and all the application team of the project.
• As a production support, I was responsible in monitoring the job completion and investigating/solving abends or issues encountered. My key contribution are as follows: performed as a primary contact during major releases that impact the Reporting Application team; was able to solve critical abends that impact card member before the due time; was able to investigate, identify and resolve issues on the out-of-balance of the ledger reports of the application team.
• I was one of the Subject Matter Expert(SME) for the Reporting and Data Warehousing Application Team who is responsible in coaching new resources and conducting knowledge transfer session to guide and let them understand the application functionality and technical skills.
• I also performed as a migration coordinator of the team who is responsible in reviewing the codes before it is implemented in production. My accomplishment in this role was I was able to achieve zero incident during implementation.
• I also performed the production readiness test coordinator role of a team and as a production readiness test coordinator, I ensure that all the jobs for production implementation is loaded to pre-porduction enviroment in order to catch all possible issues and errors that might be encountered and rectify it.