SUMMARY:

• More than a decade of experience in managing IT and business projects and providing consulting services to various clients in the US healthcare sector. He has specialized in the area of Information Technology solutions, Project Management, Business Systems Analysis and Enterprise Application and Data Integration.
• He has lead full life cycle application development for both Waterfall and Agile projects and worked with diverse technologies, platforms, and with various leading US Healthcare - Providers and Payers such as Dignity Health, St Joseph Hospital, Jewish Hospital and St Mary’s Healthcare, Anthem, CareMore and Cigna etc.
• Lead and manage delivery of IT systems and services for healthcare information technology (IT) applications. Has been awarded Best Consultant award within Cognizant for back to back quarters.
• Agile/Scrum and Waterfall Project Management.
• Scrum Master for web portal teams and involved in setting up the agile process & guided the offshore team through it on top of delivery.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and techniques (i.e. User Stories, TDD, ATDD, Continuous Integration & Testing)
• Leading and delivering large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies.
• Identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• Implementing and overseeing the quality of deliverables and effectively managing the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.
• Participating in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities. Manage day to day interactions with executive clients and sponsors.
• Facilitating Sprint Planning, Release Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Product Demos and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Working closely with the business functional areas, with external customers, and with vendors to define systems/project priorities, scope, approach, resource requirements.
• Determining project scope, schedule, and resource management.
• Set and measure performance objectives and provide regular one-on-one feedback to all members of the team. Mentoring & Leading the team members. Performing role of counselor and coach; provide input and guidance into the staffing process; actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities.
• Status reporting to various project stakeholders.
• Utilizing technical and industry knowledge to identify complex client issues.
• Successfully managing teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures.
• Demonstrating In-Depth systems knowledge to provide appropriate solutions with project management skills.
• Effective communication skills and record for coordination between globally located teams.
• Partnering with business and technology teams to help ensure requirements for information technology solutions are understood and being implemented appropriately.
• Develop practical solutions and methodologies -point-of-view on healthcare trends.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management: Agile and Waterfall.

Payer: Health Insurance Exchange, Medicare, Medicaid, Medical Claims processing, Eligibility & Enrollment, Health Plan Benefits.

Provider: ADT/Registration, Electronic Health Record Implementation, Clinical data Standards and Analytics.

ERP: Procure to Pay, Sales & Distribution.

Project Management: Requirement Management and Version Control Tools-Microsoft Project, Excel and Power Point, Rational Requisite Pro, JIRA, TFS, Rally, Confluence, Clear Quest, SharePoint, Caliber, CVS, VSS, PPM.

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM, Test Director.

Development Tools: Eclipse, XML.

ERP: JD Edwards & Lawson

DB/Tools: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server & Toad.

Languages: HL7, C, COBOL, SQL.

Middleware: IBM MQ Series, WBIMB, Ensemble.

HIS Systems: Meditech and Epic.

Managed Care System: Facets, WGS and ISG.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Development Project Delivery Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assessing and documenting the business requirements, document scope, timeline and resources.
• Preparation of detail system requirements.
• Successfully Leading the team of Developers and Testers around 9-10 resources for complex implementation projects.
• Status reporting to various project stakeholders.
• Documents design specifications with the help of given inputs.
• Document current business processes and business flows.
• Determining project scope, schedule, and resource management.
• Onsite/Offshore coordination.
• Demonstrating In-Depth systems knowledge to provide appropriate solutions with project management skills.
• Identify and Validating business needs and requirements.
• Identifying business and testing requirements and translating those requirements into system specifications.
• Create test scripts, test strategies, test plans, and test data based on system requirements.
• Working with clients in requirements workshops and other stakeholders.
• Designing, Developing, Implementing and Maintaining systems.
• Performs Configuration management using configuration tools like VSS/CVS.
• Working with clients and other stakeholders in requirements workshops and JAD sessions.
• Utilized my knowledge of middleware software to finalize the system architecture in terms of the interface protocols for the product.
• Writing use cases, creating process flows, and creating system architecture diagrams.
• Selecting the most relevant tools/techniques to meet specific client requirements such as business case, interpreting and reporting.
• Researching and evaluating alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost effective application programming solution.