Muniraj Venkateshalu

Houston, TX

Summary: Over 16 plus years of experience delivering sound business Enterprise Application Integration solutions using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as an architectural pattern and a key enabler in implementing the infrastructure for a service-oriented architecture (SOA) which also provides support for interaction between heterogeneous services and interfaces that might be mismatched, or that might change over time.

Outstanding leadership and project management capabilities coupled with strong technical background in SOA architecture, BizTalk and SQL database administration and HL7 application development. I enjoy working with challenges that is flexible and adaptable to work with technology updates as the organization needs and demands for, like to be an asset for the organization and excellent team member.

Houston Methodist Hospital Nov 2014 - Present

Currently I am working for Houston Methodist Hospital as Senior Integration Analyst with the projects assigned to me at present is a Conversion of Historical TMH information for Radiology, Transcription, EMPI load and also working on HL7 interfaces that needs to be converted from FRL to HL7 for the present Houston Methodist Interfaces.

I am also working on building the error work queue and interface alerts for the interfaces that epic bridges are currently communicating both as Inbound and Outbound. Helping the radiant team to resolve the fatal error resulted due to missing clinical information such as missing Visit Number or wrong Rad procedure code.

Expertise Highlights

Management of Large Scale Hospital Integration and Optimization Projects

Business Requirement and Use Case Analysis

HIT Standards Development and Compliance

Epic Bridges build and Testing

Certifications: Epic Bridges Interface Administrator and Cloverleaf Interface Engine

Major Software System Upgrade Testing Preparation

Legacy System Data Conversion and Validation

Senior Systems Analyst

Job Profile:

-Responsible for all cloverleaf interface development and support.

-Responsible for the maintenance of cloverleaf and database servers.

-Responsible for maintaining cloverleaf naming convention and interface workflow documents on share point.

-Updating interface on call support documents on regular basis.

-Responsible for the creation and maintenance of FTP/SFTP/FTPS shell and expect scripts.

-Through knowledge of HL7 2.x and good working knowledge of CCD.

-Develop IRD (Interface Requirement Document) based on customer workflow.

-Develop TSD (Technical Specification Document) based on specification analysis.

-Oncall Support on a rotation basis.

Park Nicollet Health Services Jan 2003 – Nov 2014

Senior Integration System Developer & Administrator

Just Now Implemented 100 HL7 Interfaces TCPIP, FTP and Https Interfaces using Cloverleaf 5.8 suite currently maintaining, supporting

And also involved in many new Development of HL7 EMR, EHR and X12 Interfaces and working on new Meaningful used of Health Care Info.

Using Cloverleaf 5.8 suite –as a Integration Engine

Duties and Responsibilities:

Completing analysis, design, develop, testing and implementation of new interfaces

Providing maintenance, support, and coding enhancements for existing interfaces

Maintaining accurate, complete integration documentation for data flows, connectivity specifications, routing, filtering, data manipulation, problem resolution, root cause analysis and change control

Interface Engine administration including application of updates and patches

Implementation of bi-directional interfaces from multi-hospital HIS System(s) and associated clinical systems, such as Lab, Radiology, Pharmacy, and other ancillary systems

Development of interfaces that have included ADTs, Orders, Order Status Updates, Add-on Orders, Results, Charges and Transcription

Strong knowledge and skills to support communication protocols and standards for HL7, X12 and XML

Strong knowledge to create, modify and test message structures, events and connections

Ability to monitor integration engine performance, logs, databases, connections and disk usage

Ability to analyze and troubleshoot interface problems using on-line integration tools and utilities

Ability to successfully apply modifications to existing interfaces to enhance functionality or improve integrity

Ability to successfully perform integrated testing and moving the applicable test environment interface components to the production (live) environment adhering to formal change management requirements

Fundamental knowledge of network architecture, servers, redundancy and clustering

Fundamental knowledge of database management, TCP/IP, SNA,FTP,FTPS,SFTP,HTTP and messaging services

I Have also worked in the development, deployment, and maintenance of a message oriented middleware with an emphasis on processing very high volumes of HIS transactions delivered in real time.

Solutions focused, team oriented Senior Integration System Administrator with broad-based experience and hands-on skill in the successful implementation of highly effective health care application interfaces and the cost effective management of innovative downstream customer and technical support strategies.

Proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's critical support requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities and develop innovative solutions that increase reliability and improve productivity. Involved in integration architecture design for HL7 integration of interfaces, including installation, configuration, management, troubleshooting, and support of downstream system.

Key Responsibilities:

Development & Analysis

Extensive experience in developing interfaces using Microsoft BizTalk 2006 R2 and BizTalk 2010.

Experience with developing schemas, map, orchestrations, pipelines, custom pipeline components, design ESB Itineraries.

In depth knowledge of Microsoft's .NET Framework, Visual Studio IDE, using VB & C#

Implements and configures various out-of-the-box BizTalk adapters, WCF SQL, MSMQ & FTP, WCF custom adapters

Ensures development and service delivery of all products, services, and resources within the Revenue Cycle area. This includes responsibility for ensuring the appropriate level of support for the ongoing functionality of the systems.

Fosters increased application standardization and utilization through Microsoft best practices

Identifies possible training and system enhancements

Interacts with corporate, division and facility level leadership teams, as needed, in relationship to technical and customer support issues

Utilizes strong communication manage technical and business relationships

Maintains and protects confidentiality with regard to all aspects of patient care

Adheres to the Code of Conduct and Mission and Value Statements

Assists with other duties as assigned

Extensive knowledge of BizTalk architecture and implementation models

Thorough knowledge of applying object-oriented design and implementation techniques.

Strong understanding of BizTalk architecture and core components, pub/sub architecture, content based-routing and message queuing.

Proficient in MS SQL Server, XML, XSLT, Visual Studio, C# .NET language.

Exceptional ability to apply group development standards and work constructively within a development team

Administration Role

Proactively monitor health of BizTalk servers installed at sites and take appropriate preventative actions

Develop tools, metrics, and reports to effectively monitor BizTalk server health

Define topology and specifications for variously sized clients, including scale-out architectures for large installations

Effectively troubleshoot using tools such as BizTalk Admin Console, PerfMon, SQL Profiler, Event Viewer, IIS logs, etc. to solve issues with WCF, IIS (including slowness), slow file import performance, file import map issues/data truncation, bottlenecks in the system such as with SQL Server

Perform problem resolution and root cause analysis, spot trends and recommend and implement preventive techniques

Design, install, tune, maintain and monitor BizTalk databases, products, logs and services; including, but not limited to, storage management, BizTalk performance tuning, BizTalk software debugging, backup and recovery, and change/configuration maintenance

Work closely with downstream system and implementation teams to design and implement overall application configuration, associated support tools and processes

Ensure standardization of systems implementation, support techniques, and adherence to formal processes, change control, best practices, and total quality practices in all activities

Coach and mentor on best practices for BizTalk

Certification

Cloverleaf L2 Certified

Epic Bridges Certified

Biztalk Trained

eGate Certified

Technologies

EPIC

CloverLeaf5.8

BizTalk Server

Integration Services (HL7)

SQL Server 2008

SharePoint Server

Team Foundation Server

ICAN

eGate

Datagate

Areas of Expertise

HL7 Data Analysis

Communication Protocols

Business Analysis

Project Management

Scrum /Agile Methodology

Application Development

Database Administration

Industries

Health Care IT

LAB Services

PN PFS

Hospital Devices

Finance

Telecommunications

IT Services

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

University of Bangalore India

Additional Training

Cloverleaf L2 certified

Epic Bridges Certified

Biztalk Trained

eGate Certified

email Contact

acu8pi@r.postjobfree.com

SYNCPLEX, CORP Jun 2001 – Jan 2003

Systems Engineer Consultant

End Client: Bronson Methodist Hospital (June 2002 – Jan 2003)

Employer: SYNCPLEX, CORP.

Project: EAI migration project for Bronson Health Care

Position: Systems Engineer

Bronson Health Care currently utilizes SeeBeyond enterprise application integration product, DataGate 3.6.2, to integrate data within the organization administered from the Information Services Division. The current environment consists of 47 interfaces in the production environment. These are eGate 3.6.2 instances, with 47 of the interfaces running on HPUX 11 and all these interfaces are TCP/IP which uses HL7 2.2 as templates. Here we had two environments: dgprod for production and dgtest For Test in DataGate environment.

End Client: Dean Health Care. Mar 2002 – Jun 2002

Employer: SYNCPLEX, CORP.

Project: EAI and EBI integration

Position: Systems Engineer

Implemented eBusiness solutions using the eXchange portion of the SeeBeyond eBusiness Integration Suite. Here we used eGate components in a complete eXchange implementation and the eGate schema components that make up an eXchange implementation. Here both eXchange and eGate work together to provide a comprehensive toolset for designing, creating, and maintaining a fully functional eApplication. The Trading Partner Mgr was set and the flow of data from the server is done with the help of the egate components and the return acknowledgments for the trading partner and the main client are checked for.

End Client: Ascension Health. Jun 2001 – Jun 2002

Employer: SYNCPLEX, CORP.

Project: EAI migration project for Ascension Health Care

Ascension Health currently utilizes SeeBeyond enterprise application integration product, eGate 3.6.2, to integrate data within the organization administered from the Information Services Division. The current eGate 3.6.2 production environment consist of 40 eGate 3.6.2 instances with 38 of the instances running on RS/6000 while the 2 other instances are running on the NT platform.

Role:

Install/Test eGate Integrator

Program inventory and documentation – gather ports, input, output eWays components, routing and port table configuration files, and collaboration scripts files, components characteristics (i.e. Journaling, logging level, define security ROLE, Alert etc.)

Use inventory list to establish eGate component naming convention

Collect and Prep Source and rename source collaboration scripts

Perform collaboration script audit and convert obsolete function

Create tool to move collaboration files into registry

Define eGate Processing

Create routing table structure, input and output port list

Create detail architecture, drawing and documentation for engineers

Migrate SNA, TCPIP, Async, FTP eWay,, PeopleSoft eWay, to eGate 4.x equivalent and Unit Testing

Code intelligent Collaboration for ID BOB, Xlate BOB, Inbound and Outbound handler and Unit testing. This include the error handler, routing, ELS, ASCMessage structure

Build eWay, BOB, IQ, IQM, and Collaboration

Build any Dual eWay or schema bridge if any

Build monitoring schema for local monitoring and Support Center (develop and test script in Phase I)

Making necessary changes in the .tsc, dsc and isc scripts for accomplishing the expected results and then again matching this output with the Data-Gate output for data analysis.

Log queue maintenance and process automation.

Environment: EGate 4.5 Integrator, SNA, TCP/IP, BATCH eWays, PeopleSoft eWay, and Monk programming. Unix shell programming.

End Client: Evolve Sep 2000 - Feb 2001

Employer's: Techspan, CA, USA

Project: Generation of customized crystal Reports

Position: Team Member.

Description: At Evolve I was involved customization of standard Evolve reports for Service Sphere which comprises of OR and RM module. Based on the client requirements the reports functionality and look and feel where done on site and finally the tested for data validation and also checking for if the reports displays correct data based on user inputs.

Role:

Preparation of specs for generating standard customized reports based on client requirements.

Review standard reports produced by service sphere, (automation tool) to valid against client requirements.

Created new standard reports to meet specs, then tested against client requirements.

The functionality, look and feel were completed on site, tested for data validation and functionality based on user input.

Created stored procedures for extracting the data from database and then linked the stored procedures to the Seagate Reporting tool.

Environment: Seagate Reporting Tool Version 7.0 AND MS-SQL as Database.

End Client: Techspan, CA, USA Jun 2000 - Sep 2000

Project: Team Member

Description: The Ariba B2B Commerce Platform delivers customized Commerce Solutions that address the needs of all participants in the new economy: buyers, suppliers, market makers and commerce service providers. Ariba B2B Commerce Solutions include.

Role:

Developed server applications using JSP and CML (Commerce Markup Language is similar to HTML)

Modified the business logic and the look and feel of GUI based upon client requirements. We also incorporated JavaScript to interact with the GUI for quick responses

This was a JSP and server derived tool with JDBC connection at the database end.

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Environment: JAVA, HTML, Servlets, JDBC, JSP, WebLogic server5.1 and Oracle.

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