SAVITA BHAKE
Parsippany, NJ *****
************@*****.***
Residence: 973-***-**** Cell: 973-***-****
OBJECTIVE
To secure a position as a manager / Team leader in a reputed company that
offers a challenging and rewarding career with advancement opportunities
and attractive compensation.
SUMMARY
With the ability to learn new things fast, I am enthusiastic, logical, co-
operative and sincere, with the capability to work hard as a team member,
as well as independently, to meet time-bound business objectives.
VISA STATUS
US citizen.
SKILLS
Software product management, Project management, EDI systems
management, Business analysis.
Design and set up systems and related infrastructure.
Managing team.
In depth knowledge of E-business/B2B standards such as EDI,
EDIFACT, HIPAA and HL7 and use of these standards in various
industries (Healthcare insurance, Hospital, Retail,
manufacturing etc.) Design, analyze, implement and support
integrations between EDI/EDIFACT, HL7, HIPAA applications
utilizing various interface engine. Design, develop,
implement, maintain and support systems interfaces.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
EDI/ Sterling's Gentran Server for Unix (V5.x-6.0).
EDIFACT: IBM's WDI, version 3.2
GEIS central EDI software for Mainframe.
SAP R/3 extensions.
iWay's E-Business Adapters
HL7: iWay's (IBI) HL7 Adapter, HL7 integration engine eGate SRE and
HIPAA: JCAPS.
XML: iWay's (IBI) HIPAA Adapter, BizTalk
DTD, Schema
UNIX: Vi Editor, Shell Programming.
IBM/MVS: COBOL, TSO/ISPF, JCL, OPC, Endeavor, etc.
DATABASE: Relation Database: Oracle 7, 8, 11i
Third Party EDISIM (EDI, EDIFACT, HIPAA), Claredi (HIPAA), Interface
Tools: Explorer (HL7), 7edit (HL7)
UNISYS: COBOL, DMSII Database, XGEN, WFL, and CANDE Editor
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Emblem Health
Dec 11 - Present
(In 2006, HIP Health Plan of New York and GHI (Group Health Incorporated)
affiliated under the common parent EmblemHealth. With 5,400 employees, HIP
and GHI together is the largest health insurer based in New York State
serving nearly 3.4 million people with over 92,000 providers in 150,000
locations across the tri-state region.
ther EmblemHealth companies include The PerfectHealth Insurance
Company, HIP Insurance Company of New York, GHI HMO Select, Inc.,
ConnectiCare of New York, Inc. and, EmblemHealth Services Company LLC.)
EDI Manager
Software - BizTalk and SeeBeyond/JCAPS
Responsibilities:
Manage and support EDI applications ( BizTalk and SeeBeyond/JCAPS), ensure
that
the production problems are resolved effectively in a timely manner and up
to user's satisfaction.
. Guide, design, develop, enhance and implement EDI related applications
and systems.
. Stay current with HIPAA regulations (5010, ICD10 etc ) for Health Care
related transactions.
. Design or modify EDI systems to meet changing business needs.
. Keep contact with software vendors, receive periodic updates, test the
new software/releases, implement it in a timely manner for staying current
with the software version releases.
. Plan, schedule, and manage all of the project lifecycle phases of systems
projects.
. Prepare project plans; Schedule projects; Assign resources to the tasks.
. Discuss the projects with Business Partners and keep them informed about
the project progress.
. Manage the team of 12 people that is composed of Sr. programmer
Analysts, Sr. Systems Analysts and Lead Systems/programmer Analysts.
Educate and cross train the staff
. Provide guidance to the project teams that is composed of IS and user
departmental personnel.
. Consult with user Department Heads on EDI/IS issues and resolve them in a
timely manner .
. Direct project development and programming teams.
. Consult with internal business partners, IS Dept. staff and external
development partners regarding system needs in order to better understand
projects and serve the business community.
. Interview, hire and supervise Programmers, Programmer Analysts and
Systems Analysts assigned to the project team.
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Continuum Health Partners
May 09- Dec 11
(Continuum Health Partners is a nonprofit hospital system in New York City
that comprises five historically distinguished hospitals: Beth Israel
Medical Center, Roosevelt Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, Long Island
College Hospital and NY Eye and Ear Infirmary.)
Application Manager - Integration
Software - eGate SRE HL7 integration engine and JCAPS (Java, Enterprise
Applicatin Integration), Database (Oracle, MS SQL)
Responsibilities:
. Technical development of application-to-application interfaces, data
conversion and integration architecture. Improved the system by
automating the processes.
. Direct the translation of functional specifications into detailed
technical designs.
. Direct the team that is responsible for the maintaining and
implementing the team's on-call responsibility, ensuring effective
flow of communication between management, user, and assigned
personnel. Also assume emergency on-call responsibility to ensure that
production problems are resolved in a timely and effective
manner. Implemented 24X7 monitoring process.
. Work with vendor, client and various project teams on the
Implementation and Support of Application Integration within the
Hospital environment according to established process and procedure
utilizing all tools in use at the site.
. Stabilized and improved the JCAPS environment and worked with the
vendor to fix the bugs/issues.
. Assume additional responsibilities to manage DBAs and the SQL and
Oracle database system. Coordinated meetings with the database users (
application groups.) to understand their expectations and also to set
up guideline/procedure to support and maintain the SQL and Oracle
database
. Manage and cross train staff members. Make sure 24X7 "on call"
coverage is available to support the systems.
. Oversee the development, implementation, and administration of
standard procedures and policies.
. Train, coach, and mentor junior staff.
. Manage the processing of incoming requests to ensure courteous,
timely, and effective resolution.
. Prepare budget proposals and operational expenditure statements.
. Analyze performance of activities and documented resolutions, identify
problem areas, and devise and deliver solutions to enhance quality of
service and to prevent future issues.
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iWay Software (IBI), New York, NY
April 05 - Feb 09
(iWay Software the leading integration adapter provider. A division of
Information Builders)
E-business Product Manager
Software - E-business adapters - EDI, EDIFACT, HIPAA, HL7, AS2.
Responsibilities:
. Liaised with Development, Quality Assurance and marketing teams to
enable smooth/timely delivery of product/product enhancements.
. Product Management-
- Build product specifications. Build QA Test Plans.
- Managed delivery of features (spec, build, test, and
packaging including documentation).
- Worked with development to set timelines and manage deliverables.
- Enhanced the E-business line of products (HL7, HIPAA, EDI and
EDIFACT) by
adding features, required by the various industries. These
enhancements increased the
marketability of the products. E.g.:
EDI/EDIFACT-Improved performance
- Improved rule validation and acknowledgement
generation.
- Extended support for more Versions and message
type.
Introduced the use of "sef" files (Standard
electronic format) and suggested to
build the tool to generate XML dictionaries,
schema, rules and mapping templates.
This initiative helped to extend the support for
more versions and message type
quickly. It used to be a manual and time-consuming
process before. This
initiative improved the marketability of the
product tremendously.
- Helped the customers to migrate from existing EDI software to
Iway's EDI software that includes infrastructure set up,
creating process flows, set up trading partners, Customize
trading partner specific integration.
- Helped the customer's to create new maps and migrate existing
maps, that includes business analysis, Creating gap analysis,
mapping with rules and conditions.
- Helped the customers to customized the XML dictionaries,
schema, templates as per their business requirements.
- Analyzed the customer's supply-chain/B2B requirement and
Suggested the system's design, EDI documents to use and to
create in house utilities to meet the requirements.
HL7- extended the support for HL7 organization supplied schema
format. Added new feature,
Schema validation report etc..
- Build customer specific E-business adapters to meet their
business requirements.
- Build customer specific HL7 product that run under J2EE
container, e.g. Weblogic.
- Similarly build HL7 adapter that runs as tightly coupled
inside SAP system.
This HL7 adapter was build to Co-sell with SAP as a
complete Health care solution.
- Worked on supporting HL7's version V3.0
- HL7 versions 2.x certified.
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HIPAA- Worked with HIPAA customers to implement HIPAA
solution that includes following tasks :
-Reviewed, Analyzed and evaluated customer's
business requirements for HIPAA..
-Suggested the systems infrastructure design to
meet the customer's HIPAA integration needs.
-Created functional specifications that describes
user needs .Created technical specifications to describe
technical modifications/enhancements required to meet
user's requirements e.g. Programming changes, other software
related changes etc.
- Calculated the estimated time line for the
project and alerted the customers if there is any risk
involved (Risk
analysis). Documented the logical system
architecture, system interfaces, and Minimum
hardware/software
requirements.
- Developed test plans, created test data. Worked
closely with QA team to supervise the test results and
accepts
it (sign off).
- Worked with Document services to develop user guides and
training material.
- Worked with the customer through out the development and
implementation process and kept
the higher management informed about the status of the
project.
- Worked on all the 4010A1 HIPAA messages .
270,271,276,277,278(REQ/RES),820, 834,835, 837 (I,P,D) .
- Helped HIPAA customers to implement NPI (National Provider
identification) edit.
- Improved rule validation and acknowledgement
generation.
- Helped customer's to get Claredi certified.
- Worked on extending support for version 5010 and ICD-10 .
TPM (Trading Partner Manager) Tool - Created specifications to build
Trading Partner manager
Tool and how it will be used to reconcile (Correlate)
functional acknowledgements for
Out going messages.
Miscellaneous - Analyzed and researched the ACORD (Association for
Cooperative Operations
Research and Development-used in insurance
industry and related financial
Services industries) and IAIBC (The
International Association of Industrial
Accident Boards), standards to extend the
support for these standards and
expand the E-business line of products in
future .
. Pre-Sales Support-
- Worked with Sales teams (Account Managers and Pre-Sales reps) to
support the sales process
as necessary e.g. Creating white paper, technical brief, demo and
presentations .
- Analyzed customer's requirements and developed Proof of Concept
(POC) using iWay's
products. Many POCs resulted in wining the deals in US and in
Europe that generated the
revenue for the company.
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. Post-Sales Support-
- Worked with Technical support teams to manage and resolve customer
issues and
enhancement requests.
- Worked with development teams to implement the appropriate
fixes, whilst managing
the customer expectations.
- Helped customers to migrate from existing software to iWay's
software.
. Project Management/Team leader - Worked as a project manager/Team
leader for all the E-business products related projects, that includes
creating the scope of the project (specifications), ETA, Risk
analysis, Resources assignment (QA, Development etc.), scheduled
follow up meetings and make sure all the tasks are on time, meeting
the deadlines and documentation.
Consulting Projects :
June 04 - Jan 05
Client - Aromat Corporation, New Providence, NJ
(Aromat Corporation is the U.S. subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Works,
Ltd . - Panasonic)
Consultant:
Software- EDI software, Gentran server for Unix. 6.0 (. HP UNIX), Oracle
11i
. Created 850 purchase Order maps (partner specific) for Gentran server
for Unix 6.0.
Analyzed current EDI infrastructure set up and making
suggestions to make it more effective.
Client -Toys "R"Us, Wayne, NJ
Consultant :
Software- EDI software, Gentran server for Unix. SonOS UNIX 5.8 (Unix for
Sun Microsystems),
Oracle 8.0
. Designed and developed transportation documents 214, 204, which
includes mapping, trading partner maintenance, contacting Trading
partners and testing.
. Designed developed, mapped and tested EDI documents 861,947.
. Tested and supported 810, 856, 846 and 850 for Drop shipments partners
who directly ship orders to the customer, ordered via Amazon.com.
. Worked on EDISIM software to generate EDI guidelines.
KRAFT FOODS (previously Nabisco, Inc.), East Hanover, NJ 1998 - May 2004
Sr. Systems Project Leader
EDI Software: Gentran Server for Unix with SAP extension (Version 5.3) and
Oracle database.
IBM's Websphere Data Interchange (WDI 3.2)
. Leading a project to Migrate applications from Gentran to WDI3.2, this
includes mapping, creating Trading Partner profiles, maps and TP
usages, etc.
. Responsible for development, maintenance and support of infrastructure
of EDI system for Kraft/Nabisco USA and Canada.
. Designed, developed and implemented EDI system on Gentran server for
Unix with SAP extensions, for Kraft's Nabisco division (USA and
Canada) using ANSI, UCS, VICS versions.
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. Documents: 810, 820, 830, 850, 875, 856, 855, 882, 894, 204.214, 940,
943, 944, 945, 990, Application to Application.
. Designed, developed and implemented EDI system on Gentran server for
Unix with SAP extensions, for Nabisco Iberia (Spain and Portugal)
using EDIFACT version.
Documents: INVOIC, ORDERS, ORDRSP, TEXTOL, COACSU.
. Played a key role in mapping all above mentioned documents, ANSI and
EDIFACT. Migrated ANSI maps to Y2K compliant 4010 versions.
. Wrote many housekeeping Unix scripts to maintain EDI systems.
. Led a team to design and implement end-to-end error handling process
for the EDI server.
. Worked with Unix support to implement high availability failover
server (HACMP failover) and Tivoli notification for the critical
errors.
. Played a key role in upgrading Gentran Server version from 4.0 to 5.1,
5.11 and 5.3.
. Experience in managing large projects.
. Experience in managing teams.
. Team leader for EDI related Y2K testing.
. Worked on SAP R/3 extensions to test EDI functional modules.
TOYS "R" US, Paramus, NJ
Systems Analyst
1991 - 1998
EDI Software: GEIS Central - on UNISYS mainframe Gentran's Excel on NCR
UNIX server
. Designed and implemented Kids "R" Us EDI system.
Documents 810 invoice, 856 ASN, 304 Shipinfo, 850 PO and 852 POS
document.
. Designed, maintained and supported Toys "R" Us and Kids "R" Us EDI
Systems.
Documents include 852, 810, 820, 850, 856, 210, 214, 213, 142, 888,
864, etc.
. Migrated EDI applications from UNISYS mainframe to Unix based
Gentran's Excel software.
. Developed utilities to support the EDI functions and help EDI
coordinators.
. Communicate with Trading Partners and User departments.
EDUCATION
HL7 versions 2.x certified.
Masters Certification in Project Management, George Washington University
Project Management Certification, Philip Morris (Altria)
(Require 5 key courses from PMI and 4000 hours of project management
experience)
The Chubb Institute, Parsippany, NJ
Diploma, Computer Programming and hands-on skills on IBM Mainframe
M.S., Bioscience - Ravishankar University, Raipur, India