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Prakash Mallikarjunappa PMP

Cell: 937-***-****

Email: abhlcg@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

. 10+ Years of IT experience with excellent technical and management

ability, open minded and goal-focused.

. Professional experience in Leading, managing technical team, Analysis,

Solution Design, Maintenance, trouble shooting, Testing, Support and

Enhancements of application software.

. Expertise in all the stages of the Software development Life Cycle

(SDLC) namely Requirement gathering, management/change management,

Quality assurance, Analysis, design, coding, debugging, testing,

documentation and maintenance application programs.

. Proven team leadership skills. Goal-driven leader who maintains a

productive climate and confidently motivates and coaches employees to

meet high performance standards.

. Experienced in working with different operating systems and multi

platforms namely Legacy Mainframes, SAP FSCD, Java and .Net.

. Flexible in regard to transition from project to project and in

assimilating new technologies.

. Excellent coordination, tracking, follow-up and cross functional teamwork

skills.

. Expert in the usage of various project management techniques and tools

and thereby have efficiently managed the vendors and took care in

delivering quality deliverables.

. Excellent coordination, tracking, follow-up and cross functional

teamwork skills.

. Rich knowledge on quality processes and procedures followed on

organizations include Farmers Insurance, Humana Health care, CIGNA

Health care, Scotia Bank and Citi Bank.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

1. Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (P.G.D.B.A) in

"Finance".

2. Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in "Computer Science and Engineering".

Certifications:

. Certified Project Management Professional (PMP ) from Project

Management

Institute.

. IBM Certified Application Developer DB2-UDB V8.1.

. IBM DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family Fundamentals

TECHNICAL AND DOMAIN SKILL SET SUMMARY:

Functional Banking and Financial, Personal lines, Property and

Domains Casualty, Auto, Fire, Property and casualty,

Commercial, Life and Health insurance, HIPAA

Standards.

Languages COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL, PL1, Easytrieves, JCL,

VSAM, REXX, CLIST, SQL, C#, ABAP, PL/SQL, Visual

Basic, XML, HTML.

Databases IBM DB2, IMS, VSAM, Oracle 9i/10g, MS Access, SAP

UDB.

OS Windows, Unix/Linux, MVS, OS/390, Z/OS.

Tools and TSO/ISPF, COGEN, Insync/File-Aid, SuperC/ CompareX,

Utilities CA-Intertest, ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, File Aid, CA7, DB

Explain, FAST Load. ETL, CICS, MQ SERIES, Web Sphere.

Version Visual Source Safe (VSS), Panvalet, PVCS, Endevor,

Control Changeman,

Testing Tools Mercury Quality Center, QTP-Quick Test Professional),

Test Director.

MS .NET 2.0, C#, ADO.NET, SQL server, Visual Studio

Technologies

Microsoft MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word

Tools

ERP SAP FSCD, Oracle A/R

Professional experience:

Automated Conversion Project

Simi Valley CA

Client: Farmers Insurance Group

10/09 - Present

Role: Project Manager

The objective of this project is to mechanically convert existing policies

which are billing on legacy BMW (Billing Middle ware)/EasyPay application

to newly built SAP FAB (Farmers All Lines Billing) application.

Responsibilities:

. Made Project Plans in MS - Project, Project Charter, Tracking,

Scheduling, Planning & Execution

. Responsible for updating/maintaining/tracking Change requests.

. Co-ordination with Stakeholders / sponsors to meet their expectations.

. Interface between Business, Cross-functional solution design teams,

testing teams, development team vendor leads and subcontractors.

. Providing Rough order magnitude (ROM) for requirements for billing

application.

. Meetings with Business for requirements gathering, with Cross functional

teams for solution design, code review, defects during testing and

production implementation.

Farmers All Billing System

Simi Valley CA Client: Farmers Insurance Group

02/08 - 02/10

Role: Lead/SME-Subject Matter Expert

BSP is new billing system built on SAP FSCD. BSP brings all the Farmers

Billing Systems such as EasyPay/FlexPay and Standard into single Platform.

This project involves migrating from Legacy Mainframe to SAP FS-CD.

Responsibilities:

. Reviewing and approving development and testing deliverables from

vendors.

. Negotiating cost estimation with vendors.

. Participated in CIO's / CTO's Escalation calls with cross Functional

teams on Various ongoing issues and solution for Improvement in

productivity with Respect to Business Needs.

. Working with Business on Requirements and Solution design team for

providing high level solution design.

. Working with onshore/offshore team to complete development and testing.

EasyPay Billing Application Releases

Simi Valley CA

Client: Farmers Insurance Group

09/07 to Present

Role: Lead/SME-Subject Matter Expert

EasyPay is the Farmers Billing application. It provides billing for various

Business lines of Farmers such as Auto, Fire, Commercials, Foremost,

Workers Compensation and Life policies. EasyPay is built on COGEN system

which does the core functionality of billing.

Responsibilities:

. Release Lead for Regular Releases.

. Working as part of solution design team for billing application.

. Requirement analysis and providing high level solution design.

. Work with Business to get/clarify requirements.

. Participating in meetings for requirements gathering, solution design,

code review, defects during testing and production implementation.

Enterprise Eligibility- Redesign

Louisville KY

Client: Humana Inc

03/07 - 09/07

Role: Sr. Consultant

Enterprise Eligibility Redesign for Plans and coverage's PLUS Enterprise

Eligibility Web Services. The project's objective is to create plans and

coverage application in.NET web application, which uses Enterprise

Eligibility Web services and DB2 stored procedures.

Responsibilities:

. Developing new DB2 stored procedures and modifying existing stored

procedures.

. Provide support for bug fixing on all phases of testing till production

implementation.

Member Eligibility

Louisville KY

Client: Humana Inc

03/07---09/07

Role: Sr. Consultant

Enterprise Eligibility is mainframe application, which sends the required

customer information to Humana vendors in requested 384 standard formats.

There are more than 500 vendors who provide operations to customers such as

enrolling new customers, handling claims etc.

Responsibilities:

. Developing new process to produce outbound files to vendors.

. Getting requirements from Humana vendors.

. Design the application to get the required data from ODS and produces

file/report in vendor requested format.

Performance and Tuning of Member Eligibility jobs Louisville KY

Client: Humana Inc

03/07---09/07

Role: Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

. Identification and performance tuning of jobs which use more MSU and CPU.

. Strobe analysis for jobs for resource utilization.

APPS Core Releases

India

Client: Farmers Insurance

12/05 - 12/06

Role: Technical Lead

The APPS (Auto Policy Processing System) Release team's goal is to provide

high quality Application Enhancements for Farmers enterprise.

Responsibilities:

. Technical Lead for transaction completion module team.

. Training team members on CAM (Common Access Area Manager) and APPS.

. Interface between development and Business.

. Requirement Analysis and provide preliminary systems design document

(PSD).

CA Auto New Policy

India

Client: Farmers Insurance

04/05 - 12/05

Role: Technical Lead

New auto product was introduced in CA using Mid Century framework. This new

product was built to make Farmers competitive in market and enable Farmers

to regain auto market share in CA. This was achieved through better

pricing, accurate risk classification, better underwriting controls and

data integrity checks.

Responsibilities:

. Worked in Transaction completion area of APPS.

. Providing guidance to team on transaction completion area.

. Team progress Status report to Project/Delivery managers.

Transaction Data Storage (TDS) and Data Mart (DM) India

Client: CIGNA Healthcare

11/03 - 04/05

Role: Sr. Software Engineer

The Transactional Data Storage application receives financial and non-

financial data from 23 different source systems. During daily and weekly

batch cycles, TDS receives data from these source systems which is used to

update various databases in the TDS application. The data housed in TDS is

used to maintain several data marts that are used by the downstream

applications for reporting purposes.

Responsibilities:

. Automation of the present manual checkout process in which the data

consistency has to be checked before and after applying conversions on

data.

. Preparing Technical specifications to extract data from operational

databases/files.

. Loading and Unloading DB2 Tables, RUNSTATS, REORG.

. Transformation cleansing and loading data into a data warehouse using

Datastage.

Scotia Direct Re-Engineering

India

Client: Scotia Bank

03/03 - 11/03

Role: Sr. Software Engineer

Scotia bank runs legacy system for managing Electronic Funds Transfer

(EFT). The amount of data to be processed was growing predominantly high.

Considering the advantages of Oracle Financials for handling large data,

Scotia decided to convert legacy system to oracle Financials.

Responsibilities:

. Involved in Data conversion from VSAM to Oracle 11.5.10.

. Developing Custom Screens using Oracle Forms for A/R Module for Dunning

enhancements and Custom Reports for Management reporting.

. Working on Customer and Invoice Interfaces.

Data Management Group

India

Client: Citibank, SanAntonio TX

12/01-03/03

Role: Member Technical Staff

Data Management Group maintains three applications namely Data warehouse

general, Accounts Payable and General Ledger. All the three applications

have batch jobs for data processing. COBOL programs do extraction and

transformation functions. Mload utility does loading. In addition to this,

Accounts Payable and General Ledger applications send data to another

financial application in a specific format.

. Coding, testing, maintenance, trouble shooting Extraction and loading

programs.

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