Sridevi Begal
Chattanooga, TN
Mobile: 423-***-****,
mailto:abib27@r.postjobfree.com
. Results-driven, versatile consultant with over 7+ years experience
as a Senior Business Analyst.
. Specialized in Finance & Healthcare, Insurance, Risk and
Compliance, Document management.
. Good knowledge of Business Analysis methodologies, Iterative and
Incremental Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Rational
Unified Process (RUP).
. Proficient in gathering business and technical requirements from
both formal and informal sessions through interviews, NetMeeting,
questionnaire, video conferencing, JAD sessions and conference
calls.
. Strong knowledge of Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration
Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Class Diagrams.
. Experience in developing Test Plan and Test Cases as per the
business process requirements to match the functionality
requirements and UML diagrams.
. Possess very good organizational skills, with the ability to multi-
task and deal with shifting priorities.
. Strong Experience in Revenue Cycle Management such as CDM (Charge
Description Master),Charge Capture and Charge Routing.
. Strong Experience in Claims Processing and Claims Scrubbing in
HMO,PPO,Medicaid and Medicare
. Experience in EDI(270,271,835,834,837) transactions.
. Sound analytical and problem solving abilities
. Excellent Written and Communication Skill.
. Worked on healthcare standards such as HIPPA 4010, 5010, DICOMM,
CPT, ICD-9 and SOAP.
. Expertise in ICD-9 to ICD-10 Conversion.
. Working knowledge of healthcare Technology standards such as HL7,
ANSI ASC X12, IHE XDS/XDM, HITSP, CCR(continuity of Care Record),
CCD(Continuity of Care Document),NCPDP Script 8.1, ELINCS, CDA,
. Working knowledge of XML and Web services
. Worked on various Professional billing and Hospital billing
products.
. Knowledge of Facets Analytics and Workflow
. Experience in working with HHS, CMS or Medicaid Programs, RHIOs,
IHDNs.
. Worked/knowledge on healthcare applications such EPIC, Next-Gen,
Cerner, Siemens Soarian,GE Centricity, Eclypsys, Meditech, CPSI,
AllScripts, iHelix and e-Clinicalworks,
. Knowledge on medical necessities, software validation and
healthcare compliance auditing.
Technical Skills
Methodologies: RUP, Agile, CMMI, CMM, Six Sigma, OOAD, UML, Business
Modeling, Process Modeling and Data Modeling
Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, MS
Project, MS Outlook, Lotus Notes
Process/Modeling tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational
Requisite Pro, Smart Draw, ClearCase, ClearQuest
Testing Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, WinRunner.
Selenium
Operating Systems: Windows Vista, NT/2000/2003/ XP/98, MS DOS
Quality Management: HIPAA, CMMI, CMM, Six Sigma, TQM
Languages: C/C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, ebXML,
Database: MS Access, SQL Server 2000, SAP,
Other Tools: Macromedia Dream Weaver, Macromedia Flash and
Adobe Photoshop.
EDUCATION
. Master of Business Administration( Finance )
. Bachelor of Business Management ( Computer Science and Finance )
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Client : UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland), Hartford, CT May 2009
--- Sep 2010
Role : Business /Trading Analyst.
UBS ( Union Bank of Switzerland) world's leading financial firms serves a
discerning international client base with its Wealth Management, Investment
Banking, Client Reporting and Asset Management Businesses. UBS the market
leader in Retail and Commercial Banking represents all major financial
centers worldwide.
Project Scope : Working in creating a SWIFT Environment for fast and
easy transactions that could save
or optimize the projects work and finances. Better the Client
Reporting Tools and Middle and Back Office operations for
better Business Process Management.
Responsibilities : Manage client expectations for conversion of SWIFT
MT54x's to Outbound/Inbound trade messaging interface. Wrote
Test Plan/Strategy for SWIFT MT54x's for the full Product
Integration on for Settlement Trades and Allocation from
CTM/OTM systems to client.
Initiated & Centralized PMO (Project Management Office) for "SAP-
ERP Migration Program", Ensured completion of the projects on
schedule and within budget constraints. Monitored the projects from
initiation through delivery that resulted in Better organization
and control, Insight into resource utilization and capacity, larger
return on projects and lower cost
Primary point of contact for the lifecycle Settlement
testing/specifications/change controls.
Involved in studying the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
development and its Implementation.
Delivered support or ensure suitable escalation on Business issues
for the SWIFT conversion and upgrade to trading system
Developed Detailed Business Requirements documents (BRD),Business
Requirement writings and assessment of current OTC derivatives
instruction trade management processes for Front, Middle and Back
office Reference data, Data Attributes and Security Master
Database.
Worked on PORTIA V9.0, in the Accounting, E-Commerce and Hedge
Funds environment.
Worked on taking more comprehensive measures and minimum standards
for Capital Adequacy and Regulatory Capital Requirements.
Provided Integration Services to client implementing solutions,
Client Reporting and support during the project lifecycle.
Involved extensively in Client Reporting, Fee Billing, Middle and
Back office management, Product Processing, Settlement and
Documentation.
Modified and re-developed business and workflows utilizing Client
Reporting Tool specifications
Improved on existing methodologies and contributed to best
practices.
Worked closely with Developers on data integration and Work Flow
issues Brokers/Custodian and 3rd Party SWIFT messaging interface
Environment : MS Visio, Rational Rose, RUP, Integration Testing, Black
Box, White Box, UAT, SWIFT. (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Transactions), FIX (Financial Information Exchange), Bloomberg, SQL,
PORTIA.
Client: Newton Wellesley Hospital,
MA
Position: Senior Business Analyst Oct 07-May 09
Project Description: Partners healthcare has initiated a project
called COMPASS. Partner wants to have a centralized Revenue Cycle
Management across all their hospitals in the new Compass Project
.Within the compass project they wanted to migrate existing Meditech
software with Siemen's Soarian products.
Job Responsibilities:
. Analyzing the existing policies and procedures and providing the
inputs to Executive Management Team to fit into the compass project
goals.
. Conducting JAD sessions with different Business Users to develop new
policies and procedures for the Service Catalogue, Charge Capture and
Service Worklist /Charge Router, Hospital billing, coding, special
coding requirements for BCBS and Claim processing.
. Performing GAP analysis between Meditech and Soarian application
for the Data Migration and Conversion.
. Identifying the impacts and training the users on new policies
/procedures changes.
. Developed Use cases, Test Cases for the Business users and QA team.
. Performing Impact analysis for readiness of ICD-10 conversion.
. Identifying the Security Risks in the application that being built
and address them in the requirement document to avoid the security
breaches.
. Improved the new revenue cycle management and Electronic Medical
Record (EMR) for PARTNERS.
. Developed an implementation guide for Partners for EDI X12
transactions such as 834, 835,837,270 and 271.
. Designed the flexible solution for patient treatment plan and
patient care plan.
. Designed the solutions for easy conversion of CCR and storage in
database .
. Designed API to retrieve the CCR from the database .
. Designed the tight user authentication and application security.
. Modified Existing policies and procedures for patient access such
as Enterprise Scheduling, Patient Check-in/Out and Encounter
automation.
. Supporting the Business Users after go live.
Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, RUP, Rational Suite (RequisitePro, ClearQuest,
Clearcase), Blueprint, ETS and EDI ANSI X12/HIPAA. Meditech, Soarian.
Client: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
Position: Senior Business Analyst Aug '06 - Oct
'07
Project Description: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is a part of the
Pennsylvania State University. It provides a wide range of health
services including full range of hospitals, home-based care and
emergency services. The project with the medical center was in
relation to the Medicare population base being HIPAA complaint. This
included gathering and documentation of user requirements, analyzing
the existing system and performing gap analysis to relate to the
target system.
Job Responsibilities:
. Analysis for making system compliant with HIPAA . Involved in
making the Medicare patient profiles being compliant with the HIPAA
regulations. Management of patient profile transfer (PPT) reports
created by data team by verifying the associated data.
. Involved in analysis, design, and implementation of the following
systems:
Control Management Reporting and Security Systems: generation of
daily, weekly, and monthly reports of hospital patients' activity.
Medical Billing and Collection Systems: generation of daily billing
activity based on patient records and establishment of collection
protocols. Accounting Systems: Financial Statement generation and
analysis according to government standards and protocols.
. Coordinated and conducted system requirements walkthroughs/sessions
(JRDs/JADs) with business Owner/stakeholders/SMEs as well as
design/development teams. Worked with business area SMEs/analysts
to develop and finalize test plans/scripts/use cases. Analysis of
key business requirements and assisted in the development of
Business Requirement (BRS), Functional Requirement (FRS), and
System Requirement Specification (SRS).
. Working knowledge of Epic Rx /Epic Lab/Epic Care Inpatient/Health
Information Management and Chart Tracking
. Experience with the use of clinical laboratory information systems
within a medium to large clinical laboratory
. Experience with Epic Resolute Professional and Hospital Billing
system experience
. Experience in a highly regulated environment (healthcare,
financial, SOX, HIPPA etc)
. Hands on experience on Mercury Quality Center, Crystal Reports.
. Member of the patient information reporting project team for
analyzing and designing responsible for analyzing and designing a
system that would improve reporting of patient data especially with
relation to Medicare population.
Environment: EDI ANSI X12/HIPAA, UML, MS Access, MS Office, MS Visio
and Rational Suite.
Client: Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh,
PA
Position: Business Analyst Dec2005-
Jun2006
Project Description: Mellon Bank was the principal subsidiary of
Mellon Financial Corporation. The project involved analyzing the steps in
the loan lifecycle and identifying processes for up gradation and
integration. It provided a real time status of loan applications, by
converting its labor intensive and time tracking loan lifecycle process
into an automated and integrated system. Underwriting of loan
applications was put in place under Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Act to meet
the requirements of setting internal controls.
After the merger effective July 2007 the Bank of New York Company, Inc.
and Mellon Financial Corporation is now newly formed company called The
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation.
Job Responsibilities:
. Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, analyzed and
documented business requirements based on the analysis of loan
processing workflow model.
. Created Gantt chart and PERT chart and used them to develop project
schedule, allocate resources and make cost estimates using MS Project.
. Prioritized the requirements gathered from financial specialists,
business users, domain experts through interviews and JAD sessions.
. Identified the deliverables at the end of the inception and
elaboration phase of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) life cycle in
terms of business modeling and requirements analysis.
. Created and maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
between the requirements and other products such as design documents
and test plans.
. Initiated Use Case using UML, which provided the framework for
potential use case deliverables.
. Ensured verification and sign-off of business requirements by various
stakeholders/investors under SOX Compliance.
. Conducted various meetings and interacted with the analysts, and
developers to discuss Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
. Version control of the artifacts generated within the life cycle using
Rational Clear Case.
. Performed Functionality testing and regression testing.
. Involved in executing test cases and scripts using Win Runner,
Developed Sub Reports using Crystal Reports.
. Created various Charts and Graphs like Bar Chart, Line graphs, Pie
Charts for analysis
Environment: MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Project, RUP, UML, Win
Runner, Rational Project Console, MS Office, Windows 2000, Crystal
Reports, SQL