SRIRAM

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Experience Summary

- 8+ years of overall experience in Development, Maintenance, Testing

and Production support of Mainframe legacy applications in Healthcare

Domain.

- 5 years of experience as Team lead/Tech Lead

- Proven experience in handling multiple projects at the same time with

stringent deadlines

- Proven experience in leading different teams with a strength of about

35 resources including onsite and offshore.

- Strong domain knowledge in Transportation & Logistics and Health

Insurance

- Strong working knowledge of SDLC Methodology

- Contract negotiation, Work Orders, Resource Planning, hiring new

resources, Invoicing

- Status Reporting to client, viz. Metrics Reports, Milestone Reports,

weekly, monthly and quarterly reports

- Requirements Review and Analysis, Effort Estimation, Work Breakdown

Structure(MPP), Defect Management

- Function Point Estimation

- Design and Execute major enhancements from scratch

- Coordination with Business, Development, Testing and Admin teams

- Experience in Production support processes, Beeper support

- Experience in following processes, Audit Compliance and Quality

management (Defect Prevention)

- Experience on Project Management/Enabling tools like RADAR, Integrated

Project Management (IPM+), MPP, Visio, Excel, power point

- Experience in Transition and Outsourcing projects

- Well managed in Crisis situations, Multitasking, Excellent rapport

builder

- Excellent Verbal and Written Communication Skills

- Analytical decision maker with excellent problem solving, motivating

skills and an excellent team player.

Certifications

- America Health Insurance Plan - Part A and PART B

- Internal certification on Transportation & Logistics

- Internal certification on Mainframes (Level - 1 & 2)

- Internal certification on Quality equivalent to CSQA

Technical Skills

Domain : Healthcare

Operating Systems : MVS z/OS, Windows, UNIX

Programming Languages : COBOL, JCL, CICS (MRO architecture), REXX,

CLIST, CA-EARL, EASYTRIEVE, XML/XSL, ABAP, PL/SQL,

C,

C++, Shell scripts, Java, JSP, ASP, VB Scripting

Database : VSAM, DB2, IMS DB/DC, TableBase, Oracle

Tools : TSO, ZEKE, XPEDITER, ZARA, SEEC, ENDEVOR,

PANVALET,

Changeman, Abend Aid, INTERTEST, FILEAID,

File Manager, Quality Centre, Documerge (Metacode),

EDI, Connect Enterprise, MQ Series, Sharepoint,

Influx

Project Summary

Client: WellPoint, Inc., Camarillo, CA Oct

2009 - Current

Description: WellPoint, Inc. (formerly Anthem, Inc.) was formed when

WellPoint Health Networks Inc. and Anthem, Inc. merged in 2004 to become

the nation's leading health benefits company. In 2008, State Sponsored

Business leadership made a strategic decision to migrate the Medicaid

business from the Perot Systems Diamond 950 Administration platform to the

Enterprise Transaction System (ETS) environment, which offers established

connections to other WellPoint systems, enhanced e-business solutions, and

addresses all BCBSA and CAQH mandates. Named "The Core Administration

Redesign Solution" (CARS), this initiative has been endorsed by

WellPoint's Executive Leadership Team and is included in the 2009 Plan of

Record. The project is executed from an offshore location.

Title: Technology lead

Team Size: 16

Projects:

Managing and Coordinating the entire project of data extraction on

Mainframe, feeding the downstream DataWare House systems The project is

being executed from an offshore location. Some of the Critical Projects

include:

Core Administration Redesign Solution (CARS)

Implementation of Merced's Incentive Compensation product

http://mercedsystems.com/index.php/products/merced-incentive-compensation-

management

Production Support

Contingency Planning

Operational Readiness

Responsibilities:

Application Understanding (Onsite and Offshore involved)

Contract Negotiation

Work Order Management and Invoicing

Resource Planning and Hiring new resources

Coordination with Business, Development, DBA and SCM teams

Status Reporting to Client

Requirements Review and Impact Analysis

Effort Estimation

Work Breakdown Structure(MPP)

Knowledge Transition to the Offshore Team

Defect Management

Review of the Deliverables

Support for User Acceptance and Production Acceptance Testing

Post Implementation Support

Resource Planning

Environment: Mainframes Z/Os, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, TableBase, CICS, REXX,

ZEKE, Documerge, Changeman, FileManager, SQL, XML/XSLT, Merced's Incentive

Compensation Product

Client: Bankers Life & Casualty, Chicago, IL Mar 2007 -

Sep-2009

Description: Bankers Life is a leading provider of financial security for

term life, health and retirement needs of middle market Americans. SHARP -

Systems for Health and Accident Record Processing is a critical

application which handles the functionalities of Policy Administration,

Billing, Bank/Lockbox processing. With an approximate number of 140 users

working on the SHARP CICS screens daily, SHARP is the most critical

application. The project is executed from an offshore location.

Title: Wave lead

Team Size: 28

Projects:

Managed and Coordinated the entire wave of Application Outsourcing of the

HEALTH system. The project is being executed from an offshore location.

Some of the Critical Projects include:

LTC Rate Increase 2007

Production Support - SHARP

Adherence to SOX guidelines

Specified Disease Policy Management

System Integration Region setup

UFL integration

Also Managed the Knowledge Transition of third party utilities like

Documerge, ZEKE

Responsibilities:

Application Understanding (Onsite and Offshore involved)

Contract Negotiation

Work Order Management and Invoicing

Resource Planning and Hiring new resources

Coordination with Business, Development, DBA and SCM teams

Status Reporting to Client

Requirements Review and Impact Analysis

Effort Estimation

Work Breakdown Structure(MPP)

Knowledge Transition to the Offshore Team

Defect Management

Review of the Deliverables

Support for User Acceptance and Production Acceptance Testing

Post Implementation Support

Resource Planning

Environment: Production Support, Mainframes Z/Os, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM,

AQL, CICS, FileAID, Endevor, REXX, ZEKE, Documerge

Client: DHL, Scottsdale, AZ Sep 2003 -

Feb 2007

Description: DHL is the global market leader in international express,

overland transport and air freight. It is also the world's number 1 in

ocean freight and contract logistics.

This project involves maintenance of various IBM mainframe applications of

DHL National Billing Center that include Imaging, Billing Data Entry,

Customer Master, Rating, Invoicing, Account Receivables among others. The

project is executed from offshore as well as onsite. The scope of project

includes major enhancements, minor enhancements, emergency bug fixes,

co-development with involvement from requirements analysis till warranty

support.

Title: Programmer Analyst/Application lead

Team Size: 22

Projects:

Managed and Coordinated 4 different projects of DHL & Airborne:

National Billing System (NBC) - Application Development and Maintenance

Production Support - NBC

FOCUS

DHL - Airborne EDI

Project PHOENIX - SOA on Mainframes, migrating to SAP

DHL-BOFA Lockbox

Containerization

Piece Implementation

These projects have been executed from an Offshore Location

Responsibilities:

Resource Planning

Hiring new resources

Invoicing

Requirements Elicitation/Planning

Requirements Review and Impact Analysis

Coordination with Onsite and Offshore Teams

Status Reporting

Effort Estimation

Work Breakdown Structure(MPP)

Coordination with Testing teams

Defect Management

Review of the Deliverables

Support during User Acceptance and Production Acceptance Testing

Post Implementation Support

Environment: Mainframes Z/Os, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SQL, FileAID, CICS,

REXX, EARL, ABAP

Client: Spectrochem Instruments, India Nov 2001 - May 2003

Description: Spectrochem instruments is an Indian company specialized in

Instrumentation

Title: Web developer

Team Size: 3

Project: Have done my internship by developing the website for Spectrochem

http://www.spectrochemindia.com

Responsibilities:

Requirements Review

Design

Coding

Performance Testing

Testing

Status Reporting

Testing Tools : None

Environment: Java, JSP, DHTML, JavaScript

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology,

India

References:

Patty

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Mohan

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