Rakesh Kumar
**** * ******** ***, *** ****, Phoenix, AZ 85015 . Cell: 602-***-**** . E-
Mail: **********@*****.***
Objective: Utilize expert level enterprise system integration skills in a
challenging leadership role within the health care industry.
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
. Seasoned IT professional with comprehensive business/technical skill
set and expertise in enterprise application integration, leadership
process improvement, requirements analysis, workflow design, process
modeling, testing/quality assurance, software development, customer
service and vendor relationships.
. Proficient problem-solver with significant experience translating
business and technical requirements into creative system integration
solutions.
. Motivated achiever with ability to guide teams in applying integration
to healthcare business settings, providing added value and creating
project deliverables in a timely manner.
Programming and Software skills
. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) concepts
. HL7 expertise in Health Information exchange (HIE)
. Unix
. Sybase NEON TDM, Sybase Impact, Seebeyond's DataGate
. IBM's WBI MB and MQ overview
. OPAS Remedy
. MS Office: Excel, Access, Word, Visio
. MS Project Plan
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dell Services Nov.
2005 - Present
(Catholic Healthcare West Account, Phoenix, AZ)
Project Lead, Mar. 2009 - Present
Interface Project Lead for the enterprise-wide Electronic Health Record
(EHR) implementation for Health Information Exchange (HIE).
Responsibilities and Achievements:
. Integration HL7 lead for enterprise wide HL7 interface (ADT, Orders,
Results, Billing, etc.) implementation at 30+ hospitals.
. Responsible for estimation of resource efforts and project timelines
for integration project deliverables, including current state
assessment of integration engine based interfaces, EDI and point-to-
point interfaces for all 30+ hospitals.
. Participated in Project Initiation and Planning phase. Worked closely
with Program Leadership in developing, Statement of Work and Project
Charter.
. Coordinate and work with the EHR vendor Meditech and all clinical
application teams.
. Point of contact for onshore-offshore coordination.
. Participate in all aspects of the Interface Development Lifecycle
including scope identification, requirements definition, design,
development, testing, customer acceptance, implementation and Warranty
support.
Functional Lead, Sept. 2007 - Feb. 2009
HL7 Integration lead for Cerner Millennium implementation at 5 major
hospitals in Sacramento for Health Information Exchange (HIE).
Responsibilities and Achievements:
. Lead HL7 Integration team for a large scale (250 interfaces, 20+
applications) multi-facility Cerner Millennium and MS4 implementation.
Systems interfaced include: Cerner Millennium, MS4, Initiate, IDXtend,
Rubicon, MedQuist, Mercury MD, Mobile MD, Elysium, Touchworks,
McKesson HMI & HSM, Emageon, SpeechQ, Omnicell, Teletracking.
. Ensured correct and timely implementation of interfaces.
. Responsible for schedule tracking.
. Responsible for interface effort estimates.
. Point of contact for onshore-offshore coordination.
. Develop and document interface system requirements including
functional specifications, data flow, transformations and test plans.
. Collaborate with all application teams to develop creative system
design solutions.
. Participated in all aspects of the Interface Development Lifecyle
including scope identification, requirements definition, design,
development, testing, customer acceptance, implementation and support.
. Mentored Interface Analyst team members.
. Received the Young Achiever of the Year Award for 2007.
. Received Performance award for all the quarters in 2007 and 2008.
Track lead, Feb. 2007 - Aug. 2007
Member of the Integration migration team. The team mission is migrating
interfaces build in legacy systems (Sybase Neon, Sybase Impact and See
Beyond's Datagate) to IBM's WBI MB message flows.
Responsibilities and Achievements:
. Analyze the legacy interfaces for capturing the requirements.
. Participate in Design, Acceptance testing and support of interfaces.
. Identify the Application users and end users.
. Ensured correct and timely migration of interfaces.
. Point of contact for offshore-onshore coordination.
. Coordinate with the application teams.
Interface Analyst, Nov. 2005 - Jan. 2007
Member of the Integration Services team. The team mission is to design,
build and support new and existing interfaces.
Responsibilities and Achievements:
. Develop 100+ interfaces in NEON TDM, Sybase and Seebeyond's DataGate
for Cerner Millennium and MS4 implementation at 3 major hospitals in
BAY region. Systems interfaced include: Cerner Millennium, MS4,
Sunquest Mysis, WebMedx, ARUP, HCCL, Medquist, Softmed, Powerscribe,
etc
. Provide on-call support to Sybase Neon, Sybase Impact, Seebeyond's
DataGate and IBM's WBI interfaces.
. Work on the Request tasks and Problem management issues.
. Involve in Requirement, Design, Unit/System/Integration/Acceptance
Testing, Implementation and support of interfaces.
. Offshore-onshore coordination.
Dell Services India Delhi Jul. 2004 - Oct.
2005
(Catholic HealthCare West Account)
Interface Analyst, Jul. 2004 - Oct. 2005
Member of the Offshore Integration Services team. The team mission is to
design and build new interfaces and support the existing interfaces.
Responsibilities and Achievements:
. Develop interfaces in Sybase Neon TDM, Sybase Impact and Seebeyond's
DataGate.
. Provide on-call support to Sybase Neon, Sybase Impact, Seebeyond's
DataGate and IBM's WBI interfaces.
. Work on the Request tasks and Problem management issues.
EDUCATION
? Master's of Computer Application, Delhi University, Delhi, India