Phani Kakarla

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845-***-****

abmn2i@r.postjobfree.com

Certified PRPC System Architect having 7 years of IT experience including 3

years experience in building BPM solutions in variety of industries and

technical environment.Strong experience in design and development of

Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Rules Engine (BRE)

applications using PRPC V5.x/V4.2 SP6.

Summary:

. Excellent knowledge of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC).

. Excellent knowledge of Pega Implementation Life Cycle. (Tool

installation, Design, Development, Migration, Testing and deployment).

. Extensive experience in building Class Structure hierarchy and Rule

Set structure based on pega guardrails.

. Experience in creating flows, flow actions, properties and activities.

. Proficient in creating Application Rules, Access Groups, Operators,

Rule Sets, Rule Set Versions, Workbaskets, Work parties required to

develop an application.

. Expertise in creating User Interface (UI) using flow actions, harness

and section rules.

. Involved in design and development of Data Models, Class structures,

Process flow, Rule resolution, Specialization techniques, Security

model, Authentication, Authorization, Correspondence, Decision rules,

Declarative rules, Validation, Agents, Custom rules, Customizing

portals, Reporting, Connectors, Services and Parse Rules.

. Extensively used Clipboard, Tracer and Performance Analyzer for

troubleshooting and performance tuning of PRPC applications.

. Solid knowledge of Java Web Services with real time knowledge using

SOAP and WSDL.

. Good knowledge in creating SOAP, File, SQL, MQ, EJB Connectors and

other SOAP services.

. Experience in Object Oriented Analysis and experienced in created

patterns like MVA architecture.

. Experience in J2EE technologies like Servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP)

and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).

. Experience in Java, JDBC, XML, XSL and XSLT.

. Extensively used UML- System Use case diagrams, Class diagrams,

Activity diagrams, Business Process Diagrams, Sequence diagrams and

Deployment diagrams.

. Good experience in Financial, Banking and HealthCare Industry.

. Experience in writing Queries, Stored Procedures, sub-queries,

functions and triggers in Oracle and in T-SQL.

. Experience in performing SWOT analysis, Root cause analysis, Cost

Benefit analysis, GAP analysis, Project planning and Scheduling.

. Experience in creating Test plan, Test Cases, Test scripts and

Training Manuals.

. Involved in planning,coordinating and conducting different types of

tests such as Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System testing,

Regression Testing, Black box Testing, Backend Testing End to End

Testing and User acceptance Testing.

. Excellent Communication Skills, team playing spirit and stronger

analytical and problem solving abilities.

. Strong Work Ethics and commitment towards achieving Clients goals.

EDUCATION:

. Bachelor of Technology, Nagarjuna University, India.

CERTIFICATION:

. Certified PRPC v5.5 System Architect.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

BPM Product Pega Rules Process Commander(PRPC

v4.2/v5.1/v5.2/v5.3/v5.4)

Languages C,C++,JAVA,J2EE(JSP, EJB, Servlets, JDBC),

Web Technologies HTML, XML, XSL, XSLT, SOAP

Scripting VBScript, JavaScript

Languages

Databases Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server 2005/2008, IBM DB2

Business Tools Microsoft Office Suite( Excel, Word, PowerPoint,

Access and Outlook), MS Visio,Rational Suite(Requisite

Pro, Rose, Clear case, Clear quest, SODA)

Testing Tools Quality Center, Quality Test professional, Test

Director, Rational Clear Quest

Operating Systems Windows 98/2000/NT/XP/Vista, Unix

Application Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, BEA Web Logic

Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Wells Fargo, SFO, CA

Jan'09 - present

PRPC System Architect

The business objective of the application is automate

the process of labor intensive process of processing disputes and charges

back in credit and debit card transaction. This was developed in Pega Smart

Dispute framework and it provides more efficient way of automating the

disputes and charges back. The Pega Smart Dispute flows, user interface and

necessary rules are tailored according to business requirements and were

tightly integrated with transaction history database.

Responsibilities:

. Interacted with clients to understand expectations and requirements.

. Created High Level Class Structure in Pega Rules Process Commander.

. Customized and created default flows, flow actions, and user interface

(sections and harness rules) that are critical to business.

. Redesigned default Portals DisputeEntry, DisputeFraudProcessing and

DisputeManager.

. Modified various PRPC rules like Decision Rules, Decision Maps,

Declarative Expressions, constraints and Indexes.

. Modified and Implemented Activities, Steps, methods and error

handling.

. Developed rules for Validation and Integration pertained to Rule-

Connect and Rule-Service.

. Developed search reports using List View and Summary View rules of

PRPC.

. Created Data-Admin-Product to migrate rules across various

environments.

. Worked extensively with Soap Web Services and Soap Connect rules to

talk to external systems, created XML stream and parse rules.

. Designed and implemented WMQ configuration, to pick and push messages

to/from MQ queue.

. Designed and implemented Soap Web Services for creating/updating an

investigation case in Pega.

. Involved in setting up Correspondence Output Server (COS) known as

PegaDISTRIBUTION Manager. Defined Server, Printer Queues and

associated printer queues within Org.unit.

. Customized PRPC OOB portal layouts and created gadgets as per business

needs.

. Created SLA rules for work objects and assignments.

. Involved in Bug fixing activities with Lead and Developers for

declarative rules, Harness and When Conditions.

. Created SQL connectors to extract data from external environment.

. Data-Admin-DB table and name instances are created to connect the

external database using JDBC connection URL or JDBC connection pool.

. Involved in writing Use Cases and Test Cases.

. Used Test Director to generate defect analysis report.

. Prepared and executed Unit Test Plan and User Acceptance Test (UAT).

. Reviewed the business rules with developing team and modified based on

Technical Specifications and Business Requirement Specification using

Pega Rules Process Commander.

Environments:

Pega Rules Process Commander v5.4, MS VISIO 2005, XML, SOAP, JAVA,

UNIX, Oracle 9i,Web Logic 8.1, QC, SQL Navigator 4, Test Director.

Blue Cross Blue Shield, MN

Apr'08 - Dec'08

PRPC System Architect

LPI (Late Payment Interest) Calculator

. The primary functionality of this LPI calculator is to calculate the

interest for late payments using NCGS and Thomas Prompt pay interest

calculator.

. LPI project is Pega PRPC Rules Business solution for Power MHS's lack

of interest calculation functionality.

. This tool calculates prompt pay interest liability consistently and

accurately for claims that are not processed and paid in timely

manner, including claims adjustments due to errors. The claims

Adjudication System(Power MHS) invokes Pega PRPC SOAP service using

Java Web Service on iSeries

. PowerMHS will extract and post daily claims to Pega PRPC LPI SOAP

Service. All data required for LPI calculation are arrived or derived

from data within posted claims message.

. For each claim message sent to LPI calculator SOAP Service, a

subsequent LPI message would be sent back to PowerMHS for further

processing.

Responsibilities:

. Reviewed the technical document and corrected as per Pega PRPC

standards.

. Involved in design of Class Structure, Properties, Activities and

Service Rules.

. Involved in design of SOAP service for request response claims

processing.

. Designed flows and activities and created declarative expressions for

value change in properties.

. Created validation rules to implement business logic validation.

. Implemented Decision Tables and Decision Maps.

. Involved in testing and debugging using Tracer and DB Trace.

. Interacted with clients to keep update with business requirements.

Environments:

Java, J2EE, Web Sphere 6.1, Pega PRPC v5.3, MS Visio 2003, MQ

Series, Web Services, XML, SOAP, AIX, Windows XP, eclipse.

Prudential, CT

May'07 - Mar'08

PRPC System Architect

Prudential Inc. is a Fortune 500 whose subsidiaries provide insurance,

investment, management and other financial products and services to both

retail and institutional customers in United States and in 30 other

countries. My project was a Health Care Project which includes implementing

a software solution to be shared across all the central locations that will

organize and manage the process of loading subgroups into Pega solution.

Corrected Claims is a Pega PRPC

Business Rules Application that automates the determination of corrected

claims verses the new/duplicate claims. The Business Rules application

reads the Power MHS Claims Adjudication system and iterates through one at

a time to determine if the claim is corrected, duplicated or it cannot

complete processing and it needs to be directed to IPD Workflow subsystem

for manual Adjustment processing. If the claim is determined to be new or

duplicate, it routes the claim back to Adjudication System to go through

the existing claim processing steps.

Responsibilities:

. Involved in design of Class Structure, Data Flow, Properties and

Activities.

. Developed and customized work flows in Claims Processing Framework.

. Involved in integrating MHS Claims Adjudication System with manual

adjustment processing.

. Developed flows and Activities and involved in design of connectors

for Back-end Integration.

. Involved in creating tables using queries in Oracle.

. Used Web services to interact with external systems using Rules-

Connect-SOAP.

. Designed and involved in creating Activities to integrate PRPC basic

applications with Claims Processing Framework.

. Creation of Declarative expressions for value change in properties and

also creation of validation rules to implement business logic.

. Implementation of Decision tables, decision maps and declarative

expressions.

. Testing and debugging using Tracer and DB trace.

. Interacting with clients to understand business requirements.

Environments:

Pega PRPC v5.1 SP2, Java, J2EE, Web logic 8.1, XML, SOAP, Windows XP,

eclipse, Oracle, Java Script, HTML.

Key Bank, NY

Oct'06 - Apr'07

J2EE Developer

Key Bank is leading global financial services firm .Accounting Information

provides customers the ability to create, monitor and view account balances

and transactions online. Its goal is to develop a thin, rich interface

between web-users and application layer. The database consists of global

customer's account information, balances and transactional details

information that are continuously updated. This application maintains

consistent data for customers based on their retention period. The customer

can go online, check the account information, transfer money, update

address and personal information and check the monthly statements. The data

was stored in Oracle database. The project also involves developing back-

end administration module for account maintenance and transaction enquiry

and processing for transaction processing, approval and enquiry.

Responsibilities:

. Developed use cases from the functional specifications.

. Used Rational Rose for designing class diagrams from the use cases.

. Actively involved in design of the application implementing Apache

Struts FrameWork based on MVC architecture with EJB, simple Java Beans

as Model, JSP as View, and Servlet as controller.

. Involved in design and development of Presentation layer using JSP,

Java Servlets.

. Deployed the EJB components on WebLogic.

. Involved in setting up Apache SOAP on Weblogic Application Server 8.1.

. Used Java Beans for Client-side Validation.

. Implemented Stored Procedures for Oracle database.

. Created server side code to implement JDBC connectivity to Oracle 9i.

. Responsible for reporting project status.

Environments:

Java 2, J2EE(Servlets, EJB 2.0, JSP, JDBC), Weblogic 8.1, Oracle 9i,

Windows NT, Apache SOAP 2.0, Struts, Ant, VSS, Rational Rose, JNDI, HTML,

JavaScript.

Cingular (AT &T), NJ

Jan'06 - Sep'06

Java Developer

Cingular (AT&T) is largest communication company in United States. They

provide wireless services, high speed internet access and local and long

distance call services. The project dealt with replacement of an existing

MS Access based applications in DB2 database. Successfully completed a

major challenge of reengineering the MS Access database into new DB2

database and developed a web based system which provides the existing

functionality and also streamlined their work flow.

Responsibilities:

. Analyzed business and functional requirements.

. Involved in creating Use Cases, Class diagrams, activity diagrams

using MS Visio.

. Development of the flow and flow rule using Action Controller

Framework.

. Involved in construction, Unit testing (including Unit testing on

Client Server, UTCS) and integration testing of the application.

. Responsible for Onsite Offshore coordination.

. Developed UI screens using custom JSP tags.

. Involved in development of data access layer using DAO and JDBC.

. Created controllers, model classes and JSP's for the modules.

. Used Java Script for Client side validation.

. Used JDBC for database connectivity and also for database queries,

update and delete.

. Responsible for writing test cases to test functionalities.

. Responsible for writing Unit Test Cases for controllers and model

classes.

. Involved in the web sphere administration through Admin Console which

includes database configuration, application deployment, and node

creation and recycling of JVMs.

. Involved in bug-fixing.

Environments:

Java, J2EE, JSP 2.0, JavaScript, Java Servlets 2.4, EJB 2.1, Action

Controller Framework,

Servlets, XML, HTML, Web Sphere 5.1, MS Office, MS Visio 2002.

Wipro Technologies, Hyderabad, India

Jun'03 - Nov'05

J2EE Developer

This was an effort to design and design and implement reusable frame work

using J2EE architecture that can be used for corporate applications, store

applications and warehouse applications. It also involved designing a

security mechanism that could support single-sign on and access to

applications from any location.

Responsibilities:

. Involved in Class design and Development for MVC (Model-View-

Controller) architecture and design patterns.

. Java RMI, XML, XSL, XSLT was among the technologies used to provide a

robust, fault tolerant, scalable, cross-platform, enterprise level

java application. Problem solving skills and team player abilities

essential.

. Required knowledge of human factors and best GUI design principles

coupled with business analysis skills to create attractive, intuitive

and user friendly screens.

. Developed Servlets, Java classes in JBuilder.

. Developed JSP using Struts libraries, tiles and java scripts.

. Used Quartz and translate libraries to schedule jobs and JProbe for

profiler and memory leak debugs.

. Developed test classes using JUnit Framework to test unit application.

Environments:

JSP 1.4,Java 1.2, EJB 2.0, XML, JDBC, IBM WebSphere 4.0, IBM DB2 7.0,

OS-390 & Windows 2000.

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