Nandakumar Palanisamy

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North Bergen

New Jersey -07047

Mobile -917-***-****

Experience Summary

I have around 11 years of experience in the Information Technology. As part of my assignments, I have been in Requirement Analysis, Planning, Application Development, Application Maintenance, Design, Coding, Reviews, Testing and Managing the team.

Technical Skills

Hardware / Platforms

Windows 98/XP/2000

Technology

Mainframes

Programming Languages

COBOL,Job Control Language (JCL), SAS,REXX, VMS

Databases

File System

DB2, Oracle

VSAM

Operating System

MVS, OS/390, Windows XP

Tools

TSO/ISPF, CHANGEMAN, Xpeditor, Endevor, Fileaid, Librarian

OLTP CICS

Education

Title of the Degree with Branch

College/University

Master of Science in Computer

Technology.(M.sc )

Bachelor of Science in Computer

Science .(B.sc)

KSR College of Technology / Periyar University.

Bharathidhasan College of Arts & Science / Bharathiar University

Certifications

CCP in HealthCare (Internal)

CCP in INS 21 (Internal)

Passport Details

Passport No J9472445

Valid up to December 2022

Contact Details

Mobile No. 917-***-****

Visa Details

Visa : H1B

Valid up to : 2020 April

Relevant Project Experience

Organization: Cognizant Technology Solutions (August 2011 – Till date)

Project #1

Title Teladoc Commercial Business

Client Emblem Health

Operating System Z/OS

Environment COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Endevor, Librarian, FileAid, CICS

Role Onsite IT Lead

Project Description

The Commercial members currently receive their telemedicine services through Amwell vendor. Starting 1/1/2019, telemedicine services vendor ‘Teladoc’ has been contracted to provide the telemedicine services for the commercial members and Amwell will no longer be providing these services to this group (Except for Large groups renewing plan year where the switch will happen post 2019 renewal).

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Roles and Responsibilities

Lead the onsite team members

Involved in preparation of technical design document

Involved in review the code

Coordinated with integration and System Testing with vendor

Coordinated with QA and eexecuting batch cycle in lower QA environment

Involved in implementation

Drive the daily status call with across applications

Project #2

Title Non-Discrimination Rules

Client Emblem Health

Operating System Z/OS

Environment COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Endevor, Librarian, FileAid, CICS

Role Team Lead

Project Description

Section 1557 is the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in certain health programs or activities. Currently EmblemHealth do not any provision in place to inform its members or non-members about this non-discrimination protection rule.

Currently all the claim processing systems - MCS, HCS, Qcare, IHealth/Cotivity and McKesson’s ClaimsXten, Facets have gender edits present in their system. The current functionality of these edits compares the diagnosis codes against the gender and denies the claim if a mismatch is found. The current edit do not check for modifier ‘KX’ on professional claims and ‘45’ on facility claims to filter such claims.

The future process shall have an additional check on gender mismatch claims. The new process shall further check for modifier ‘KX’ on professional claims and ‘45’ on facility claims at the service level to process the claims. These claims will be processed for payments.

Roles and Responsibilities

Lead the offshore team members

Involved technical design document

Knowledge in HCS and MCS Claims

Involved in Coding and review the code

Unit Testing

Coordinated with integration and System Testing

Executing batch cycle in test regions

Involved in implementation

Drive the daily status call with onsite manager

Project #3

Title Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT)

Client Emblem Health

Operating System Z/OS

Environment COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, Fileaid, Xpeditor, Librarian

Role Team Member

Project Description:

Medicaid is the largest health insurance program administered by New York State (NYS). NYS Medicaid spends more than $53 billion annually to provide health care to more than 4.7 million members.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo established Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) to (a) review the underlying health care cost and quality issues in New York's Medicaid program (b) identify the ways to reduce costs and increase quality and efficiency in the Medicaid program.

EmblemHealth is pursuing this project to comply with MRT’s provisions. Regulatory implementations timeframes must be met to avoid possible fines or penalties and to ensure that Medicaid members continue to have access to the benefits and services to which they are entitled.

The scope of MRT2016 has changed. EOB suppression is effective for 09/01/16

Roles and Responsibilities

Involved in prepared the technical requirement document

Leading the team members across various applications

Involved in prepared the UTP and Test case metrics

Involved in Coding and code review

Unit Testing

Drive the weekly status call with onsite folks

Co-ordinate with onsite POC to make sure the deliverables on track.

Project #4

Title Unit value/Trade

Client Lincoln Financial Group

Operating System Z/OS

Environment COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Endevor, File Aid, CA7

Role Team Member

Project Description

Unit value and trade are the two applications part of Separate account and financial operations (SAFO). Unit value application receives the unit values, NAVs and dividends from various fund companies through BNY Mellon. All Admin System will only depend on the Unit Values application for the Price file. Unit Values is responsible for sending Prices. It performs the pricing processes and sends the outbound files to 13 admin systems.

Trade application receives the buy & sell transaction details from the admin systems and import it to Unit values – Trade Database and also sends to the outbound vendors. Trade information will be sent to the fund companies.

Roles and Responsibilities

Involved in create technical design document(MEP)

Involved in Coding and review the code

Unit Testing

Involved to fix production issue on time

Involved in implementation activities

Project #4

Title Agent Commission Exchange (ACE)

Client Farmers Insurance

Operating System Z/OS

Environment COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, AQT

Role Team Member

Project Description

Agents’ Commissions Exchange is a J2EE based distributed application which serves as a single point entry of information for agent contracts, licenses, appointments, and renewal information for Independent Agents, Exclusive Agents and Employee Agents

ACE uses Mainframe batch jobs to process appointments & terminations, to share the agents details to and fro across interfaces, to distribute commission that was sent by ICE system and process deduction, to monitor the agents performance, to calculate subsidy and bonus payments, to process net pay to agents & DM and to calculate Contract Value to agents

Client Description:

The Farmers Insurance Group is one of the largest and most respected insurance brands in the United States of America, headquartered in Los Angeles, California and a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group. It is a leading insurer of small and medium-sized businesses and a rapidly growing financial services company (Farmers Financial Solutions)

Roles and Responsibilities

Involving technical design document

Preparing UTP

Involved in Coding and review

Unit Testing

Coordinated with integration and System Testing

Executing batch cycle in test regions

Involved in implementation

Project #5

Title FARE Migration

Client HealthNet

Operating System

Environment VS-COBOL II, SCLM, DB2, VMS, Oracle, REXX

Role Team Member

Project Description

Foundation Automated Rating and Enrollment (FARE) rating system is the rating and reporting application used by the Mid-Market/Large Group for both new and renewal business. FARE system provides a centralized database that can be accessed by all users with an established interface. It is a repository for group specific data, which is either directly fed into the system or extracted from the legacy system that is used for case specific rating and reporting of historical information.

This application is currently designed to function as a desktop application with Visual Basic as the front end and Z/OS as the backend and DB2 as the database. Due to increase in cost of maintaining the data/code in Z/OS, Health Net has decided to a more cost effective solution of Open VMS. As a part of this project, HN will move the backend business logic to Open VMS platform. The current data stored in DB2 would be moved to Oracle database. There would be no changes to the front end application.

Roles and Responsibilities

Leading the offshore team members

Participated in preparation of solution document

Task allocation

Daily status tracking

Coordinates the day to day project activities between onsite and offshore project teams

Coding

Code Review

Project #6

Title Fenton WFS – CBS Integration

Client Liberty Mutual Insurance

Operating System Z/OS

Environment COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2

Role Team Member

Project Description

Cash Processing will be creating a second cash processing center in Fenton MO. The existing Dover cash processing work will be split between the two locations. The new Fenton location will process PI payments and create new Cash posting file and Return files. There will be two new feeds sent to the bank for processing, ARC to JPM Chase and non-ARC (ICL) to BOFA.

There will be a new cash posting file that will be created by WFS and passed to OP65 through B2B and then combined with the existing files before being passed to CBS for posting to the policy.

The new Return files will be created from WFS in Fenton and passed to CBS through B2B. The return transactions will be at policy level, however, only the 14 character policy number may be available to pass to CBS. All return reason codes will map to existing CBS transaction codes. CBS will need to determine the correct contract term to post the return transaction and will follow the existing process in CBS.

Client Description

Liberty Mutual is a leading global insurer and sixth largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. It offers a wide range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, workers compensation, commercial multiple peril, commercial automobile, general liability, global specialty, group disability, assumed reinsurance, fire and surety.

Roles and Responsibilities

Involved in impact analysis

Participated in preparation of technical specification document

Involved in Coding and review

Unit Testing

Project #7

Title PMIT CBS Support

Client Liberty Mutual Insurance

Operating System Z/OS

Environment COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, REXX, Endevor, Web Services

Role Team Member

Period January 2013 – March 2014

Project Description

This project sets the platform for testing the projects that are planned for release. Environment/region set up involves loading of data from production into different test environment, maintaining job set ups uniform in all region, deploying developed modules into test region on bases of developers request, refreshing the environment after each release etc..

Project also provide testing support by monitoring batch pass and resolves issues that are occurred due to bad data or wrong migration of load modules.

Role and responsibilities

Deployed requested modules in test environment

Restored data in test environment

Extracted data from production and loaded into test environment

Monitored batch cycle in test environment and provided fix for data related issues

Performed environment refresh after each release

Worked on analysis related to issue

Worked on automation tool to minimize the manual work on report generation process.

Project #8

Title PMIT-Financial Refunding Dev

Client Liberty Mutual Insurance

Operating System Z/OS

Environment COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Endevor, Web Services

Role Team Member

Project Description

This project is to enhance the refunding services provided by Liberty Mutual CBS to the policyholder who have paid their amounts in excess of their dues. The CBS application had provided for refunds only as checks. Moreover, the rules to determine the refund eligibility were hardcoded in the mainframe COBOL programs. This project aimed to remove both deficiencies by giving the refunds through EFT and Credit/Debit cards when possible. Also the rules are written in a spreadsheet so that they can be modified by business without having the need to change the programs. This was implemented using DROOLS technique. A Webservice was defined to implement the refund eligibility rules and to determine the refund method by interacting with the CBS database. The CBS batch application interacted with this Webservice through the CICS gateway.

Roles and Responsibilities

Participated in preparation of design document

Participated in preparation of technical specification document

Involved in Coding and review

Unit Testing

Coordinated with business to do System Testing

Involved in implementation process

Project #9

Title AZ Migration for Individual Sales Tracking system (IST)

Client HealthNet

Operating System

Environment VS-COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, SCLM, DB2, CICS, Web Services

Role Team Member

Project Description

AZ Migration project is to migrate AZ business from the NE platform to the Western Region platform. As a part of this initiative, Western Region systems will be setup to accommodate the AZ business. This includes any system changes required to support Arizona specific regulatory and/ or compliance needs that are not met with the current Western Region setup. Arizona and the Western Region will use common Western Region processes, tools and systems.

Role and Responsibilities

1.Requirement Analysis.

2.Involved in design phase.

3.Coding

4.Unit Testing

Organization: TEK Systems (Allegis Group) (September 2008 to August 2011)

Project #1

Title Westfield Application Services

Client Westfield

Environment OS/390, VS-COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, SAS, CICS

Role Team Member

Project Description

Westfield Insurance companies do business in Property and Casualty lines of business. The company offers variety of products and services, including Business Coverage (This coverage’s include property, general liability, professional liability, automobile and inland marine), Farm and Agribusiness Coverage, Personal Coverage (Includes Home Insurance, Auto Insurance and other Insurance products) and Claims.

The Base 5.3 is a set of applications, which cater to Customer's policy processing needs like data entry and processing, including the edit (error) features. The areas covered in this system involve Online Entry and Validations, Backend Policy Processing including Rating, Miscellaneous tasks, Reporting and Claims Subsystems.

The purpose of this project is to provide support for enhancements and maintenance of the Westfield's Reporting system.

Role and Responsibilities

1.Maintenance and Support for reporting and claim Subsystem

2.Enhancements to existing modules according to the User / Client needs

3.Perform the analysis and preparing PIR, Estimates.

4.Involved in coding both COBOL and SAS programs.

5.Involved in set up the new jobs

6.Involved in Validate the data through online system

7.Testing and reviewing all the work products

8.Status update to onsite co-coordinator.

Project #2

Title Westfield Application Services

Client Westfield

Environment OS/390, VS-COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, SAS, CICS

Role Team Member

Project Description

For Claims Mainframe applications most of the information is coming from SOCS systems only. SOCS stands for Service Office Claims Systems, which is a midrange AS/400 System. The Claim details are entered in SOCS systems, which, then after their validation process are sent across to 5.3 Claims i.e. Mainframe. It happens every day around 4.30pm. The upload process from SOCS normally takes about 2 hours to complete. This information is processed along with PIF files in the Base applications and both PIF files and the loss records are updated. 90% of the entire process is automated. But in very few cases loss is attached to a policy manually in Claims. There are certain jobs running during the cycle to check & match the loss records. Claims that are entered in the mainframes are processed in 5.3 systems and then downloaded to SOCS to update their systems.

Role and Responsibilities

1.Level-1 production Support.

2.Monitor the upload and download Jobs.

Organization: NIIT Technologies (December 2007 – August 2008)

Project #1

Title Electronic Ticket Reservation Plant (EPA)

Client DBS (Die Bahn Systel),

Environment COBOL85, JCL, DB2, VSAM.

Version Control CHANGEMAN

Role Team Member

Project Description

Europe in general has a high utilization of trains, and Germany is especially reliant on them. Although there are a few independent regional rail lines, the main passenger rail system in Germany is the Deutsche Bahn (DB, or German Rail), also known colloquially as "Die Bahn". Over 4.5 million people a day use the DB's 29,000 trains serving over 5,500 stations along 35,000 km of track. The Deutsche Bahn was formerly a government corporation but is now completely privatized (although it is still owned entirely by the government.) It was created from the old West German Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railways) and East German Reichsbahn (Imperial Railways). Connections between the former eastern and western halves of the country have been upgraded and expanded, and high-speed lines now reach all of the major eastern cities.

EPA (Electronic ticket reservation plant) application is used to serve as ticket reservation, cancellation against booking, refund calculation, group booking etc. This application has been coded in delta COBOL; Now EPA code has converting to COBOL85.

Role and Responsibilities

1.Understanding business requirements.

2.Handled batch and server programs

3.Migrated from Delta COBOL to COBOL85

4.Review the code

5.Involved in Unit testing

Organization: Dell Perot systems ( April 2007 – September 2007)

Project #1

Title CARTUS

Client CARTUS

Environment COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM.

Version Control CHANGEMAN

Team Size 9

Role Team Member

Project Description

Cartus is in the business of Relocation Management. The company essentially offers professional management services in relocation of an employee of an organization for a fee, relevant to infrastructure, manpower, Business network, professional affiliation and information systems.

Mainframe online process includes financial transactions and operational transactions. Financial transactions perform financial operations like expense administration, home sale assistance, setting up of billing parameters, financial control, property accounting etc.,

Role and Responsibilities

1.Project Requirement Analysis and Documentation.

2.Planned and executed the requirements work.

3.Enhancements to existing modules according to the User / Client needs

4.Coding and Code Reviews.

5.Involved in Unit testing.

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