Simi James

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Profile Summary

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) with around 10 + years of experience in software development (Microsoft.Net Technologies & SQL) that focused on using strong technological skills, research skills, adaptability, and leadership experience to develop new software products and features.

Expertise in client/server and Web application development

Well-Versed with Agile, SCRUM, Jira, Kanban, Confluence and CMMI process and methodologies to support rapid iterative Quality software development.

I look forward to apply my technological skills and experience while learning new technologies.

Technical Skills

Languages

C#, VB.net,VB.6.0,VBA

.NET Technologies

ASP.Net, MVC, Web API, WCF, Web Services,

ADO.net Entity Framework, LINQ,XML, DBML,AJAX/Json

Scripting

JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5,CSS,Bootstarp

Application Servers

IIS 8.0,IIS 7.0,IIS6.0

DBMS

MS SQL 2012/2008/2005/2000, MS Access

Configuration/Versioning Tools

TFS, VSS,Bit bucket, IBM Rational Clear case

GUI/IDE TOOLS

Visual Studio2013/2008/2005/ 2003

Software Life Cycle

Agile /Scrum/JIRA, Kanban, Confluence process, Waterfall

Job Scheduler

BMC Control-M

Others

NASCO IBM Mainframe, Microfocus Reflection,ZFE

Familiar with

Selenium Java Testing tool, AngularJS, Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Microsoft Cloud.

Domains

Health Insurance, Banking and Finance, Tax,

Investments and Mutual Funds

Operating Systems

Windows

Certifications

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Application Development 070-536 (MCP)

IELTS Certification from British Council-(Score Overall 6.5)Year of Exam:2013

Career Graph

Worked as Developer Senior in Anthem Inc., Atlanta,GA [Mar 2018 to May 2019]

Worked as Program Analyst in EA Learn In,Edison, NJ [Oct 2014 to May 2015]

As Senior Software Engineer in UST Global Pvt. Ltd, [Feb 2013 to Mar 2014] [SEI CMMI and PCMM Level 5 company]

As Senior Software Engineer in UST Global Pvt. Ltd, [Sep 2008 Nov 2011] [SEI CMMI and PCMM Level 5 company]

As Software Engineer in MPHASIS an EDS company (Permanent), Bangalore [Aug 2006 - Sep 2008] [ISO 9001:2008, ISO/IEC 27001:2005 (formerly known as ISO 17799) certified, and CMMI v 1.3 Level 5 assessed company]

As Software Engineer in MPHASIS an EDS company (on Contract – OPG InfoTech LTD), Bangalore [May 2006 -Aug 2006]

As Software Engineer in ZIAC SOFTWARE, Bangalore [ June 2005 to April 2006]

As Software Developer in DIARTZ Technologies Pvt. Ltd, [Feb 2004 to June 2005]

Work Experience

Anthem Inc., Atlanta, GA: (March 2018 – May 2019)

Project Name: LO-Central (Web Application)

Technologies and Tools: ASP.NET 4.7.1, C#,VB.Net, MVC 4.0, AJAX/jQuery, LINQ, JSON, HTML 5, CSS,Bootstrap, Entity Framework

Database and Packages: SSIS, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008,

Servers :Windows Server 2010, IIS 7,

Third Party API and Dlls : NASCO-IBM Mainframe, Micro Focus Reflection

Scheduler : BMC Control-M

Lifecycle management : Bit Bucket/Git

Software Methodology: Agile/ Jira, Kanban

Client: Anthem Inc. – USA

Description:

This web application is developed for clubbing different Lights On (LO) works together. Users are from different Team. Specific Roles are assigned for different Teams .So users can access only the pages related to their team. If any user tries to access the pages not related to their work, it will display unauthorized access message. Only Admin can create Roles and register new users.

Module 1: PNS 837 Tracker (Pricing and Shipping)

This module is designed to track 837 transactions from NASCO and ensure every transaction has been responded to by either PnS or EDI

It displays the 837 information and Internal Anthem customers should be able to enter the different filter criteria to get a status of the 837s in question.

Module 2: 835 Edits

It is designed to help system analysts analyze common claim reimbursement errors within multiple payer systems

Included a back-end Robo (C835Robo) and SSIS packages to automatically update the back-end data.

Decreased the amount of analysis hours required to determine root cause by 97% (For manually clearing a single check requires 3 to 4 hours, now it reduced to 5 to 20 minutes per check)

Module 2.1: C835Robo

A standalone VB.net application created for Screen Scraping/Reading Nasco Data from IBM Mainframe and save the data in SQL Server tables which is a scheduler task and automatically runs on every Monday morning.

Responsibilities:

Volunteered to take lead on project.

Served as the base template for all upcoming web applications for the team.

Team Participates in Daily Scrum calls and Stories/Task /Issues are updated in Jira-Kanban board

Involved end to end project in requirement gathering, designing, developing, Testing and deploying the application..

Interacted with business analysts, end users that fully satisfy business requirements.

Involved in debugging various systems to figure out defects reported internally and by customers to fix the root cause.

Involved in Unit Test Case preparation and Execution of test cases.

Project Name: CSW_IDR: (Customer Service Worksheet _ID Cards and Reports)

Technologies and Tools: VB.net, .Net 4.5.1, SQL Server 2012,NACO - IBM Mainframe, Reflection Attachmate, Microsoft Excel

Life Cycle Management : IBM Clear case

Client: Anthem Inc. - USA

Description:

It is a Stand Alone Terminal set up to initiate the automated GUI.

The CSW/IDR GUI was created to save FTE processing time when ordering Identification Cards and Responding to CS Worksheets with the IDR Reason code.

Application reads data from Share point Excel file and generate ID cards for each worksheet and it will also generate report for success/Failure ID card creation.

Create CSW in Nasco Mainframe and must be responded to with an explanation of why Membership could not complete their requests. The customer may need contacted by phone and given other direction than was initially given over the phone by the CS area etc.

Project Name: WGS BRoster

Technologies and Tools: VBA, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Share point, IBM Mainframe

It is an Excel VBA Application (WGS Reporting tool) for uploading data to mainframe dataset.

Excel sheet having predefined columns and it is shared in Microsoft SharePoint.

When User clicks on the Save button, Code will validate the data and application will create a txt file and save that one in the ftp folder.

The created file is uploaded to the mainframe dataset using shell command

Commands are stored as bat file in users’ desktop folder.

EA Learn In, Edison, NJ: (October 2014 –May 2015)

Project Name: Timesheet (EA LEARN)

Technologies and Tools: ASP.NET 4.0, C#, MVC3.0, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS,HTML, SQL Server 2012, IIS 7

Life Cycle Management : TFS

Client: EA Learn - USA

Description: Timesheet management application is an internal application for EA Learn for managing HR related works. This includes modules like Timesheet, Attendance, leave management and Reports.

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed Web interface.

Coding of various modules, code review and code analysis and implementing various pieces to improve performance, scalability and maintainability.

UST Global, Cochin: (February 2013 – March 2014)

Project Name: IES Compliance

Technologies &Tools: ASP.NET 4.0, C#, MVC3.0,WCF, jQuery, JavaScript, SQL Server 2012, IIS 7,WCF Services

Life Cycle Management :TFS

Code Scanning : Fortify

Software Methodology :Agile /Scrum

Client: KPMG - USA

Description:

Project 1: KLA: KLA is the main entry point for different applications like KLA-AA and KLA-Billing. In this application we can set different access to those application based on their user roles and the client configuration. Also we can configure the client and manage the user Access for different clients. Through this application we can directly access KLA-AA and KLA-Billing and vice versa.

Project 2: KLA-Billing: KLA Billing is a suite of Web-based applications which help program managers better manage their billing system. KPMG Users can get into the Billing application through Admin Portal and Client Users/Program Managers can get into the Billing application through KLA -LINK Login.

There are three user roles in the Billing system, KPMG User with Coordinating Office access, KPMG User with Supporting Office access and Client User. Users will have different access to application based on their user roles and the client setting configured on the KLA -Link Admin site.

Project 3: KLA-AA: Assignee Authorization module is used by both client and KPMG users to create new requests and approve/reject the created requests. Users can get into the application through Admin Portal and Client Users/Program Managers can get into the Billing application through KPMG LINK Login.

There are many user roles in the Assignee Authorization system.Users will have different access to application based on their user roles and the client setting configured on the KPMG Link Admin site.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Grooming and Planning meetings to understanding new user requirements.

Team Participates in Daily Scrum calls and Product Backlog/Work Items are updated in TFS

Designed and developed Web interface.

Coding of various modules, code review and code analysis and implementing various pieces to improve performance, scalability and maintainability.

Involved in Unit Test Case preparation and Execution of test cases.

UST Global, Cochin: (June 2010 – Nov 2011)

Project Name: eViper

Technologies & Tools: ASP.NET 4.0, C#, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Ajax/JSON, SQL Server 2008, SQL Azure, Windows Azure, MVC 2.0, Windows Server 2008, IIS 7, FxCop

Life Cycle Management :TFS

Code Scanning : Fortify

Software Methodology :Agile /Scrum

Client: G4S – UK

Description This Web application developed for a global leader in providing security services. The company also provides cash management and logistics services for banks. The eViper web application developed using MVC Framework, is used to track and manage the transfer of cash across various countries. eViper communicates with Hand held terminal (HHT) which is used by the crew of the vehicle to track the updates in collection and delivery of cash containers.

The application is deployed in Windows Azure environment to leverage maximum availability and performance. Federated authentication is used to authenticate login users. Communication between eViper and HHT are done through a separate worker role. This worker role uses blobs and ftp to transfer files between eViper and HHT. Another worker role is used to schedule reports in the eViper application. Generated reports are stored in blobs. The application is used by different countries and has multi-language support.

Responsibilities:

Involved in understanding user requirements, designing and developing the application.

Team Participates in Daily Scrum calls and Product Backlog/Work Items are updated in TFS

Interacted with business analysts, end users that fully satisfy business requirements.

Involved in Unit Test Case preparation and Execution of test cases.

UST Global, Trivandrum: (Sep 2008 – June 2010)

Project Name: DDM – Vignette Integration Service.

Technologies and Tools: C#, ASP.NET 3.5, MSSQL 2005, VS 2008, MS TFS SDK, WCF services, LINQ to SQL, DBML.

Life Cycle Management : TFS

Software Methodology :Agile /Scrum

Client: HnR Block – USA

Description:

DDM-Vignette Integration service (WCF) is a web service used to integrate the changes in different domain specific files with the contents in the vignette a third party content management service. Up on check-in action of any file in the TFS a request is triggered to this service which in turn processes the checked-in file to identify the changes made and update the database . A windows service in the background identifies such changes in the DB and sends the data to Vignette service to update the changes. A reconciliation report is used to compare difference in the data if any exists.

DDM Package – is a VS Package which is to integrate multiple file types under a project where Tax developers can develop different US tax forms. A set of packages like this are integrated together to support the easy and fast development of Tax forms.

Responsibilities:

Involved in understanding user requirements, designing and developing the application.

Team Participates in Daily Scrum calls and Product Backlog/Work Items are updated in TFS

Interacted with business analysts, end users and worked on the application specifications

Involved in Unit Test Case preparation and Execution of test cases.

MPHASIS an EDS company: (May 2006 – Sep 2008)

Project Name: Internal Audit Satisfaction Survey Tool (IASS)

Technologies and Tools: .Net 2.0, C#, SQL Server 2005,MS Access, Excel, Visio, MS Word

Life Cycle Management :TFS,VSS

Software Methodology :Water Fall

Client : Charles Schwab – USA

Description: The purpose of the application is to develop tool “Internal Audit Satisfaction Survey “(IASS) for Internal Audit Department of Charles Schwab Company. The tool scans the data from the MS Access database and stores the survey details for each survey in the SQL Server. The tool scans the data based on the survey closes date. The end user can take report based on the Survey name and date on which survey was closed or at enterprise level or organization level. The results are stored in the specified location. The generated report will be in Excel format.

Project Name: Project Execution Review Survey Extracting Tool (PER)

Description: The purpose of the application is to develop Data mining / Data warehousing tool for Surveys. The tool scans the data from the MS Access database and stores the survey details for each project in the repository (SQL Server).The repository contains the survey details for both Team and project managers of different projects. The end user can take report based on the Project name and date on which survey was closed or at enterprise level or organization level. The results are stored in the specified location. The generated report will be in Excel format.

Project Name: Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM)

Description: The purpose of the application is to help the Users to filter information pertaining to BPMM based on the BPMM Attribute Mapping, Practices and Sub-Practices and GRP Order. The Application shall provide forms to filter information and generate comprehensive report based on the filter condition selected. The filters include Measurement Attributes, Sub-Attributes, Maturity Level, Process Area, Goal, GRP etc. The generated report will be in Excel format.

Project Name: Development Practices Resource Pool (RMT Visio)

Description: The Application Scans a file (Visio) designated by the user, which contains use case diagrams. During the scanning, application finds the number of masters in each page, number of unconnected links, and number of Flowcharts in each page. It also calculates the complexity measures for the diagram in each page. Also it will calculate Fan-In, Fan-out etc. Application can scan the files in Batch mode also. Reports are generated in Excel Sheet.

Reports produces by the tool provides metrics which project Managers can use to assess the Quality of their requirements specification documents and that of identifying risks poorly specified requirements introduce into any Project.

Project Name: Development Practices Resource Pool (RMT Word)

Description: The Purpose of the Application is to provide measures that can be used to assess the quality of a Requirement Specification document. Application searches each line of text for specific words and phrases and misspelled words. These search arguments (specific words and phrases) are considered to be indicators of the quality of requirements documents. The results are output into an Excel sheet.

Reports produces by the tool provides metrics which project Managers can use to assess the Quality of their requirements specification documents and that of identifying risks poorly specified requirements introduce into any Project.

Responsibilities:

Prepared Data Flow Diagram documents for the modules

Involved in understanding user requirements, designing and developing the application.

Interacted with business analysts, end users and worked on the application specifications

Prepared Release Notes and Client Requirement Collection.

Responsible of Build and Release as a Configuration Manager.

ZIAC SOFTWARE: (June 2005 – April 2006)

Project Name: PPERFECT

Technologies and Tools: Net Framework 2.0, VB.net, SQL Server 2000, VSS

Duration : Nov 2005 –April 2006

Life Cycle Management :VSS

Software Methodology :Water Fall

Client : Totally Productive Group – USA

Description: Project Perfect is complete software for a house constructing company. Software maintains information related to vendors, superintendents and homes with consistent interaction with the vendors and superintendents. Mailing and faxing are the media it uses for correspondence.

Application tracks paper checklists and analyzing them once it gets filed. Build Perfect provides you with an easy way to pre-define your checklists, transmit construction problem reports to vendors, analyze defect trends, modify checklists based on the analysis etc

Project Name: AUTOFAX

Description: This application is an automated Fax module for Primavera Project Planner. It is a solution for P3 or any other database application, which needs to share the database information, with a group of people via fax or email. The fax/email can be scheduled; user can design report, send messages through fax/email.

Responsibilities:

Prepared Data Flow Diagram documents for the modules

Involved in understanding user requirements, designing and developing the application.

Interacted with business analysts, end users and worked on the application specifications

Prepared Release Notes and Client Requirement Collection.

EDUCATION:

MCA (2000-2003)

University : Bangalore University, Karnataka, India

BCA (1997-2000)

University : Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India

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