sr biztalk consultant
Resume:
Muralidhar Pala
**************@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
10+ of experience in Architecting, Designing, Programming, Developing, Integrating, Administrating & Implementing applications using BizTalk Server, .NET Framework, C#, Web Services,SQL Server, WCF,XML, XSLT, XPATH,ESB 2.1/2.2.
Track record of increasing responsibility in delivering enterprise solutions to include areas such as design, analysis and development, and full lifecycle project management.
Demonstrated capacity to implement innovative integration solutions that improve business visibility, automate business processes and rules, improve real time transactions, response times, and strengthen organizations
Hands-on experience leading all stages of system development efforts, including requirements definition, design, architecture, testing, debugging, proof of concepts and support in HealthCare, Re Insurance, Retail and Manufacturing industries.
Able to coordinate and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating, and leading project teams.
Adept at developing solutions that utilize industry best practices, project documentation and milestones, and technical/business specifications.
Guide the team in developing optimized high quality code deliverable (Code Configuration, Documentation), perform code deliverable reviews & Unit test plan reviews, conduct independent testing and sign off code release for testing stage to build application conforming to project standards and requirements
Performs high and detail design, Implements the prototype and does design reviews to deliver design documents as per customer requirements
Participate in KT sessions, prepare and review system appreciation documents, understand application/system/infrastructure dependencies, perform shadow support to complete transition
Extensive experience on BizTalk Services and Azure BizTalk Services including Hybrid Connections
Provides inputs for overall implementation plan, Lead deployment of applications/infrastructure and post production support activities to enable delivery of application/system/infrastructure
Lead the team for integration/system/performance testing based on integration and system test plans and supports UAT to ensure defect free program/modules/system/infrastructure release
Participates in discussions with customers to gather scope information and performs analysis of scope information to provide inputs for project scope documentation
Participate in estimation, staffing analysis and provide input for preparing solution delivery of the proposal
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Competencies: SOA, WCF, Microsoft Patterns and Practices, ESB, EAI, Enterprise Library, Azure (awareness)
Platforms: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, MAC. OS/2, UNIX, Windows Server 2003/2008R2/2012, Windows 7
Integration Patterns: FIFO, Sequential Convoy, Splitter, Publish-Subscribe Channel, Aggregator, Control Bus, Transactional Client
Languages: C, SQL PLUS, PL/SQL, VB, HTML, VB Script, Power Script, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C#
Protocols: SOAP, FTP, SFTP, TCP/IP, Networking Essentials, HTTP, MSMQ, WCF, MSMQT
Software Applications: BizTalk 2004/2006/2009/2010/2013/2013R2 with ESB 2.0/2.1/2.2, BizTalk Host Integration Server, Visual Studio.NET, C#, Visual Basic 6.0, PowerBuilder8.0, Win runner 7.0, TOAD, Oracle 7/8, 8i & 9i, Microsoft Office 97/2000,2002,2007, InfoPath, SharePoint 2003, MOSS, .NET 2.0/3.0/4.0/4.5, WPF,MS CRM 3.0,Biztalk360
BizTalk Adapters & Accelerators: WCF, SAP, PeopleSoft, MQSC, HL7, MSMQ, MSMQT, SQL, Oracle, SWIFT, BTDF, eCONNECT
Messaging Standards: HIPPA, EDI, HL7,IDOC
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION
Master of Computer Applications – Andhra University, India
Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist, BizTalk 2006 R2
Microsoft .NET Framework - Application Development Foundation
Customization and Configuration in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Blue Cross Blue Shield, LA Jan 2014 – Till Date
Sr. BizTalk Developer
Blue Cross Blue Shield of LA is a non-profit US based Health Insurance Company, providing health insurance coverage for individuals, families, and groups. It is the largest private company in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and among of the largest companies in the state.
HIPAA 5010 Integration: HIPAA 5010 implementation was a mandatory revision for the existing insurance related IT infrastructure. BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana determined to implement these changes in the HIPAA 5010 format which was transitioned from the eGate system (Current) to BizTalk technology.
Assist Project Management with BizTalk team’s project planning, schedule, deliverables and milestones
Interface with the client’s technical and management staff to review and discuss solution approaches
Author system design documents and development plans, proofs of concepts, status reports
Coordinate efforts across multiple systems and projects to provide an integrated customer solution
Conduct design reviews, code reviews on all team projects
Define systems implementation approaches and operational concepts
Worked extensively with EDI X12 834/835/837/999/ (270/271)/ (276/277) transactions.
Responsible for development of various complex custom XSLT scripts and pipeline
Components for high throughput and low latency.
Worked on developing provider portal WCF services to receive SOAP messages from client, integrate with IBM MQ to process and respond back to client.
Designed and Developed Complex Orchestrations using Xpath Queries, Dynamic Send ports, Direct binding and used Custom C# coding in Message assignment and Expression Shapes to fine tune the Business process.
Developed custom .NET components and .NET classes to use in various BizTalk interfaces.
Used EDIFECS to validate Inbound and Outbound EDI X12 5010 transactions.
Created architecture/tech design/mapping documents upon discussion with client’s SMEs.
Aspire Zone, Qatar Dec 2011 – Dec 2013
Sr. ESB-SOA Integration Consultant
Customer is Qatar’s premier sports academy which is at the heart of a sporting revolution currently taking place in Qatar and around the region. The academy is conceiving, promoting and implementing game-changing excellence in sports that is enabling an entire generation of highly-skilled, disciplined and competent individuals, both Qataris and otherwise.
ASPIRE ZONE Integration: The project aims to initiate enterprise level integration within the IT landscape of the academy, which has several software applications running across all business units with a large number of such applications being stand-alone and not interacting with each other. The integration framework will aim to automate and speed up business integration following industry standards to integrate disparate systems and connect business partners across the academy zone.
Lead, design, develop and performance analysis of end-to-end integration solutions.
Involved in the full cycle of project management by actively involving in the Functional and technical requirements gathering meetings and also provided the estimates and LOE’s for BizTalk and .NET interfaces
Implemented Service Oriented Architecture and developed loosely coupled BizTalk interfaces using ESB 2.1.
Implemented an ESB solution using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 and ESB Toolkit 2.1 which facilitates consuming different services dynamically, allows changes to existing services and addition of new services to the Enterprise Service Bus without affecting existing services.
Created WCF custom Web service and exposed schemas as web service to communicate To & Fro BizTalk and MS Dynamics CRM to retrieve check information.
Implemented Orchestration & Message based services for performing itinerary-based routing in BizTalk
Extensively worked with HL7 accelerator with transaction ORUR01, ADTA01, ADTA03, ADTA04 and MLLP adapter.
Implemented a centralized ESB portal based mechanism to monitor exceptions and to repair and resubmit failed messages.
Implemented Orchestration & Message based services for performing itinerary-based routing in BizTalk
Trained the peers in BizTalk and educated them how to monitor the production environment on a day to day basis.
Architected Exception Handling and shared services solutions.
Responsible for carving out deployment strategy using BizTalk Deployment Framework.
Authored and delivered Development/Deployment Standards and best practices documents.
Responsible for tracking and reporting status and driving issues/bugs to resolution during UAT.
Involved in code reviews and coordinated with the team to make ensured Code Review documentation was according to Company Standards.
Managed work orders and tasks for the team to do sprint planning in TFS.
CIT Group, Florida Feb 2011 – Nov 2011
Integration Lead
CIT Group, Inc. is a global commercial finance company that provides a comprehensive set of financial products and advisory services to the middle market, founded in 1908. The company has 200+ offices in 50+ countries.
CIT Integration: In order to integrate various businesses in CIT group we developed applications using BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Data is passing from CIT central applications to other vendor’s applications through different adapters. BizTalk receiving input data from MSMQ,FTP and File drop locations hosted on File share server and sending data to web services, databases and 3rd party applications.
Deploy applications using MSI packages, Deploy, manage, and monitor business rules and Automate application deployment using scripts
Tuned the application by creating multiple host instances, fine-tuned the stored procedures, tested the fail over scenario with 2 BizTalk servers and tested it for load sharing, Regression and stress tested the entire application for performance and tuning
Extensively involved in Project management by giving the Level of Efforts and Estimates for the upcoming interfaces in various line of businesses for Corning.
Participated in coordinating with SME for requirements gathering and clarifications.
Developed orchestration referring to Business Requirement Document (BRD) and design documents.
Developed custom pipeline components, maps and .Net components.
Utilized BAM for observation model with BAM continuation allowing for end to end monitoring of system across milestones. BAM alerts were configured for notification
Developed multiple samples for recorded demos which team utilized to refresh skillset.
Tracked and performed troubleshooting for issues occurring in SIT, UAT, and production, as part of Operations team.
Created port configurations to communicate with partner via WCF adapter.
Utilized BRE for business rules, developed fact components and executed policies from .NET code.
Mentored team of 4 developers to successfully implement BizTalk Integration solutions.
Munich Re Insurance, Munich Nov 2009 – Dec 2010
Integration Team Lead
Munich Re is a Reinsurance company which serves worldwide with headquarters located in Munich Germany. Munich Re is the TOP 1 leading Reinsurance Company in the world with 130 years history which supports above 5000 customers in 160 Countries.
Munichre Integration system: Munichre Integration system is the platform which integrates the partners and the SAP. This integration is done by BizTalk server, which processes all the inbound and outbound IDOC X12 messages from partners.
Conducted several demos for architecture team, delivery team, business users and other stakeholders
Successfully delivered (architected, developed, mentored & reviewed) phase one of the project
Developed BizTalk interfaces which heavily interact with SAP and PeopleSoft ERP using IDOCS, BAPIS and RFC’s.
Used WCF SAP and WCF SQL adapter for document exchanging with SAP and SQL.
Developed and utilized MS Build for automated deployment
Developed monitoring plan for solution, set up and installed Systems Center and Tivoli. Utilized BizTalk Monitoring Packs for both systems.
Implemented a loosely coupled observation model using BAM Tracking Profile Editor
Created and Deployed Interceptor configuration files to enable BAM WCF Interceptors for WCF applications
Utilized N unit for testing .NET applications.
Responsible for supporting Level 3 tasks, tickets and escalations.
Coordinated with developer and customer in troubleshooting issues while onboarding client and supporting existing customers.
Developed EDI X12 inbound and outbound maps in BizTalk 2009.
Supported installation and configuration in SIT, UAT and Prod environments.
Worked with internal teams/tools to support deployment and support activities.
Labor Market Regularity Authority, BAHRAIN Oct 2007 – Sep 2009
Sr. BizTalk Developer
LMRA (Labor Market Regularity Authority) the governing body which provides VISAS for the expats. LMRA provides visas for expats and maintains a centralized expat management system for expats in Bahrain
LMRA EAI: The project is to integrate existing management system (EMS – Expat management system) with Microsoft products (GP, CRM and MOSS). LMRA plans to have a system that will provide both Contact Management and an Advance notification platform. Microsoft CRM and GP integrate through Biz Talk with the java based EMS system to provide LMRA with the required needs. The new system will be used for automation of HR/Payroll business processes at LMRA. It will be integrated with Microsoft Dynamics GP an ERP Package used by LMRA for all HR/Payroll business processes.
Design and Develop BizTalk Applications. Incorporate business rules; create pipeline components, writing .NET Assemblies.
Worked on writing XSLT (inline XSLT, XSLT Call template and External XSLT) in BizTalk map for complex mappings.
Created WCF custom Web service and exposed schemas as web service to communicate To & Fro BizTalk and MS Dynamics Great Plains to retrieve check information.
Integrated BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with MOSS 2007 by configuring Windows SharePoint Services Adapter.
Integrated BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with MS Dynamics GP 2009 by configuring BizTalk eConnect adapter.
Created mappings using BizTalk Mapper with the General Functoids as well as with Custom Functoids also created the Custom Functoids for complex Mappings
Worked extensively with different shapes while developing the Orchestrations
Built the MSI packages using the BT Installer and deployed those packages in different regions as per the requirements of the Client.
Worked with Web Services to retrieve patient information by passing and xml message as a request and receiving back and xml response message.
Exclusively worked on configuring the SQL Adapter to generate schemas and orchestrations and also worked on writing the Stored Procedures
Configured receive and send ports, Business Rule Composer and have developed complex Orchestrations according to the client requirements.
Designed and developed the database requirements such as creating tables, triggers, stored procedures in SQL SERVER 2005
Coordinated with developer and customer in troubleshooting issues while onboarding client and supporting existing customers.
Documented the issues, resolutions and uploaded to Microsoft e-config used as a knowledge repository to address similar issues quickly in future.
CHECK SURE, UK July 2005 – Aug 2007
Systems Programmer
Check SURE is an internet business that sells company credit reports and company house documents. To enhance the information that check SURE offers its customers, it has been decided to create an international tab to offer reports on companies outside the UK.
Check SURE Application: Check SURE customers should be able to search for a company by country and by name and/or company number. According to Client specifications, I am involved in designing and coding the particulars through web services like N2, ICCOL and Payment Gateway named as ProTx.
And also I am involved in shopping cart functionality. By that feature users directly can purchases their reports or can store their orders. If the user purchased through credit card then those records will be in accessible to that particular user as always this is portfolio.
Provides credit card validation through ProTx .Provides facility to view the sample and LIVE reports for printing purpose. Entire online delivery module displays info dynamically including menus and hyperlinks
Designed, Developed and modified computer applications as assigned
Supported multiple computer applications, and acted as primary contact for user questions, problems and requests.
Created and maintained program documentation, user documentation, and online help windows for all supported applications.
Trained users, and other IT staff on new or revised applications, or other software as needed.
Prepared all material necessary for training
Participated in evaluating the effectiveness of proposed vendor software products.
Designed and implemented a Logging solution which extended Enterprise library allowing for log relativity on a single application run.
Developed complex APIs, web services and SQL stored procedures and other SQL Server artifacts including SQL reporting services for storing/querying/displaying enterprise data repositories.
Developed of Graphical User Interface for displaying and editing data using ASP.NET and Code behind using C#.
Developed User controls for reusable part of the web pages using ASP.NET.
Developed Application Prototypes, which involves Web Services using C#, ASP.NET, ADO .NET, XML, SOAP and .NET Framework 1.1
Mentored interns and was recognized for outstanding leadership.
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