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VASUDEVAN

AYYAPPAN

Senior Project Manager

PROFILE

• 10+ years of project management

experience including Business case

preparation, Project planning,

design, development, CAB - Change

Requests Board / Advisory

management, Enhancement,

production implementation and

Support.

• Exports in Initiation, planning,

Execution, Monitoring & Control and

Closing of a project and achieved the

project goals.

• Expertise to manage multiple

Projects in Waterfall Methodologies.

• Experienced Business/Functional

requirement, Estimation, Schedule,

Effort, Hiring, Resource loading,

Coaching, and mentoring and release

note creation.

• Good presentation and strong

communication skills, good problem-

solving skills and ability Identify the

project risk and mitigation plan.

• Experienced in the implementation

of FACETS.

CONTACT

PHONE: 848-***-****

EMAIL: ad0s80@r.postjobfree.com

LINKEDIN

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasudevan-

ayyappan-aa2a10136/

EDUCATION

Bharathidasan University, India

Jun 2000 – March 2006

Doctor of Philosophy

Madurai Kamaraj University, India

Jun 1998 – May 2000

Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

WORK EXPERIENCE

Delaware State University – Project Manager - Apr 2010 - Present Working as Project Manager to deal with an effective health insurance servicing system for Delaware State University employees and students

CERTIFICATION ACHIEVED

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Valid from Oct- 2021 to Oct-2024

Certified Educational Consultant. Valid from Mar-2020 to Mar- 2023

Licensed Financial Professional Advisor. Valid from June-2021 to June-2023

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Good knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle - SDLC, Software Testing Life Cycle - STLC, Test Methodologies, Test Strategy and Test Plan

Depth knowledge and experience in PMBOK – Project Management Process Groups, Knowledge Areas and Processes

Healthcare-Payers (Plan/Product Setup, Enrolments, Claims Processing, and PBM - Pharmacy Benefit Manager with Pharmacy Plan & Benefit Setup, Claims Adjudication using EDI processing) and Healthcare-Providers for Supply Chain Management

Experienced in Healthcare EDIs processing with 270, 271, 820, 834, 835 and 837 files

Efficiently managing complex project issues & risks through Risk Management Plan

Established strong Change Control Board & Cab Advisory Board to review & approve/reject the change requests.

Expertise in project status tracking & resources utilization using MS Project Plan & Planview

Shared project reports to stakeholder, management & executive leaders based on defined Communication Plan

Experienced in Application / Technology Modernization using Micro Focus Tools

Experienced in various products implementation

o Facets – Versions 5.1 and 5.2 for Healthcare End-To-End Management TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Project Management & Management Methodologies: Waterfall, V & V model Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, and Microsoft Visio SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Spiral, Prototyping Requirement Management Tools: Rational requisite Pro Testing Tools: Rational Robot, Rational Test Manager and MercuryWinRunner Applications: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InfoPath, Access, Outlook), MS Project 2000, QuickBooks Graphical User Interface: Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop, Dream Weaver, Flash, and MS FrontPage Operating System: Microsoft Windows/XP/VISTA/7, UNIX Databases: SQL SERVER 2000/05, MS Access

PROJECT EXPERIENCE – IN DETAIL

1. Delaware State University June-2016-Present

Role: Project Manager Location: Dover, DE

Description: Delaware State University (DSU) focuses on cutting-edge research, technology, and business practices. DSU’s Information and Technology Services Division is a provider of state-of-the-art technology systems and support services, which empower the academic, business, and residential communities of the Institution. Working hand-in-hand with constituency, DSU is delivering technology solutions which strengthen and support the Institution’s mission of serving as the premier provider of higher education, research, and community service on surrounding vicinities. At DSU I am responsible for managing the research projects that’s designed to improve business processes and continue to cost savings and more efficiency. Project 1: The goal of this project is to provide a low-cost physical screening with access to a prescription medications savings card to reduce the cost of purchasing prescription medications for students, faculty, staff, and their families of DSU. My role as a project manager in this project is to plan, execute and prepare the documents to support IT team.

Using FACETS, I helped DSU to track the online enrollment of students, faculty and staff who might be eligible for healthcare benefits and helping them to claim processing and claim re-processing. Also, FACETS helped to explain the benefits and drawback of each and every policy which is applicable for all participants. Page 3 of 4

Selected Accomplishment:

Interacted with business owners to identify business system needs, evaluated solutions or business problems.

Discussed with Customer & Business Analyst to understand their project needs and enhancement of the existing system.

Defined the scope of the project.

Performed stake holder analysis to identify right project stakeholders.

Extensive experience in producing documents like Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Creating Request for Proposals (RFP), creating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Elicited requirements, using techniques like interviews, Brainstorming, Web Exploring and JAD

Conducted workshops to gather requirements.

Reviewed the Requirement, Design and obtaining the signoff from project stakeholders.

Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio.

Analyzed Business Requirements and checked if requirements are Concise, Complete, Attainable, Correct, Traceable, Reliable, etc.

Resources planning, allocating tasks/tickets & monitoring the progress of the tasks/tickets.

Worked on development of Fraud system and custom integration of Fraud system into ION centralized system. Defined all rules and regulations and process to follow in development of Fraud system

Realize the data or content changes from HIPAA 4010 state to HIPAA 5010.

Working within a growing knowledge of HIPAA 837, 835, 834, 270, 271, 276, 277, and 278, EDI, Privacy, Security, and Medicaid.

Extensively interacted with the stakeholders and the IT Department in finalizing the requirements according to the CMS Compliances/Regulations and HIPAA Regulations.

Provided assistance in developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Reports, and Defect Tracking as and when required.

Created Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Project Schedule and Project Timelines using MS Project.

Maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Prioritized requirements based on project goals, functionality, performance, cost, schedule, etc.

Documented functional and non-functional requirements in the Business Requirement Document.

Conducted Walkthrough to validate requirements.

Participated in User Acceptance Testing, UAT with business to verify all the requirements fits business purpose.

Maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix, RTM to track requirements to design document and test cases.

Developed test plan based on requirements and developed test scenarios based on use cases.

Reviewed technical training programs and assisted with user training when needed.

Prepared status report of the project and showcase to customer/senior management. 2. Delaware State University Apr-2010 to May-2016

Role: Project Manager Location: Delaware, DE

Description: Project Funded by Delaware State: This project dealt with attaining to gain clean water, sanitation, maternal health, and basic nutrition for DSU community. We assigned to create a variety of medical workshops and lectures as well as learning skills from local staff. My role in this project was managing stakeholders to gather the health record of students, faculty and staff in order to provide the better possible solutions to increase their health and wellness. This project was supported by health and wellness center at DSU. Technical Details: Project Management, Microsoft Project Plan, Agile – Scrum Framework, Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, RUP, Microsoft Project, MS Office 2000, UML, and MS – Office. Page 4 of 4

Selected Accomplishment:

Involved in reviewing the business process and possible improvements based on user requirement, interviewing the HOD’s and other end users, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.

Worked with Business Analysts and identify the Billing statement layout for different clients.

Conducted business user meeting and gathered requirements and updates as needed to incorporate new requirements and business process flows (VISIO)

Created functional specifications for the Business requirements (used Req. Pro) created by the BMG’s and define scope, specified functional requirements (FRS), financial projections and cost/benefit analysis

Used MS Visio to create business process flowcharts and workflow diagrams.

Involved in detailing project mission, Data Process Flow Diagrams and timelines.

Involved in all phases of health insurance premium origination and processing systems and identified frauds and risks.

Formed a bridge between the other Project Managers and different teams with effective presentations.

Managed the Development, Testing and Production Support teams.

Prepared Workflow diagrams, analyzed AS IS and TO BE scenarios, designed new process flows and documented the business process and various business scenarios.

Extensive knowledge in Creating Request for Proposals (RFP) and creating Requirements Traceability Matrix

(RTM) as per Project Manager requirements.

Utilized Rational Unified Process (RUP) to configure and develop processes, standards, and procedures.

Involved in the calculations and documentation using MS Excel, MS word, MS Access and PowerPoint.

Participated in data modeling; planning, designing, implementation of the data warehouse and conducted testing. Produced data mapping and data definition documentation.

Involved in reviewing and writing User Requirement Specification (URS) and Functional Requirements documents.

Analyze business requirements and segregated them into high level and low-level Use Cases, Activity diagrams/State Chart Diagrams according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Models.

Involved in process modeling, conducted & Participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with System Users.

Working experience in processing the Medical Claims, TriZetto Facets, and Medical Management

Performed the user acceptance test (UAT) and suggested recommendations for the applications.

Worked with SQL queries for data manipulations.

Thorough documentation of the entire process along with all its activities.

Prepare status/defect report and showcase to customer

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