Deborah Okuneye, Resume *
Deborah Okuneye
Oceanside, NY 11572 • 516-***-****
************@*****.***
www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-okuneye-01b73
SYSTEMS ANALYST
An Experienced Systems Analyst Specializing in Healthcare IT and EDI Analysis demonstrating broad-based competencies in:
Requirements Analysis Agile Methodologies Software Development Life Cycle Relational Database Knowledge EDI Analysis HIPAA X12 EDI Knowledge Documentation SQL State MMIS Expertise
• Providing strong technical expertise in Systems Analysis, Project Leadership, Programming and SDLC
• Healthcare industry experience – specializing in NY State Medicaid and Managed Care Eligibility & Billing
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills; able to effectively interact at all levels of an organization EXPERIENCE
Sandata Technologies, LLC Aug. 2005- Feb. 2024
Systems Analyst/Programmer Analyst Hicksville, New York
● Conducted EDI analysis of HIPAA-compliant electronic health record (EHR) processing to and from NYS eMedNY. This included the following X12 formats: Medicaid Eligibility processing (270/271), Medicaid Pre-Adjudication processing (276/277), Billing (837) and Remittance (835) processing.
● Acted as a technical liaison between the product teams and application programming teams to translate business needs into application design specifications.
● Designed, developed and tested upgrades and enhancements of software developed in-house, specifically for the NY Home Health Care industry in contract with the HRA of NYC and MCOs - with special expertise in scheduling, time & attendance verification, payroll, accounts receivable and Medicaid institutional and professional billing programs.
● Managed and provided technical and production support for MMIS (Medicaid Management Information System) billing, remittance and accounts receivable systems.
● Played a key role in HIPAA conversion projects to 5010 standards and ICD-10 diagnosis codes implementation.
● Developed scripts as needed for technical application enhancements, data analysis and system maintenance.
● Designed and executed test plans of new application functionality. IIT, Inc.
Science Applications International Corporation New York, New York Senior Implementation/Business Analyst
● Implemented full life cycle of Time and Attendance software - CityTime - for the City of New York; to be used within all 88 city agencies for all 150,000 city employees.
● Planned and coordinated all phases of Pilot software implementation to be used by NYC OPA, NYC FISA, NYC LAW Dept, NYC DOC and NYPD-Staten Island.
● Configured software to meet citywide and agency-specific pay rules.
● Gathered, analyzed, and documented system requirements for citywide use.
● Supported city agencies in the parallel testing phase of the deployment ensuring that CityTime produced the same results as the legacy system.
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East End Resources, Inc.:
Pfizer Pharmaceutical New York, New York
Senior Systems/Production Support Analyst
● Responsible for production support of the Incentives Compensation Solutions system – a critical monthly sales and quota reporting system.
● Implemented a separate test environment to streamline and automate the monthly-based reports system.
● Maintained ongoing interaction with management, the developers, the vendors and business community. Spherion Technology Group, Inc.:
Office of Payroll Administration Agency, City of New York New York, New York Business/Systems Analyst
● Conducted an architectural, technical and SDLC assessment of a Time & Attendance Enterprise system for the City of NY, with specific focus on the payment-rules subsystem that encoded terms of the City-wide union contracts as business rules.
Comsys, Inc.:
MCI WorldCom Wireless Garden City, New York
Programmer/Analyst
● Our team was responsible for the overhaul and customization of the WorldCom Wireless billing system.
● Maintained extensive interaction and a high degree of communication with the internal business communities.
● Supported the data warehousing system containing all historical transactional data. Publishers Clearing House:
Senior Programmer/Analyst Port Washington, New York
● Maintained and enhanced the Lawson system that comprised the inventory, purchase order, accounting and finance modules. Heavy user interface was required with the business department as well as government agencies.
● Was responsible for a major redesign of the existing sales reports and order entry/processing systems that supported the Company’s accounting method conversion. The completion of this project allowed the company to forecast and project earnings for the following year earlier than anticipated.
● Developed a Visual Basic application that processed and generated corporate website check files automating a system that had previously been completely manual. EDUCATION
Brooklyn College – City University of New York - Psychology Major Brooklyn, New York