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Vinodh Kumar Kulangarathodi Pathayapura

Profile

13+ years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set and industry verticals.

Extensive technical knowledge on both Mainframes and Mid range systems and well conversant with COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMSDB and HP3000

Subject matter expert at client side during the tenure with Anthem Health Insurance Company

Worked extensively in Maintenance and Production support projects, which involves major system change requests, major enhancements, production issue analysis, abend analysis and abend fixes, batch abend resolution and batch cycle monitoring.

Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture.

Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles – Team member, Team Lead.

Proven ability to understand business problems and apply technology to formulate workable solutions

Skill Set

Programming Languages

COBOL, JCL, VPLUS, SQL

Databases

DB2, IMSDB in Z/OS

Turbo-Image, AllBase in HP3000

Tools & Utilities

Endevor, File-Aid, SPUFI, IBM Debugger tool, CA-7, NDM, PDtool in Z/OS

SUPRTOOL, LINKEDIT, ADAGER, CONMAN, Librarian, DEBUGGER, Formspec, QUIZ, QTP in HP3000, JIRA, ServiceNOW

Operating System

Z/OS, MPE-IX, MPE, UNIX

Methodologies

Waterfall, Hybrid (Agile + Waterfall)

Environment

IBM Mainframe, HP3000

Domain

Insurance, Healthcare and Finance applications

Education:

Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering - 2005, Anna University (Mohammed Sathak A J College of Engineering), India.

Professional Experience

Jul2012 – Till Date, IBM India PVT LTD, India & USA

Apr 15 – Till date, Technical Consultant, Anthem Inc -IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Onsite assignment – May 17 – Till date, Anthem Inc -IBM India Pvt. Ltd. Richmond, USA

Project Name: Legacy Claims

Role : Technical Team Lead

Client : Anthem Inc

Industry : HealthCare

Application : Claim Adjudication / Enrollment & Billing

Start Date : Apr 2015

End Date : Till Date

Project Description

Anthem, Inc. is the largest health benefits company in terms of commercial membership in the United States. Through its networks nationwide, the company delivers several leading health benefit solutions through a broad portfolio of integrated health care plans and related services, along with a wide range of specialty products such as life and disability insurance benefits, dental, vision, behavioral health benefit services, as well as long term care insurance and flexible spending accounts.

CHIPS – Comprehensive Healthcare Processing system, is one of the major sector of the Anthem Inc, which includes Member and group enrollment into various health plans offered by Anthem, Billing for subscribers/group their premium amount, Processing payment information to reconcile, apply payments to the groups and individuals, It provides information like member enrollment and benefit eligibility information to internal interfaces for paying member claims, also provides information like enrollment data to vendors systems. The adjudication system deals with settlement of member claims and creation of explanation of benefits.

Responsibilities: As an Technical lead, I have handled the below tasks :

Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.

Understanding the specific requirements from the client and architecting the solutions.

Planning and prioritizing the applications' development and maintenance upon consultation with the client and the offshore delivery team (IBM India).

Providing technical solution and explain to the team in completing the critical enhancements on time.

Participating in all the Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily stand up calls, Sprint Demo, Backlogs Grooming.

Development activities to find out viable solutions for technical challenges in the project.

Analyzing business requirements for enhancements, designing the solution, coding and developing the solution, executing testing and deploying the changes to the system.

Resolving the defects, tracking the developments in IBM Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM) and providing status reports.

Creation of Change tickets (ServiceNow) to track the implementation of the project and obtaining various approvals from Database team, scheduling team, IT Manager, Business Manager etc, to facilitate process-oriented migration of code to production environment.

Coordinate analysis and resolution of defects raised by testing (System Integration and User Acceptance stages) team and track closure of the same in Jira Inventory tool

Reviewing the deliverables from off-shore to ensure the delivery of defect free components.

Providing project status to onshore team.

Maintaining and tracking the project schedule to ensure timely delivery.

Preparation of detailed estimates for the projects.

Technical point of contact throughout the software life cycle phases and will be an interface between the customer and IBM onshore/offshore teams.

Environment : Mainframe based healthcare project, Anthem Inc

Team Size : 15

Jul 12 – Mar 15, Senior Software Engineer, Anthem Inc -IBM India Pvt. Ltd. India.

Project Name: AMISYS

Role : Senior software Engineer

Client : Anthem Inc

Industry : HealthCare

Application : Claims Adjudication

Start Date : Jul 2012

End Date : Mar 2015

Project Description

Amisys is a packaged solution that caters to many diverse services in the managed health care space like HMO, PPO, Medicare, Medicaid, POS and such. Amisys is written mainly in HP COBOL on HP3000 platform (OS is MPE/iX). There are various other components like Quick, Cognos Quiz and Suprtool that work closely with the core Amisys software.

Responsibilities: As an Senior Software Engineer, I have handled the below tasks :

Involved in Project management activities

Providing Knowledge Transfer to new Joiners

In Depth Analysis of business Queries

Requirement Analysis

Provide the LOE (Level of Estimate for the project)

Participated in application design

Design document walk-through with the client

Coding & Unit Testing

Code Reviews

Review of Unit test Plans

Providing production support

Solving technical/Application related queries to Business user

Work with QA to create test scripts and scenarios for enhancements and customizations to the core product

Ensure smooth implementation of the project

Environment : Mainframe & Mid Range System based Health care Project, Anthem Inc

Team Size : 8

Jan 2009 – Jul 2012, Senior Software Engineer L&T Infotech, Chennai

Onsite assignment – OCT 11 – Dec 11, Marsh & Mclennan -L&T Infotech. IOWA, USA

Project Name: Group Universal Life

Role : Senior software Engineer

Client : marsh & Mclennan

Industry : Life Insurance

Application : Group Life Insurance

Start Date : Jan 2009

End Date : Jul 2012

Project Description

Group Universal Life (GUL) application provides Supplemental Term Life, Basic Life, AD&D, LTC and Dental. The application caters to various Employers and Private Labels. The GUL system was created to be a third party administration system. It is the system of record for data passed between Marsh Affinity corporate clients and carriers.

Responsibilities: As an Senior Software Engineer, I have handled the below tasks :

Providing Knowledge Transfer to new Joiners

Onsite-offshore co-ordination

In Depth Analysis of business Queries

Requirement Analysis

Participated in application design

Design document walk-through with the client

Coding & Unit Testing

Peer Review of codes

Review of Unit test Plans

Solving technical/Application related queries of other team members/Business users

Defect free delivery of code for various releases

Providing production support

Environment : COBOL, JCL, MPE-IX, AllBase, HP3000.

Team Size : 10

Achievement:

Received KEY PERSON BONUS consecutively for 2 years.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009, Junior Software Engineer, Emerio Technologies, Chennai

Project Name: Sorter, SORDS & MOSSAS.

Role : Junior Software Engineer

Client : Hewlett Packard

Industry : Finance

Application : Sorter, SORDS & Mossas

Start Date : Jan 2007

End Date : Jul 2009

Project Description

All shipment and invoice transactions from various upstream applications are processed and prepare daily shipment and invoice files for each sales organization and send these files via ftp to the appropriate preprocessor function of each SAP-Upfront instance. Maintain audit records in order to show the receipt date and routing of all documents together with the main routing criteria which determined the routing of each document within the application

Responsibilities: As an Junior Software Engineer, I have handled the below tasks :

Monitoring the Batch cycle

Job abend resolution and support

Preparing daily and periodic reports to business users

Resolving Vantives and service requests.

Coding on break fixes, small enhancements

Unit testing.

Environment : COBOL, JCL, MPE-IX, TurboImage, HP3000.

Team Size : 4

Technical Certifications Achieved:

Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master

AHM 250 certifications in Healthcare Management

LOMA 280 Principal of Insurance certificate

Earned digital badge for Data Visualization, Data Analysis with Python, Python for Applied Data Science offered through Coursera.

Licenses & Certifications:

Data Visualization with Python from Coursera

Python for Applied Data Science from Coursera

Data Analysis with Python from Coursera

Python for Data Science from IBM

Hadoop Foundation – Level 1 from IBM

Big Data Foundation – Level 1 from IBM

Data Science Foundation – Level 1 from IBM

IBM Agile Explorer from IBM

Cloud Core from IBM

Introduction to cloud computing from Coursera

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