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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Rockville, Maryland, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Directly responsible for the EHS platform strategy, investment prioritization, industrializing Software Engineering Processes, overseeing vendor relationships. In working with the finance and peer groups, led multiple platform investment planning sessions that resulted in funneling $20M toward Quality Engineering and Platform debt reduction projects.• Led an initiative to capture the current state Software Engineering process gaps that led to various opportunities of process improvement within the delivery organization. Rolled out the future state Delivery Model and processes in stages with a strong Change Management team.• Shift Left focus on Quality Engineering leading to various initiatives including Estimation Methodology refinement, Unit Test strategy refinement, CI/CD Pipeline creation, Design Review Board (DRB), Functional Decomposition, Infrastructure & environment strategy initiatives.

Florham Park, New Jersey, Us

• Directed all aspects of Platform and Client Implementation delivery for all multi-year programs in Government Healthcare vertical and the State & Local vertical that included various platforms - Medicaid platform, Integrated Eligibility Platform, PBM, Firehouse Suite, Jury Management solutions. • Managed a global IT organization of 200+ and delivered solutioning and implementations across 8 product lines. • Restructured and built high-performance team in the first year. Balanced the internal and external IT resources within different regions to optimize IT cost structure reducing operating cost by 10-15%. Brought delivery of the product in-house, which reduced COD by 20-25%.• Drove platform modernization and migration from legacy technologies into rules driven SOA based platforms using Java, .NET, with responsive UI leveraging the NodeJS, ReactJS technologies. This increased customer satisfaction significantly and improved the client implementation profit by 15%-20%.• Spearheaded various Software Engineering best practices with Shift Left focus on SDLC phases resulting in improving the software quality index (SQI) from 3000+ to < 250 per production release.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

• Directed implementation of the Medicaid platform for various clients. Managed ~ 200+ team members between onshore and offshore. Led engagements with diversified technologies and projects across various functional domains – Enrollment, Claims Processing, Provider Network Management, CM/UM. • Led early adoption of the Scrum methodology with the cross functional teams co-located to improve productivity and increase quality delivery. • Partnered closely with the technology vendor partners and cross functional business and technology teams to ensure the client deliverable met on time.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

• Led the Health Enterprise platform Solution Architecture. MMIS platform was driven primarily by the architecture vision for a SOA driven Medicaid Platform to support the MITA architecture. With 3 client implementations, the total cost of the platform stands at ~$150M+ in investment.• Led and delivered a full-fledged EDI Gateway System Architecture and a EDMS Gateway for one of the Client Implementations.• Spearheaded the rollout of ARB that reviewed and approved the technical solution and the COTS products that were reviewed and used within the platform. Rolled out the Enterprise Architecture Standards in working with Sun Micro Systems.• Lead Architect for the MMIS Platform architected to support MITA architecture using SOA, BPEL, J2EE, Java, ESB, Blaze Rules Engine and various Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product integrations. Platform in production in 3 States increasing the overall revenue potential by 10%.

Executive Business Administration Program, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Science