## BIO
CAREER SUMMARY
Software development team leader with over 10+ years of experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), focusing on conceptualizing business needs and translating them into viable technical solutions; strengths include successful analysis and problem-solving expertise, highly rated oral and written communications skills, and proven project management experience. Strong background in Visual C++/COM+/Visual C# .NET/SQL Server/Oracle/Windows 2000/NT development environment has provided the opportunity to work on a diversity of software projects, especially focusing on Enterprise level application and System software; Excellent track record of experience in Banking System, DICOM/HL7 Interface, Healthcare Systems with HIPAA compliance, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Distributed Computing; Expertise in C++, Multi Threading, Distributed Computing, Memory Leak Debugging and Performance tuning; In-depth experience in Healthcare System Interfacing using HL7 standards. Direct Interaction with customers is just another proof for excellent communication and inter-personal skills with good ethic and high-level of integrity.
WORK PERMIT STATUS:
-Landed Immigrant (Permanent Resident) of Canada. Authorized to work for any employer anywhere in Canada.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Project Management 2003 - 2005
Colorado Technical University, USA.
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, 1994 - 1998
Bharathidasan University, TamilNadu, India.
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics 1991 - 1994
Bharathidasan University, TamilNadu, India
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
- Microsoft Certified Solution Developer .NET (C#)
- Project Management Professional – Colorado Technical University, USA
- Change Management Professional – Colorado Technical University, USA
- Business Management Professional – Colorado Technical University, USA
- Brainbench Certified C Programmer
- Brainbench Certified C++ Programmer
- Datapro InfoWorld Ltd. - Diploma in Visual Programming.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Windows 2003/Windows XP/Windows 2000/NT 4.0/’98 /’95
- Visual [login to view URL] 2003, C#/C++, Visual C++, Visual Basic
- MFC, ATL, STL, ODBC, DAO, OLEDB, [login to view URL], ADO, MSXML
- WebObjects v3.5/Objective-C
- BizTalk Server 2002
- MS Visual Source Safe
- MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i
- XML Web Services, .NET Remoting, IIS, OLE, ActiveX, COM+/DCOM/COM/MTS/SOAP, XML, HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP, Serial (RS-232) communication.
- MSMQ, IBM MQ-Series
- Healthcare Messaging Protocols: HL7/EDI/DICOM
- Compliance: HIPAA
- Structured System Analysis and Design (SSAD), Visio for .NET Enterprise Architect.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mediware Information Systems, Inc.
Chicago, IL, USA
Enterprise Information Management: Lead Developer and Architect
- Directly reporting to Blood Bank Division Product Director.
- Designed Generic Web Services Client product. Visio UML diagram case tool is used in the design.
- Member in the Architectural team.
- Designed/Developed/Tested Generic Web Services Client application software.
- Designed/Developed/Tested XML Web Services using ASP.NET (C#).
- Estimated Time and prepared project plan.
- Assigned tasks to resources in the team and keeping track of the task status.
- Prepared software requirement specification and design documentation.
- Frequently conducted review status meeting and made sure project was completed on time.
- No third party SDK/tools/controls used.
Hardware : Intel Pentium
Operating System : Windows 2003 / Windows 2000 / Windows XP
Languages : Visual C#.NET, ASP.NET
Database : MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i
Version Control : MS Visual Source Safe
UML Design Tool : MS Visio
Technology : [login to view URL] /OLE DB / XML Web Services
Mediware HL7 Interface Engine: Team Lead
Proprietary Interface Protocol Converter: Team Lead
- Led a team of software developers in a tight time scheduled project for Healthcare Interface using HL7 protocol v2.5.
- Directly reporting to Blood Bank Division Product Director.
- Designed Interface Engine product. Visio UML diagram case tool is used in the design.
- Designed/Developed/Tested and Implemented a Proprietary Protocol Messaging System and convert to HL7 standard message format. This converter uses RS-232 Serial communication and TCP/IP communication very extensively to interact with LIS/HIS (Laboratory/Hospital Information Systems) to Hemocare LifeLine or with any other third party software. This product uses Multithreading, TCP/IP and Serial communication very extensively. This product has been validated by the customer to go live along with the main product Mediware HCLL.
- Estimated Time and prepared project plan.
- Assigned tasks to resources in the team and keeping track of the task status.
- Prepared software requirement specification and design documentation.
- Frequently conducted review status meeting and made sure project was completed on time.
- Developed the Communication and Parser Engine.
- Prepared low-level, test plan and test script documentations.
- Unit tested the complete product for Interface Engine.
- Implemented in customer sites, in Validation and production environments.
- Providing Post go-live technical support for the product.
- Proprietary Protocols: Mediware’s proprietary messaging protocol to send and receive blood bank related patient information with McKesson and STAR LIS/HIS systems. (These proprietary protocols were initially used in Mediware’s legacy products Hemocare and LifeLine. And they are converted to Microsoft Windows rich platform).
- Communication engine is capable of TCP/IP, FTP, Folder watch and Serial (two) port bi-directional.
- No third party SDK/tools/controls used.
- Compliance: HIPAA
Hardware : Intel Pentium
Interface Protocol : HL7 v2.5
Operating System : Windows 2003 / Windows 2000 / Windows XP
Languages : Visual C#.NET, Visual C++ .NET, ASP.NET, Visual C++ v6.0,
Visual Basic v6.0
Database : MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i
Version Control : MS Visual Source Safe
UML Design Tool : MS Visio
Troubleshooting Tools : Bounce Checker, Bug Trapper (Mutek)
Technology : COM+ and ADO /OLE DB
Mediware Blood Bank Donor: Technical Lead
LifeWeBB: Technical Lead
- Technical lead and member in the Base architecture design team for Donor product.
- Provided technical knowledge and support during development and support.
- Provided technical suggestions in critical issues duri
## Area of Expertise
- .NET Microsoft Certified Solution Developer ([login to view URL])
- .NET Microsoft Certified Application Developer ([login to view URL])
- 8+ Years of experience in Visual C++/COM+/ATL/ADO/OLEDB/MS SQL Server/Oracle technologies.
- 4 Years of extensive experience in Visual [login to view URL] C#.NET/Visual [login to view URL] Webservices/.NET Remoting.
- 3 Years of HL7 Interface application Architect experience.
- Certified Business Management Professional (Colorado Technical University)
- Certified Change Management Professional (Colorado Technical University)
- Certified Project Management Professional (Colorado Technical University)
- Master of Science in Project management.
- Team lead for Interface Software Product and Senior Systems Analyst for Blood Bank Transfusion System and Donor System Product.
- Technical Lead for the architectural design of a Blood-bank Donor Product.
- All the project that was completed successfully includes:
- complete low-level documentation
- detail design documentation from development point of view
- Test plan, Test script creation for Unit Test
- Unit Testing the code changes
- Always considered as very good in troubleshooting and problem solving in the projects I’ve worked.
