Engineering Management at Highmark : 2015 - Present

  • Full Product ownership of Customer Account Management, Billing and Invoicing applications
  • Adapted & practiced the culture of data driven decision making process using health metrics (Opex) dashboards to improve developer productivity/efficiency
  • Focus on setting clear expectations, providing right tools and stable Environments to test have enabled Engineers to produce high quality deliverables
  • Built High Performance teams by engaging and empowering the team members
  • Health care regulations like HIPAA to protect customer data (PHI, PII & PCI) lead us to innovate new design principles to mask/encrypt sensitive data without impacting the performance of the applications
  • Exponential growth in Customer base initiated multiple technology modernization activities across the platforms including re-architecture of Applications and Cloud Migration

Software/Application Architect at Highmark : 2007 - 2015

  • Focus on providing efficient and scalable solutions for core capabilities
  • Help prioritize non-functional requirements into engineering roadmap
  • Help analyze build vs buy options
  • Focus on E2E flows and challenge hacking solutions developed in silos
  • Help build a consistent Performance Testing pattern across all Applications
  • Document detailed Architecture diagrams into KML (Knowledge Management Library like Wiki or Confluence)
  • Key engineer in a mutli-year legacy modernization initiative - deprecating features from Mainframes, IMS DB for different Applications.

Engineering at Highmark : 1998 - 2007

  • Software development in Mainframe, CICS, Cobol, and Java for many applications
  • Gained expertise in MQ Series, IBM Websphere, Teradata Databases, and suite of IBM Rational tools
  • Enjoyed building POCs using new technologies
  • Gained experience in developing large scale distributed systems on multiple platforms

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