IT Architect & Technology Evangelist
Columbus, Ohio Area
IT Architect & Technology Evangelist
Columbus, Ohio Area
Initiated Centers of Excellence in EDI/EAI platforms – GXS, GIS, Message Broker, Tibco, and Webmethods – as well as custom standards-based integration frameworks with offshore partners to create a virtual talent pool in the integration space to meet future demands of enterprise computing.
Implemented end-to-end EDI systems involving disparate systems involving multiple protocols based on standards.
Technology Needs Assessment & Consulting, Technology Evangelist, System Integration, Offshore Management, HIPAA Expertise, Virtualization Consultancy, Data Integration, EDI, UBL, ebXML, X12, EDIFACT, NAESB Energy Standards expertise, HIPAA Transactions and Privacy expertise, Web methods, MQ, Message Broker, Websphere Transformation Extender (Mercator/Datastage TX) etc
(Public Company; CAH; Hospital & Health Care industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
Provide comprehensive EDI/EAI services for Medical Products and Services division at Cardinal Health.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years)
• Implemented the entire infrastructure, including an SSL based VPN network.
• Successfully deployed EAI labs for pilot projects in the Centers of Excellence.
• Initiated construction of an opensource AS2 solution that can support multiple protocols including AS2, AS3, FTP/S, SFTP, and also connect to several internal applications – MQ or any other JMS based queuing infrastructure, file system, or ftp server.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 7 months)
Designed EDI specifications, interacting with business users and developing maps to convert documents including IFTMIN, IMTMBF, INVOIC, FINSTA, CREMU, and DEBMUL in EDIFACT, and 810, 820, 820, 824, 310, 315, 323, 300, and 304 in X12 to their legacy systems, and IDOCs formatted to and from the SAP systems.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAH; Hospital & Health Care industry)
April 2004 — March 2005 (1 year)
Tapped to serve as lead in new relationship with Cardinal Health from original position with Tufts Health Plan. Gathered business requirements, assembled high-level design documents, and assigned development and testing tasks to an offshore team for data conversion activities and on-going integration projects. Trained and mentored offshore resources on EDI, and GXS Enterprise/AI technologies. Successfully setup offshore team and trained and mentored both the offshore and onsite teams.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WIT; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1997 — March 2005 (7 years 6 months)
• Participated in creation of EDI Excellence Group to increase awareness within Enterprise Application Integration Division
• Delivered key presentations of EDI and MXL to group members
• Contributed to HIPAA 278 map development project for Tufts Health Plan.
• Served international clients including Fallon Health, Frankfurt City Works & Corporation, E-Commerce Center of Excellence, Tufts Health Plan and Cardinal Health.
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)
January 1999 — April 2004 (5 years 4 months)
Designed, deployed, and maintained intelligent routing and messaging software. Developed data transformation services using GXS Enterprise System and Application Integrator. Served as key point of external contact to all providers for migration of HIPAA transactions. Provided 24/7 on-call support for entire EDI infrastructure for 1 week each month. Cross-trained entire team on all applications continued business support. Certified HIPAA consultant
1992 — 1996
Chess, Tennis, Technology areas like B2B, Web2, Identity 2, Virtualization, etc