Shams Abedin             

abedin@gmail.com

Cell Phone: (301)219-7427

(US Citizen)

 

Summary of Qualifications____________________________________

 

> Over 12 years of experience providing business transforming solutions, reengineering, streamlining business process and managing IT resources as IT manager/Business analyst/Application architect/Software developer & Integrator.

> 5+ years of experience in healthcare related to IT projects

> 5+ years of experience in US Treasury (financial management services) related to IT projects

> Experienced building & managing dynamic team members with various IT skill-set for software development efforts.  Also Mr. Abedin managed the team for multiple IT related development initiatives.

>Recommended and applied significant real world knowledge of industry future trends focusing on long term business value proposition to clients.

> Led each assigned project and each of its work packages through each phase of the life cycle to ensure the project has completed any relevant gate reviewed performed.

>Managed integration, interdependencies, and alignment of project activities and/or work streams that cross the boundaries of discrete functional and technical domains.
> Effectively identified issues and led the discussion and the construction of the resultant action plans for issue resolution.
> Proactively identifies risks, communicates risks to appropriate stakeholders and develops risk mitigation strategies and a contingency plans.
> Proactively anticipates and plans for the need for change and communicates the need for change, identifies and analyze the impact on the project scope, schedule and budget.

> Managed stakeholder relationships by identifying and establishes partnerships with stakeholders to build support, solidify sponsorship, and ensure alignment for project outcomes, end-products and/or solutions.
> Facilitated communication among stakeholders and project team members to ensure that business needs are being fulfilled and all tasks and activities are progressing and being completed as scheduled.
> Coordinated, participates and/or attends all relevant project meetings as determined by the PMO.

> Proven problem solving skill, creativity and positive attitude dealing with team dynamics.

> Well experienced managing projects using water fall, v-model, agile and RAD approach.

> Well experienced dealing with SOX and HIPPA compliances.

> Well experienced with Healthcare and Financial Electronic Data Interface (EDI) systems.

> Excellent hands-on knowledge of web architecture & databases for high concurrency.

> Experienced coordinating multiple software outsourcing (Onsite and Offsite) projects 

> IBM Certified – WebSphere MQ 6.0

> IBM Certified – Rational Unified Process (RUP) 7.0

> IBM Certified – Architectural Design of SOA Solutions

> IBM Certified DB2 DBA

> ORACLE Certified Professional Part I.

> SUN Certified Java professional

> PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

> Masters in computer science

 

Work Experience:
 

ERPMatrix, Technical Manager/Architect October’07 – Present

(Client: Department of Treasury/FMS/Contractor)

Government Wide Accounting Modernization Project

 

Checks Issued Audit (CIA)

-Working as a technical coordinator & application architect role directly reporting to Government Directors (technical and functional) to support Treasury and non-Treasury offices disbursement auditing application.

- Presented business cases for transactions acquisition which involved several systems.

- Provided systems and architectural design for application

- Involved coordinating Treasury and Federal Reserve Banks subject matter experts as needed basis to establish infrastructure and transaction routing related agreements.

- Involved migrating from IT(dev) to FT(functional environment), QAF(UAT for future deployment) and QAC(production mirror UAT environment) migration & deployment effort.

- Review and enforce treasury 3-zone architecture, security and technical model.

- Briefings to management any related complex technical issues and presents options to alternative solutions.

 

Statement of Difference (SOD)

- Led overall development initiatives.

- Provided and presented business case for Statement of Differences (SOD) software

- Provided system and architectural design of SOD

- Involved coordinating test and development initiative.

- Coordinated migration & deployment effort. 

- Provided/presented supporting document for CCB. 

- Briefings to management any related complex technical issues.

 

General Fund (GF) /General Ledger (GL)

- Provided system and architectural design of General fund prototype application

- Led overall development and integration initiatives for GF prototype app.

- Involved coordinating test and development initiative.

- Briefings to management any project related complex technical issues.

- STAR Data conversation and data migration support services for Treasury General Ledger (using CARI interface to BPD Oracle Financial).

 

Partial 224 (FMS form 224)

- Led overall development initiatives.

- Mentor 5 developers

- Provided real-time transaction reclassification architecture for TDO and NTDO agencies. 

- Provided system and architectural design of FMS 224 Application

- Involved coordinating test and development initiative.

- Provided/presented supporting document for CCB. 

- Involved with systems/application documentation and C&A support process

- Presented couple of qualified idea to directors and managers related to

Modernization and automation approach

- Providing functional walkthroughs for internal and external customers, testing

teams and Application Support

- Providing input to training materials for users on new or upgraded applications

- Guide team members for web and middleware related development

- Develop standard and framework for web development.

- Briefings to management complex technical issues.

 

(Client: Comptroller office, State of Maryland – Business TAX Return processing automation)

 

– Led Requirement analysis for output converter project.

– Manage 3 members team for the project

– Managed fixed priced project including budget, coordinating with prime & client throughout the project

– Provided high level architecture for output converter project.

– Guided team for service development.

– Co-ordinate project update and baseline the requirements

– Provided requirement traceability matrix and way to measure the successful implementation of the project.

 

The Jaxara Group (now known as Pantheon)
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), January’04 – June’05

Role:

- Develop and oversight overall IT operation and standard

- Managed 21 IT resources during the period and report to CEO and CIO.

- Involved with client coordination, gap analysis, project charter, define-design, scheduling, budget, risk management development and delivery.

- Implemented and practiced Agile and RAD approach in multiple development project

- Involved with dynamic offsite-onsite team members

- Involved with responding new request for proposal (RFP/FRI) 

- Involved with systems and application architecture

- Involved with managing full life cycle development

- Involve with production triage for severity level 1 and 2 

 

Key projects involvement

 

Connor system

Develop web-based turnkey software for John s Connor, Inc to address end to end freight forwarding related activities. This software helps to keep track all the warehouse items from packaging phase to delivery around the globe.  

 

GTS

Develop online booking and administrating software to track business activity packages for global transportation system. This software provides multi-level access to the different authority based on the privileges.

 

ERPPro

Web-based value added reseller (VAR) system using application subscription model. This application provides end-to end functionality to cover manufacturer to promote the offerings to distributor and retailer also able to get the price quote based on multi-level marketing markup price. Application also provided detail store front for retailer to integrate to their business website.

 

IntelliSort (Medical Transcription related)

Turnkey solution for multi level sorting and organizing software for medical   transcription industry.

 

PlayerDNA (Individual and team sports related)

Web-based portal software for community based organizer to build the team and individual to find partners to play games based on the profile.

 

Kaiser Permanente (KP-IT/AD-EIS)
Sr. Programmer Analyst, March’02 – September’07
Key projects involvement -

 

Health Connect (Scheduling, allergy, Dictaphone related EDI’s and EMS)

- Develop and maintain development environment which include Integration Broker (IB), MQ, WebSphere application server installation, configuration & administration

- Developed and integrated Scheduling, allergy, Dictaphone related EMS interface

- Requirement analysis for messages form source and destination system

- Develop use case and develop design documents

- Coordinate design review meeting with the team

- Develop prototypes as a proof of concept as needed

- Develop and guide others on deliverables.

- Co-ordinate with QA team.

- Develop DRF and configuration document

- Coordinate non-production and production deployment process

- Develop knowledge base system for help desk (command center)

- Support production triage and severity level one problem

- Serve as a SME for middleware (IB/WMQI, MQ and JMS) messaging system

- Involved with SOA/ESB integration and Testing

 

Authorization and benefits transport/JMS:

- Requirement analysis for insurance authorization data flow interfaces

- Develop use case and develop design documents

- Full life cycle involvement with the project

- Coordinate design review meeting with the team

- Led development effort and guide team members on deliverables.

- Co-ordinate with QA team.

- Meeting and presentation to stakeholders in different phase of the project.

- Involve with the change and configuration management

- Involve with the SOX related audit process GAP analysis 

 

Claims shared services organization (CSSO)

- Full life cycle involvement with development phase.

- Act as a key architect for solution (middleware and web)

- Development design document using UML notation

- Coordinate with project internal and external team for requirement

- Involve with change management process

- Led development effort and guide team members on deliverables.

- Co-ordinate with UAT team members.

- Co-ordinate with deployment team (production and non-production servers)

- Involve with the change and configuration management 

 

TDM Decommissioning

- Producing design document based on reverse engineering process

- Involve with risk management and mitigation process.

- Develop detail migration plan.

- Led the development team

 

Human Resources - Total Compensation management (TCM II)

- Involve with requirement gathering meetings and requirement analysis.

- Develop use case and develop design documents

- Coordinate design review meeting with the team

- Develop prototypes as a proof of concept as needed

- Co-ordinate with DBA and operation team.

- Develop knowledge base system for help desk

- Serve as a SME for J2EE components 

- Mentor 4 developers.

 

Digital Support Corporation (client Kaiser Permanente/Execution architecture)
Senior solution consultant May’00 – March’02

Key projects involvements and Role-
E-Procurement
Full life cycle involvement of e-procurement application error tracking and integration with Ariba buyer system for external procurement.

Error Management System (EMS)
Full life cycle involvement to develop transaction error management system for various health insurance related to rejected claims, authorization, membership, benefits. System was capable to reconcile and resubmit transaction.

National insurance solution (NIS) Involved with design and develop middleware transport components for multi-threaded high volume transactions capability 

Diagnostics System
Involve with full life cycle development of knowledge base diagnostic software for production support/helpdesk.

Boeing project @ Howard
Neural Network Model engineer (R&D), August’98 –April’00
-Key projects involvement and role

o Aircraft Reliable System (ARS)

- Analyze the aviation data from British Airlines

- Develop custom client server java application for data manipulation

- Develop neural network model to estimate software reliability model

- Validate actual data with the simulated model for reliability factor forecast

              o Fault tolerant system

- Develop simulation model for fault tolerant process.

- Work as a development team member to develop the software based on the checkpoint approach 

 

IRPA
Software developer, February’96 March’98
-Key project involvement and role-
              o CastCAD 1.0, 1.1

- Involve with full life cycle development and integration

- Write code for CAD and FORTRAN code integration

- Write code for engineering graphs using Autolisp based on the simulated data.

- Developed and maintained product webpage

ALCATEL
CAD software engineer
Key project involvement and role -
              o BTTB Digital Phone Project

- Involve with high level design topology of digital telecommunication network

- CAD design and digitizing network based on the field data

- Estimate the best possible location based on the digitize information.

- Database related report generation for management

 

Technical Skills:

Operating system:                             AIX, IRIX, SUN Solaris. Linux
Language:                                           Java/J2EE/EJB/JSP/Java beans/SAX JavaScript,

C#/ASP.Net,C/C++, FORTRAN, SQL/ESQL, Perl/Python

HTML/DHTML/XML, Autolisp/Lisp, PHP, Shell Scripts,

XML schema/DTD, XSD, XSLT/JAX, SAML, Itext, Struts, Spring Batch, Hibernate, JPA

Protocol and Services:               TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP, REST, Web Services,

                                                        HL7
Web Server:                                           Apache, iPlanet, IBM HTTP, JRUN, IIS
Web Application server:               Tomcat, WebSphere, JBOSS, JRun, WebLogic
Middleware:                                           J2EE/JMS, MQI, WMQI, IB, MQ/MQSeries
Database/tool:                            Oracle, UDB DB2, MS Access, SQL Server, Informatica
Design/Model software:               Rational Rose, UML Modeling, Visio, Erwin, WSAD, RAD,

VisualAge,Visual Cafe, Dreamweaver, Eclipse,proxy tools, ESB, Rational Software Architect

Project and configuration:               Remedy, MS Project, Ant, Quality center,ClearQuest, VMware, Actuate, Redmine

Business Intelligent & Reporting: WebFocus,  Oracle Financial, Sugar CRM

Source & Version Control:               Clear case, Starteam, CVS, SVN

Architecture:              Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF), Transition Planning, Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
 

Education and Publications:

 

Masters of Science, Major systems and computer science, specialization in Software engineering & and data communication, Howard University

Bachelor of science Major Engineering and Minor Computer Science, BUET

- Master Thesis: Computer aided design and analysis of die casting process

- Bachelor Thesis: Computer aided analysis of free convective heat transfer

- Simulation of Die Filling Progress During Casting Process, Journal of Materials Processing Technologies, Vol. 100, 2000, 224-229,

- Development of CAD system for Casting Process, Journal of Materials Processing Technologies, (accepted in press).

- Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of Die/Mould for Casting Industry, in Advances in Materials & Processing Technologies, (Eds A.M.S. Hamouda, et al.) SIRIM Press, 1998, Vol. 2, pp1017-1028.

 

Training and other experiences:
 

- Knowledgeable of how Hive and Pig can be used for rapid application development
- Knowledgeable application development of Hadoop technologies HDFS, MapReduce,etc.
- Knowledgeable of Hadoop (Big Data) for storing data files

- Knowledgeable Greenplum database and Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) Architecture

- Extensive hands-on SAP BASIS training on NetWeaver 6.40 and 7.0

- Experienced with WebSphere portal environment

- Workshop on Rational Solution Architect (RSA)
- Workshop on WebFocus reporting software
- Training on SOA/ESB integration and Testing

- Training on HL7 messaging
- Developed offshore/inshore custom communication protocol
- Developed strategies on executing CMM standards for digital support corporation’01
- Workshop on IBM MQSeries
- Workshop on IBM WSAD 4.0.3(RAD) and DB 7.2

- Workshop on IBM WMQI 2.1 and Integration broker

- Training on Diamond software
- Attended a training course on Unigraphics CAD/CAM/CAE.
- Attended training course on Mesh Generation and Finite Element Modeling.
- Training on UNIX operating system in system administration.
- Worked as a Computer Trainer in System Computers.
 

References:
 

Available upon request

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