Professional services consultant with of over 14 years of experience providing high quality technology solutions in the Healthcare (Payer and Provider), P&C Insurance, Banking, and Pharmaceutical industries. Expertise in Enterprise Data Warehousing and Business Analytics as a technical lead, architecture and development.              

Major Healthcare Firm – Affordable Care Act - 3R Program         Health Care Service Corp (BCBS),       Chicago, IL

Solution Architect, Technical Lead                                                                                  12/2012 – 12/2014

§    Solution Architect and Technical Lead on the 3R project in response to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) significantly changing the way healthcare companies will do business. A part of the ACA is a series of risk spreading programs commonly referred to as “3Rs” (for Reinsurance, Risk Corridors and Risk Adjustment). To meet federal mandates and to participate in the risk spreading programs, HCSC must submit data to the federal government starting in 2014. Also, HCSC is using this opportunity to lay the foundation for a new Strategic Data Warehouse.

§    As a Technical lead engaged at HCSC for 2 years with initial engagement involving Analytics, and Information Management division to prototype ACA requirements and later extended to build out the production solution.

§    Major healthcare subject areas included Claims, Membership, Encounters, Income, and Capitation. Responsible for providing technical direction to the Data Modelers, Data Analysts, ETL and the QA teams.

§    Responsible to solidify architecture to lay the foundation of the Strategic Data Warehouse

§    Responsible to develop architecture to 3R data submissions to Health and Human Services (HHS).

§    Leveraged industry standard data models, IBM's Health Plan Data Model (HPDM) to develop Atomic and Semantic data models.

§    Responsible for architecture, estimation, planning, and implementation of different phases of Data Modeling effort, Data Integration (ETL) and Data Analysis/Mapping work products.

§    Responsible for developing near real-time Data Integration architecture using IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Teradata, and DB2 for multiple claims and membership processing systems.

§    Successfully submitted to the HHS enrolment, claims and pharmaceutical data.

Major Insurance Firm – Americas Data Store Project                   QBE Insurance, Madison, WI

Technical Lead                                                                                  05/2010 – 12/2012

§    Technical lead and Data Architect responsible for planning, architecting and implementing an Enterprise Data Warehouse solution for QBE, an international Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance Corporation. The Americas Data Store (ADS) focused on Policy and Claims data integration for Commercial and Personal lines in Auto, Agriculture, Homeowners, Business Owners BOP, Property, Homeowners, and Inland Marine products. Project delivered integrated data from 22 disparate source systems from across the Americas.

§    As Technical Lead, responsible for architecture, estimation, planning, and implementation of different phases of Data Integration (ETL) and Data Analysis/Mapping work products.

§    Provided direction to 12 technical team members consisting of 8 ETL Developers, 3 Data Analysts and 1 Data Modeler. Organized the teams by logical data subject areas to be delivered in various iterations.

§    Developed Logical and Physical Data Models utilizing standard IBM IAA/IIW Data Models using IBM InfoSphere Data Architect v7.5. The data model consisted of 13 IIW subject areas and over 100 tables for Policy and Claims for highly transactional, 6 years and1.2 terabytes of data

§    Developed Conceptual, Macro Data Integration Architecture and documentation. Identified and confirmed key functional and non-functional requirements with 22 source systems. Built logical data architecture process flows.

§    Developed componentized and phased Data Integration (ETL) Architecture for ADS. Designed common components for input file validation, error handling (detection, reporting, and correction), change capture, load, audit balance and control and enumeration lookups.

§    Designed and built DataStage 8.7 template jobs for individual phase within the ETL architecture to be used by developers and apply to various data subject areas such as agreement, money provision, claims, party/role player etc.

§    Developed the QC/QA process, developed and executed test plan, unit and integration test cases.

Major Healthcare Firm       Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Performance Engineering Architect                                                                          08/2010 – 05/2011

§    As member of Enterprise Architecture group, responsible for providing oversight on performance aspects of Blue Health Intelligence Data Warehouse Project, Analytical Data Mart (ADaM) Project, National Consumer Cost Tool Project (NCCT), Provider Data Mart Project, and Inter-plan Teleprocessing Service (ITS) Project.

§    Approving PE member to multiple projects’ artifacts across different phases, including system use cases, non-functional requirements, physical data model, application architecture and code deployment

§    Responsible for performance budgeting, validating SLA’s, creating benchmarks, creating POCs to approve various phases of projects

§    Identified performance bottlenecks on productionized applications, provided formal recommendations to job scheduling, physical database design, ETL architecture and reporting query enhancements

§    Performed proof of concept on new Appliance DBMS Vertica. Presented results to executive management. As a result Vertica is currently being deployed in parallel DW environment.

§    Worked closely with BCBSA Director to develop PE methodology and build out a roadmap of PE capabilities

§    Created requirements and deployed Performance Engineering infrastructure environments including DB2 9.5, Ab Initio, DataStage 8.1, Tivoli 8.4 and Vertica environments.

IBM Corporation               05/2006 – 08/2010

Business Analytics and Optimization (BAO), GBS

Senior Managing Consultant

Major Insurance Firm                 AIG HR

Solution Architect                                                                                               06/2010 – 08/2010

§    Technical Lead responsible to deliver a ‘roadmap’ for Global HR Payroll Compensation Data Warehouse for AIG. Project goals are to provide AIG a robust blueprint solution for government mandated (TARP) reporting requirements for top 100 earners across 5 payroll systems, to create a strong payroll Global data warehouse design to integrate, in future all 200 global AIG payroll systems, and to create a strategic roadmap to be integrated to the warehouse.

§    Developed data model using PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Data Warehouse using OWS, OWE and MDW structures. Identified and customized delivered EPM objects (models and DataStage 7.5 job designs) to meet Cognos reporting requirements.

§    Managed a team of 4 senior data integration EPM designers, responsible for developing baseline ETL architecture, data integration macro designs including logical data integration models, source to target mappings, and infrastructure setup. Responsible for definition of roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and DI component of project plans.

§    Created eight Common Source Templates by subject area for source system extraction. Worked with the Financial Services US, Chartis Japan, Chartis China, PeopleSoft Bermuda, and AIG Europe source systems to successfully complete the data mapping

§    Designed a front-end prototype using PeopleSoft. Worked with source system owners to design front-end screen prototypes and source extraction models.

§    Presented Solution Outline and Macro Design Blueprint to project sponsor and enterprise architects.

Major Insurance Firm – Global Claims ODS and RDW Project    AIG Insurance

Data Integration Lead, Data Architect                                                                       10/2009 – 06/2010

§    Served as the Data Integration Architect and team lead in the development Chartis’ (AIG) Global OneClaim Operational Data Store (ODS) and Reporting Data Warehouse (RDW).

§    Collaborated with the Websphere Application Integration Services team to develop the Insurance Application Architecture (IAA) based WSDL and XML schema to be consumed via MQ for near real-time ODS processing. Built data model using ERwin to create sequential files to be parsed out by DataStage 8.1 XML parsing jobs.

§    As ETL lead, responsible for the macro design, micro designs, data mapping, DataStage jobs, system testing for all data integration team efforts. Leveraged significant amount of ETL design and DataStage code from prior IIW engagements to create job templates to be used by junior developers. The exercise proved immensely successful in rapid deployment and profitable delivery of the project.

§    Identified potential risks, data quality and availability issues to Chartis’ data architects. Worked proactively with source teams to modify XML schema to enhance data availability.

Major Insurance Firm – Customer Matching Project        Westfield Insurance

Data Integration Architect                                                                            07/2009 – 10/2009

§    Requested by the client to work on the second release of the Data Warehouse. Building on original release of Policy Centric Data Warehouse, the second release focused on Customer Insight and customer analytics reporting.

§    Collaborating with business owners and data architects developed a robust set of customer data management rules. At release the project successfully identified and matched over 90% of customers across both personal and commercial lines in historical data.

§    Developed DataStage and QualityStage 8.1 jobs for both historical and ongoing data feeds.

Major Financial Services Firm   JP Morgan Chase Bank

Data Integration Architect                                                                                                   03/2009 – 06/2009

§    Served as data integration designer at JP Morgan Chase Bank to build the Commercial Card Strategic project. The objective of the project was to provide additional functionality for the PaymentNet3 (PNet3) reporting sub-system and also looks to improve areas pertaining to performance, stability, maintainability, reliability and scalability.

§    Joining the team during the micro design phase, completed ETL designs for common banking sources like EDS, MasterCard, and VISA.

§    Developed logical and physical data integration models for target BDW based data model. Completed detailed source to target mappings and DataStage code for common components.

Major Financial Services Firm                   Regions Bank

Data Analyst                                                                                                                01/2009 – 03/2009

§    Served as a Data Integration Analyst/ETL Designer on the Enterprise Data Warehouse project at Regions bank. The project was an endeavor by the bank to integrate data from 21 different both internal and external sources to a BDW based data warehouse and provide detailed reporting using 2 data marts.

§    Responsible for data mapping for 7 source systems including external source like TSYS, ACLS, and internal sources like Capital Markets, Sweep accounts, Commercial Lease etc.

§    Developed high level ETL designs for common components using Informatica PowerCenter 8.1.

Major Pharmaceutical Firm        Walgreens Pharmaceuticals

Data Integration Lead                                                                                                  07/2008 – 01/2009

§    Served as a DI Lead on two parallel projects at the Walgreens. Managed two separate teams consisting of client resources, TCS resources, as well as IBM India team.

§    Worked on Project Decision Support System (DSS 1.5) to optimize ETL processes to meet SLAs. Reduced batch windows by 50% for monthly quarterly and annual jobs to meet Business Objects report availability. Led a team of 3 designers, identified key bottlenecks and provided direction redesign of Ab Initio jobs. 

§    Project Offshore Enablement and Data Obfuscation was to enable IBM offshore development team and mask data onsite for offshore development resources. Interfaced with client’s data privacy/security infrastructure teams, and analyzed data privacy requirements. Developed data masking algorithms to maintain referential integrity and create realistic data. Created job designs and led a team of TCS developers to develop DataStage 8.0 jobs to create obfuscated source data to be used for DSS 2.0 development.

Major Insurance Firm         Westfield Insurance

Data Integration Architect, Team Lead                                                                      07/2007 – 08/2008

§    Member of the Project BI team as a Data Integration Architect and Lead. The project was the first business intelligence endeavor by Westfield to perform detailed business analytics on underwriting commercial and personal line policies.

§    As an ETL Lead responsible for the delivery of high level solution outline, data profiling, macro design, detailed design and build, system testing, deployment and production support of the Enterprise Data Warehouse and Agency Insight Data Mart. Working in tight timelines led a diverse team of ETL designers and developers to deliver DataStage 8.0 code for Data Warehouse and Agency Insight Data Mart.

§    Responsible for the installation and configuration of all DataStage standards and infrastructure setup for all environments. Worked directly with IBM Software Group to resolve a large number of software issues in the initial release of IIS v8.0.

Major Financial Services Firm               ABN Amro Bank

Logical Data Architect                                                                                         04/2007 – 07/2007

§    Member of the ETL Design Team within the CLAIRE (Common Ledger and Integrated Reporting Environment) Programme at ABN-Amro. The ETL Layer was the component responsible for the integration of local Banking (Sub Ledger) data with the Global General Ledger (SAP R/3), and related MIS reporting environment (SAP BW).

§    Responsible for producing Logical Design Documents for interfaces within a General Ledger Environment specifically for Banking Unit Netherlands (BUNL) and End-Stage General Ledger (ESGL) environments. Responsible for collecting Functional Business Blueprint and Solution Business Blueprint to create Logical Design Documents for 5 interfaces. The interfaces included Reference Data, Banking Sub-Ledger, Posting to SAP R/3, and SAP Staging Validation. The LDD's were used by Accenture’s off-shore development team to create Technical Design Documents TDD for Informatica development.

§    Responsible for design reviews of the TDD's and approvals for development. Once development was completed Mr. Bukhari conducted code reviews and intake tests on Informatica mappings to ensure compliance with the business requirements and ETL standards.

Major Financial Services Firm             Capital One Card

Senior ETL Designer/Developer                                                                                 05/2006 – 04/2007

§    Sr ETL Designer/Developer on the HELIX project at Capital One to migrate their credit card portfolio from their current back-end mainframe system to Total System’s TS2 Processing system. Team Lead of 20 Interfaces for the IBM resources on the Helix project. Responsible for the design and development of the most complex interfaces in Helix Project.

§    Developed generic and componentized Ab Initio ETL Objects to be used by a number of other interfaces in the project. Provided testing support and resolved all QA related issues in a very timely manner. Provided support to optimize Ab Initio graphs to fellow team members. Exclusive knowledge on Ab Initio EME Repository including Branching and Versioning.

Knightsbridge Solutions                                                    

Business Intelligence                                                                                      06/2001 – 05/2006

Senior Consultant

Major Healthcare Firm                                                                                              Kaiser Permanente

Lead Designer/Developer

§    Involved in 3 PeopleSoft HR projects as an Ab Initio Lead designer and developer. Utilized PeopleSoft Data Warehouse for project Enterprise Performance Management, Broker Sales Compensation BSC (a conversion of a legacy application BASE that captured HMO broker compensation and broker performance), and Human Resource Time Schedule projects.

§    Designed a decoupled system of generic jobs to perform essential ETL operations. Implemented 44 ETL interfaces by using only 5 generic processes. Key elements in the implementation were highly parameterized development and use of Ab Initio Conditional Components for more complex transformations.

§    Designed and implemented a generic “engine” to generate metadata, create volumetric validation, create SQL objects, and generate structural transformations rules. The requirement of this engine was based on ad-hoc changes in the data model. This system reduced development cost by 75%.

§    Created a highly scalable “Run ETL Jobs” custom component as a job executing framework. The component provided functionality to execute jobs using a configuration file to easily modify execution order to analyze dependencies easily and tune performance. The component also allowed eliminating the use of “wrapper scripts” and improved error handling.

Financial Services          Capital One

Designer/Developer

§    Member of the Data Analytics team at Capital One’s Solicitation ID (SOL_ID) Expansion project as a Designer and ETL Developer. Performed impact analysis across several systems within a major domestic card data-warehouse. Created detailed design for the remediation of 5 ETL and PL-SQL applications. Responsibilities included performance tuning of existing code, assisting QA, implementation of rollout and rollback procedures, and production support.

§    Served as the ETL designer and developer for Formula One project that captured financial data, enabling Capital One to perform credit loss forecasting. The ETL scope included pulling data from multiple source systems, transforming data, and loading records to the Teradata database.

Financial Services Wachovia Bank

Technologies used: Ab Initio (GDE 1.13.1, CoOp 2-11-8), MVS.

HUB XM Cleansing Project

Developer

§    Served as ETL developer for the redesign of the Wachovia ETL Hub, requiring the conversion of several hundred COBOL mainframe programs into Ab Initio processes.

§    Developed and used Korn shell scripts to convert COBOL copybooks into transforms used by generic cleansing and exception reporting graphs.

§    Developed a model to estimate the development time of a cleansing process, based on various length and complexity factors. This model used to estimate additional work on the Hub.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science, College of Engineering

Minor: Econometrics

Honors: Dean’s List for Academic Excellence