Category: Crystal Reports

Enterprise Data Architect — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana — Baton Rouge, LA

Business Glossary/Data Governance, Claims, Crystal Reports, Data Profiling/Data Quality, Delivery Lead, erwin, Facets, Health Care Payer, HP Quality Center, Informatica Administration, Informatica/PowerCenter, ITIL V3, Metadata Management, MS Project, Planview, Practice Leadership, Provider, SQL, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, Technical Advisor, Teradata, Unix Scripting

February, 2012 to October, 2014

Brought on board during Assessment Phase for the enterprise data warehouse solution.  Instrumental in technical and business analysis to determine the direction of the data management and ETL solution in a Facets-centered environment.

Lead data and integration architect for process improvements to mature the Enterprise Data Services practice. Design and implementation of a metadata-driven ingestion to the Enterprise Staging Layer allowing modifications at the schema, table and field level with adjustment of parameters.  This integrated data from multiple sources with supporting processes to include data quality profiles/reports, physical data models, changed data capture, historical data retention strategy and storage of metadata/data lineage into the Informatica Metadata Manager and Business Glossary.

Automated process to import/export vast metadata from spreadsheets to simplify maintenance by business analysts, providing training sessions and documentation.  Designed reporting solution to accompany the Informatica Metadata Manager roll-out to the enterprise.

Built initial data architecture practice, setting modeling standards.  Designed training documentation for the tool and trained 4 business analysts to become data modelers using ERwin model repository.

Completed certification for ITIL V3 Foundations.

Senior Technical Lead — Anthem — Cincinnati, OH

ABT Project Workbench, Claims, ClearCase, CMMI Methodology, Crystal Reports, Data Governance Council, Data Profiling/Data Quality, Delivery Lead, Enrollment/Member, Facets, Health Care Payer, MS Project, Provider, SQL, Sybase/T-SQL, Unix Scripting, Visual Basic

October, 1998 – February, 2003

Served as a project manager and technical team advisor for several large outbound eligibility data interface projects (as many as 27 sub-projects/teams) and most recently was project manager for a data quality project for data to vendors and internal data warehouse.

Accountable for leading a team of Programmer/Business Analysts responsible for the design, development, implementation, and support of Health Insurance Actuarial and Decision Support applications.

Utilized formal Project Management and SDLC Methodologies (i.e., ABT Project Work Bench and Anthem’s Application Development Methodology) and ClearCase for version management

Designed and developed Decision Support/Data Warehouse components.

Managed 2 small teams of developers during the build cycle, delivering code, and documentation while participating on the infrastructure team which defined/implemented new standard processes and maintained in-house software utilities.

Maintained and enhanced a test scripting (in-house) VBA utility and provided training and documentation while on infrastructure team.

Worked as a VB programmer on the CoMPLi project to automate documents processing for health insurance certificates.