Srinivas Nalla                                                                              1053 Rifle Range Rd, Apt 10B,

                                                                                                        Mount Pleasant, SC-29464

                                                                                                Cell: 313.327.6554       

 

OBJECTIVE

To seek a challenging position to lead and grow high-performance teams in a reputed organization, where I can utilize my skills, experience and expertise to successfully handle projects and give desired results.

 

CAREER PROFILE

• 18+ years of experience in overall experience handling teams of 20 to 200 members, across various domains and technologies.
• Seasoned professional, with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects.
• Played key role in providing design and architectural solutions for health care applications.
• Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Effectively training, motivating and mentoring onsite and offshore engineers, developers and testing teams.
• Superior coordination of user acceptance testing of final software development deliverables through iterative evolutions.
• Worked onsite for 8+ years with various teams and effectively coordinated with managers, business analysts and other support teams.
• Achieved domain expertise in US healthcare and insurance domains – close to 13 years of experience working with US clients in this domain.
• Have sound knowledge on SDLC, Agile and design patterns.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems                : Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Windows7/Windows 8

Database                                : Ms SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000/2008, Oracle

Languages                              : C, COBOL, HTML, JavaScript, ASP, XML, Java, and UML

Web server                            : MS IIS

Application Server                : MS MTS, MSMQ, Microsoft Sharepoint

Configuration Management : VSS, Subversion, PVCS and TFS

IDE                                          : Visual Studio .Net (C#. NET & ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC) 2.0, 3.5 & 4.0 and Visual Studio (VB 6.0)

SOA                                         : Web services, WCF, REST

ETL Tools                               : SSIS and SSAS

Reporting Tools                     : Crystal Reports, SSRS, JReport and Active Reports

Project Management             : MS Project, Rally                                         

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

ValueLabs India                                                          (August 1999 – till date)

 

Current Designation: Associate Director                   (April 2017 – till date)

 

Program Manager                                                     (April 2015 – March 2017)

 

Senior Project Manager                                            (April 2014 – March 2014)

 

Project Manager                                                        (April 2011 – March 2014)

 

Software Engineer – Project Lead                               (Aug 1999 – March 2011)

 

PROJECT HISTORY

 

#1. Online Enrollment Platform

 

Client              : Benefitfocus, USA (http://www.benefitfocus.com)

Duration         : 7 years (Aug 2010 – till date)

Platform         : C#. NET (Framework 3.5/4.0), SQLServer2008, Visual Studio 2010, IIS7.0, Java and XML

Role                : Project Manager

Team Size       : 20-200

 

Description    : Benefitfocus eEnrollment platform built on Java, Angular.JS/DUST.JS and Oracle helps their carriers, employers to manage the health benefits management they offer to the employees / customers. It’s a complex multi-tenant platform supported by host of other tools and applications. Users can log in and manage their health benefits, by shopping and comparing plans side-by-side and choosing what suits them the best. Carrier and Employer admins can also manage the end users and enroll on their behalf.

 

AppBuilder is an in-house IDE framework built on top of .NET framework 3.5 and SQL Server 2008. This platform provides the base for host of web applications built for various clients. This uses the WF for workflow management in the platform and WCF & REST for building services. This framework allows developers to build different applications and each application can be accessed by different employers (called tenant). The users log in to their specific tenant and only see what they need to. The security is handled using user security role groups. This system also provides an easy integration with other systems within the company and also with applications of partner systems. The systems implement a Single Sign On technology where a user is only required to login to one system and can effortlessly navigate to any other system.

 

#2. Claims Quality Audit System

 

Client              : Amerigroup, USA (http://www.amerigroup.com)

Duration         : 3 years (Nov 2007 – Jul 2010)

Platform         : C#. NET (Framework 3.0), SQLServer2005, Visual Studio 2008, IIS6.0 and XML

Role                : Project Lead

Team Size       : 12

 

Description    : This is a quality audit system for Quality department in Amerigroup who audits the claims processed by the claims processing team or auto adjudicated claims. This involves a suit of application, extraction and sampling process. There are two types of audits: Pre-paid audit and Post-paid audit. Pre-paid samples for audit are generated every morning and assigned to the auditors based on their skill set and market preferences. Post-paid samples are generated every Monday and assigned to auditors based on the skill set and market preferences. There is workflow system built in which has the rules on which sample should get a priority assignment. The extraction and sampling process is a SSIS package that runs daily / weekly based on type of audit. There are around 100 reports built using SSRS which are useful for both senior management and audit and claims teams. Whenever auditor finds a problem with a claim, they will record the error and assign it to respective claims processor. The claims processor either fixes the problem or provides the feedback and route it back to the auditor. If the dispute is not resolved at the first-level, it can go up to 3 levels to supervisors and managers on both claim and audit teams.

 

#3. Claims Processing System

 

Client              : SHPS Inc, USA (http://www.shps.com)

Duration         : 1 year (Mar 2006 – Oct 2007)

Platform         : C#. NET (Framework 2.0), SQL2000, Visual Studio 2005, IIS5.0 and XML

Role                : Project Lead

Team Size       : 8

 

Description    : This project is an extension of the FSA done for SHPS. Claims processing is functionality introduced to the existing administration system (SAMS 2.0) to remove the additional functions from the Powerplus application used by SHPS. The introduction of auto-adjudication of FSA paper claims gives SHPS an opportunity to increase the profit margin by reducing the costs of processing claims, improving the quality of claims processing, and increasing the throughput rate of processed claims. The Claims processing system will allow the processing and reimbursement of claims for various types of Spending Accounts, such as Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA, Limited Health Care FSA, Health Reimbursement Arrangement, and Commuter Reimbursement Account

 

#4. Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Client              : SHPS Inc, USA (http://www.shps.com)

Duration         : 20 months (June 2004 to Feb 2006)

Platform         : C#. NET, SQL Server 2000

Role                : Project Lead

Team Size       : 8

 

Description    : SHPS Inc. is a health management and insurance firm head quartered at Louisville and situated in many other locations in USA. SHPS have over 700 clients in USA for which it provides medical and insurance related services. Currently we are supporting SHPS in Quality assurance and maintenance of FSA, TAM, CORE etc. FSA is a tax saving plan where the participant will contribute a part of the salary to FSA account. He can claim the amount spent on medical expenses from his account and the entire amount he contributes to FSA is non-taxable. My role includes gathering the requirements from the client, analyzing them, communicating with the offshore team with the requirements and deploying the system here.

 

#5. Order Entry System (OES)

Client              : SHPS Inc, USA (http://www.shps.com)

Duration         : 2 months (April 2004 to May 2004)

Platform         : VB, ASP, SQL Server 2000

Role                : Team Lead

Team Size       : 4

Description    : Order entry system provides SHPS customers to order several documents that are required by them that forms the communication between SHPS and them. This is an online system where the clients can login and order for the documents and prefers the mode of sending the same. There are available in three forms: a physical path of the document that the client can access, an attachment with email or a printed document delivered to the client’s address. There will be the templates available for different types of documents, user can select the template and supply the content. The template and the content will be merged and a PDF is given to the user as output.

#6. Content Transfer and Billing Engine (CTBE)

Client              : Multimedia Interactive Technologies (MIT), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (http://www.digitalfive.com/corp)

Duration         : 5 months (Nov 2003 to March 2004)

Platform         : VB 6.0, SQL Server 2000

Role                : Team Lead

Team Size       : 8

 

Description    : This engine delivers the WAP-STK content to mobiles. There is a third party system DP5 (Delivery Platform 5) involved in this. The user will click on the items present in a special menu in their mobile phones; the request will reach the SMSC of the mobile operator. CTBE will receive this request from SMSC, sends the request to DP5 in the format which it can understand, receives the response from DP5. For each item in the menu, the amount to be charged is also maintained by the system. CTBE sends a billing request to an external system, which charges the customer. Once the transaction is successfully charged, the response will be sent to SMSC that will be delivered to the user. Apart from this the mobile user can configure the items that he wants on his interactive menu.

#7. External Content Provider Aggregator (ECPA)

Client              : Maxis Mobile, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (http://www.maxis.com.my/main.asp)

Duration         : 18 months (April 2002 to Oct 2003)

Platform         : VB, ActiveX components, COM, MSMQ, ASP, HTML, VBScript, IIS, MS SQL    Server 2000, Windows 2000

Role                : Team Lead

Team Size       : 6

 

Description    : ECPA is a content delivery platform that delivers the content for the mobile phone users. It enables different content providers to serve various types of content (text messages, ring tones, logos etc) to the subscribers using a common channel. It communicates with various sub-systems like SMSC and billing. The content provider systems can connect to ECPA platform via HTTP/WSDL and TCP/IP. ECPA system receives the user requests from SMSC and it routes them to the respective content provider based on the short code to which they are sent. Content provider will send the response message (text, ring tone, logo etc) back to ECPA with the amount to be charged included. The system will then check if the user is prepaid or postpaid. If user is a postpaid one the content will be delivered to the user and the amount will be charged to user’s bill. And if the user is prepaid, the system will check if the user has enough balance and if he/she has, the amount will be deducted from his balance and the content will be delivered. If the user does not have enough balance, a message will be sent to the user indicating the same.

 

#8. Mine Management Systems (MMS)

Client              : Singareni Collieries Company Ltd.(SCCL), India

Duration         : 25 months (Jan 2000 to March 2002)

Platform         : VB 6.0, Oracle 8i

Role                : Module Lead

Team Size       : 4

 

Description    : MMS is automation of different activities carried out in coal mines. All the activities carried out in a coal mine like employee attendance, payroll, production, stores, survey, safety, explosives and public relations are computerized. This enables greater accountability and monitoring of these activities in the coal mines. This system is implemented in over 10 coal mines of SCCL until now. I was involved right from the study phase until the implementation phase in this project. There are basically two types of coal mines: underground and open cast. And the way the operations are carried out in these two types of mines differ to some extent. The system is designed in such a way that it can be implemented in any SCCL coal mine with a minimum customization.

 

#9. Benefit Fund Administration (BFA) Reports

 

Client              : Innovative Software Solutions Inc. (ISSI), USA

Duration         : 5 months (Aug 1999 to Dec 1999)

Platform         : MS Access, SQL Server 6.5/7.0

Role                : Developer

Team size       : 3

 

Description    : This project was to convert the COBOL programs into MS Access reports, using SQL server as the back-end. This involves the study of the COBOL program, writing a flow chart for the same, and then implementing the business logic in MS Access reports. We need to compare the outputs of COBOL program and the corresponding Access report to make sure the conversion is successful.

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS & CREDENTIALS

• Master of Computer Applications from Kakatiya University.
• Bachelor of Computer Science from Kakatiya University.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• PMI-PMP (Project Management Professional)
• PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Professional)

 

INTERESTS

• Listening to music and watching movies
• Avid reader – spiritual, fiction books and travel magazines
• Loves to travel