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Arif
ghaffar.arif@gmail.com
781-789-7717
9237 Marshall Road
Cranberry Township, PA 16066
EDI Data Analyst
21 years experience W2
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EDI Systems/Healthcare Data Analyst experienced working in fast-paced environments demanding strong organizational, technical, and interpersonal skills. Detail-oriented and resourceful in completing projects: able to multi-task effectively.

Professional Development & Training: SAS Education, SQL Server Developer/T-SQL Programming, Certified Scrum Master, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)/Product Owner

  • Healthcare Systems: EDIFECS, Facets, EXTOL, Power-MHS, PEGA Application Testing, BizTalk Admin
  • Methodologies: SDLC (Waterfall Method, Agile Methodology). Completed a two-day workshop Sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
  • HIPAA Tools: Claredi, EDIFECS SpecBuilder, MapBuilder, & Edifecs Transaction Management
  • Worked directly with other product owners, system engineers, program managers, developers, testers, and customers to define features and technical user stories.
  • Supported an Agile Software Development process, working in conjunction with end-users/stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
  • Worked closely with counterparts in Product Management to align on the vision, program backlog, and roadmap.
  • Acted as a stakeholder of specific product backlog items, work closely with development teams to ensure the output to be aligned with expectations.
  • Implemented EDIFECS products including Ramp Manager & Transaction Manager.
  • Designed and tested programs in Ramp as per business requirements for all HIPAA transactions.
  • Conducted regular grooming sessions with the scrum teams.
  • Managed backlog of user stories for 2 products simultaneously.
  • Established user story acceptance criteria and refined stories with Scrum teams.
  • Certified Advanced Scrum Master (CASM). Completed and passed a two-day training of Scrum Master provided by Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
  • Developed an 835-map using Edifecs MapBuilder to convert a positional flat file into X12 HIPAA compliant format using JavaScript.
  • Reviewed 834 HIPAA transactions for data integrity, accuracy, and validity. Created HIPAA 834 specification documents for Coding and Development.
  • Complete knowledge of “MHS” Healthcare System.
  • Gathered requirements for CMS mandated project for: “Medicare Beneficiary ID” number to protect the patient's PHI.
  • Used Agile systems and strategies to provide quick and feasible solutions, based on the Agile system, to the organization.
  • Designed “Ramp Manager” using Agile methodology to a group of trading partners based on iterative development and presented tutorials on using agile development techniques to trading partners and billing agencies and software vendors.
  • Directed the skills enhancement efforts of Business System Analysts, Designers, and Developers to adopt processes based on Agile/Scrum development techniques. Introduced techniques such as Domain Modeling, Executable Requirements, Test Driven Development, and Continuous Integration for SIT and UAT testing.
  • Successfully completed an 80 hours’ crash course for SQL Server Developer/T-SQL Programming.
  • Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in a reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing the team's throughput in less than 8 weeks.
  • Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
  • Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with the outcome resulting in enhanced performance.
  • Removed obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. The customer provided positive feedback.

Experience
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Non-cloudteam Skill
Education
Attended in Computer Information Systems
DeVry University 2002

CIS Courses 62 credit hours

Bachelor's in Accounting & Management
University of Karachi 1995
Related Courses
SQL Server 2012: T-SQL Programming & Performance Tuning,
80 hours’ refresher crash course for SQL Database Programming,
Skills
EDI
2019
16
HIPAA
2020
15
837
2019
11
Analysis
2020
9
Edifecs
2020
9
Business Analysis
2015
8
Regulatory Reporting
2020
8
SQL
2020
7
834
2020
6
RAMP
2015
6
System Analysis
2019
6
Business Requirements
2019
5
Compliance
2020
5
Data Analysis
2020
5
Data Mapping
2019
5
Database Upgrades
2019
5
Medicare
2019
5
Stored Procedure
2020
5
Trading
2010
5
ERP
2019
4
ETL
2019
4
Extol
2019
4
FTP
2019
4
OPTIM
2019
4
Quality Control
2019
4
Stakeholder Engagement
2020
4
Windows
2019
4
Billing
2020
3
Medical Billing
2005
3
Neurology
2005
3
Project Assistant
2005
3
Gap Analysis
2015
2
SQL Server
2015
2
Auditing
2015
1
BSA
2013
1
Data Dictionary
2013
1
Data Management
2015
1
Data Warehousing
2015
1
HEDIS
2015
1
MS Visio
2012
1
Oracle
2020
1
PL/SQL
2020
1
Project Management
2015
1
Project Planning
2015
1
QA
2013
1
Quality Assurance
2013
1
Reconciliation
2020
1
Software Testing
2013
1
System Requirements
2015
1
T-SQL
2013
1
Agile Methodology
0
1
BizTalk
2012
1
Business Intelligence
2012
1
Data Integrity
2020
1
Data Mining
0
1
Data Monitoring
2020
1
HP QC
2011
1
Implementations
2020
1
JavaScript
2014
1
Logistic Regression
2020
1
Microsoft Excel
2020
1
Pega
0
1
Process Improvement
2012
1
Regression Testing
2020
1
Requirements Gathering
0
1
Root Cause Analysis
2020
1
SAS
0
1
Scrum
0
1
Scrum Master
0
1
Software Engineer
0
1
SQL Server Developer
0
1
Statistical Analysis
2020
1
System Design
0
1
Triggers
2020
1
UML
2012
1
Waterfall
0
1
X.12
2014
1
XML
2011
1