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Praveena Rudhraram

Chesterfield,MO

Summary

An innovative and results-driven Director of Software Engineering with 10 years of experience leading enterprise level Data/Digital Strategy and Operating Model development and Execution. Designed, Developed Digital Data and Analytics products, which supports end to end data life cycles and analytics for customer engagement and business processes improvements, with the focus around Data Lake, IDW(Integrated Data Warehouse), Advanced Analytics (AI/ML), GenAI/LLM enabled on Digital/Cloud Data Platform. Built Elevance (previously Anthem) Health’s most valuable Digital Data/Analytical platform, which generates Billions of $ revenues. Managing high performing team of architects and data engineers develop and support Data Engineering, Metadata Management, Data Governance and Data Consumption around Elevance Enterprise Data Platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, SOC/SOX, and business units, to ensure effective cybersecurity risk management and incident response. Manage budgets, resources, and vendor relationships to ensure the successful achievement of financial targets.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Technical Manager

Elevance Health
05.2017 - Current
  • Lead a global engineering team focused on building world class provider data lifecycle capabilities including :
    - Provider Data Management technology
    - Credentialing
    - Contracting business rules
    - Provider Data accuracy and quality management
    - Provider Self Service connectivity Strategic Provider System (SPS) will enable a single source for provider administration and enable high quality provider data for Elevance Health and consumers
  • Provided Enterprise Data & Analytics platform engineering services for technology road-map, architecture vision and a transformation leader for enabling on-Premise and Cloud marketplace solution for Anthem around Data Lake and Advanced Analytics (AI/ML) Solutions
  • Solution Enterprise Provider System consolidating Elevance's ten legacy systems spanning 26 markets for all three lines of business: Medicare, Commercial and Medicaid
  • The new provider system have been able to consolidate and host data impacting millions of members and providers
  • This has helped reduce company cost in maintaining multiple claims and provider portal applications along with reducing SLA by 5 times to receive provider data updates to claims and directories.

Principal Product Manager

Anthem Healthcare
01.2012 - 04.2017
  • Lead multiple Governance for Reference & Platform Architecture with Data Governance, Quality Framework & Metadata Management.
  • Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex analytical eco-system, architecting for Data Platform Modernization using SAFe Agile Framework. Backlog prioritization support based on Architectural Principles, Reference Architecture, Solution Architecture and Platform Architecture.
  • Enhanced user data discovery experience implementing a Data Catalog on 100+ systems on premise and AWS Cloud. Labor cost reductions of $13M/yr.
  • Manage the Enterprise Data Management and Governance teams, managing 4 policies for data quality, balance & controls, metadata and reference data management across strategic business and system areas.Managed project planning, resource allocation, scope, schedule, status and documentation.
  • Presented roadmap and technology infrastructure to customers, demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security and integration capabilities.
  • Lead the development and deployment of the enterprise data quality product, including the establishment of common standard data quality rules with dashboards, heat map metrics that monitor data as it flows end to end across multiple systems within the Enterprise.
  • Managed Existing Vendor Relations and in parallel evaluated new vendor tools to compare with current Architecture to evolve technical stacks.

Solution Architect

Blue Cross Blue Shield
02.2007 - 03.2012
  • Managed corporate information assets across the enterprise through:
    * Developing enterprise level architecture artifacts
    * Information/Data Architecture guidance for complex enterprise level initiatives like WellPoint Metadata Repository front-end application system is an Enterprise Data layer Project also known as WellPoint blue chip project.
  • Managed the Program Eligibility Notification Team, to develop an Enterprise 360 Health Program Eligibility solution for members, improving overall member benefit accuracy level by 25%, reaching a goal of 98%.
  • Presented roadmap and technology infrastructure to customers, demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security and integration capabilities.
  • Developed technical requirement documentation for new software products. Collaborated with leadership staff to determine appropriate budgets. Educated stakeholders on data protection tactics to reduce breaches.

Education

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Skills

  • Digital Transformation
  • IT Strategy and Planning
  • Team Leadership and Management
  • Cloud Computing and Infrastructure
  • Vendor Management and Negotiation
  • Project Management and Agile Methodologies
  • IT Governance and Compliance
  • Budget Management & Resource Allocation
  • Quality Assurance Testing
  • Performance Analysis
  • DevOps Practices

Technology Stack

Java, REST APIs, Microservices, React, Splunk, Python, JavaScript, XML, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Salesforce, MongoDB, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Apache HBase, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Data Ingestion, Index, Parsing, Extraction, Search, Data Visualization, Alerting/Monitoring, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and AI, Dashboarding, CI/CD, Microservices & Containerization architecture, Kubernetes, Konvoy, Jenkins, Electric flow, DOCR, Automation, IaC, BigData, AI, Machine Learning, Hadoop, SnowFlake, Agile Methodology, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, Waterfall methodology

Key Successes

  • Driving the adoption of data strategy (Anthem & WellPoint Integration, Health & Wellness), lead cloud platform & API builds, implementing scalable data and architectural governance process with SPS,GBD, Provider Finder and EDWard, business executives and other technologist as part of the digital initiative to reduce total time to market of new products by 40%.
  • Product Management: Developed vision, use cases, business case, and product roadmaps for Healthcare Government (Medicare/Medicaid) & US Commercial, Federal Mandates for Anthem (Elevance), increasing market share by 30%.
  • Governance: Thought leader collaborating on the lifecycle management of master data, Meta Data, Data Quality and reference data as part of building certified enterprise data & analytics assets. (2015 Anthem Breach) and vast experience implementing data governance principles, frameworks, and best practices.
  • Data Architecture: Data Architect leader selecting & driving incorporation of new technologies and reference architectures for Anthem, ADP Marketplace in data services, big data, and REST API services.

Timeline

Senior Technical Manager

Elevance Health
05.2017 - Current

Principal Product Manager

Anthem Healthcare
01.2012 - 04.2017

Solution Architect

Blue Cross Blue Shield
02.2007 - 03.2012

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