PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
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Vince Owens

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Ashburn
25
years of professional experience

Senior Software Engineer with more than 25 years of continuous experience at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield supporting enterprise technology operations across automation, reconciliation, data validation, and systems modernization. Specializes in designing and delivering Python-based balancing frameworks, configurable business rule engines, batch processing pipelines, and Power BI dashboards for mission-critical production environments. Deep institutional knowledge of mainframe-integrated workflows, enterprise scheduling, and operational data flows combined with modern automation technologies including Python, SQL, Power Automate, SharePoint, and Control-M. Also holds hands-on expertise in AI development — including Claude/Anthropic API integration, multi-agent workflow design, MCP server configuration, and AI-native application development — applied independently through V. T. Owens Studios / OPS AI Studio.

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

25 Years 1 Month
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield | 07.2001 - Current
  • Reconciliation & Balancing Systems
  • Design, develop, and maintain enterprise balancing environments containing multiple input sources and hundreds of reconciliation and validation rules.
  • Build Python-based parsers to extract control totals, financial amounts, counts, dates, dispositions, subtotals, and business-critical data from structured and semi-structured operational files.
  • Implement configurable business rule engines using JSON and YAML that support mathematical comparisons, exclusions, adjustments, tolerance levels, cross-system validation, and control-total reconciliation.
  • Generate PASS, FAIL, WARNING, and ERROR result classifications for each rule to provide clear operational visibility into balancing status, variances, and exceptions.
  • Use precise decimal-based calculations to eliminate rounding errors in financial and operational balancing processes.
  • Create reusable reconciliation templates and onboarding frameworks that allow new jobs and rules to be introduced with minimal code changes.
  • Automation, Scheduling & Integration
  • Design and support enterprise file-transfer processes that move operational data from mainframe environments into distributed processing locations.
  • Integrate SharePoint-based file intake with Power Automate workflows to coordinate downstream processing, reconciliation, and automated notifications.
  • Implement scheduled processing using Control-M, Windows Task Scheduler, and Power Automate to orchestrate file intake, parsing, reconciliation, reporting, and alert workflows.
  • Build file validation, duplicate-detection, error-handling, and recovery controls to strengthen production reliability.
  • Reporting, Dashboards & Audit
  • Create Power BI dashboards and Streamlit applications displaying daily balancing status, exceptions, failed rules, historical trends, and processing results.
  • Generate TXT, CSV, JSON, Excel, and HTML outputs for business users, operations teams, and audit review.
  • Implement detailed audit trails capturing source files, execution timestamps, extracted values, calculations, applied rules, exceptions, and final balancing results.
  • Legacy Modernization & Solution Design
  • Analyze complex legacy workflows involving multiple applications, operational data sources, business rules, control totals, exclusions, dependencies, and exception conditions.
  • Develop modernization strategies for replacing manual and legacy balancing processes with Python, SQL, Power Automate, Power BI, SharePoint, and enterprise scheduling technologies.
  • Translate business and operational requirements into technical specifications, processing logic, reusable rule sets, test scenarios, and support documentation.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions covering file intake, parsing, rule execution, data storage, reporting, scheduling, monitoring, security, and production deployment.
  • Production Support & Collaboration
  • Troubleshoot data-processing failures, discrepancies, missing inputs, incorrect totals, file-format changes, scheduling problems, and integration issues.
  • Perform root-cause analysis and coordinate corrective actions with business analysts, operations teams, developers, data owners, and application support teams.
  • Communicate technical risks, processing issues, proposed solutions, and project status to technical and nontechnical stakeholders across the organization.
  • Provide long-term production support and deep institutional knowledge for critical enterprise applications and business operations.
  • Enterprise automation, reconciliation systems, legacy modernization, mainframe integration, and production support across 25+ years

Education

GED

Tennessee State University | Nashville, TN

Skills

Programming: Python
SQL
JavaScript / React
Regular Expressions
JSON
YAML
Data Processing: Pandas
OpenPyXL
Decimal Calculations
Data Normalization
Validation Frameworks
Structured File Processing
Databases: SQL Server
SQLite
Supabase
Relational Modeling
Data Extraction & Transformation
Automation: Power Automate
Control-M
Windows Task Scheduler
SharePoint
FTP Transfer
Email Notifications
Reporting: Power BI
Streamlit
Excel
CSV / JSON / HTML Output
Dashboards
Exception Reporting
Enterprise: Mainframe Data
Batch Processing
ACR/Details
InfoGix-Style Balancing
Control Totals
Return-Code Validation
AI & Modern Tools: Claude / Anthropic API
MCP Servers
LangGraph
React
Vercel
Stripe
ElevenLabs
Leonardo AI

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • Engineering: Enterprise Software Engineering
  • Python Application Development
  • Modular Architecture
  • Configuration-Driven Development
  • Reconciliation & Data: Automated Reconciliation & Balancing
  • Control Total Validation
  • Exception & Variance Management
  • Data Parsing & Transformation
  • Business Rule Engine Design
  • Automation & Integration: Batch Processing & Scheduling
  • Power Automate
  • SharePoint Integration
  • Control-M
  • Windows Task Scheduler
  • FTP File Transfer
  • Databases: SQL Server
  • SQLite
  • Relational Data Modeling
  • SQL-Based Reconciliation
  • Data Extraction & Validation
  • Reporting: Power BI
  • Streamlit
  • Excel / CSV / HTML Output
  • Operational Dashboards
  • Audit Logging & Traceability
  • AI & Emerging Tech: Claude / Anthropic API
  • Multi-Agent Workflow Design
  • MCP Server Integration
  • Prompt Engineering
  • React
  • Supabase
  • LangGraph
  • Engineering Practices: Root-Cause Analysis
  • Unit & Regression Testing
  • Technical Documentation
  • Solution Architecture
  • Production Support
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration

Accomplishments

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Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
07.2001 - CurrentRead More

Tennessee State University

GED
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Vince Owens