Parwez Wahid Interface Specialist

Project Manager/Technician

Blue Water Thinking

Feb 2025 - Jun 2025 (5 months)

Assignment with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Tracking and coordinating medical device and clinical system interfaces. Formulating and defining system scope and objectives in accordance with the customer technical requirements. Compiling and analyzing technical data. Advising client management and customers on complex system projects and activities. Working closely with customers to define communication systems and equipment requirements. Providing instruction on and performing and documenting quality assurance reviews.

Project Manager

Blue Water Thinking

Feb 2025 - Jun 2025 (5 months)

Tracking and coordinating medical device and clinical system interfaces. Formulating and defining system scope and objectives in accordance with the customer technical requirements. SQL for message tracking. Compiling and analyzing technical data, HL7 specifications.

Interface Specialist

HCLTech

Mar 2024 - Jun 2024 (4 months)

Development, implementation, and support of interfaces between applications of a diagnostic testing provider and customer applications.

Perform and facilitate research and testing, provide overall project leadership to ensure interfaces conform to the client HL7 standards.

Interface Analyst

HCL TECH

Mar 2024 - Jun 2024 (4 months)

Development, implementation, and support of interfaces between applications of a diagnostic testing provider and customer applications. Perform and facilitate research and testing, provide overall project leadership to ensure interfaces conform to the client HL7 standards. Transaction lookups with SQL.

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Integration Analyst

InterScripts

Aug 2023 - Sep 2023 (2 months)

Develop, install and configure HL7 interfaces based on workflow and configuration capabilities
Requirements gathering, implementation, ensure testing, and coordinate move into production
Use of Rhapsody and Corepoint interface engines, SQL

Interface Analyst

UPMC

Apr 2022 - Feb 2023 (11 months)

Develop and support interface applications on proprietary interface engine. Transacting HL7 messages, configure communications settings, support live production.

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Interface Developer

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Mar 2022 - Feb 2023 (1 year)

Development, support of health care interface applications, HL7 messaging, HL7Spy. Modifications to interface systems on proprietary product and Linux, Bash. Table maintenance, communication TCP/IP settings, integration of APIs, message tracking with SQL. Direct client facing roles for field mapping, requirements gathering, testing. Project coordination among different stake holders. Serve as interface liaison for production changes.

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HIE Developer

Greater Houston Health Connect

Sep 2021 - Mar 2022 (7 months)

Develop and support health information exchange using InterSystems Health Connect. Facilitate clinical integration across the care continuum by connecting disparate electronic health record systems across the region’s hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks, community clinics, physician office practices, and service providers.

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System Administrator

Dept of Veterans Affairs

Oct 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year)

Support of interface applications, and system alerts. Working with InterSystems HealthShare (HealthConnect), HL7 messages, SQL troubleshooting.

Systems Administrator - Midrange Systems

US Department of Veterans Affairs

Oct 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year)

Interface applications support on InterSystems HealthConnect.

Ride Share Driver

Uber

Sep 2019 - Sep 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Provide ride share service.

OS Applications Engineer

VMS Software Inc

Dec 2018 - Aug 2019 (9 months)

Support of VMS layered products.

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Business Analyst

Lahey Hospital

Jan 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Develop and support healthcare interface routes process HL7 ADT, ORM, ORU messages. Working with InterSystems HealthShare for interface development integration into EPIC EMR. Prepared releases and promoted application changes using HealthConnect transfer procedures. Communications settings using TCP/IP. Worked with Epic Bridges for message resubmission and also correction for production issues. Wrote documentation for business requirements showing message flow, mapping and transformation. Mentored new team member. On-call 24x7 as part of a rotation.

Applications Engineer/Business Analyst

Lahey Health

Jan 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Development and support of interface applications with Epic and Intersystems Health Connect.

Implementation Engineer

American Well

Jan 2016 - Jan 2017 (1 year 1 month)

Design and implementation of integration solutions for healthcare interface transactions. Ran test scripts on a telehealth application, generate transaction reports for analysis. Wrote message mapping documents, Javascript. Develop interface routes process HL7 ADT, MDM, SIU and medical documents CCR using Rhapsody.

Integration Engineer

American Well

Jan 2016 - Jan 2017 (1 year 1 month)

Design and implementation of integration solutions delivered to customers and as well as ongoing maintenance. Architect, develop and maintain interface routes for processing HL7 ADT and also medical documents CCR, CCD.

Business Integration Analyst

Staples

Jul 2015 - Oct 2015 (4 months)

• Serve as liaison between vendors, merchants, product management and engineering to provide guidance and assistance regarding their integrations with Staples.
• Provide Level 1 and Level 2 support for Vendor Support Specialists
• Prepare and deliver platform user training to internal and external stakeholders
• Subject Matter Expert for vendor integrations and across many of the integration methods such as API, EDI
• Create and maintain vendor integration knowledge base

Business Analyst/Programmer Analyst

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

Jun 2014 - Jun 2015 (1 year 1 month)

• Interviewed Subject Matter Experts, documented and designed Business Requirement Document related to maintaining interface systems for the EDI team.
• Analyzed information needs for current and planned projects and developed requirements documentation in conjunction with end users.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Provided technical direction for projects dealing with specialized applications for systems analysis.
• Worked with HL7/X12 Rhapsody.

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Healthcare Specialist

Harvard Vanguard

Jan 2012 - Dec 2015 (4 years)

Design, write, maintain interface systems. Communication settings for TCP/IP. Analyze information needs for current and planned projects, discuss requirements with users. Provide technical direction to projects dealing with specialized applications of systems analysis. Work with Epic for message delivery, support of production transactions. Work with HL7/X12 Rhapsody, Unix, XML; also production support including 24x7 on-call. Conduct teleconferences with clients for interface business requirements, testing, use of Salesforce. Implementation tasks to configure software components to provide an effective solution for clients. Working with Rhapsody, Linux, XML, HL7, develop use-cases. Implementation and installation of IntelliDose product at c

Business Analyst Healthcare IT

Independent Consultant

Jan 2012 - Mar 2014 (2 years 3 months)

• Clients included UMASS Memorial, Orion Health, IntrisiQ LLC, UMASS
• Developed interface business requirements, performed testing and utilized Salesforce.
• Interviewed clients, analyzed systems, program requirements and data mapping
• Configured software components to provide an effective solution for clients.
• Worked with Rhapsody, Linux, SoapUI, XML, HL7.
• Implemented and installed IntelliDose product at client sites
• Configured interfaces for processing HL7 messages with Corepoint engine.
• Developed and maintained interfaces used in healthcare information systems.
• Configured EDI interface systems.

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Integration Engineer

Curaspan Health Group

Sep 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 4 months)

Integration of EDI interface application system transacting HL7 messages used to transfer patient information between hospitals and post-acute providers, also processing XML messages. Requirements analysis and data mapping for message transacting through teleconferences with clients. Implementation with Rhapsody, Javascript and Oracle, on Windows and Linux, PL/SQL, TCP/IP settings. Used open-source application for data transformation prior to load in production table.

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EDI Interface Engineer

Curaspan Health Group

Sep 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 4 months)

• Integrated EDI interface application system transacting HL7 messages used to transfer patient information between hospitals and post-acute providers, also processing XML messages.
• Performed requirements analysis and data mapping for message transacting through teleconferences with clients.
• Implementation with Rhapsody (Orion) and Oracle, on Windows and Linux, PL/SQL.
• Utilized open-source application for data transformation prior to load in production table.

VMS Programming Consultant

United Natural Foods

Dec 2009 - Jun 2010 (7 months)

• Conducted change control and documented software installation procedures in DCL script on VMS.

Applications Developer

JPMorgan Chase

Oct 2000 - May 2009 (8 years 8 months)

• Developed, maintained, and supported deposit initiation software processing high volume of EDI transactions on Alpha OpenVMS, with C, DCL, RTR, Datatrieve. Software management using MMS and CMS. On-call 24x7 support. Developed data storage procedures in Java
• Generated monthly transaction statistics with automated scripted procedures and Excel
• Created and maintained systems and operations specifications documentation
• Assisted technical support, including Disaster Recovery procedures, Quality Assurance staff, and customer support
• Conducted project upgrade implementations through scripted teleconference
• Developed ETL procedures with Bancware for data migration/conversion, generating XML files
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Application Developer

JPMorgan Chase

Oct 2000 - Apr 2009 (8 years 7 months)

Developed, maintained, and supported deposit initiation software processing high volume of EDI transactions on Alpha OpenVMS, with C, DCL, RTR, Datatrieve. Software management using MMS and CMS. On-call 24x7 support. Developed data storage procedures in Java. Generated monthly transaction statistics for analytics with automated scripted procedures and Excel. Created and maintained systems and operations specifications documentation. Assisted technical support, including Disaster Recovery procedures, Quality Assurance staff, and customer support, develop and managed use-cases. Conducted project upgrade implementations through scripted teleconference. Developed ETL procedures with Bancware for data migration/conversion, generating XML files.

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Programmer/Analyst

Medical Information Bureau

Jul 1999 - Oct 2000 (1 year 4 months)

• Supported and maintained transaction-handling software for insurance information
• Development on OpenVMS with C and DCL command procedures (scripting).

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Programming Analyst

Medical Information Bureau

Jul 1999 - Oct 2000 (1 year 4 months)

Supported and maintained EDI transaction-handling software for insurance information. Development on OpenVMS with C and DCL command procedures (scripting).

Software Interface Specialist

Psyche Systems Corporation

Mar 1994 - Jun 1999 (5 years 4 months)

• Designed, developed, and supported clinical lab software which exchanged EDI transactions between laboratory and hospital systems, using several exchange protocols including HL7
• Projects involving data migration/conversion and ETL procedures
• Business analyst interviews with clients for requirements gathering and data field mapping
• Development with FORTRAN programming on OpenVMS, DCL batch procedures
• Developed design specifications in conjunction with clients and third parties
• Technical Support for live production systems including 24x7 on-call rotation
• Interviewed candidates and trained new employees

Systems Analyst

National Computer Systems

Nov 1993 - Mar 1994 (5 months)

• Programming and support of an application used for asset management and accounting
• Development in Mumps, C, Fortran and DCL on VAX/VMS

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Installation Engineer

Access International

Apr 1991 - Oct 1993 (2 years 7 months)

• Customization and installation of application used for fund-raising tracking
• Programmed on VAX/VMS with 4GL Admin, Fortran and DCL

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Programmer Analyst

Independent Data Services

Jan 1990 - Apr 1991 (1 year 4 months)

• Software development for business systems
• Programming on VAX/VMS with Pascal and DCL command procedures

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Software Programmer

Software Contracting

Apr 1987 - Dec 1989 (2 years 9 months)

• Programming consultant on a series of short term assignments
• Worked on VAX/VMS with Fortran, C, Cobol, Pascal, DCL.

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Software Engineer

RigakuUSA

Dec 1985 - Apr 1987 (1 year 5 months)

Software converion of industrial x-ray application from PDP to VMS. Programmed on VAX/VMS with Fortran, VAX Macro, System Services,, VMS Run-Time Library, DCL.

SW Engineer

Digital Equipment Corp

Jul 1982 - Dec 1985 (3 years 6 months)

• Software applications development on VMS
• Programming in FORTRAN, Macro and Bliss, DCL procedures

Software development, design, maintenance and support. Extensive experience on VMS. Various projects for data entry, reporting, data migration, point-of-sales, lab information, menu drivers, business support, accounting

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