Employer: Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield
Location: Rochester, NY
Position: Java Technology Specialist
Period: June 2006 – November 2006
Excellus BCBS is New York State's largest nonprofit health plan. Their e-service production website provides a claims processing workflow used by patients, medical professionals, and insurance agents.
During my employment the website was relying on backend services implemented in a legacy COBOL architecture. Steps were being taken to replace the entire backend with a modernized J2EE event-driven architecture.
Responsibilities and accomplishments:
- Developed long-range service-oriented architecture goals for a legacy software system.
- Investigated and compared the benefits of utilizing modern software technologies such as J2EE and Apache Struts.
- Analyzed and implemented solutions for problems regarding the Excellus /Univera e-service production website.
