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ABBAS HUSSAIN

ABBAS HUSSAIN

Delhi,India

Summary

M.Sc. (IT) Professional with over 15+ years of total experience in healthcare domain and Nine years of cross functional experience in the areas of Analytics & MIS reporting and Project Management. Results-driven Project Manager with five years of experience leading and successfully delivering diverse projects within healthcare insurance domain. Adept at overseeing project lifecycles, from initiation to completion, while ensuring alignment with objectives, budgets, and timelines. Skilled in implementing project management methodologies, risk assessment, and continuous process improvement. Strong Business analysis skills through an in depth understanding of software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and understanding methodology like AGILE and WATERFALL. Facilitated Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, to ensure team alignment and continuous progress. Managed and prioritized the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals and timely delivery of features. Possess extensive experience in client-facing roles, specializing in business requirements gathering, requirement elicitation, planning, end-to-end solution development, software analysis, and product support within the EDI and US healthcare domain. Expertise in data visualization and SME level understanding of tools like TABLEAU, POWER BI and DOMO. Achieved LEAN certification and completed Six Sigma Green Belt training and successfully implementing two lean projects focused on process improvement and cost savings.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Project Leader

R Systems International
Noida
08.2022 - 01.2025

Project: Patient Portal for Health Record Access

Overview: Implement a patient portal that allows patients to view their health records, schedule appointments, and communicate with healthcare providers.

Key Activities Included:

  • Led the development and launch of a secure Patient Portal enabling patients to access health records, schedule appointments, request prescriptions, and communicate with healthcare providers, enhancing overall patient engagement and experience.
  • Defined the product vision, roadmap, and backlog, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals and industry standards (e.g., HIPAA compliance).
  • Worked closely with stakeholders (patients, healthcare providers, IT teams) to gather feedback, prioritize features, and ensure the product met user needs and regulatory requirements.
  • Directed cross-functional teams (development, QA, design, and IT) to build a responsive, secure, and user-friendly portal accessible on both desktop and mobile devices.
  • Integrated the portal with Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems for seamless access to patient data, ensuring accuracy and compliance with healthcare data privacy regulations.
  • Conducted usability testing and refined product features based on feedback from end users, resulting in a 30% increase in patient engagement.
  • Launched a beta testing phase, gathering insights to refine features, enhance functionality, and troubleshoot user issues.

Key Achievements:

  • Improved patient satisfaction by 25% through enhanced accessibility and engagement with health data.
  • Reduced administrative time by 20% through automation of appointment scheduling, prescription refills, and secure messaging.
  • Achieved an 80% user adoption rate within the first 6 months post-launch.


Project /Client: MHS-Epic Integration Application

Overview:

MHS assessment integration with Epic is getting developed with the purpose to help mental health professionals conduct mental assessments with their patients and collaborate conveniently with them.

Key Activities Included:

• Directed project deliveries while leading a team of 5 FTE members, ensuring successful completion within established timelines and quality standards.

• Liaised between project sponsors, stakeholders, developers, and analysts; established strong professional relations with external IT vendors via internally integrated application.

• Developed and implemented project roadmaps and milestones, and communicated project status with relevant stakeholders.

• Defined the project’s goal and user stories and created a plan to track progress.

• Led project planning, execution, and closure, ensuring projects were delivered on time, within budget, and to the satisfaction of stakeholders.

• Drafted the team charter to state team goals and responsibilities.

• Provide reports based on the current activities (Status Card Updates, Gantt Chart, Project Weekly Updates) for the MHS management team and scrum team facilitate Scrum activities.

• Managing Dev-Ops board for the entire project and managing the DevOps board (Product and Sprint) backlog.

• Coordinating with the Software development team to ensure the system is working as per expectations.

• Gathering business requirements and Documentation

• knowledge of the applications of automated information systems and electronic medical record systems such as EPIC.

• Assumed the role of a dedicated Scrum Master, driving backlog grooming and sprint planning activities, fostering Agile practices, and ensuring efficient project execution.

• Conducted thorough end-to-end testing of the application, meticulously identifying and documenting bugs through the creation of tasks on the DevOps board.

Product Owner/Business Analyst

Optum Global Solutions
Noida
03.2018 - 08.2022

Project /Client: Self Service Tool – CAT UNET

Key Activities Included:

  • Developed project backlog and Sprint backlog from requirements and run daily sprints. Tracked and monitored tasks and team collaboration using agile tool JIRA and CONFLUENCE for code collaboration.
  • Led the sprint review meeting and live demo the self-service tool to onshore partners and finally to our associated clients.
  • Involved in discussions with stakeholders, SMEs, system architects and technical teams through channeled/phased meetings and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
  • Ensure quality and accuracy of all reporting, develop, and execute procedures to ensure all reports and supporting documents meet the stakeholder’s needs and are completed accurately and within required timeframes.
  • Develop and utilize reporting best practices, serve as a subject matter expert on data analysis and report design to meet user needs.
  • Facilitate, coordinate, and elicit reporting requirements from multiple stakeholders to develop new reports.
  • Identify, analyze, and master new data sources. Extract, filter, and aggregate data using queries (e.g., SQL) when needed, develop new metrics.
  • Responsible for data manipulation and data validation using SQL queries in a MS SQL server.
  • Perform ongoing maintenance and enhancements to reports such as (SSIS and Tableau).
  • Perform ad hoc analysis to provide information to stakeholders.
  • Maintain project documentation via established project management tools such as Kanban, JIRA, and Confluence.
  • Responsible for writing and managing project and all process related codes for each module in a GIT repository.
  • Conduct Scrum meetings to see every report is delivered within time limit.
  • Create the business process model using Microsoft Visio and present it to onshore partner for validation and getting the signoffs.

Senior Business Analyst

United Health Group
Noida
03.2016 - 02.2018

Senior Reporting Analyst

United Health Group
Noida
11.2014 - 02.2016
  • SAS/SQL programming to fetch data from galaxy database as per the customer's requirement.
  • Making connection to DB2 and writing SAS queries.
  • Data extracts that exceed Excel’s row max will be created in MS Access.
  • Data extracts are returned in excel format with the following format to support ultimately the CRT area with next steps.
  • Claim level view: Single row per claim unique claim, dollar fields summarized
  • Line Level view: Claim detail per procedure with associated values and amounts
  • Comprehensive prepared reports using SAS report generating procedures like PROC PRINT, PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE, PROC FREQ, PROC MEANS and PROC TRANSPOSE.
  • Imported raw data files in excel format in SAS and subsequently created SAS Datasets and performed data manipulations on the datasets.
  • Created the reports using ETL using SQL/Excel to produce daily, weekly, and monthly reports.
  • Experience in working with SAS EG for reporting and analytical tasks.

Quality Specialist

United Health Group
Gurgaon
04.2010 - 10.2014
  • Audit High Dollar claims which are of critical customer remediation
  • Adjustment of claims which are of dedicated policies and critical customers.
  • Preparing productivity reports and day end reports for clients so that training/quality requirements for the process can be assessed.
  • Delivering excellent customer service through various operations for rendering and achieving quality services within the desired TAT.
  • Handling escalated & priority claims of the process and giving feedback to the Manager on weekly basis.
  • Engage with clients to facilitate better understanding of requirements.
  • Verify accuracy of data, compiled spreadsheets by combining data from various systems.
  • Providing weekly feedbacks to the Managers for improvement of site quality.
  • Analyzing data & Identifying trends.
  • Collaborating with vendors and monitoring their quality standards to ensure they are meeting their guarantees
  • Handling miscellaneous projects i.e., focused audit for specific clients.

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

Sikkim Manipal University
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
04.2001 - 05.2003

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

Lucknow University

Senior Secondary School - undefined

CBSE

High School - undefined

CBSE

Skills

  • SAS Base
  • SQL Server
  • Tableau
  • Python
  • Power BI
  • Alteryx
  • MS Visio/Figma
  • MS Azure
  • MS Office
  • Business Requirement Analysis & Use Case
  • Wireframing & Prototyping
  • IT Project Management & Product Ownership
  • JIRA
  • DevOps Board
  • Confluence
  • Kanban
  • Agile Methodology

Certification

  • CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) (Scrum Alliance)
  • CSM (Certified Scrum Master) (Scrum Alliance)
  • ALTERYX Designer Core by Alteryx (Alteryx)
  • Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 by (Microsoft)
  • Tableau Consumer (Tableau)

Accomplishments

  • Won the Covidthon Competition which was held at UHG level.
  • Got 34 Appreciation awards in the form of BRAVO from onshore partner last year for my Performance, Relationships & Collaboration.
  • Successfully completed the Six Sigma Lean project for the Report Rationalization Project. LEAN Idea completed with the dollar savings of $15213.
  • Won DATAVIZ ARTISTIC AWARD for the tableau competition held at UHG level.
  • Won the MINDSPARK competition held at UHG level.

Languages

English
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent
Urdu
Advanced

Personal Information

  • Pan Number: ABXPH6897E
  • Passport Details: E4933207
  • Father's Name: Mr. S.G. Abbas
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital status: Married

Timeline

Senior Project Leader

R Systems International
08.2022 - 01.2025

Product Owner/Business Analyst

Optum Global Solutions
03.2018 - 08.2022

Senior Business Analyst

United Health Group
03.2016 - 02.2018

Senior Reporting Analyst

United Health Group
11.2014 - 02.2016

Quality Specialist

United Health Group
04.2010 - 10.2014

Master of Science - Information Technology

Sikkim Manipal University
04.2001 - 05.2003

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

Lucknow University

Senior Secondary School - undefined

CBSE

High School - undefined

CBSE
ABBAS HUSSAIN