Me ! Shariq

Shariq Syed

Software Engineer | Full Stack Developer | Architect

ABOUT ME / PERSONAL

WHO AM I?


I Am The Architech Of my life. I Build My Own Foundation And I Choose My Own Bricks


Hi I'm Shariq Syed, father of two, husband of one, living as an expatriate in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates since 2008, recently moved to Sharjah, belongs from Karachi, Pakistan, working as a Software development professional in a Gulf Base Health Insurance TPA "NAS - Neuron " (formerly NAS and after merger with Neuron, it is NAS – Neuron, one of the largest Health Insurance TPA having a portfolio of more than 1 million beneficiaries).

I love technology because it allows me to multiply my efforts in ways that are remarkable. I can stay connected with friends and family, while simultaneously working on a critical component of work–in any city, in any country, anywhere, simply I am a big fan of tehnology. I grew up playing on a computer back when it wasn’t the norm and the very first programming language I started playing with was C++ and my journey is continue....

I love Cycling, one of the most important days of my life, was when I learned to ride a bicycle. Cycling is an absolutely essential part of my weekend. I am also a Book lover, average I read two to three books in a month which can be a motivitational book, non-fiction or technology. My favourite book is "The Monk Who Sold his Ferari". I like to listen Classic Music, Jagjit Singh & Pankaj Udhas is my favourite.

I always love & appreciate hardworking, self made & qualified persons, qualified enough to make the difference between good or bad. I assume my self as a professional, dedicated, energetic, hard working, cooperative, and result oriented person. I am a challenging person and always in search of challenges and opportunities."

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PROFESSIONAL

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Computer Science Graduate, Microsoft Certified (MCTS, MCPD) professional offering 12+ years of core development experience out of them 10 years in the field of Health Insurance ERP solutions, system study, designing, core development, deployment, training, and support. In depth knowledge of health insurance domain. Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer with NAS (Health Insurance TPA, working with approx 50 Insurance companies of Gulf region, maintain the portfolio of approx 1 million beneficiaries).

Solely responsible for maintaining, upgrading, support of PBM [Pharmacy Benefit Management System] and on-site deployment for new clients.

Specialized and well versed in the developing web based ERP solutions C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET and Oracle PL/SQL.

Experience in all facets of data exchange, synchronization and integration of different platforms. Engaged with multiple clients in the phase of deployment, integration and sync.

EXPERIENCE

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Engineer

NAS Administration Services [Apr 2008 - Present]

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates [http://www.nas.ae]

NAS is a leading TPA (Third Party Administrator) of Health Insurance Companies for managing the Medical Insurance business. Currently, NAS is working approx 50 insurance companies of Gulf Region, maintain the portfolio of approx 1 million members.

Responsibilities

I manage all aspects of development process ranging from Analyze user requirements to Architecture to Design to Development to Testing to Deployment.

  • Writing codes which include both Front / Back-end development (90% web-based).
  • Creating Oracle database objects including stored procedure, function, trigger etc.
  • Developing Windows \ Web \ WCF services.
  • Testing software in controlled, real situations before goes live.
  • In-house / remote deployment.
  • Identifying tasks for automation.
  • Main point of contact for all technical queries (Internal \ external).
  • Providing solution to our clients for data exchange, collaborations, migrations.
  • Regularly attending the Government Health Authority's Technical meetings.

Solely responsible for maintaining, upgrading, support of PBM [Pharmacy Benefit Management System] and on-site deployment for new clients.

Accomplishments

Milestone-based automation of the following process;

  • Pharmacy Approvals, 75% auto process.
  • Claim Processing, 95% Pharmacy Claims auto process (in total 62%).
  • Insurance Card printing, 85% fast processing & 99.99 % accuracy.

Developed PBM (Pharmacy Benefits Management System) from scratch for real-time Pharmacy approvals. Also, integrate FDB (First Data Bank) API for pure medical adjudication.

Integrate messaging system into in-house/client applications to send SMS notification & email.

Fully participated in the development of web-based applications JeT and nasNtouch, used by 2000+ Hospitals, Clinic & Pharmacy all over Gulf region, can handle claims, authorization, eligibility checks, accounts, policy admin.

Technologies

C# .NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Oracle pl/sql, Javascript, jQuary, CSS, HTML, XML, Bootstrap

Software Engineer

Medsons Pvt Ltd, Karachi [Oct 2006 – Mar 2008]

Karachi, Pakistan

MEDSONS Private Limited is one of the largest garment buying houses of Pakistan that belongs to the Dadabhoy group (a prominent industrial group of Pakistan). The Company has its offices in Pakistan, Dubai, and the USA.

Responsibilities / Achievements

  • Adding new module in the existing Order Management System (VOMS - Desktop application).
  • Update the existing module of VOMS as per the requirements of Merchandisers & QCs.
  • Maintaining,& upgrading the company's official website.
  • Created different reports for management, marketing, and merchandising department needs.
  • Installation of new software packages.
  • Assisted technical and non-technical users in troubleshooting and resolving issues.
  • Providing support to other sister concerned companies.
  • Automate garments tag printing, resulting 90% fast processing.
  • Automate monthly MIS report. End of month automatically generated and email to directors.

Technologies

Visual Basic 6.0, VB.NET, Classic ASP, ASP.NET, SQL Server, MS Access database, Javascript, CSS, HTML, XML, MS Excel objects

SKILLS

MY SPECIALITIES

C# .Net

VB .Net

ASP .NET

Oracle PL / SQLT

MS SQL Server

VS 6.0, 2003 To 2012

Bootstrap Framework

JavaScript / jQery

Win / WCF / Web Services

HTML / XML / CSS

Crystal Report

SDLC

PROJECT

SOFTWARE PROJECT

nasNtouch is a complete ERP solution for managing NAS's Health Insurance business.

nasNtouch is a suite of modules that manage core business processes, such as;

  • Entity Setup
  • Healthcare Provider Setup
  • Product Setup
  • Policy Administration
  • Authorization Processing
  • Claim Processing
  • Finance
  • Payment Order
  • Reporting

Entity Setup :

  • Manage entities (Service Provider/Payers/Distributor/Treaties)
  • Manage agreements b/w entities
  • Manage accounts / misc applicable fees / refund setup
  • Manage Insurance Card Type/License/Logo etc

Healthcare Provider Setup :

  • Manage Provider Groups & Providers (Clinic / Pharmacy / Hospital).
  • Manage provider network / services / standards / schedules.
  • Manage provider agreement.
  • Manage professionals (doctors).

Product Setup :

This module help to create different types of insurance product (Group/Individual/Travel/Domestic) by using parameters like premium mode, currency, Regulator, Age definition etc.

Policy Administration :

Fully dedicated module to assist production team that assist customers in their policy administration tasks that include census management, incorporation of policy terms on the system and generation of members’ cards. User manage their endorsement requests for additions, deletions, corrections, and category changes.

Authorization Processing :

This module handles the authorization request received from providers by checking drugs' coverage / benefits / plan limits and others conditions relevant to patient's health insurance plan in real time, auto process 75% pharmacy requests. System also creates manual authorization.

Claim Processing :

This module handles the network / reimbursement claims.

Finance :

This module manages the bank, currencies etc.

Payment Order :

This module help to generate payment order for reimbursement & network claims.

Reporting :

This module allows the NAS staff and our clients to generate different reports like active members list, claim list, price list etc.

This cloud application is an advanced version of PBM Application (Pharmacy Benefit Management System) which provide an interface between our clients (Insurance companies & TPA) and pharmacies in Abu Dhabi & Dubai to manage the pharmaceutical approval better and in real time. This application also process the ePresription (eRx).

This cloud application is ideal for those clients who don't want capital investment in hardware and infrastructure, however, can deploy at client premises also.

PBM Connect automatically check for coverage of drugs, benefits and plan limits and others conditions relevant to patient's health insurance plan.

key features of PBMConnect :

  • Manage the real-time transaction between the pharmacy and insurance company / TPA.
  • 75% auto process pharmacy approval requests.
  • Process the ePresription received from Dubai Physician in real time.
  • Provider / Network / Member eligibility check.
  • View patient history
  • Create Manual Authorization
  • Print Manual Authorization & send to Health Provider by system integrated messaging system.
  • SMS notification to the patient for approval status.
  • Exposed web services to transfer authorization data from PBM Connect to client's internal system.

Medically adjudicate all the pharmaceutical approval request for ;

  • Drug - Age
  • Drug - Gender
  • Drug - Drug Interaction
  • Drug - Disease Contraindication
  • Drug - Disease Indication
  • Duplicate Therapy

Applying approx 45+ business rules of different categories and client has full control of switch off / on any rule and also fully customizable from the client level to Payer / Policy / Category level.

Below are top-level rule categories available for customization;

  • Eligibility
  • Coverage
  • Healthcare Provider [Pharmacy stopped / system not able to identify drug price etc]
  • Exclusion [Drugs / Diagnosis]
  • Medical [Duplicate Therapy etc]
  • Submission [Professional stopped / eRx number missing etc]
  • Cost [Maxiumu request cost exceeded etc]
  • Quantity
  • Duration

This is a standalone application for pure Medical Adjudication of Pharmacy request. This Engine can integrate with any pharmacy approval / claim processing system. We build this application on the top of FDB (First Databank - https://www.fdbhealth.com) API and daily its process more than 30, 000 pharmacy requests.

Easy to use integration process make it simple to integrate with any pharmacy approval/claim system for medical adjudication. Currently, this Engine is not only used by our Internal applications but also used by our clients (TPA / Insurance companies) for medical adjudication.

key features of PBM Engine :

  • Drug - Age [eg. Medication is not appropriately prescribed given the patient age]
  • Drug - Gender [eg. Medication used exclusively \ likely for the other gender]
  • Drug - Drug Interaction [Strict \ Moderate \ Severe Interaction]
  • Drug - Disease Contraindication [Absolute \ Relative \ Warning Contraindication]
  • Drug - Disease Indication [eg. Medication to diagnosis is inconsistent]
  • Duplicate Therapy

This is an online Web based Health Insurance portal used by 2000+ of Health Service Provider (Pharmacy / Polyclinics & Diagnostics Center / Hospital) all over the Gulf. Provider can submit approval request, their medical claims, check their account status. On the other end, the Medical Claim Center can view the request of Provider and send back the approval / rejection or can communicate with them by messaging system. It also includes notification system (E-Mail, SMS), E-Claim generation etc. This application is more than a complex banking application.

Our new ERP solution nasNtouch replaced this system.

As part of the OpenJeT V-II project, the inHealth team requested a web service that utilizes the member's Insurance Card or Emirates ID to check for a member’s insurance information (Eligibility). .

The web service is to be used by providers to check the insurance coverage information for patients before proceed any treatment. The insurance information will be pulled from the central database of NAS.

This is an online Web based portal for issuing the Health Insurance Policies for citizens of GCC and also the expatriates.

In the emirates of Abu Dhabi & Dubai, provider (Pharmacy / Clinic / Hospital) submit their approval request in the form of XML file to the central data repository of Health Authority of Abu Dhabi (HAAD) and Dubai Health Authority (DHA) which called Post Office.

This Windows Service application is responsible to download the authorization request from the Post Office and store in the concerned database schema. Once the authorization request processes, application generate the xml file from the data and upload back to the post office..

Normally, if the authorization request is auto process, authorization cycle completed within one minute.

In the emirates of Abu Dhabi & Dubai, provider (Pharmacy / Clinic / Hospital) submit their claims (eClaim) in the form of XML file to the central data repository of Health Authority of Abu Dhabi (HAAD) and Dubai Health Authority (DHA) which called Post Office.

This Windows Service application is responsible to download the eClaim from the Post Office and store in the concerned database schema. eClaim engine & nasNtouch application take care the rest of the process.

ROLE

HOW I CAN HELP YOU

As a Developer

You need help leading a development team, or are looking for an independent contributor to help out with development.

As an Architect

You need help architecting a new product from scratch, or improving an existing one to make it more current, performant, scalable or maintainable.

As a Problem Solver

You have a varying list of ever-changing software engineering needs and need someone who can do a bit of everything!.
EDUCATION

ACADEMIC

Bachelor of Science – Information Technology - 2nd degree [Year 2008]
Preston Institute of Management Science & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

Get 2nd graduation degree as per the new requirements of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
Bachelor of Science – Information Technology [Year 2001]
Preston Institute of Management Science & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

CERTIFICATION

EXTRA QUALIFICATION

I'm Microsoft Certified professional and my certification can be verified from the followimg url of Microft official website.

https://mcp.microsoft.com/authenticate/validatemcp.aspx
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MCP

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft .NET Framework, Application Development Foundation (70-536)

MCPD

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer

Designing and Developing ASP.NET Applications Using the Microsoft .N ET Framework 3.5 (70-564)

MCTS

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development (70-562)

LANGUAGE

I CAN SPEAK

English

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Hindi

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Urdu

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