Sean P. Lynchsean-lynch@sean-lynch.com

(312) 804-7617

Career ProfileSean shows the ability to manage teams that delivery multi-faceted software projects that exceed expectations and meet budgetary and time constraints. Sean has used both technical and business experience to forge connections between users and developers of software deliverables. Sean has led the design and guided the delivery of software solutions that have resulted in increased productivity and measurable savings for end users. Sean is focused on quality results.

ExperienceBlue Cross Blue Shield AssociationPosition: Senior System Analyst / Senior Solution Architect225 N Michigan Ave, Chicago IL, 60601March 2008 to present

Lead Systems Analyst and Solutions Architect for the National Data Warehouse (NDW), and related enterprise informatics systems:

Drove the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process in support of the world’s largest, fully conformed health care data warehouse covering 56 million lives, and 1 million providers with data from across nine years

Coordinated the enhancement fulfillment process from requirements gathering through UAT and delivery.

Automated the reporting of defect status through a dashboard style interface. Led codification of system and test defect tracking, and resolution of issues during warehouse redesign,

enabling delivery on second generation warehouse delivering $15M in annual operations savings. Led teams ranging from two to twelve, coordinating budget requirements with project needs.

Implemented test driven development standards for developers and coordinated this with the requirements matrix process.

Was the single point, first stage triage analyst and subject matter expert for all defect tickets and enhancement requests.

Experience with Verisk DxCG cost by risk grouper, Medassets DRG Diagnosis Related Groups and Truven MEG Medical Episode groupers

Led design and development of an inpatient stays grouper.

Developed data analysis tools for use in maintenance and understanding of data within the warehouse as well as proof of concepts for new system design

Designed multiple data marts built off of the core warehouse for reporting, studies and support of general user queries

Innovative Systems Group, Inc.799 Roosevelt Road, Building 4 Suite 109, Glen Ellyn, IL, 60137Positions included:Senior Consultant to Northern Trust (April 2007 to January 2008)Senior Consultant to Blue Cross/ Blue Shield of Illinois (HCSC) (October 2005 to June 2006)Senior Consultant to Northern Trust (February 2005 to October 2005)Consultant to Blue Cross/ Blue Shield of Illinois (HCSC) (October 1997 to January 2005)

Projects at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois: Led the 3 member team that maintained the vote calculation system for annual policyholder meetings.

(BCBSIL is a mutual company owned by its policyholders.) Updated the COBOL DB2 Blue Gateway reporting system to handle Medicare Part-D data. Created a DB2 to PeopleSoft extract process to feed financial data directly into the PeopleSoft general

ledger reducing manual input. Database developer of the FSS claim suspense and adjustment system converting it from a mainframe

based system into a J2EE GUI front-end DB2 back end, N-tier system.

Sean P. Lynchsean-lynch@sean-lynch.com

(312) 804-7617

Projects at Northern Trust: Developed and implemented the NPF Virtual Family Office project. Extracted data from an existing DB2 database and fed transformed data into an Oracle based back end on

the UNIX system. Developed GUI based front ends that were written in J2EE and hosted using either BEA WEBLogic or IBM’s

WebSphere.

Sogeti USA, LLC.5 Westbrook Corporate Center, Suite 600, Westchester, IL, 60154Position: Senior Consultant / Team LeadJune 2006 to April 2007

Development Team Lead / Senior Consultant to Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Wrote a suite of programs that converted legacy data from the IBM mainframe VSAM based ITS system into

DB2 tables. Designed and implemented UAT environment and coordinated UAT testing. Developed end user training materials and presentations. Was in charge of all aspect of the development life cycle for the entire conversion team and was responsible

to management for all deliverables. led a team of 5 other consultants throughout the life and delivery of the project. led seminars training users at multiple locations nationwide in the period leading up to implementation of the

conversion.

The Maxim Group (A division of Aerotek, now known as Tek systems)111 S. Tejon St. Colorado Springs, Co, 80903Position: Consultant to MCI (Programmer / Analyst)December 1996 to October 1997

Contributed to the Directline-MCI project. Replaced existing CICS input screens with web based screens. Replaced existing DB2 database back end with a three tiered client server system. Designed, developed and tested middle tier programs that communicated between the mainframe DB2

database and the web based front-end order entry screens. Work involved COBOL II and DB2 in the mainframe environment, HTML POST/GET forms, perl scripts and

C programs in the LAN environment.

Washington National Insurance Company300 Tower Pky.Lincolnshire, IL 60069Position: Programmer / AnalystJune 1996 to December 1996

Coded projects in Micro Focus COBOL programs running on a Novell NetWare LAN, with a Borland Paradoxdatabase.

Developed, tested implemented and maintained code for PC-based projects. Created functional specifications for PC-based projects. Drove all enhancements through the software development life cycle (sdlc).

Warehouse Club, Inc.7420 N. Lehigh Ave.Niles, IL 60714Position: Programmer, Re-Order buyer, Internal AuditorJune 1996 to December 1996

Developed and maintained inventory control software systems on an IBM system 38 in both COBOL and RPG II.

Sean P. Lynchsean-lynch@sean-lynch.com

(312) 804-7617

Continuing Education

Mongo University – M101p MongoDB for Developers May 2014On-line course covering the development of applications that use MongoDB. Certificate of completion

Mongo University – M102 MongoDB for DBAs June 2014On-line course covering the installation and management of MongoDB databases. Certificate of completion

Rails Studio –Pragmatic studio for Ruby on Rails March 2006Rails Studio is a three day workshop that covers the Ruby on Rails web framework. This workshop covers creating, testing, and deploying web apps rapidly using the Rails framework.

Java Developer Program, DePaul University Computer Career Program June 2005A ten week accelerated course in Java programming and systems, covering object-oriented applications development using Java 1.4 and 1.5. Subject matter and exercises cover all of J2SE, and the foundations of J2EE *including RMI, JNDI, Applets/Servlets, and Enterprise Java Beans.

Curriculum included:

J2SE 1.5 JDBC/ODBC Connectivity Object Oriented Design and Modeling Java Class Libraries Network Programming Distributed Systems AWT/Swing Java Beans Applets and Servelets Java Security Model Multi-threaded Programming RMI XML Serialization EJB’s

Certificate in Computer Programming, DePaul University Computer Career Program April 1996.An accelerated post-graduate program in computer programming and systems design developed to facilitate a career change into the field of computer programming.Curriculum included:

COBOL ANSI C DB2/SQL CICS OS/MVS HP UNIX JCL VSAM TSO/ISPF/IOF

Training Certificates: DB2 for OS/390 Application Programming Workshop - July, 1998 Micro Focus COBOL Workbench for PC-Based GUI Applications - September, 1996

Formal EducationMS Physics, University of CincinnatiAugust 1990.

BS Physics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and TechnologyMay 1985.