Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. Work Values

Daily Duties at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.:

Accountable for migrating and generating quarterly releases for deployable and impacted components list to testing, UAT and production environments. Managed the models, migrations and architecture in 4 encyclopedias for 10+ systems. Interacted with CEO and top management of the company, Performed Project Planning, Estimation, Scope, Cost, Time Management, Risk Management  Develop Project baselines and perform monitoring to control the project  Led a team of 60 developers, coordinating efforts in different systems in Los Angeles, Portland, Hawaii as well as a 100-member offshore team in India; kept attrition below 5%  Interacted with over 200 individuals, including development team members, leads, project managers, release managers, managers, DBAs, system testers and users to prepare releases,  Involved in planning, coordination and support Enterprise software releases, coordination and development of processes,  Maintained the migration paths of foundation systems for the Enterprise Software, Ensured the successful release implementation of 20 enterprise software releases from 2002 to 2007 including projects for Medicare Modernization, KP Health Connect, SOA, Plan, Build and Run Projects,  Made the Advantage Gen Models encyclopedia available for all environments, impacting 50,000+ users/developers, from development to production  Applied entity design and database changes for 20 releases to ensure that the development of subsequent models are ready for the next release development  Implemented changes to the Impact Analysis tool; customized the configuration management tool GuardIEn used for suggesting improvements to the product  Suggested and implemented changes to the release path, cutting down the time-to-production of releases from 9 months to 6 months; this resulted in significant user satisfaction  Ensured that code migrated to different environments had almost zero defects in each of the environments for 20 releases; reduced defect tickets from 30 to 2-3 per release  Migrated the tools from VB to IBM Websphere environment; provided intranet webpage; wrote servlets to upgrade the tools from client-based VB to web-based tool  Verified tools for 10 releases; subsequently adapted and used them for 6 other systems in different encyclopedias which led to savings of USD 10-20 million per release

What they like about Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

DB2, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Advantage Gen, CA Gen, IEF, DFSORT, FILE-AID, SPUFI, INTERTEST, XPEDITOR, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Annuity Products Knowledge, Investment Management, Financial Industry Knowledge, DB2, COBOL, CICS, JCL, File-Aid, ENDEVOR, MS-ACCESS, Java, Servlets, IBM Websphere, Salesforce

Skills

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.: