About

Vivek Kulkarni is a seasoned IT professional with over 22 years of experience in the analysis, design, development, implementation, maintenance, and management of full life cycle commercial applications. He has worked across various domains such as Financial Applications, Banking, Hospital Management, Energy and Utilities, Telecom Billing, Supply Chain Management, and Retail. Vivek is a Biztalk Architect at Encora and has strong skills in .net 2.0, Asp.net, windows forms, Ado.net, Biztalk Server 2006, 2009, 2010, 2013, Sql Server 2005/2000, SSIS, Web Services, Mirth Connect, EDI, HL7, FHIR Server API, SAP IDoc, Remoting, Com+, Windows Services, Ajax with asp.net, WCF, WWF, VSTO, VB6 (technical), WPF, and Entity Framework. Vivek has expertise in Microsoft technologies such as .net Biztalk server, sql server, asp.net, SSIS, EDI, HL7, and FHIR Server. He holds certifications in PRINCE2, CSM, and MCP and has achieved MCTS: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 and MCAD.net. In his current role at Encora, Vivek is working on a new Biztalk project with Senior Author Mr. Howard Edidin under his guidance. This new project is about converting HIPAA information to HL7, and they are using Biztalk for HIPAA to FHIR integration. Vivek's recent work includes two Biztalk workflows, X12_00501_270 Hippa to HL7 Patient and X12_00501_270 Hippa to HL7 CoverageeligibilityReqest FHIR server API, with error handling done in a generic error handling orchestration. He is also using Mirth Connect, an open-source tool, for HL7 integration with FHIR server API. In the past, Vivek has worked as a Technology Lead at Scrumstart, where he worked as a Biztalk Lead for a Retail Client TWG of New Zealand. He led a team of seven and was responsible for project analysis, requirements gathering, documentation, architectural design and development, unit testing, QA testing until UAT, production deployment, RCA/CAPA for problems occurring in BizTalk, project coordination, estimation, project monitoring and sign-off from stakeholders, client meeting, and