SUMMARY:

Skilled IT Manager adept Confidential building and managing high - performance teams. Experience spans IT Infrastructure, Software Development, and Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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Senior Manager, Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of developers using Java/Spring/Hibernate, JSF, JSP, and Perl Manage in an unofficial DevOps environment where development team is responsible for the management and configuration of the Linux operating systems as well as the application stack consisting of Apache, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, and PGPool.
• Analyze solutions to determine business value and prioritization
• Provide accurate cost assessments to support the IT budget projections
• Develop team and individual performance goals and metrics; evaluate and coach developers on their performance
• Lead the successful implementation of Scrum methodology within the software development team
• Managed the team through a significant disaster recovery event (office fire) resulting in the need for the company to work in a temporary office location for several weeks.
• During this time, my team exhibited great flexibility and agility to restore access to necessary data and provide the business with the needed services to continue functioning.

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Business Analyst (System Consultant Sr. Analyst)

Responsibilities:

• Function as Scrum Product Owner Gather and document clear requirements for new features and bugfixes related to MidasPlus Health Analytics Software.
• Analyz software requirements from Product Manager, clients, internal staff, and written specifications
• Document clear and actionable user stories and software requirements in Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Perform project management functions as needed, coordinating with development and QA resources to obtain resources, track progress, and manage project risk
• Evaluate change requests, enhancement requests, and bugfixes to determine value and priority Subject matter expert/requirements owner
• Developed requirements and managed implementations of new versions of clinical measures from AHRQ, Leapfrog, CMS, and Meaningful Use
• Managed requirements for implementation of a new version of Midas Risk Model Analytics software Managed requirements and drove project to build a new Risk Model Transparency web application that allows hospitals visibility into exactly which factors led to a specific patient encounter being assigned a specific risk value

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Owner/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided software implementation of quality reporting platform.
• This involved installing and configuring IIS, Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS packages, and .Net codebase
• Consulted and advised corporate clients on their technology strategy

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Project Manager/Senior Systems Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Liaison between the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and medical researchers.
• Responsible for making the EDW useful for Clinical and Translational Research.
• Provided leadership within the Enterprise Data Warehouse for all initiatives related to leveraging clinical data for research and quality improvement projects.
• Project Manager for software development projects (Waterfall and SCRUM methodology), complying with organization’s PMO-defined methodology when necessary.
• Projects included design, development, and implementation business intelligence tools/dashboards, web applications, data analysis, ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) development, data modeling, and customizations to EPIC (electronic medical records system)
• Worked directly with physicians and Ph.D researchers to understand their data, software, and reporting needs and then worked with Data Warehouse staff to conceive, design, build, and deliver solutions.
• Presented project overviews, status updates, and product demos to senior leadership including C-level.
• Represented the Enterprise Data Warehouse on committees and Confidential planning and strategy meetings with senior leadership across the organization.
• Hands-on development of web applications using Oracle Apex, ColdFusion, Qlikview, MS Access, MSSQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL database, Javascript, and JQuery.
• Developed reports from Oracle database and Microsoft SQL database using SAP Business Object WEBi, Crystal Reports, SQL, and Excel.
• Managed Sharepoint sites (create sites, configure, create lists, manage calendars, build custom forms, etc…) for multiple development projects and groups.

Project Manager/Scrum Master

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Responsibilities:

• Project involved sourcing 240+ data elements from the back-end of 7 different clinical systems, integrating them into the Enterprise Data Warehouse, and building self-service reporting environment. Scrum team consisted of Scrum Master, Product Owner, Data Modeler/Architect, ETL Developer, Data Analyst, Business Intelligence (BI) Developer. Project Manager for a research study of Cerebral Palsy patients.
• Project involved customizing EPIC to collect discrete data using smart forms, then combining that data with other Data Warehouse data and analyzing the data to show a statistically significant improvement in outcomes based on a new process for treating patients.
• Project Manager for Pneumonia data collection and analysis project. Scope included building custom history and physical smart forms in EPIC, ETL of smart form data from Clarity to Data Warehouse, and delivery of self-service BI tool (in Qlikview) for data analysis. Co-author of ‘Learn From Every Patient’: implementation and early results of a learning health system.
• Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology Conceived and led process implementation of new User Acceptance Testing and peer code-review processeses for software development teams. Conceived and developed web application and new processes for Neonatology to collect and report data to CHND (Children’s Hospitals’ Neonatal Database).
• The software provided an optimized workflow with prepopulated data for the nurse abstractor to review and approve, as well as “hints’ and empty fields to collect data that didn’ Confidential exist in discrete form. The result was a 50% reduction in abstraction time as well as the ability to analyze the collected data.
• Technology stack was ColdFusion, Oracle database, SQL, Javascript, JQuery.

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President/CEO/Owner

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on technical and business leader in IT consulting company with 10-15 employees.
• Provided implementation and management of information security, IT infrastructure, telecommunications, video surveillance, and consulting services to government,, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial industry clients.
• Managed projects using Agile and SCRUM principles.
• Managed day-to-day operations as well as strategic planning
• Recruiting/hiring/firing responsibilities
• Developed and launched a regional Managed Services practice.
• Managed commercially available video security product that was focused on financial vertical market.
• Generated and maintained client relationships.
• Consultative sales to C-suite decision-makers.
• Hands-on technical - Senior technical resource for software development, network engineering, information security, and server/systems management.

Technology stack included: Windows Servers (Active Directory, IIS, DNS, DHCP, ColdFusion, Exchange, SQL), Linux (Redhat/Fedora Apache, sendmail, Bind DNS), data security (Watchguard, Sonicwall, Cisco ASA, 3Com, TippingPoint IPS), network infrastructure (Cisco switches, Cisco routers, 3Com switches, 3Com routers, HP switches), software development (Visual Basic, ColdFusion, javascript, perl, SQL, bash, tcsh).

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Senior Analyst/Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Software developer building a company-wide Central Office management application
• Developed software using ColdFusion, Microsoft SQL, Oracle, Javascript Designed a company-wide dashboard used by central office managers to manage their workforce, tickets, and resources.
• Built a rapid development framework (using user-defined functions) and specified and implemented software development standards
• Responsible for performing peer code reviews to enforce good coding practices and enforce our software development standards
• Developed (along with one other developer) an -winning single sign-on solution that was used as the authentication/authorization mechanism for multiple products across the company

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System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for network administration, server maintenance, PBX management, and escalated desktop support.
• Implemented and managed Cloverleaf HL7 Interface Engine Implemented network monitoring and notification system
• Designed and implemented replacement of point-to-point data circuits with site-to-site VPNs
• Managed network infrastructure (3Com core switch, Cisco routers, SonicWall firewall) Managed servers (Windows: Active Directory, IIS, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, SQL)
• Managed Siemens PBX phone system.
• Managed Quadramed Affinity Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software.

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Support Manager/Infrastructure Manager/Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed network and server infrastructure for internal network (Internet Service Provider with ~25 servers, 15 network locations) as well as for customers in Finance,, Legal, Healthcare, and others.
• Cisco routers Cisco and 3Com switches Windows Servers with Active Directory, IIS, Exchange, DNS, DHCP, File Server, ColdFusion, Post.Office Linux Servers with Apache, DNS (Bind), NFS Watchguard, SonicWall, 3Com, Cisco firewalls Software development using Visual Basic, ColdFusion, Javascript, SQL, Perl, Bash, TCL