SUMMARY:

• Type 50 words per minute
• Sufficient oral and written communication skills
• Proficient in Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, and Windows 7 operating systems. As well as Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, Power Point
• Visual Studio 2005 and 2010,VB.net and ASP.net
• SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008R2, 2012
• Experience with MySQL
• Experience with Mirth Connect
• Cloverleaf HL7 and TCL. Experience
• Over 6 years of HL7 experience working with HL7 standards 2.2 - 2.5.1
• Experience working with X12 and XML via Interface Engine
• Experience working with CDA’s sending to an HIE
• Experience with McKesson Paragon, McKesson Patient Folder, Horizon Lab and Horizon Pacs as well as other EMR’s.
• Some experience working with Linux operating systems.
• Healthcare and Ambulatory Experience in hospital setting.
• Dependable, Responsible, and Trustworthy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Integration Engineer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Participate in due diligence process with prospective hospital clients in order to determine if their systems are capable of sending the appropriate information and that our product is able to deliver desire results based on that data.
• Create new HL7 interfaces (ADT, ORM and ORU) using the Mirth Connect interface engine
• Participate in hospital client validation testing of HL7 messages.
• Create automatic FTP processes to pick up flat files from hospital clients
• Work as a liaison between hospital clients and SaaS engineers to communicate any issues or product enhancements that may be needed.
• Analyze hospital HL7 messages and compare them to the HL7 specs for our Healthbench application to verify that all data is present and formatted correctly. If any changes are needed, work with client to instruct them on what changes need to be made and how they should make them.
• Implement and configure third party vocabulary lookup service for common codes such as SNOMED, LO INC, CPT and ICD-9/10.
• Review messages stored in MySQL database if there are any parsing errors that arise.
• Work with HL7 messages from multiple source systems including Cerner, Epic, Affinity and Meditech.
• Participate in product development iteration meetings

Database/HL7 Engineer

Confidential, Henderson, NC

Responsibilities:

• Led conversion to SSRS project Converted over 400 reports from Crystal Reports to SSRS
• Created and Maintained SSIS packages that imported and exported data to and from third party systems or agencies.
• Responsible for setting up and maintaining all database backups on SQL servers
• Created custom stored T-SQL procedures to extract data from database and use to create reports for end users
• Maintained over 200 SQL databases running on SQL 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2008R2
• Responsible for application upgrades to our core HIS product as well as any third party software that the hospital uses
• Created over 15 custom applications using VB.net and Visual Studio for different departments throughout the organization that would pull data from Core HIS and store in custom SQL database to allow for end user modification
• Front end development and design of all custom applications which included screen layout as well as application functionality
• Responsible for working with end users to determine appropriate design and program functionality as well as organized testing
• Responsible for creating and maintaining over 85 different HL7 interfaces
• Led evaluation process of Rhapsody Integration Engine in a development/test environment as compared to the current Cloverleaf Interface Engine.
• Experience working with ADT, ORU, ORM, DFT and RDE HL7 message types
• Created GE Fetal monitoring interface
• Responsible for creating lookup tables for interfaces to cross reference physician ID numbers as well as service codes, service types and registration stations
• Created FTP interface that stores HL7 messages in SQLite database and performs a lookup when an A08 message comes through the interface engine
• Created custom VB.net application that stores orders from third party systems and will release HL7 messages when the end user specifies
• Led project to upgrade our interface server from Window to Linux
• Led project to upgrade our Cloverleaf version from 5.4.1 to 5.8.5
• Created interfaces to send lab information to the North Carolina Public Health agency as part of Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements
• Implementation of SharePoint into organization
• Responsible for providing application support to all departments including Radiology and Lab as well as providing support to all on staff physicians
• Created custom print rules to print necessary paperwork at time of registration based on patient type, service code, service area, etc.
• Created Hl7 interfaces to send patient data to community HIE
• A team member of the Meaningful Use Stage 1 Attestation as well as Meaningful Use Stage 2.

Development Specialist

Confidential, Henderson, NC

Responsibilities:

• Trained incoming employees on various systems as well as client criteria
• Designed internal knowledge base system using VB.net for employees to reference client criteria
• Developed corporate reports that would run daily to show statistical information such as call volume by client, employee and time of day.
• A member of a team of 4 individuals who were sent to Texas for 7 weeks to obtain a contract with Aetna. During our time there we had to prove that we were able to learn all of the client material take phone calls as well as train new employees.

Certified Pharmacy Tech

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for granting prior authorizations on prescription medications for Medicaid clients by applying clinical criteria.
• Responsibilities also include performing research using on-line database information and reference materials and miscellaneous administrative duties as assigned.

DUR Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for taking incoming live calls or fax request from a variety of providers, clients and occasionally members, applying clinical criteria to these requests, and documenting the outcome of the request in ACS mainframe/X2 environment.
• Responsibilities also include performing research using on-line database information and reference materials and miscellaneous administrative duties as assigned.