SUMMARY

• I am a Python Developer with over 9 years’ experience navigating Medicaid Long - Term Care requirements, regulations, and policies.
• I have worked in many capacities ranging from direct care management to Python development, building technology around business solutions for clients.
• Additionally, I engage in managing projects developed within python’s Django framework, utilizing technologies like MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
• My transition from social services to web development is rooted in my desire to provide quality services and deliverables to clients at scale, after leaving full-time employment to pursue an MPA.
• I now leverage technology and build business solutions to produce at scale. My objective is to work on building web-based solutions to address healthcare-based issues that affect medical professionals and patients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

LANGUAGES: Python3, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, CSS, HTML, YAML

STACK: Django/Python, MariaDB/MySQL, Elasticsearch 5 + 6, Redis, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Render, Git, Gitlab, Atlassian Helix Cloud, Linux, Windows 10, Docker

TEAMWORK/COLLAB: Git, Asana, Zenkit, Dropbox, Google Drive, pCloud, OneDrive, Microsoft Office, Google Suite (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Google Calendar)

SKILLS: Python, SQL, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, JavaScript, Django, MySQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, ETL, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, SvelteJS, VueJS, Docker, Microsoft Office Suite, Windows 10, Linux, Communications, Management, Statistical Analysis, Writing, Research, Documentation, Quality Improvement, Lean/Kaizen, Policy Analysis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Owner/Python Developer

Responsibilities:

• Platform as a Talent Sourcing tool. Provides careerists with data-driven opportunities leveraging NTLK and NumPy modules.
• Built and developed new features and function with Python3 within the Django Framework
• Utilizes AWS’ RDS and S3 data and file management solutions for backend/user media contents
• Leverages Elasticsearch for querying functions
• Structured DB managed by MariaDB/MySQL
• Caching managed by Redis
• Built front-end using Django’s Template Tag system, based on Jinja2’s templating engine
• Leverage Jinja2 Templating + Word documents to serve as a file-based Content Management System (for proof of concept)
• Implement reactivity and interactivity by building assets with JavaScript (Svelte JS)
• Hosted on Render, a cloud provider with deep integrations between platform and GitHub.
• Utilize Docker and Linux VMs to for staging and testing before deploying to the cloud
• Utilize YAML files to automate and simulate production-level cloud deployments
• CI development across Windows 10/Linux environments
• Utilize Sublime Text 3 and Jupyter Notebook for testing and debugging specific issues & crafting Python test units.

Confidential

Owner/Python Developer

Responsibilities:

• Platform to automatically convert existing forms and documentation in .doc, .docx, .pdf, and .odt file formats, and convert them to HTML
• Built with Python3/Django
• Leveraging MongoDB for Document-Based data storage
• Auto-generate content via sophisticated data-extraction feature set, template tagging, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) functions
• Extensively utilize form views to capture and store data
• Render forms through combination of HTML-to-filetype conversion features, and HTML-based templating
• Development road map to ensure HIPAA and HITECH compliance, with inclusion of app logging and geographic requirements for cloud DB storage
• Existing Use-Case for automating and streamlining documentation and project-management requirements for Medicaid Long-Term-Care programs within New York State Region

Confidential

Owner/Python Developer

Responsibilities:

• Python module for text extraction
• Leverages MuPDF as engine for PDF text extraction w/high fidelity for white spacing.
• Fall-back PyPDF2 in case of MuPDF build failure
• Provides single function to extract text while being file-type agnostic.
• Dev roadmap to include more file TYPES (E.G..: CSV, ODT, YAML, MD ETC.)

TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN CONSULTANT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ongoing creation of technology around business solution requirements.
• Develop apps within a microservices framework
• Developed micro-application to tokenize and weigh word values based on frequency and importance
• Generate summaries based on rank-ordering of sentence-based array object
• Intended for large public program manuals and special reports with 600+ pages
• Convert processed and filtered HTML and Plain Text content to named .docx and .pdf files on the fly
• Convert styles and text formatting to promote uniformity and establish a style guide
• Building form generation technology to automate service plan writing and documentation loading.
• Ongoing research on HIPAA and HITECH requirements for creating health-based applications
• Knowledge of database storage and geographic limitations
• User-level logging for HIPAA protection, reporting and auditing
• User Agreement management and storage
• Domain-based email authentication + OAuth integration
• Evaluation of HIPAA-Certified cloud solutions for deployment
• Craft policy and procedure changes to reflect NYS LTC program changes in response to CMS final rules and directives
• Generate training modules, exams, and presentation materials for training requirements for home care staff
• Leverages existing technologies to generate at scale
• Provide technology reviews and recommendation reports to address organizational concerns and weaknesses
• Project Management initial service onboarding process and serve as Team Lead for ad-hoc service plan projects
• Service plan underwriting and financial reviews
• Evaluate clinical and social requirements and validation for service level type and budgeting requests
• Compare requested services against more cost-effective options
• Preserve NYS Medicaid spending within purview as reviewer
• Ad Hoc service plan writing and intake processing
• Meet clients within their home or in structured clinical settings
• Collect clinical and social documentation to validate service plan requests
• Utilized financial forecasting models and software to generate monthly and annual Medicaid budgets
• Project manage the process through service plan generation to securing housing to updating and validating clinical assessments in prep for discharge planning and Medicaid authorization under new billing/categorization codes.
• Tracked status and ongoing progress of reviewed service plans as a resource for client when engaging with NYS DOH

Confidential

SENIOR INTAKE COORDINATOR

Responsibilities:

• Managed structured dataset on Incident Reports and performance data
• Identified Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) affecting program performance
• Analyzed and presented performance findings to committees and Dept. heads during monthly phone conferences and quarterly QI meetings Intake and Case Management
• Developed each client’s network of medical, clinical, and other staffs prior to enrollment
• Supervised and managed various diffused networks to extract deliverables and meet program objective from external stakeholders across clinical and medical settings.
• Managed transitional teams and facilitated hand-offs to new case managers
• Grew business by meeting performance metrics, pursuing innovations in operations, and maximizing critical partnerships
• Established new policies and procedures for Incident Report to in corporate metrics and tracking for performance improvements

SERVICE COORDINATOR

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tracked and analyzed performance related to the execution of tasks and routines; identified opportunities for optimization and automation via existing technological infrastructure.
• Implemented interventions focused on best practices to improve completion rate of plan renewals and budget reauthorizations.
• Designed, implemented and assessed strategies for improving operational pipelines within the organization.
• Evaluated costs and pursued value-added strategies to help patients transition from facility-based care towards community residence.
• Managed each client’s respective network of medical, clinical, and social services staff
• Interfaced with various diffused networks to extract deliverables and meet program objective
• Ensured deliverables and management of services portfolio with $750K-780K in annual billing