Application Architect

An experienced and passionate healthcare technical solution provider with over 15 years experience in all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Highly experienced in programming, application development, design and capable of communicating at all levels of an organization. Proficient in gathering, analyzing and defining business and functional requirements leading system integration initiatives and developing processes, workflows and technology solutions. Proven ability to lead system implementations and deliver technical solutions.

Professional Experience

Director of Information Technology responsible for leading and managing the department's staff, projects and initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage departmental budget, payroll and staff.
• Responsible for setting direction of key IT initiatives including disaster and business continuity planning and design, consolidated SAN solution, VMWare infrastructure and core HIS IBM AIX and AS/400 hardware upgrade.
• Responsible for directing Identity Management and User Access, Microsoft Exchange, Terminal Services infrastructure and Support Desk operations.
• Developed database backup procedures, maintenance and performance tuning.
• Developed a VPN website and created a prototype Corporate Intranet using .NET MVC.
• Developed operational policies and procedures to standardize and automate IT processes including Support Desk, Endpoint protection and Identity and Access Management.

Team Lead and Architect of a custom built clinical portal called ORB. The system allows over 20,000 physicians, nurses and other medical staff to provide quality care to their patients by enabling them with real-time access to online clinical results, reports and documentation toolsets. The user-base generates over 7 million reports per year on a system that achieves 99.97 system availability. ORB consumes data from over 50 HL7 interfaces across seven hospitals, 60 ambulatory sites and provides integration with GE MUSE, Allscripts EmSTAT, FUJI Synapse PACS, RxNT ePrescribing and McKesson Physician Portal HPP, HED, HEO, HPF .

Technologies: VB.NET, ASP.NET, LINQ, MVC, Team Foundation Server TFS , Web Services, SQL Server, Win2003/2008, SSIS, HL7, ActiveReports.NET, Telerik, Captaris RightFax, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Mobile platforms iPhone, Android , Corepoint Health Integration Engine

Key Projects/Responsibilities:

• Team Lead/Architect for the development of a suite of powerful online documentation tools that have saved the organization over 800,000 in transcription costs in the first year of use. The toolset includes Progress Notes, History and Physical, Consultation Note and Discharge Summary templates. It is architected to use a unique wiki concept that shares provider documentation by service line and builds a comprehensive story of the patient. It also tracks past medical histories and patient problems that can be utilized upon re-admission.
• Team Lead responsible for getting ORB AARA HITECH certified for Meaningful Use
• Designed and Developed a successful electronic Medication Reconciliation tool as part of the opening of OhioHealth's first paperless facility in Dublin, OH. The tool is an end-to-end solution responsible for home medication entry, medication orders and discharge medications. VB.NET, ASP.NET, Telerik, SQL Server, Javascript, ActiveReports
• Architected and developed the ORB Mobile platform which is compatible with iOS and Android devices. It uses a 2-factor authentication process which enables safe and secure access to PHI. VB.NET, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML, SQL Server
• Team Lead/Architect for the Covering Provider module which allows hospital groups to easily communicate covering providers and shifts to nursing and other floor staff.
• Development Lead for OhioHealth's GE Centricity EMR implementation. Developed inbound/outbound HL7 interfaces from various hospital systems that are then sent to physician office EMRs. Corepoint, Extensive SQL Server
• Architected and developed a framework built on top of .NET web services, custom server controls and ASP.NET pages that provide a seamless user experience between ORB's Portal Framework and McKesson's Horizon Physician Portal. ASP.NET, VB.NET, Custom Server Controls, SQL Server, .NET Web Services
• Architected the design for integration with the IBM Initiate Master Data Service EMPI which allows ORB to provide a longitudinal view of a patient's medical history regardless of which facility the patient was seen at. SQL Server
• Developed the FPE and ColdFeed services which are back-office service engines responsible for auto-printing and auto-faxing clinical reports to hospitals and physician offices, serving up XML requests and electronically packaging and sending documents to the medical records system HPF . VB.NET, Windows Services, XML, RightFax
• Gather and assess needs from internal and external business units, create custom solutions to respond to CMS requirements, Core Measures, process bottlenecks and provide 24x7 rotating on-call support.
• Chair weekly status meetings, provide guidance to team members, schedule monthly releases, responsible for ensuring the team follows ITIL processes and value the efforts and strengths of team members.

Worked as a consultant in a wide range of projects and technologies.

Key Projects:

BMW Financial Services

• The objective of this effort was to cleanse customer data by standardizing names and addresses and removing duplicate records prior to implementing the client's Siebel CRM solution.
• Analyzed, matched, merged and cleansed over 2 million customer records by building a VB.NET application which interfaced a third-party data cleansing product and DTS packages.

Technologies: Windows 2000, .NET, SQL Server 2000, DTS, COM/COM , Trillium

American Share Insurance

• Responsible for extensive development of ASP pages, stored procedures, DTS packages, COM objects, Crystal Reports and ActiveReports.
• Performed requirements gathering, data mapping and cleansing, installation and administration of Windows 2000 and SQL Server, implementation, testing and production support.
• SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports 8.5, ActiveReports 2.0, ASP, VB 6, COM/COM , HTML, Javascript, IIS, ChartFX, Windows 2000, Adobe Photoshop
• The project consisted of converting the client's legacy customer tracking system from FoxPro to SQL Server with a web frontend and a suite of Crystal Reports and ActiveReports. The system aids in the assessment of risks involved in ASI's core business of insuring credit unions.
• Recommended architecture and design of entire system while working closely with senior management to establish parameters of the system.
• The purpose of this project was to build data transformation engines that validated freight as it went through customs. Coded Java Servlets, JSP's, and PL/SQL stored procedures/packages.

Technologies: Java, Java Servlets, Oracle stored procedures/packages, UNIX

• This project consisted of building an intranet site that made it easy for international staff to communicate with the corporate office and building the NationwideGlobal.com internet website.

Technologies: IIS, NES, WinNT, ASP, COM, VB 6, HTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript, Photoshop, MS Access

Confidential

• The goal of this project was to build an intranet application that updated the website. The application maintained product SKUs, generated summary reports and published product data to the Victoria's Secret online catalog. The application saved the department 150,000 in its first quarter of use.

Technologies: WinNT, Solaris 5.6, MS Access, DB2, ColdFusion, Net.Data and Net.Commerce IBM , UDB, MS Visio, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, DHTML, CSS, Java