Professional Summary

• Certified Java Developer, Certified HL7/CCD interface developer, Epic Certified, Software Developer, and Senior Architect. Expert Level software development with: 15 years in SQL, Mumps Cache and years in Java.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, Software Development, Business Analyst, Requirements Management, Software Testing, and Project Manager
• Over 15 years of extensive experience in Healthcare Information Technology progressing from a Revenue Cycle focus IDX to HIPAA EDI, and most recently to Java, HL7 interchange expertise
• Extensive detailed technical experience in leading, planning, software architect designing, developing, testing, and overseeing the development and operations of end-to-end data interchanges for X12N, NCPDP, CCD/CA and HL7: ADT, Transcriptions, Orders, Results and Charge interfaces including specifications, development, connectivity and user sign-off infrastructure architecture

Professional History

Confidential

Project Manager, Interface Developer small company

• EHR Program Manager across various patient care settings Hospital, Nursing Home, Home Health
• Serve as Project Manager for Moorings Park Skilled Nursing EHR Selection team including Life Care Resident full continuum of care for a wide variety of care settings from Home Health to Assisted Living, Nursing Home and Hospice Care. Created RFI and RFP send to 15 vendors. Coordinated vendor demonstrations and evaluations.
• Project Manager for Skilled Nursing, Resident, Assisted Living EHR implementation for a CCRC community.
• Served as Interface architect and developer. Responsibilities are create interface specifications, develop interface routes/transformation, create and execute interface scenario based test plans and Implement all required interfaces including consolidated MPI, EHR, and Resident Statements. Key project included processing Cerner HIE direct message discharge summaries for the Nursing Home EHR admissions.
• Manage the support team for EHR Aprima Medical Practice, IPad mobile devices, and Home Health EHR.

Confidential

• Intersystems is the international software vendor located in Harvard/MIT hub of Boston, who sells and supports Mumps Cache, Ensemble HL7 Interface Engine, and Healthshare HIE CCD XML systems. Mumps Cache is used by GE and EPIC EHR for their programming language and database. End client was Missouri Health Connection.
• Served as Healthshare HIE developer and implementation team member.
• Assisted in architectural design, development, testing, validation and implementation of critical Mumps Cache HIE Interfaces for numerous hospitals and clinics exchanging HL7, CCD, and CDA using JAVA code for message transformations based on SOA Architecture and SOAP XML messaging.
• Implemented Intersystems Ensemble and Healthshare interchanges with the State of Missouri, Salem Hospital, BJC hospitals, and other hospitals using a central Master Patient Index and individual patient consents. HL7 message implementations include ADT, ORM, ORM, VXU, ELR, RDE, RDX, and Syndromic messages.
• Create custom Mumps/Cache Ensemble classes for Consent and MPI processing. Created Cache Classes to capture system monitoring statistics such as number of HIE inquiries/responses, number and types of consents, and number of patients added to the MPI. Used Java to develop real time Data Analysis Metrics for messaging reports using multithreading design.

Confidential

Cloverleaf Level 1 Certification

• Write project charter, project plan, approve business requirements, support work flow designs, and technical requirements using traceability methods
• Interface team requirements manager for business-technical requirements, and test plans
• Support Interface team through customer quotes and RA approval
• Responsible for Interface Team Lead PM responsible for mentoring, training and support of five EPIC Certified interface engineers
• Responsible for all aspects of Unit, System, message validation, and Integration testing of all interface testing for Sunguest lab, GE radiology, GE Centricity, Aria/Mosiac Oncology
• Technical lead for ADT, ORU, ORM, and DFT messages using Cloverleaf Interface Engine
• As Interface developer designed and developed ADT,SIU, and DFT messages flow and transformations for 50 applications such as Dietary CBORD , Oncology ARIA, MOSIAC , Radiology Sygno , Professional Billing IDX, Athena , Lab Sunquest, Orchard
• Interfaces support of the implementation of US Bank 837 claims, 835 remittance, patient online credit card payments, patient checks, and payor lock box interfaces into EPIC.

Confidential

St. Anthony's Hospital HL7/HIE Interfaces Architect/Consultant 5 member team

• Support customer Interface Engine evaluation and selection of Intersystems Ensemble.
• Lead Engineer for the EPIC Interface team responsible for EPIC Prelude, Cadence, ASAP, Resolute interfaces with 50 ancillary applications for EPIC EHR HL7 ADT, Sunquest Orders, Results, etc. and X12N Claims, Remittance and Eligibility Messages
• Lead Engineer tasks included project scope and charter, resource management, status reporting, issue tracking, risk mediation, test planning and vendor communications
• Requirements management for current state, business and technical requirements
• Interfaces Architectural Design for Ensemble HL7 message routes productions included Sunquest and Quest lab, GE PAC radiology, GE MUSE cardiology, GE Centricity, ECW, McKesson, NexGen and many more hospital applications. Create test comprehensive interface test plans.

Confidential

HL7/HIE Interfaces Development, SQL Developer, Operations and Implementation Manager

• Responsible for Sales RFP Support, Budget and Resource Planning, Interviewing and Hiring, Client and interchange connectivity, Interface Engine Selection and Evaluation, Customer Interface Training and Documentation for PHR, Kiosk, Patient Portal, Visits, Lab Orders, Results and Charges
• Project Management for all HL7 and EDI X12N interfaces for over 1000 medical practices in a Private Cloud environment including Lab Corp, Quest, and other custom lab interfaces
• HIE and Interface Development and Operations Management duties include:
• Daily Interface Operations support
• HIE Implementation Project Management for a number of key Allscripts Customers for lab orders and results
• Interface Server Admin Management
• Support both SSH and VPN connections
• Design, Implement and Support for all Practice Management interfaces to EHR applications
• Design, Implement and Support Lab Interfaces for LabCorp, Quest,
• Lab Interface Design, Development and implementation duties performed provided Lab Partner HL7 Specifications, Compendium Overview and training, build EHR HL7 Partner, EHR Partner Messages for Lab Orders and Results
• Practice Management Charges Interface Design, Development and implementation duties performed provided Practice Partner HL7 Specifications, Initial Data Load for Patient demographics, Patient Scheduling, and Master Files, build EHR HL7 Partner, EHR Partner Messages ADT,SIU, DFT, MFN messages
• Radiology PACs interfaces Interface Design, Development and implementation duties included DICOM and HL7 development for Candellis Cloud PACs system
• Design and configure network architecture for Bridges/Ensemble and Rhapsody servers for new customized HL7 Interfaces. Design, development and implementation of custom and turnkey HL7 interfaces including Symphonia message definitions and java scripts for message transformations.
• HIE Project Implementation included PDF document interface to Patient Portal, Personal Health Record, and HIE partners such as AXOLOTL a United Healthcare Company and Medicity an Aetna company
• Java and SQL Developer as needed. For example, wrote SQL extract of PDF attachments EKGs and Lab Results translate into bytestream blob data for transmitting to a PHR

Confidential

Interface Analyst for EHR and PACs HL7 Interfaces

• Served as Healthcare Informatics Analyst for nation's largest touch screen and clipboard vendor with partnerships including various EMRs, GE PACs, GE Centricity, Radiology
• Gathered customer registration, billing, and clinical patient flow requirements and design screens and interfaces using Human Factor Engineering to simplify clinical processes and produce extreme ROI in eliminating paper processes using document imaging systems
• Defined electronic payment requirements for card swipe devices used for healthcare provider payment portals.
• Created electronic clinical forms using forms builder
• Define HL7 registration ADT , scheduling SCH and ordering ORM requirements
• Assisted client with configuration for Kiosks, PC, electronic clipboards, and signature pads
• Supported full life cycle processes from sales estimates to requirements and user acceptance testing including development of test scenarios, test scripts and test plans

Confidential

Senior Healthcare Software Architect Risk Manager

• Defined Testing Services Quality Management Program for the contract including the development of Quality Management Plan, Quality Assurance Plan Artifact Quality , Quality Control Plan Process Quality , and Lean Six Sigma Continuous Improvement Plan
• Facilitated technical work sessions for a variety of requirements for Software Configuration and Deployment Management Plan, Integration Testing Plan, Gap Analysis, and testing requirements development supported Agile, Scrum, ITIL, and CMMI methodologies.

Confidential

Technical Analyst

• Responsible for writing SDLC Business/Technical Requirements and Overall Project Management for EmDeon Claim Master portal application.
• Collaborate with programmers and business owners to create scope, high level requirements, detailed functional specifications, technical requirements, test plan strategy, test scenarios, and use cases testing

Confidential

Software Developer

• Project Management, Business Requirements Analysis and Mumps Cache Web based Software Development projects included: A GE/IDX Mumps Cache conversion project for the University of Minnesota Medical School. While working for GE/IDX, analyzed and created SDLC requirements, and developed Mumps Cache software for Lean Six Sigma reports for the GE/IDX National Billing Center.
• Supported a 40 hospital network EHR offering created SDLC business and technical requirements for interfaces between GE/EMR and Meditech, including transaction analysis, development and implementation for Lab Corp, Quest Diagnostics lab, Meditech Lab, Radiology, Pathology, Order Entry, and Pharmacy integration projects using Cloverleaf HL7 interface engine.