CAREER PROGRESSION

Orion Health                                                                                            2013 - Present

Sr. Project Manager

•Project Manager for multiple implementations of the SaaS-based Orion HIE solution.

•Implementation of Patient Portal services.

•Healtheway eHealth Exchange services certification validations.

•Technical implementations to satisfy Meaningful Use 2.x (MU2) compliance.

•Implementation of Digital Secure Messaging (DSM) and HISP-to-HISP integrations.

•Implementation of several participant integrations, including HL7 ADT, ORU, ORM, VXU and SIU messages as well as C-CDA integrations with Healtheway and between the Orion HIE solution and HIE participants.

•Design and implementation planning for payer claims data integrations with the Orion HIE solution.

Independent Consulting                                                                                       2010 - 2013

Project Manager

•   Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES)

   oOversaw primary Health Care Information Exchange (HIE) technical implementation for LA County including project management, integration architecture and integration delivery.

   oDesigned and implemented Web Services and VPN-based integrations using HL-7/CDA and EDI X12 messaging.

   oImplemented Mirth using a hybrid of centralized and federated HIE architectures.

   oOversaw and directed the integration development team.

   oCertified in and designed integration solutions using the MirthConnect, MirthResults and MirthMatch services.

   oCoordinated integration with IBM Initiate and MirthMatch eMPI services.

   oFluent in centralized, federated and hybrid HIE architectures.

   oNegotiated integration solutions with HIE participants (hospital organizations, clinics, laboratories, LA County Dept. Health Services) including solutions such as Epic, Office Ally, eClinical Works and NextGen.

   oImplemented project management and development processes and procedures.

   oImplemented Agile/Scrum processes for development team.

RedBull North America                                                                                     2006 - 2009

Project Manager, Business Systems

•Managed design, development and enhancement of Websphere Content (WCM) portlet solutions including regular updates.

•Managed full project lifecycle and architecture/design for EDI migration of central billing services from legacy Prism to new central billing solution.

•Managed design, development and implementation for the upgrade/migration of EDI integration with Wal*Mart from 4030 to 5010 format using in-house and contracted resources.

•Managed multiple implementations of EDI financial integration between Red Bull N. A. and customers.

•Managed full project lifecycle for migration of in-house Prism depletions/central billing applications from Microsoft/Java intranet application to Websphere Portal (Java) architecture and Cognos Data Warehouse.

•Project manager for multiple portal application implementations supporting the Finance, Sales, Web Media (online video sales) and HR business teams.

•Technical Lead for Distribution Team’s deployment of an RFID product tagging solution deploying a third party labeling solution.

•Designed and implemented portal support procedures for the Business Systems team.

Amcor Sunclipse                                                                                                       2005 - 2006

Director, Application Development / Architect

•Managed technical resources responsible for Websphere-based (WAS) web applications. 

•Managed projects associated with WAS website enhancements.

•Responsible for tracking and managing the budget for the technical IT resources related to the web applications.

•Coordinated consulting resources required supporting Manufacturing and Distribution systems.

•Oversaw resources responsible for EDI integrations.

Kaiser Permanente                                                                                                               2004 - 2005

Senior PM HealthConnect Southern California Technology Support Services

•Coordinated all resource requirements for system configuration and application support during deployment phase of the Southern California HealthConnect (Epic Systems) suite of products.

•Responsible for tracking and managing the budget for the IT resources related to the HealthConnect project.

•Responsible for oversight of integration requirements (HL-7 including Epic Bridges team) among the various HealthConnect and legacy applications.

•Responsible for implementation and release management for the various HealthConnect deployments.

ePolicy Solutions Inc. (acquired by Insurity/ChoicePoint in 2006)                              2001 - 2004 

Director, Engineering

•Responsible for management and technical oversight of all development and application architecture/design activities associated with the RightRisk (now ChoicePoint Studio) insurance policy management system.

•Oversaw the technical migration of the RightRisk platform to J2EE in support of ePolicy’s transition from an online commercial lines insurance brokerage to a technology delivery provider.

•Oversaw 40 in-house developers as well as coordination with onshore and offshore developers.

•Participated as part of the executive management team in the strategic planning for ePolicy Solutions and the RightRisk platform.

•Established a new company-wide strategy for delivery of projects to improve time to market.

•Developed and delivered technical pre-sales presentations and strategy in support of the Sales and Marketing department to successfully obtain multimillion dollar contracts for the company.

Answer Financial Inc.                                                                                              2000 - 2001

Director, Application Engineering

•Established the messaging and communications standards for enterprise application integration (EAI) as well as external client integration.

•Established the company’s enterprise project lifecycle methodology.

•Responsible for enterprise architecture planning.

•Oversaw the Database & Reporting team.

•Worked with Senior Executives to determine Information Systems Department organization and procedures.

•Deployed the corporate Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business-to-Business (B2B) strategy and team organization including the use of SeeBeyond e*Gate.

•Oversaw technical development of all middleware, integration and back office applications.

•Oversaw support and enhancement of all enterprise web & call center applications using .NET.

•Delivered industry presentations on EAI.

Kaiser Permanente                                                                                                    1996 - 2000

Product Development and Integration Manager

•Managed a strategic clinical project to deploy a Clinical Data Repository (CDR) and associated clinical applications involving over 200 resources in multiple locations using incremental, iterative project management approach.

•Established Kaiser’s National Application Interfaces Team responsible for specification, development and deployment of heterogeneous systems integration using standardized approaches.

•Co-managed testing and deployment of client/server based Electronic Health Record.

•Responsible for evaluation and enhancement of existing project management methodologies.

•Replaced an in-house integration tool with vendor-based EAI solution.

•Technical manager for architecture and design of Disease/Case Management system.

Specialty Laboratories Inc.                                                                              1995 - 1996

Senior Information Technology Engineer

•Defined future enterprise workflow processes for the MIS department.

•Oversaw replacement laboratory information system Request for Proposal (RFP).

•Managed project to create multi-hospital alliance laboratory integration solution.

•Managed project to determine an EAI- based integration solution.

•Implemented various systems integration and development projects.

Harvard Community Health Plan (now Harvard Pilgrim Health Care)                 1988 - 1994

Project Manager

•Senior technical application specialist for the Automated Medical Records System team.

•Proposal author and technical lead for the medical record system redesign using object-oriented techniques.

•Co-leader of team to select and implement an "interface engine" (EAI data broker) solution for data integration among clinical systems.

•Technical lead for ADAC MARS II Radiology Information System implementation including standardized HL-7 interfaces to the Automated Medical Record System.

•Full staff management responsibilities including hiring, career growth and performance.            

•Responsible for analysis, design, implementation and support of multiple clinical applications including the in-house Automated Medical Records system and appointment scheduling system (Epic).

•Key projects included responsibility for application architecture, design and implementation of laboratory results, radiology results and point of service subsystems.

EDUCATION

•Computer Systems Design (BS) -  Florida Atlantic University - Honors Graduate

•PMP Certification  -   Project Management Institute (PMI)

•Scrum Master Certification (CSM) - Scrum Alliance

•Mirth Connect and Mirth Appliance Certification - Mirth

TECHNICAL SKILLS

•Project Management/Productivity Applications:

   oMS Project, Rally, Pivotal Tracker, TeamForge, @TASK, ITG, ABT, MS Office Suite, Visio, MindJet MindManager, Lotus Notes, Rational Rose, TogetherSoft, Eclipse, Mantis, Eventum, ClearQuest,

   oXML Spy, ErWin, SQuirreL, HL7 Inspector.

•Lifecycle Management Methodologies including:

   oAgile/Scrum, Agile/Kanban, Extreme Programming, Rational Unified Process (RUP), UML, User Story and Use Case techniques.

•Project Management Oversight or Direct Development Experience using the following:

   oJava (including J2EE, Struts/MVC, Hibernate, Portlet/Servlet), C++/C, Javascript, .NET, ASP, SQL, Cache/MUMPS, Oracle tools, MS SQLServer, MySQL, DB2/UDB, VMWare

   oSoftware as a Solution (SaaS) based implementation.

  oWebsphere Portal (WPS)/Portlet Factory, Websphere Content Manager (WCM), WebSphere Application Server (WAS), SOAP/Web Services, WebLogic, Tomcat, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Mirth Connect/Results, Sun/SeeBeyond e*Gate, MSMQ, Websphere Integration Designer, NEON TDM/eBiz (now NeoNet) Integrator

   oWindows, Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, SuSE), Unix (various), MAC OS-X, AS400

•Interface Protocols in various domains:

   oXML, .NET Framework (general)

   oHealth Level 7 (2.x and 3.x), C-CDA, CDA, CCD, ASTM, LOINC (clinical)

   o        Federated and Central HIE Architectures, NwHIN, XDS.b (Health Information Exchange)

   oEDI/X12 - various versions (financial, clinical)

   oACORD XML, ACORD AL3 (insurance)