Russell Gomez

Director of Development at CORHIO russell.gomez@gmail.com

720-394-8026

Summary

I am a motivated and genuinely sincere IT professional who has the capacity to drive project completion with a mix of standardization, outside of the box thinking and a team work centric approach. I am comfortable putting my head down to achieve goals through brute force but I have found that collaboration often prevents the types of waste that occur when a solo effort is employed.  I am looking to work for an organization with a forward looking perspective and employs talented and driven individuals that love to work together towards a common agenda.  I never tire of learning new skills and hearing the thoughts of both my senior staff and my junior counterparts as I believe that everyone, given the opportunity, can contribute to your life, both personally and professionally.

Specialties

Creative thinking in the IT space. I am a bull dog mixed with a sponge and I never stop my pursuit of achieving goals as well as acquiring new skill sets to use in those pursuits.  I have a track record of tackling large projects that require planning and tenacity and the ability to respond quickly to a changing landscape.

Experience

Director of Development at CORHIO

July 2014 - Present

·    Designed and Implemented an extension to the HIE to allow for integration of Ambulatory data exchange, Accountable Care Organization access and for integrated identity through EMPI technologies. 

·    Developed and implemented a clinical event notifications system leveraging the Microsoft BI stack (SSIS, SSRS, Visual Studio) that alerts clinicians and their associated staff of hospital encounters.  This solution has added considerable revenue to the CORHIO operating budget.

·    Designed and implemented an integration engine platform responsible for the receipt and storage of HL7 and CDA data into a clinical data repository with the purpose of query/retrieve via portal access and web service retrieval.  This platform also handles standard HL7 point to point transmissions to interested systems.

·    Designed and oversaw development of a UI Automation tool that included the functionality to synchronize data receiver implementation agents across the Medicity Grid functionality. The Grid did not previously contain a method of import and export in order to implement a physician office across multiple data contributors. This significantly improved both the speed to deploy as well as a reduction in manual errors.

·    Led technical architectural discussions and design sessions around new products and technology opportunities.

·    Responsible for the day to day management of development team, including sprint planning, project management and lead developer duties

·    Lead .NET developer using C# as primary language to develop custom solutions

·    Lead SQL Developer using primarily Microsoft SQL 2012+ and MySQL

 

Integration Manager at CORHIO

July 2013 – July 2014 (1 year)

·   Day to day management of integration team activities.

·   Strategic planning for CORHIO vision.

·   Develop and maintain custom software tools for use in production.

o   Nexus Razor developed and used day to day by CORHIO operations staff

§    This tool is a GUI automation used to scrape data from the web application that was presented to the ops staff that lacked basic export features and searching.

§    Dramatically reduced time needed to begin analysis for implementation, bugs and feature releases

o   Novo Razor developed to scrape log files and store the HL7 Messages into database for use in research and analysis

o   Compendium Builder tool created to automatically track OBR/OBX groupings in a database to be used by ops staff via Excel data add in to provide order and observation values to participants

·   Interface development and maintenance.

·   Integrations for various Line of Business Applications

·   Support and maintenance for integration engine, Salesforce.com, Smartsheet and SharePoint 2013.

Sr. Integration Analyst at CORHIO

February 2012 - July 2013 (1 year 6 months)

·                       Responsible for analysis of the overall interface solution related to interfacing between an HIE and various hospital information management systems, laboratory information systems, electronic health record systems and interface engines. Interfaces include those for ADT, Laboratory, Pathology, Transcriptions and Radiology.

·                       Work closely with Operations, Implementation and IT Project Managers to support technical efforts throughout the life of a project.

·                       Participate in interface design meetings between CORHIO, HIE Vendor and EHR

·                       Prepare technical documentation and standards of interface

·                       Assist in defect verification and troubleshooting, release testing and beta support for interface systems.

·                       Provide support for release management and upgrade processes of HIE vendor

·                       Research complex interface problems discovered by QA or product support and develop solutions to the problems.

·                       Implement critical software or system changes.

·                       Research new technology or development tools to remain informed of current technology.

·                       Act as a technical HIE and Interface Subject Matter Expert for the internal organization.

·                       Act as a technical HIE and Interface Subject Matter Expert for various local, regional, statewide national HIE forums.

Data Systems Administrator atDenver Health

November 2009 - February 2012 (2 years 4 months)

·   Skills Used: MySQL, Talend, Macro Scheduler (Scripting), VBScript, Version Control (Bazaar), MS SQL, Sybase, Oracle.

·   Started new team called the Systems Optimization team responsible for enterprise level solutions

·   Provided escalation support for all levels and facets of IT infrastructure

·   Developed several custom solutions to address deficiencies in the environment

·   Developed and implemented File Based Interfaces (FBI) using Talend Open Studio 4.22 using

Job Scheduler on Ubuntu 10.04LTS VMWare guest. This solution handles 85% of internal and external file transfers for the enterprise

·   Developed and implemented Polymerase suite as a validation and accountability engine. This engine contains three components. 1. CODON, which qualifies records to be checked and inserts them to a temporary DB table. 2. Polymerase, which checks the record against the authoritative source (EMR, Active Directory, Patient Accounting, etc.) and writes deficiencies to a SharePoint list for analyst intervention 3. Ligase, which provides a deeper analytics on the discrepancies found by Polymerase (checking for data structure, misfiling, etc.) and auto resolves alerts when appropriate.

·   Developed 5 Computerized Human Interface Mimicking Programs (CHIMPs) to automate the windows GUI to perform tasks such as printing fetal strips to the EMR, generating billing reports from dental system and printing aggregate day end reports for critical care.

·   Participated in project to implement a standardized ITIL change control process using Microsoft System Center Service Manager

·   Participated in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 beta

·   Participated in Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 beta

·   Provided support and custom development on over 25 projects supporting the enterprise vision and goals

·   Participated in beta and provided support for Siemens Enterprise Healthcare Process Management solutions (Powered by Tibco iProcess Engine)

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Desktop Services Supervisor atDenver Health

September 2007 - November 2009 (2 years 3 months)

·   Formally promoted to Desktop Services Supervisor and my team grew to 5 and name was changed to Desktop Technology team

·   Provided supervisory support to Desktop Services Manager for the team of 20 desktop technicians

·   Revised group policies to provide for standardized Internet Explorer experience across Sunray and Desktop environments

·   Deployed 2000+ Sunray units in the Clinical arena to provide roaming desktop experience to providers in the outpatient areas as well as the inpatient areas of the hospital services

·   Participated in vision planning of the Denver Health infrastructure

·   Expanded Citrix application foot print in the environment to include becoming part of standard project discovery item.

·   Migrated from Citrix Metaframe Server 4.0 to Citrix XenApp

·   Designed and implemented virtual environment for XenApp deployment, using VMWare, Xenserver and combination of physical and HP LeftHand storage

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Systems Analyst atDenver Health

June 2007 - September 2007 (4 months)

·   Restructured and completely redesigned Citrix Metaframe 4.0 environment

·   Developed the Denver Health Sunray Solution as part of a team of 4 (http://blogs.oracle.com/chhandomay/entry/denver_health_uses_sun_virtual)

·   Provided day to day operational support for Citrix environment as well as responsible for all project implementations

·   Started a new "Thin Client Technologies" team and managed 3 employees reporting to the CTO

Systems Support Specialist atDenver Health

August 2006 - June 2007 (11 months)

·   Provided escalation and problem resolution for server and desktop related issues.; Worked day to day support tasks for Server and Operations Team

·   Managed support incidents via Remedy

·   Provided electronic Move/Add/Change support and implementation

·   Restructured Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 to add logical groupings for desktop and server environments

·   Developed 75+ software distribution packages for use in SMS

·   Built out the appropriate sized environment for SMS to perform optimally and reduced latency to remote clinics by deploying remote management distribution points

Volunteer Experience

Youth Basketball Coach

January 2012 - Present (2 years 9 months)

I am privileged to teach children the fundamentals of basketball, sportsmanship and teamwork.

Skills & Expertise

Active Directory, Healthcare Information Technology, Process Automation, C#, iMacros, LAMP, SQL Server, SharePoint, Open Source Software, Powershell, Mirth Connect, MySQL, ETL, VBA, Critical Thinking, Linux, Enterprise Architecture, Talend, Creative Concept Development, HL7, VBScript, Troubleshooting, XML, Health Information Exchange, Integration, Agile Methodologies, Business Analysis, Software Development, IT Management, Leadership, Database Design, Requirements Analysis, HIPAA, Group Policy, HER, Citrix, ITIL, EMR, Visio, Technical Support, SDLC, Crystal Reports, Quality Assurance, Product Development, SSRS, SSIS, EHR, Data Warehouse, Mirth, Connexion, HL7Spy, EMPI

Education

ITT Technical Institute

Computer Information Systems

University of Northern Colorado