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Houston, Tx, Us

Hired to provide senior technical and management leadership to Moonshot Technology Platforms.Designed, developed, and implemented the MD Anderson Translational Research Accelerator, (TRA). The TRA platform is custom built platform using best in class products to deliver the highest level performance, scalability and reliability.Utilized Natural Language Processing (NLP) to extract high value data form doctors notes. The data was enriched, normalized and mapped to the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, (ICDO). Hierarchy. High value attributes including patient response, genomic profiles, comorbidities and outcomes.TRA contains 500,000 patients, 40 domains of data, 2000 attributes and is updated in a near real time basis from our EPIC EMR. Several public datasets have been integrated including TCGA and COSMIC.TRA is the key piece of the infrastructure that will enable PIs, Moon Shot and MD Anderson users to analysis and visualize data in new and innovative methods. Created and integrated a custom analytic tool called the Virtual Workbench (VWB) that uses Boolean logic to create complex queries, ability to map to a timeline, that utilize drag and drop functionality.Integrated Tableau and CBIO into the environment.Utilized a secured container for access of data with two factor authentication as needed.This TRA platform is the largest in the world that brings clinical, research and molecular data together on one platform.Implemented the MD Anderson Oncology Expert Advisor, (OAE) powered by IBM Watson for the Leukemia and Lung Cancer Divisions at MD Anderson. The solution utilizes Natural Language Processes (NLP), IBM Watson Core Analytics pipeline and private external data cloud. Manage and coordinate the activities of over 100 consultants and MD Anderson employees.Manage a budget of 50 million dollars.

Houston, Tx, Us

Increased incremental profit for a 6-physician ophthalmic practice by 100%. Focused areas included; operations, billing processes, upgraded technology including a new PMA and EMR, recruited personnel, laid-off poor employees and discretionary expenses. Deployed the new technology platform in less than three months.Increased incremental profit for a 4-physician orthopedic practice by 80%. Focus areas included, re-negotiating insurance contracts, upgrading technology and changing billing processes. Implementing Electronic Medical Records at an ophthalmic practice and a pain management practice. Projects were completed on time and governmental meaningful use payments were received.

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Responsible for all technology functions, (Development, Operations, and Network) at the company. Re-architected the transaction processing core platform net to gain performance, scalability, decrease maintenance costs, and added European Chip and Pin functionality to expand into the European Common Market counties in 2009.Installed a second data center to increase the overall available, failover and capacity of the platform. Implemented pre-paid programs for Discover, (Teen Card) and Sodexo, (Employee Loyalty Card).Used AGILE development methodology and LAMP architecture suite to create reusable client portals for interfacing with the transaction-processing platform. This allowed the company to launch new customers in less than one month.Led the effort for Ecommlink to become the first transaction processing company to be PCI 1.2 compliant. Implemented Triple DES 256 for data encryption and TG-3 for PIN encryption for the transaction-processing engine.Managed a team of over 50 developers, analysts, project managers and operations/network engineers.

Hired to improve employee attrition rates, improve production availability, and consolidate, advance and standardized software development at the company. Accomplished and exceeded these goals in the first 2 years at the company.Responsible for major project development including ECommerce, Common Services, Offshore Development, CRM, Major Project Implementations, and Systems Globalization. Managed a team of 700 FTEs and contractors that provided 7x24 operations and development support. 20,000 users, 18 business units, 26 regional and international sites.Recruited and hired over 500 FTEs. Reduced employee attrition rates from more than 35% to less than 2.5% annually by implementing a technical career development ladder that increased employee satisfaction.Repaired thousands of defects and automated over 2,000 processes in the production environment. Automated recovery, load balancing and transaction routing processes utilizing NetView as a production monitor and Tuxedo as a middleware server.Created a component-based architecture, Common Services, (Java/UNIX platform) that reduced overall development time and costs by 40% while improving quality, security, and production performance.Successfully developed the company the first international on-line banking application and deployed it internationally in less than 3 months utilizing the Common Services architecture and infrastructure.Improved overall application quality by introducing formalized development methodologies. As a result, received 15 superior/excellent audits. Received the highest rating awarded by Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Reserve.Managed $250 million core systems globalization project that re-architected US English-only systems and enabled them for use by all European Common Market countries. .Responsible for establishing/managing relationships and negotiating contracts with Informix, HP, IBM, Sybase, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and BEA.

Bs, Computer Science

Bs, Business Administration