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Leader for a portfolio of product engineering delivery teams serving OptumInsight’s commercial and enterprise analytics businesses. Responsible for supporting business goals and outcomes through product delivery and operations, team/talent development, engineering maturity, and Agile/DevOps transformations of US, Ireland, India-based engineering teams. Products and capabilities supported included: Products: Healthcare Grouper, Population Health, and Quality analytics products driving $80M in direct annual revenue and $1B in indirect value. Drove agile practices that reduced feature delivery cycle times>30% and reduced deployment time by as much as 50%. Analytics at Scale: High-scale Big Data analytics platform to enable business scaling. Analytics migrations to this platform generated average operational savings of 40% and 90% reduction in processing cycle times. Analytic Modernization: Lead engineering for a Public Cloud-based machine learning toolset to accelerate development and use of ML and AI across Optum. Integrated Cloud Ops, CI/CD, and ModelOps automation reduced team onboarding process from months to days and new data scientist setup from weeks to hours.

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Led Quality Engineering portfolios in OptumInsight’s Provider, Payer, and Analytics commercial software delivery businesses. Responsible for transforming and maturing quality engineering, automation, and DevOps practices to drive effective, high-quality delivery of SaaS, hosted, and packaged software. Product lines supported include: EDI X12 Validation, EDI Clearinghouses, Advanced Claim Editing, and Clinical Integrity engines HL7 Clinical Data Intake, Validation, and Transformation tools Practice Management and EMR platforms Analytics (Groupers, Population Health, Fraud Waste & Abuse, Underwriting)Led and supported numerous enterprise initiatives including: Agile Transformation: Part of Scrum rollout leadership team that initiated Optum’s agile transition journey. Lead selection and implementation of Agile management tooling. Modernization: Lead multiple Automation, CI/CD maturity, and Continuous Code Quality initiatives to drive quality upstream in the development process. DevOps: Championed transformation effort that shifted Product Engineering from siloed functions to integrated, accountable agile delivery teams.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Built new QA organization for Ceridian’s newly acquired Software-as-a-Service Benefits products. Responsible for developing quality framework, teams, infrastructure, and capabilities to support rapidly iterating SaaS platform teams. Key accomplishments include: Engineering Foundations: Created Performance and Security/Penetration Testing competencies embedded in product engineering teams, ultimately expanding support to teams outside our division. Lead development of custom automation framework to allow rapid automation of test beds and test-driven development capabilities. Corporate Initiatives: Core team member for Rational Unified Process SDLC rollout and cross-division Quality Process initiatives. Part of the technical assessment team on two Merger & Acquisition engagements.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Led Server System Test and Test Engineering Methodology teams for Dell’s Departmental and Workgroup Server, Server Network Engineering product lines. Responsible for quality methodology to support of rapid product release cycles and component refreshes. Key accomplishments include: Performance Engineering: Virtualized stress/performance test beds, reducing setup times by 50-80% and decreasing lab costs. Through this stress testing, my team identified critical chipset quality issue, making the first and only major server vendor to do so and the first to ship with a functional solution once resolved. Tooling: Worked with Procurement to reduced software tool costs >90%. Managed creation of in-house tools then licensed by operating system vendors. Automation: Managed automation of System Management software, BIOS, and power supply testing addressing 3 highest defect areas using software-, hardware-, and emulator-driven test harnesses. Evaluations: Lead quality deep dive and action plan for Storage Solutions teams. Technical lead for evaluation of networking hardware 3rd party partnership.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Provided technical support to IBM PC Server and Netfinity server customers, support staff, and field service engineers. Served as the escalation path for technicians handling critical situations. Team Improvement: Assigned to improve performance through mentoring and leadership of server product specialists; raised team customer service metrics from the lowest performing team to the highest in five months.

Served as Developer and IT Lead for two startups. Modernized original network and data infrastructure and developed business administration database to manage licensing, service contracts, and customer contacts. Developed and supported customer web sites and e-commerce sites.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

M.Eng, Engineering Management

Ba, Geography

High School