Evaluate and recommend technology platforms. Develop software frameworks and standards. Train developers in the use of platforms and frameworks. Participate as lead developer and/or consultant on various internal CCS Medical development teams.

Chenoa Inc, Healthcare Technology Services Division, is an HIT services and solutions company dedicated to improving the quality of care in the healthcare industry. Through its suite of HIT solutions, industry experts, and innovative methodologies, Chenoa helps hospitals and health systems, providers, payers and TPAs, and patients make better informed decisions to improve healthcare, reduce costs, optimize performance, and accelerate innovation. Onshore Project Leader and Client Manager, coordinating activities related to the development of an online application portal, data hub, and data communication channels for a client’s medical practice management and oncology care model reporting application suite. Worked with the client team to establish the baseline requirements, scope of features, and project plan for the portal and data hub development effort. Managed communication between the development team, Chenoa management, and the client’s technical and management teams. Worked with Chenoa and client team members to remove impediments arising during the course of the project.Technologies employed to build the system included Microsoft SQL Server, Java, .NET and Mirth Connect. Data formats and protocols supported by the data hub included C-CDA, HL7, EDI 835/837, and tabular data files.

AAPL is the world's premier organization for lifelong growth and support of physician leaders. The Association provides online self-study and facilitated e-learning for physicians as well as live training at Association conferences and onsite training for medical organizations. AAPL also publishes a bi-monthly journal and provides career counseling services for physicians wishing to move into leadership roles.Managed a team six direct reports: three MS .NET developers, one quality assurance analyst, one software build and release manager and one business analyst. Mentored the development team members on topics including the daily application of the Scrum processes and ceremonies, the implementation of classes using dependency injection to support automated unit testing with mocks and stubs, the proper construction of REST API endpoint routes, and the proper use of HTTP methods and return values in a REST API. Conducted performance reviews for development team members and held bi-weekly meetings with each team member to address any concerns they had or performance issues that needed attention. Managed external vendors for IT asset management and maintenance, phone system maintenance, and office equipment maintenance. Performed review of vendor contracts and put out calls for proposals to competing vendors for those contracts approaching expiration or where the current vendor was under-performing.Delivered IT Department status reports at bi-weekly company staff meetings. Developed a proposal for replacing the Association's current technology stack with open source technologies, a microservices architecture and message queuing to asynchronously update external business support systems, such as MS Dynamics CRM. Implemented monitoring systems for the Association's web servers and database servers to alert the IT team to server performance incidents that could lead to downtime.

(COE Lead - Queue Manager Team)Coordinate development activities for the Queue Manager and JBPM application development team to meet project objectives. Work with project teams to evaluate project requirements and establish development estimates and timelines. Mentor and support development team members. Coordinate offshore development activities. Conduct employee performance appraisals. Manage development team project allocations and monitor development spend against established project budgets.

Working within the company’s established software development methodology, planned and managed projects to enhance and expand the features of the company’s web based managed care portal for providers, physicians, and health plans. Introduced and promoted standards for requirements analysis and documentation, training business analysts as needed. Created tools for other project managers to use to perform project estimation and project planning, and trained other project managers and executives in the use of the company’s project management portal. Managed project activities, including infrastructure improvements, third party service and software evaluation and acquisition, and software design and development, across geographically diverse teams.

Manage development efforts involving the maintenance and enhancement of Verticent's line of ERP solutions supporting the metals manufacturing and processing industry. Establish and promote processes and procedures to improve the efficiency of the software development department and the quality of the software products we create. Create and publish accurate project plans to reflect current department workload and available capacity to support proposed R&D and product enhancement efforts as well as new client integration projects.

Project leader on software development efforts to enhance and improve computer systems used to manage patient documentation, orders, shipments, and claims.

Worked with Answers' clients on special projects to improve trade management workflow, train users on best practices in contract management, and integrate clients' internal business processes with Answers Systems best-in-class trade management solution, ContractPro. Clients included Kraft Foodservice, Farmland Foods, Otis Spunkmeyer, Unilever Foodservice, and Reckitt Benckiser (owner of the French's brand).

Managed Answers' IT development staff on all major projects and maintenance efforts. Provided mentoring to developers and served as developer on front-end Windows development, ASP web development and SQL Server back-end development.

Worked as application developer and project task manager on various Windows software development projects for various clients. Clients included MetLife, JPMorgan, K-III Communications, Competitive Media Reporting, and Goldman Sachs.

Worked as Windows application developer to support the enhancement and maintenance of a back-office tele-survey application (affectionately referred to as GATOR). Designed and developed a type-setting application for CSG's physical directories allowing the company to perform type-setting in-house instead of outsourcing that function.

Served as application developer on a variety of platforms including IBM MVS/JCL and PL/I, VAX/VMS, Model-1 DBMS, and Windows. Participated in internal process re-engineering efforts. Worked as developer on the media sample management application deployed on laptops for Nielsen's field force.