Dan Mccarthy Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Product Line Manager for the Sample Management Product Line

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Product Manager of Scientific Registration

Cambridge, MA

• Manage a global, high visibility, high impact project for the Sample Management Group with distributed teams, varying requirements by location, and sub-projects in different stages of completion across sites.
• Lead the creation of a $8M global order fulfillment system from the ground up. Product is part of a $45M program and serves as a messaging hub in addition to the fulfillment UI.
• Served as the overall program manager while that position was being sourced.
• Staff and… Show more
• Staff and manage the development team across multiple sites.
• Work with the key development resources to introduce a 5-tier SOA architecture. Responsible for choosing the architecture.

Lexington, MA

• Lead a diverse team of technical resources supporting the products and services central to both the Fresenius clinical settings and corporate environments. Responsible for vendor management and contracting on product.
• Hired to manage a team and a suite of products that had lapsed into a state of over-budget, over-schedule projects delivered with poor quality.
• Owner of an initiative to implement true Service Management across the IT organization –… Show more
• Owner of an initiative to implement true Service Management across the IT organization – implementing new processes, driving business transformation, and delivering proactive monitoring.
• Define an environment management and change control process to prevent downtime and drive consistency across complex environments.
• Rebuild a team of technical project managers that had become under-staffed due to attrition and transfer.

• Responsible for the product development organization for the Perioperative and Critical Care product line that includes on-shore (Wakefield, Chicago) and offshore (Chennai and Barcelona) development centers. Staff of.
• Overall owner of the product line that implemented SOA with Microsoft technologies for the first time in a large scale, enterprise system.
• Responsible for Release Engineering across all of product development.
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• Introduced and leveraged SCRUM Agile Software Development methodologies to guide product development activities within a regulated environment on first large scale project within Picis; handled logistical issues.
• Established software development processes to comply with the unclassified medical device FDA regulations.

• Managed the first successful full maintenance release of the product to clean up legacy quality issues and defects; engaged all resources throughout development regardless of reporting structure and kept them engaged.
• Developed and implemented plan to transfer Barcelona based staff to US as US employees to come closer to the “24 hour work day” and to better support our US client base; model is a success and is still in use today.
• Fixed the support model… Show more
• Fixed the support model for European clients who saw inadequate issue resolution due to a lack of corporate focus.
• Authored and implemented a policy to control and monitor the flow of support issues from Level 2 Operations to the Sustaining Engineering team including championing the hiring of true Level 2 technical resources within.
• Both as Director and VP, took over portions of the product suite that had little discipline and process and quickly rolled them into the corporate Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) model to ensure quality, on time.

• Main contributor to fundamental changes to the SDLC allowing for greater quality through repeatable processes.
• Key part of a team assigned to outsource the internationalization of OR Manager including responsibility for GUI design and workflow as GUI was changed to accommodate European languages to sell outside of the North.
• Implemented a process to document unit tests and standardize build readiness documentation to hand cleaner deliverables to Software… Show more
• Implemented a process to document unit tests and standardize build readiness documentation to hand cleaner deliverables to Software Quality.
• Conceived, authored, and drove to completion a “Feature Pack” process to safely add features to maintenance releases with minimal risk.
• Original member of the team forming the Picis Quality System – instituted to ensure overall product quality and meet FDA compliance and achieve ISO certification. Author and contributor for several processes.

• MSM’s first employee to be designated a Technical Project Lead.
• Responsible for managing all development projects and resources for the OR Manager development team – MSM’s leading product.
• Solely responsible for the technical direction of the product.
• First lead or manager at MSM to implement detailed project plans, design documentation, functional specifications, and documented/repeatable client installation and upgrade processes.
• Developed HL7 interfaces to other vendor… Show more
• Developed HL7 interfaces to other vendor HIS applications – a major component to ensure closing sales deals.

• Support Developer for financial Applications: Billing/Accounts Receivable, Materials Management, General Ledger, Payroll/Personnel.
• Researched issues, resolved defects, developed customizations, and developed interfaces to other systems in the clients’ hospitals.
• Project coordinator for client upgrades to new releases of software.