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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Leading engineering teams in surgical navigation and robotics new development projects, following agile methodologies and regulatory practices to guide engineering processes.• Organizing and planning work using Atlassian tools for project management.

Purchase, Ny, Us

• Led engineering teams in new development projects and scaling up current telehealth technology stack and applications with a focus on mental healthcare.• Integrated mental healthcare applications into future vision of a unified healthcare experience platform.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Evaluated and created clinical and business solutions for Healthcare and Life Sciences customers on the Salesforce technology platform, including web and mobile-based applications.• Provided technical guidance in pre-sales engagements and projects.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Led new healthcare-focused software development for Huron Consulting services.• Created formal software development best practices and procedures that focused on delivering MVP products to market, using Agile methods.• Led engineering team and built a new data management application with embedded analytics that screened and validated healthcare data so it could be stored in a data warehouse for future reuse and consulting analysis, achieving a major company goal.• Constructed SaaS web-based applications using .NET Core 2.2 with Angular 7 front-end and DevExpress UI controller components, using AWS EC2/ECS/S3/RDS/CloudFront/CloudWatch and Docker images and NGINX server.

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

• Consulted for Huron Consulting Group as a software development manager for core product lines in its healthcare IT division, including development management, project management, project leadership, and scrum master.• Led and delivered new software applications and proof of concepts, with three architected projects completed in less than one year.• Collaboratively developed new engineering processes and techniques, using the latest Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology to ensure cost effectiveness and optimal scalability.• Created continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes, using Azure DevOps tools to compile, build, test, and deploy code to push efficiently to production.

Denver, Co, Us

• Led web technology cloud-based development with local/distributed workforce of software engineering teams through Agile transformation, including main company health optimization and population health applications, multiple scrum teams, and overall engineering organization.• Managed team of 25 development and test engineers, product owners, and scrum master to deliver new functionality for the company's main PaaS products. Contributed to roll out of SAFe agile development processes.• Drove process improvement for engineering and worked directly with other engineering leaders and architects to deliver process changes.• Delivered two Agile enterprise release cycles of new code, using the latest JavaScript technology, running on AWS components.• Led mobile stack development teams, coding in Native Android OS and Objective-C and Swift for iOS.• Streamlined engineering resources and saved $100,000 monthly in expenses by consolidating more expensive contract employees.• Changed role to Senior Manager, Customer Technical Support in 2018.

Irving, Texas, Us

• Led new and sustaining engineering work for seven clinical and reporting applications in the Enterprise Information Solutions product line, including EHR, ARRA, and MU products.• Directed engineering team in transition from McKesson Horizon (Linux/Oracle) to Paragon (Microsoft/SQL Server) platforms as well as created a new SSRS reports enterprise-wide product.• Managed and organized the Reports engineering team and integrated an eight-person team into the company’s SAFe agile development model.• Streamlined the reports product structure and advanced database connection architecture for 200 reports.• Eliminated reports bug backlog of 300 bugs and significantly reduced product technical debt.• Led creation of a document management application, solving key clinical application Meaningful Use workflow requirements and enabling patient documentation attachments to permanent medical records and secure emailed to authorized medical providers.• Created agile processes for multiple development teams and customized workflows to fit team goals for new development versus maintenance work, resulting in better work efficiency.• Coordinated and delivered six major releases for physician, nursing, regulatory, clinical documentation, and infrastructure products, all key product components for the company’s enterprise software that manage patient care from admission through discharge.• Managed both onshore and offshore engineering teams, including contractors, with up to 18 direct staff reports and a multimillion-dollar salary budget.• Led the Customer Performance Team and was acting director in 2011, including design of operational escalation processes that drove the flow of Tier 3 support for customer escalations across the development organization, as well as managed a customer escalation system, which was used by 400 employees.• Represented the company and development organization for a major hospital system upgrade event, resulting in retention of a key customer.

Irving, Texas, Us

• Promoted new business product development efforts for Life Sciences and Predictive Care teams, focused on Personalized Medicine initiatives.• Prototyped innovative products to enter new product markets and drive future strategy.• Created business requirements and product detailed documentation to validate new products, including pro forma analysis and business case documents.• Managed a joint project venture to help drive work efforts for both McKesson and third-party companies, including product development roadmap.• Supported internal and external communication and represented products in discussions with corporate legal teams.• Presented educational sessions to physician leaders and reviewed new clinical products with physicians and chief medical officers to get buy-in from healthcare leaders.• Delivered competitive and industry analysis to support product development strategy, includingpresentations on Personalized Medicine standards to help senior management understand currenttrends for new product integration.• Improved learning and collaboration across teams by teaching Microsoft Live Meeting recording skills to the entire 1500+ person organization.• Led reporting and analytics development for a clinical quality monitoring product for hospital release.

Irving, Texas, Us

• Engineered and tested critical medication order and processing functionality for enterprise software to link Computerized Physician Order Entry, pharmacy, and medication administration applications.• Created new integration test environments to improve clinical workflows and enable testing across the clinical enterprise platform.• Vetted new proof of concept, using VMware technology, which led to next enterprise software release.• Demonstrated clinical applications to leadership and pilot hospitals, gaining customer buy-in from reference hospitals to support product sales.• Improved quality of core clinical products, resulting in enhanced patient safety and satisfied clinicians.• Completed McKesson’s managerial curriculum, leading to future leadership opportunities.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Liberal Arts, Psychology, Pre-Med

Computer Software Engineering

Business Administration And Management, General

Medicine