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Cambridge, Ma, Us

Leading the development of a secure, scalable healthcare data science platform, with my team I enable AI/ML-driven collaboration across major medical centers, supported by investment from Kakao Healthcare. Fostered cross-functional communication and collaboration between business and R&D through a robust roadmap management process, aligning R&D priorities with business needs and clearly communicating product delivery timelines.• Leading the R&D organization for Data Science and Engineering.• Built a high-performing, multi-disciplinary team with a high retention rate.• Collaborated with clinical researchers at major academic medical centers to apply machine learning to healthcare data, resulting in multiple scientific publications.• Developed a healthcare data science platform ensuring the highest standards of data security and privacy, designed to empower clinicians and technical staff to accelerate data science on real-world clinical data.• Designed a cloud-native architecture enabling the platform to run and scale anywhere, from on-premises behind a hospital firewall with limited hardware to any cloud provider, scaling on demand.• Innovated in harmonizing healthcare data for machine learning, achieving rapid time-to-value.• Enabled multi-center collaboration, allowing teams with limited technical expertise to securely share data and train machine learning models while maintaining full data privacy.• Secured investment from Kakao Healthcare to enhance multi-center collaboration for the R-Alliance network of hospitals in Korea.

Boston, Ma, Us

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Led DevOps transformation of Platform Engineering Group, including migration to a microservices based SaaS architecture and big data analytics platform. Successfully championed effort to adopt Scaled Agile Framework across 200+ person Engineering and Product Management organization. Veracode was acquired by CA Technologies in early 2017.

Software executive on the management team responsible for launching QPID Health as a commercial company. Built a talented software development team with deep expertise in DevOps, security, data integration, search, NLP / machine learning, UX, and analytics. QPID Health provides a cloud based platform that extracts intelligence from the narrative portion of the electronic health record and integrates it with structured data to solve complex problems in quality reporting, registry submission, and utilization management. The company was spun out of Partners HealthCare in 2012 and the platform has since been adopted by other major IDNs including Providence Health & Services and Sharp HealthCare. QPID Health has been acquired by eviCore, a leading provider of medical benefits management solutions with over 100M lives managed.

Technology strategy consulting focused on cloud computing and SaaS initiatives.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Member of the executive team that transformed OpenPages into a leading provider of integrated risk management solutions for global companies. Led technology strategy and product development efforts. OpenPages received Inc. 500 recognition as the "fastest growing private software company" twice during this period and was subsequently acquired by IBM's Business Analytics software unit. · Built Engineering organization of 80+ individuals that consistently delivered innovative, quality software across seven major product releases. Attracted and retained talented professionals in development, QA, release engineering, and documentation, including an offshore team in Hyderabad, India. · Developed patented metadata-driven application platform, enabling the rapid delivery of customer-driven solutions without coding. This unique approach was a key competitive differentiator, enabling OpenPages to offer the broadest, most integrated and adaptable suite of GRC solutions on the market. · Led strategic effort to develop a "Software as a Service" loss event collection platform for the Operational Riskdata eXchange Association (ORX). ORX is the world's leading operational risk loss data consortium for the financial services industry. The success of this initiative drove international sales growth and helped catalyze OpenPages’ success in the financial services sector leading to the company's acquisition by IBM.

Led multiple initiatives to increase Mercator's presence and market share in the B2B Integration market. Formulated product strategy in the areas of XML support, B2B Messaging, Trading Partner Management, and Business Process Automation.

Recruited to build the Engineering organization and product line for Novera, a Matrix Partners/Sigma Partners venture-backed start-up. · Took the Novera product from concept through four major releases. · Developed the industry's first Java Application Server, including an embedded object/relational persistence and query service. Won major deals with early adopters such as The Home Depot, MCI, and Morgan Stanley. · Developed Novera's XML integration strategy, helping to position the company in the Web Application Integration market. Novera was acquired by Mercator Software, a leading application integration vendor, in September 1999.

Within Systems Management Group led development of an enterprise-class product capable of administering large numbers of Sybase SQL Server systems in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. · Delivered two major releases of Enterprise SQL Server Manager (ESSM) product, achieving revenue of $10 million in 1995. · As first commercial licensee of the Tivoli Management Framework achieved fast time-to-market for advanced database administration capabilities.

Led small teams developing network management software for BBN Communications network equipment. Pioneered the use of object-oriented technology within the group, creating a set of widely used C++ components supporting BBN Communications network management applications.

Bachelor Of Science, Biology

Master Of Science, Information Systems