Vytalize Health is a leading provider enablement platform helping primary care doctors strengthen relationships with their patients through data-driven, holistic, and personalized care. Vytalize provides an all-in-one solution including value-based incentives, smart technology, and a virtual clinic that enables small and large independent practices to succeed in value-based care arrangements.Learn more at www.vytalizehealth.com or email info@vytalizehealth.com.

Marathon Health is the second largest provider of employer-based healthcare, with more than 240 health centers serving approximately 750,000 members. Marathon Health has delivered more than $1billion in savings to its clients.• Lead the Software and Mobile Engineering Agile teams, comprised of solution architects, engineers, product owners, quality assurance, design and international OPD teams, collectively responsible for all organization application integrations, APIs (RESTful & SOAP), and web portals and mobile (iOS-Kotlin, Android-Kotlin) applications.• Lead the Data Integration (HL7) and Data Architect teams, implementing new cloud Enterprise Data Warehouse architecture and defining data automations for ETL pipelines for data ingestion, utilizing cloud native functionality.• Collaborate with stakeholders of the business and executive management team to ensure that IT Ops, Software, Data, and QA concerns and priorities are addressed in our technology strategy to achieve objectives of the organization.• Managed the definition, documentation and implementation of IT and security policies and compliance protocols to create a secure environment based on HIPAA standards and verified for HITRUST certification.• Responsible and accountable for quality, governance, and security of PII/PHI data across all strategic initiatives.• Define Healthtech solutions: inception, design, project and budget creation, technology, and team selection ensuring all production solutions are highly scalable, redundant and performant.• Develop and manage project roadmaps for product offering(s), integrating the product strategy, inclusive of timelines, risks, and dependencies.• Managed tech stack migration following organization acquisition, including hundreds of thousands of patient records and associated files from custom EMR to Athena, and merged software engineering teams and data teams.

FreightWaves is a tech startup that rapidly became the leading go to source for data and content that provides freight market participants with near-time analytics representing billions of individual data points. Serve in a key role in developing internal systems and SaaS consumer products based on market transparency and providing visibility to the freight economy. Responsible for the project management design, development and architecture of all major software solutions, including the establishment of company-wide software development best practices.• Implemented from scratch, a highly scalable Cloud Services platform supporting datasets in excess of 120TB, increasing product quality and performance from days and weeks to near-time, resulting in an increased valuation that yielded $60M in early-stage fundraising. • Led complex technology initiatives, including recruiting, training, and managing cross-functional internal, remote, and offshore engineering teams of Data Scientists and Software, DevOps, QA, and Data Engineers, growing the teams from 0 to over 60 and overall employee count to 200 in under 18 months. • Directed mission critical internal and commercial technology platforms, including migrating to a cloud-based, 24x7x365 SaaS solution with 99.9% uptime and post-incident reporting. • Ensured high-availability SLA compliant solutions by building scalable processes within Azure, AWS & GCP cloud architectures employing CI/CD to production systems based on strict Agile project management. • Streamlined and automated data collection, consolidation, monetization, implementing AWS and GCP data architectures to create and automate an ETL pipeline for data ingestion and dissemination. • Oversee contingency planning and IT security and compliance by establishing controls and processes in support of data security, PCI, SOX (SOC2) and other relevant regulatory requirements.

The Johnson Group provides full-funnel, marketing and advertising from brand positioning, research, data science and full-stack development to video/photo content, and EFFIE-winning strategy and creative. All under one roof. Responsible for ensuring that clients use information technology to develop the best value, most useful, and most effective products and services to support their mission. As part of this process, ensure that clients have thorough and accurate information to develop and execute a strong market strategy.• Implemented corporate and client ROI for IT products and services, architecting highly effective, best in class e-commerce solutions for National clients like Krystal Corporation and Double Cola utilizing sprint planning that were on-target for business goals. • Improved clients’ productivity +30% and revenue 25%, implementing an IT strategy for application optimization to include new equipment, automation, and robust, scalable AWS-based solutions. • Defined IT vision, establishing best practices, prioritization, and budgets in collaboration with department heads for Marketing, Production, and Operations for multiple production projects. • Implemented tools and technologies from current best-in-business and next-gen hardware, software, and engineering technologies for several high availability production environments. • Established software development KPI objectives, implementing an agile SDLC process.

episode49, LLC is an online consultancy firm that provides strategic planning as well as web design and development. Ken provided expertise in applying technological solutions to a variety of industries through business process and objectives analysis. He directed business operations ranging from personnel management to new business development. He served as the face of the company and managed day to day personnel and financial business operations internally and as an IT manager to numerous clients.- Managed day-to-day personnel and financial business operations both internally and as a vendor partner to clients.- Recruited and hired engineers, quality assurance, and a wide range of other IT employees, consultants, and vendors.- Defined corporate mission and technological vision, implementing strategies, and securing resources in alignment with business requirements.- Employed expert knowledge of numerous programming languages (.NET, Python and other open source) to define initiatives, establish best practices, and mentor staff.-Worked with a team that adheres to an agile development methodology and ensure the proper use of test driven development for producing high quality output.- Worked with collaborative development teams to design enterprise software solutions within proposed architectural framework.- Provided insight to strategic technology planning, business case development, business process improvement and portfolio transformation.- Worked with customers and external consultants and vendors to develop functional business system design and solutions.- Exceptional experience in application of technological governance and processes.- High knowledge of .NET and Microsoft-based portal frameworks.

Required a strong sense of vision to extend and secure st3’s reputation as a top provider of streaming media solutions and commercial web-based applications. Assisted in identifying concepts and spent time on research and design to complete the analysis, coding, testing and releasing of products. Hands on management of a highly technical product development team.- Recruited, hired, trained, and managed the entire development staff, including UI/UX designers, full stack developers and product management team.- Development of requirements and specifications, planning, scheduling & reporting, product management and quality assurance. Coordinated the assignment of staff to fulfill project roles.- Drove all application architecture decisions, including continued selection of programming languages, middleware applications and database platforms. Ensured the application development tools and solutions fit the IT framework. Continually improved the IT framework to align with business strategies.- Managed outsource development resources and vendors as necessary to complement in-house activity. Researched and made informed build vs. buy decisions to ensure best available external and internal resources are most effectively utilized.- Supervised and evaluated industry research and adjusted product development strategy to meet changing competitive conditions.- Supervised preparation and implementation of development plans, which defined the scope of work and deliverable end products, cost estimates, schedules, status reports, testing and delivery dates.