Linda Silverthorn Email & Phone Number

Beaverton, Or, Us

Louisville, Co, Us

Providing software development and consulting services on an hourly basis since 1998.

Consultant, Good Karma Photography, Denver, CO- Contacted by owner to help repair his website after it had been hacked via an FTP connection.- Website was not secured by previous developer and allowed for anyone to connect via FTP.- After repairing the damage, I was hired to improve website performance and functionality as it had been created by someone without significant software development experience. The owner planned to transition to a website provider for real estate businesses, but did not have the funds at the time and needed to keep his current website operational.- I cleaned up and fixed several significant bugs including one that prevented customers from accessing and downloading photos - a primary function of the website. I also checked the website code in to source control; the previous developer didn't know how to use source control.- Added functionality to allow users to fully manage their accounts - Added support for multiple browsers and operating systems; initially website only worked in Windows XP/IE 6- Added Google Analytics- Environment: HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Smarty, jQuery, Ajax, RCS, Windows XP and Windows 7, Mac OS X, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, IE (6, 7 & 8), basic support for Opera, MySQL

Consultant, Covenant Healthcare, Knoxville, TN- Continuation of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) project using McKesson Horizon Expert Orders (HEO).

Consultant, Covenant Healthcare, Knoxville, TN- Hired as part of a team of consultants to help Covenant Healthcare with their Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) project using McKesson Horizon Expert Orders (HEO). Covenant is the largest hospital system in eastern Tennessee.- Initially assisted with installation and configuration of software, then developed html forms and style sheets in conjunction with clinical IT staff; these forms are for use by physicians. Worked with staff to convert Zynx evidence based forms to HEO intelligent forms.- Defined development process for this project.- Led team of 5 developers in creating and maintaining over 300 forms and supporting code for 7 Inpatient facilities and 7 Emergency Departments; mentored developers as they joined the team.- Provided support for all facility testing and go-lives.- As of January 2015, Covenant had met all American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) goals and stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures at all facilities implementing HEO.- Achieved physician adoption rates of 75% or higher.- Environment: HTML, JavaScript, Apache, Oracle, Shell scripting, Tortoise SVN, Zynx, Linux, Windows 7

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Managed 6 rental properties (single family homes) in Boulder and Longmont area.- Duties included screening tenant applications, executing leases, providing house maintenance (landscaping, painting, scheduled maintenance e.g. furnace filters, smoke detectors), performing simple repairs, hiring licensed contractors for more complicated repairs, and managing tenant issues such as delinquent rent and evictions.- Also during this time I acted as Project Manager/General Contractor for down-to-the-studs remodels for three of these properties.

Irving, Texas, Us

- Implemented Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system for hospital settings.- Led collaboration with physicians and clinicians from nationally renowned University Medical Centers at Duke & Vanderbilt to develop product requirements designed to increase likelihood of physician adoption.- Led effort to bring Duke University Heart Center live on McKesson CPOE system in 60 days; after go-live, 83% of the 70K monthly orders were placed electronically by the physicians using the CPOE system at Duke; this contributed to more timely care and a safer patient experience at the medical center. After initial go-live, processed 600K+ orders in system at Duke University between September 2004 go-live and June 2007 (20K orders daily).- Led collaboration and integration effort with McKesson France personnel for CPOE product for French hospital settings.- Managed salary and personnel issues for 7 engineers, 3 business analysts.- Served simultaneously as Manager for CPOE Toolkit team (electronic orders build tool) for several months while a new resource was being recruited; this added 5 engineers and 3 business analysts to my group of reports.- Achieved less than 5% attrition rate between July 2003 and June 2007.- Primary Responsibilities: define product roadmap in conjunction with Product Management, define and track product requirements, define and track project schedule, manage staff task assignments, daily stand-ups with engineering and analysts, track defects, provide on-call customer support during go-lives, attend weekly customer status calls, review and sign-off user documentation, conduct monthly one-on-one meetings with each employee, conduct Personnel reviews, conduct interviewing and hiring, provide product updates for McKesson Executives, coordinate with Configuration Management and QA teams.- Assisted in acquiring CMMi Level 2 certification.- Environment: Java client on Windows PC, C++/Java back-end on HP, IBM and Linux, Apache HTTP server, Oracle

Irving, Texas, Us

Technical Lead, Senior Advisory Engineer June 1998 – June 2003- Grew team from 3 engineers to 4 business analysts and 6 engineers.- Lead engineer for Horizon Expert Orders starting at its inception in March 2001.- Responsibilities: updating management with current status, coding, tracking staff assignments, defect tracking and analysis, leading design reviews and code walkthroughs, mentoring new employees, interviewing candidates.- Received McKesson Fellow Nomination for Horizon Expert Orders project.- Environment: Java client on PC, C++/Java back-end on HP, and IBM, Apache HTTP server.Senior Software Engineer December 1996 – May 1998- Developer for Horizon Clinicals Order Management product. Design and implement Physician Order Entry enhancements.- Environment: C++ on HP, IBM AIX, and DG workstations using XVT and RogueWave developer libraries.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Staff Consultant @ IBM, Boulder, CO: 10/1994 - 11/1996- GUI Developer for IBM Print-on-Demand product.- Environment: C++, Motif & X11R5 on IBM AIX.IWS Development Lead @ USWEST Technologies, Denver, CO (now Century Link): 3/1993 - 10/1994- Responsibilities: coding, scheduling & tracking assignments, tracking & analyzing defects, tracking adherence to process, leading design reviews & code walkthroughs, weekly status meetings, mentoring new employees, interviewing candidates, & acting as development representative in meetings with other departments and service groups.- Environment: C++, C & Perl on Sun Sparc 1000, SGI Challenge, and MIPS 32xx/33xx series.IWS Test Engineer @ USWEST Technologies, Denver, CO: 10/1992 - 3/1993- Test engineer for Intelligent Workstation (IWS) product used by Service Representatives; primary responsibility for Remote Surveillance (RSDS) application. Work included validating defects, regression testing, and developing test plans.

- Primary Developer for Graphical User Interface for the CAD Framework product using Motif and X11R4. Responsibilities included design, implementation and unit testing.- Environment: C on Sun and Intergraph Workstations.

Westminster, Co, Us

- Led PostScript Converter project. Responsibilities included scheduling tasks and overseeing development team. Primary Developer for Interleaf Language Converter product.- Developed and implemented extensive test suites for these products, which resulted in higher quality delivered software.- Environment: C and FORTRAN on Sun, Apollo and DEC Ultrix Workstations.

Paris, France, Fr

Staff Consultant @ AT&T Bell Laboratories, Thornton, CO- Developer for the Network Manager portion of Audix Voice Mail System for Voice Mail group- Environment: C on Amdahl, cross-compiled for loading directly on the 3B2 phone switch hardware.

Westminster, Co, Us

- Primary Developer for Technical Illustration Package. Responsibilities included development, documentation and customer support.- Environment: C and FORTRAN on Sun, Apollo and DEC VAX.