Michael Bries Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL

Chicago, IL

• Member of development team dedicated to bringing Pharmguard® Interoperability (PGI) to market
• Extensive use of InterSystems Ensemble, Caché ObjectScript, and HL7 to transform Medfusion® 4000 pump data into IHE-compliant communications
• Involved in all aspects of an Agile-based SDLC including longer-term iteration as well as sprint planning
• Redesigned and refactored core functionality for extensibility, supportability, and performance improvement
• Participated in a hierarchical requirements/verification redesign intended to reduce the amount of QA team’s manual testing; implemented modified condition/decision coverage (MC DC) software unit test methodology as a.

Chicago, IL

• Member of a core team dedicated to bringing online a new integration engine for a legacy IDX system, centered around the InterSystems Ensemble technology
• Established new coding standards and best practices for Ensemble aligned with service oriented architecture
• Designed and developed a web service based interface to a third-party vendor to analyze claims for fraud, waste, and abuse, enabled annual savings of $50 million
• Involved in several high-visibility, compliance driven projects – Health Information Exchange (HIX) web services, Medicare (CMS) Explanation of Benefits reporting
• Evangelized Ensemble amongst project and production support developers; developed and lead training and overview sessions, established weekly forum to discuss ideas and issues

Madison, WI

• Troubleshooting of client/server communications in Caché and VB 6 for inpatient pharmacy EMR and related applications
• Increased customer satisfaction by devising and implementing new issues tracking standards and procedures
• Developed numerous software changes to standard Epic code to positively impact client workflow
• Specialized in support of Epic’s largest multi-hospital customers and influenced Epic development vision to recognize their unique challenges
• Facilitated bi-monthly user group meetings between hospital stakeholders and Epic R&D
• Coordinated patient safety escalation process for multi-member customer team

Iowa City, IA

• Developed, tested, implemented, and supported a VBA-based clinical staff scheduling software for the Center for Disabilities and Development
• Developed using VB.net a web-based user interface in support of the data mining combustion optimization project for MidAmerican Energy and University of Iowa power plant
• Participated in data preparation, algorithm selection, and mining of various publicly available and proprietary data sets (Wind turbine control, Netflix prize, SCADA systems)
• Data mining and statistical analysis for prediction of blood hemoglobin levels in kidney dialysis patients

Master Of Science, Industrial Engineering

Thesis Topic: Modeling of Hemodialysis Patient Hemoglobin: A Data Mining Exploration

Bachelor Of Science, Industrial Engineering

Education record