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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Team lead for shared geospatial visualization and analysis platform within RMS. Managing both technical direction and design, as well as day to day operations.Designed and implemented custom distributed data processing system for handling hundreds of complex hazard layers and untrusted user provided data.Provided mapping and spatial analysis services for core business applications managing +100 million location portfolios.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Data architect for US COVID-19 response. Manage technical components for daily reporting by 6k US hospitals. Advise internal and external partners on analysis approaches and technical solutions to develop outcome-oriented data science work.Technical lead on USDS initiative with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to connect claims data for 50+ million beneficiaries with over 100k healthcare providers nationwide. https://dpc.cms.govCMS representative to international healthcare standards body (HL7 FHIR) helping to drive innovation in patient privacy, prospective consent and population health analytics.Worked on $10 million CMS contract to move the agency to a single authentication provider. Provided technical input, strategic guidance, code reviews and hope, to CMS team and 3 contract organizations.

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

Design and implement automation testing techniques for complex web business applications in Ruby, utilizing Capybara and Selenium.Develop parallelization techniques for reducing testing time and addressing intermittent failure scenarios using Docker.Created automated tooling for updating test cases based on changing business requirements.

Seattle, Wa

Developing new database technologies for managing and analyzing spatio-temporal data. Primarily working on engineering both core technologies as well as innovative visualization techniques for multi-dimensional datasets.Leading development work of graph-based spatio-temporal database, using Java, Clojure and Typescript. Primarily focused on global disease surveillance, but with strong applications across a number of distinct scientific domains.

Greater Atlanta Area

Lead project to develop a coalition of partners to enable the use of mobile phone data in and around humanitarian emergencies. Focused on bridging culture and knowledge gaps between public health partners and technical solution providers.Coordinated grant application process for improving use and access to information and communication technologies within the global Ebola response.Developed improved, modern online visualization tools for global health metrics, based on modern web standards and technology.

Greater Atlanta Area

Worked on developing predictive modeling tools for population movements in and around humanitarian disasters, using a combination of parallel computing tools such as Hadoop and Apache Storm.Improved geospatial analysis processes to reduce turnaround time for generating actionable insight for key stakeholders.Designed and implemented visualization tools for various global health metrics.Developed proposal for addressing coverage gaps in mobile communications coverage during global emergency response.

Greater Seattle Area

Worked on a number of research projects related to the use of high performance computing tools to accelerate research output and enable new approaches to large-scale data research.Prototyped numerous research applications in multiple languages, such as Java, Python, Go, and Javascript. Developed core competencies in the analysis of complex and highly diversified datasets. Consulted on technical challenges facing research partners and developed novel architectures to solve critical issues.Focused on implementing cloud computing tools based on both Amazon Web Services, as well as private cloud providers such as OpenStack.

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

Developed novel database architectures to support automated risk analysis protocols.Implemented self-service reporting solutions to reduce report turnaround time and deliver key business insights directly to the end users.Designed new geospatial tools to perform in-depth risk analysis and pricing for individual properties under consideration by underwriting teams. . Currently utilized for all new policy acquisitions.Supervised database administration of Microsoft SQL Sever 2008 installations and performed extensive performance tuning and user training.Assisted in platform migration from SQL 2000 to SQL 2008 including data schema migration and ETL modernization.

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

Managed corporate Windows-based IT and data networks for small engineering firm, including lifecycle management, desktop support, and strategic development to align IT resources with core business strategies.Assisted in electrical design of manufactured products, including testing, Atmel firmware programming, hardware and software diagnosis, and design improvement recommendations.Developed software for new client interaction devices and prototyped hardware designs to support new market endeavors.Managed field installation projects and supported new customers in identifying key projects needs as well as supporting installation projects to address Coordinated communication between customer and internal corporate departments to facilitate information exchange.Created documentation to ease client transition and reduce service calls.

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

Media design and video production for client portfolio.Managed allocation of physical resources for large scale eventsAssisted in additional need areas that arose during the course of the projects

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Biomedical And Health Informatics

Research focus on on improving access and management of complex spatio-temporal data for public health research. Specifically focused.

Bachelors Of Science, General Health Sciences, 3.01

Activities and Societies: Fairway Cooperative, Purdue Cooperative Council, Purdue Student Government, ITaP Student Advisory Council

Public Health

Education record

Academic Honors Diploma, 3.5