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Healthcare Systems Interfacing (esp. HL7), Data Conversions, DBA, Project Management, QA• Lead Technical Resource - Messaging, Lab, Canada Health Infoway• Lead Technical Resource - Messaging, PHS, Canada Health Infoway• Technical SME - Messaging Architect, Canada Health Infoway• Consulting on v2.x HL7 specifications and interfacing• Consulting on v3.0 HL7 specifications, modeling, requirements analysis• Completed 19 conversion projects for 14 clients converting lab results, pathology, and blood bank information including migration strategies, data scrubbing, and value mapping.• Completed the conversion of 2 CDR databases including millions of records across decades of healthcare services.• Completed HIPAA Transactions Analysis for healthcare software developers

• Product Manager responsible for requirements for Outbound Messaging Processor Application based on the Oracle healthcare repository.• Leader in developing HL7 v3.0 messaging interface specifications and model representations for Public Health Reporting, Patient Administration, Regulated Studies, Medication Administration, Lab & Pharmacy Orders & Observations, Billing and Accounting, and Claims and Reimbursement including many models which were still immature or undeveloped in the HL7 standard.• Facilitator for Orders & Observations (lab) HL7 Technical Committee currently working on analyzing and developing the core concept model for all orders & observation messaging throughout the HL7 standard.• Completed National Health System (NHS) UK proof-of-solution product offering for a countrywide healthcare repository.

• IT Director responsible for the build-out of a new building including all IT and telecocmmunications infrastructure.• Release and Deployment Director who developed deployment architecture for nation-wide web-based education system.• Implemented software engineering design process including creating the Release Department and coordinating development of release process.• Provided direction for quality assurance manager who supervised team of quality assurance engineers verifying the quality and documenting the bugs in the product.• Consulted with platform architect to develop tuned database architecture for a web-based education system.• Deployed all systems on multiple platforms for clients nationally and internationally.

• Support Services Manager responsible for managing team of 11 employees who provided support for a suite of PC and unix healthcare products worldwide, 24x7.• Relocated helpdesk from Atlanta including hiring/training all employees.• Developed budgets, forecasts, and contracting for support services.• Senior Systems Engineer responsible for technical systems implementations with teams including client resources, vendor resources, and consultants for 10 clients on 15 projects including a premier, high-visibility client project

• Managed systems implementations with teams including client resources, vendor resources, and consultants• Performed systems, database, and applications upgrades for over 50 clients nationwide• Performed implementations analysis, coding, validation, and testing as needed by key client projects for over 100 clients, US and international

• Managed all technical aspects of 2 successive HIS replacement implementations while also managing the legacy systems staff, recruitment, training, interfacing (proprietary and HL7), and data conversions and migration.• Managed hardware/network capacity planning, participated in systems selection, developed numerous tools for tracking of issues, case tracking, and programming requests• Developed software management procedures, database design, user support and training and programming support for various applications