Rich Brahm Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA

• Over two years of experience using Agile/SCRUM methodology to build and test the company's next generation practice management system. We conduct daily Scrums, as well as release planning, sprint planning, sprint.
• Our team sets the standard for productivity in the Development department, and was recently selected to pilot the adoption of Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) techniques.
• Create and execute rigorous tests for the integration of a comprehensive patient scheduling module that was built with NextGen technology into a legacy practice management system, with hundreds of integration points.
• Develop SQL queries for database testing.
• Interact with end-users during the beta testing phase, connecting remotely to their systems to gain an understanding of their problems, then communicating the issues to the technical team.
• Examination of user stories, functional documentation, prototypes, and acceptance criteria to develop detailed and thorough test cases, resulting in frequently finding shortcomings that require rework.

Atlanta, GA

• Two years of experience as a Test Automation Engineer writing automated test scripts in QuickTest Pro and VB Script.
• Conducted an analysis of the existing manual tests and convinced upper management to shift the direction from automating tests one by one to building a test automation framework with modular components for flexibility.
• The standard for success upon launching the test automation effort was to have one-third of the test cases automated; I greatly exceeded this by fully automating over 60% of the tests and partially automating another.
• Identified inherent need to proceed with test automation in a manner that would withstand regulatory scrutiny, met with the Regulatory Affairs Officer, and created a series of goals, customer requirements, and.
• Developed guidelines for the QA staff on how to prepare their manual test cases in a manner that would facilitate test automation.

Atlanta, GA

• In 2007, Eastman Kodak sold the Kodak Health Group to Onex Corporation; Kodak Health Group was renamed as Carestream Health, and Kodak Dental Systems was renamed as Carestream Dental.
• Responsible for the R&D budget (25 people) including analysis, monitoring, and reporting to the VP of R&D.
• Managed software licenses for the R&D department (approximately 30 licensed tools and products).
• Analyzed the existing databases of the company's four premier practice management applications to create a unified database schema that served as the basis for the database of the new global NextGen database.
• Effective management of the developers in the Vancouver, BC office for the company’s imaging development needs (projects included PW DICOM, Trophy Cosmetic, Trophy Slideshow, Thumbnail Viewer, and the Image Presenter.
• Coordinated the entire development department’s interactions with the R&D group of our Trophy France team.

Atlanta, GA

• In 2003, Eastman Kodak Company purchased PracticeWorks to form Kodak Dental Systems.
• Continued management of the company’s dental imaging development efforts.
• Selected by the CEO to sit in on the company's first FDA audit of our Class III Medical Device practice management application; provided comprehensive notes for the executive leadership team.

Sacramento, California Area; Atlanta, GA

• After exponential growth through the acquisition of dozens more small companies, InfoCure spun off its dental division to form PracticeWorks.
• Took over the development of several different dental practice management system applications as the company acquired over a dozen smaller companies and consolidated resources.
• This required the ability to pick up diverse languages, database systems, and platforms (MS Access 97 with VBA; VB 4.0 and proprietary database; PowerBuilder; Borland Pascal; Delphi; and Code Warrior on Apple Macintosh.

Sacramento, California Area

• InfoCure was formed in July 1997 upon the acquisition of KComp Systems and five other medical software development companies.
• After a period of attrition, I was once again the sole developer for the KComp dental practice management application, and brought the product to maturity, successfully adding comprehensive new features and maintaining.
• Wrapped up the KComp application by conducting a Y2K retrofit that was delivered on time and without any defects encountered by our customers.

Glendale, CA

• Led team of five developers as a "player/manager" in the continued development of our ground-breaking dental practice management application.

Canoga Park, CA

• Continued development of the dental practice management application (KComp, Inc. went through bankruptcy and reformed as Songbird Data Systems (DBA KComp Systems) with the infusion of venture capital.
• Began taking on team management responsibilities as additional developers were hired.

Glendale, CA

• Conducted full SDLC development process with the company that pioneered the development of practice management software for the general dental market.