Principal Consultant
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us
Served as a principal at Summa, a Pittsburgh-based technology consultancy. At Summa, my key responsibilities included:• Leading large scale client engagements, from inception through delivery. This included serving as the “on the ground” account manager to work with Sales to continue to grow accounts• Serving as a member of the Summa Technology Board (STB), a small group of leaders at Summa that set the technical direction of the companyMy primary client engagement was supporting Highmark with the delivery of a large healthcare insurance billing system. This was a large ($100M) program and I served as the primary technology leader for the team.• Maintained overall technical responsibility for the application, as well as for application architecture, detailed project management, team mentoring and training• Formalized development processes for the project, including architecture and design, continuous integration, build/release management, peer reviews, performance/load testing, and regression testing. Served as the liaison to Highmark enterprise architecture group.