Management and coordination of the NY City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Project INSPIRE. A novel US HHS/CMS Level 3 Grant program for Improving Chronic Hepatitis C Care. VNSNY’s challenge was to establish national coordination of care payment standards in order to sustain the required level of care coordination beyond the grant and foster national acceptance.

· Led the technical and operational aspects of a Human Resource Service Administration (HRSA) funded Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) grant for an innovative Health Information Technology initiative awarded to NYP.· Successfully developed and launched an XML Continuity of Care Document (CCD) based clinical patient portal for 1500 PLWHA, clinicians and case managers within first year. Adoption exceeds independently published expectations.· Integrated existing Filemaker… Show more · Led the technical and operational aspects of a Human Resource Service Administration (HRSA) funded Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) grant for an innovative Health Information Technology initiative awarded to NYP.· Successfully developed and launched an XML Continuity of Care Document (CCD) based clinical patient portal for 1500 PLWHA, clinicians and case managers within first year. Adoption exceeds independently published expectations.· Integrated existing Filemaker Pro Advanced Server with an expanded MySQL database backend in order to facilitate increasing clinical information interfacing needs. Co-Managed Apple XServe systems and client workstations.· Conducted system security and usage audits to ensure compliance with HIPAA, New York State Law and Department of Health, and hospital requirements.· Liaison with local project evaluation team at the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics and the national Health Information Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC) at University of California San Francisco. · Managed vendor relationships as well as staff involved with community outreach, education and training. Show less

· Promoted by Executive VP for successful development of tools providing process transparency, monitoring, notification, and reporting for operations, engineers, and management. Expanded team to three full-time employees.· Coordinated with Systems Engineering, Security, QA, and Infrastructure departments to ensure business continuity of internal database production, client processing, data validity, and security during planned and unplanned disruptions.· Improved process charting time… Show more · Promoted by Executive VP for successful development of tools providing process transparency, monitoring, notification, and reporting for operations, engineers, and management. Expanded team to three full-time employees.· Coordinated with Systems Engineering, Security, QA, and Infrastructure departments to ensure business continuity of internal database production, client processing, data validity, and security during planned and unplanned disruptions.· Improved process charting time saving countless hours of tedious manual effort. Achieved by development of a web-based automated system that enabled rapid visualization and documentation of complex and often inter-related processes.Manager, Production Systems & Support Team 2000· Promoted by Company President/Founder and charged with creation of the Production Systems group. Position reported to the Executive VP of Information Research/QA and assumed all production automation responsibilities.· Directed critical 24x7 system operations, production, integration, maintenance, and troubleshooting activities.· Developed and conducted training programs on automation systems and best practice for new engineering staff. Systems Engineer 1997· Responsible for dual $20MM hot data centers. This included facilities (build-out and relocations), systems evaluation, purchase, installation, integration, security, maintenance and support, as well as supervision of operations staff.· Expanded role into quality review of nightly processing to provide guidance to software engineering on standardization and centralization of database updates under a central corporate job scheduling system. Show less

Yes, THAT Purdue. It’s horrible and inexcusable that I and everyone in R&D were misled and lied to by the Sacklers and others at the highest levels of this company. I as well as so many of my lifelong friends made while employed here, did so because we were driven by and committed to helping others, our loved ones and even ourselves. I want to be ashamed for working here but also proud that my heart and mind know it was for the right reasons and conscience is clear for my efforts to help my… Show more Yes, THAT Purdue. It’s horrible and inexcusable that I and everyone in R&D were misled and lied to by the Sacklers and others at the highest levels of this company. I as well as so many of my lifelong friends made while employed here, did so because we were driven by and committed to helping others, our loved ones and even ourselves. I want to be ashamed for working here but also proud that my heart and mind know it was for the right reasons and conscience is clear for my efforts to help my fellow humans.· Promoted by Executive VP/Director of Research and created the Research Systems department with an operating budget of ~$1MM. Responsible for staffing, strategy, hardware, and software solutions to support the entire R&D effort.· Effectively handled a nearly 10-fold increase in R&D staff, equipment, data collection and analysis. · Authored and implemented SOP’s for disaster recovery, security, operations, backup, and archiving.Senior Scientist / Manager, Laboratory Information Systems 1991· Promoted by Director of Pharmaceutical Analysis to lead LIMS strategic development, planning, design, engineering, implementation, validation and testing.· Ensured system and data integrity, security, accessibility, and stability; to support IND/NDA and clinical research.Associate Senior Scientist / Laboratory Information Systems Specialist 1989· Computerized all chromatography systems (HPLC, LC-GC/MS). Responsible for evaluation, purchase, and validation (IQ,OQ,PQ) of lab systems as well as continued system upgrades/support and training to ensure cGALP compliance.Research Associate/Research Scientist 1984/1986· Completely automated tablet dissolution lab enabling rapid expansion of stability testing programs. · 25% increase in productivity in the bioanalytical and stability departments within the first 6 months of joining. Show less