Altera acquired TouchWorks EHR and other products from Allscripts. I continued in my role as VP of Engineering for the TouchWorks product.

Joined Ambulatory BU as part of merging Avenel with flagship EMR. In first 90 days, drove a range of initiatives.• Combined separate product management teams into a single organization• Combined separate DevOps & CM/RE teams into a single go-forward organization focused on both Azure and DC deployments• Defined plans for multiple technology uplift & corrective activities to be executed as part of Cures Act release• Assisted with creation of comprehensive product gap list and roadmap for addressing same• Initiated comprehensive review of development procedures & KPIs to refocus on key aspects of solution quality

Assigned leadership of existing Azure-based Avenel EMR with goal of exploiting existing assets for Northwell partnership.• Selected leadership team and defined Mission & Vision for the existing Avenel organization• Executed a comprehensive review of the existing Avenel solution with respect to partnership requirements to identify opportunities & gaps• Initiated multiple research projects on new tools & technologies to support Northwell partnership requirements• Implemented multiple procedural changes to improve operational readiness of organization particularly for growth• Identified portfolio management tools & procedures to enable data-supported decision making• Identified & implemented $250,000+ in annualized operational savings in first 3 months

Technical leader for the Northwell “Future EMR” partnership and Solutions & Development leader for the existing Avenel business unit.• Selected leadership team and defined Mission & Vision for the existing Avenel organization• Executed a comprehensive review of the existing Avenel solution with respect to partnership requirements to identify opportunities & gaps• Initiated multiple research projects on new tools & technologies to support partnership requirements• Implemented multiple procedural changes to improve operational readiness of organization for future growth• Implementing portfolio management tools & procedures to enable data-supported decision making• Identified & implemented $250,000+ in annualized operational savings in first 3 months

• Drove 60% reduction in the daily error rate• Drove 40% improvement in responsiveness• Achieved significant improvement in ADT feed processing (reduced from >45sec/msg to <1sec/msg)• Implemented substantial improvements in the breadth of coverage and actionable content of internal system alerts to drive awareness and resolution of production issues• Redesigned key architectural components (Page data model, data denormalization scheme, etc.)• Conceived, planned and began execution of program to move from hosted DC to Azure• Initiated development of Selenium-based automated functional tests by developers

Focused on foundational technical, security and governance aspects of corporate transition to Azure public cloud.• Defined public cloud strategy including product availability roadmap• Documented benefits of public cloud and educate teams accordingly• Collaborated with IT and Hosting organizations to define security standards, tooling and implementation of same• Collaborated with Finance, product teams and Hosting to define and implement cost-tracking process and tools and to identify cost-saving opportunities• Ensured policies and procedures were created/adapted as necessary to support public cloud use• Defined criteria for products to be available in Azure and coordinated with product teams to achieve GA• Defined standardized technologies and tools to be used in Azure to support end-to-end DevOps process• Collaborated with Sales, Services and Support on all go-to-market endeavors related to Azure• Created and oversaw multiple special interest groups (SIGs) to facility shared learning across products/organizations and dissemination of best practices

Lead Common Components & Services organization within software development. 400-500+ team members responsible for delivering key technologies and best practices to Allscripts' product teams. Concurrently assigned as Executive Owner for multiple cross-product/cross-functional efforts including Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances program (EPCS; 2014-2015), Meaningful Use 2015/2017 program (2015-2017) and Meaningful Use 3 program (2015-2017).• Provided executive leadership for portfolio of 36+ products and globally distributed team members• Coordinated functional releases with all client-facing product teams in support of corporate and regulatory needs• Drove adoption of Xamarin for development of mobile solutions for iOS/Android from a single codebase• Achieved 10+% increase in employee engagement in Common Components & Services during first 2 years• Selected for President’s Club member in 2015

• Worked with management team on company goals, priorities and business requirements• Managed relationships with external vendors• Oversaw day-to-day production environment and managed development plans and activities.• Accelerated release process and reduced risk by implementing of Jira for issue management, Subversion for source control and TeamCity for continuous integration.• Designed numerous new features including clinical amendments, chart printing and Federal reporting (MDS, IRF, LTCH) functionality.• Optimized system performance using 24x7 DB monitoring to identify opportunities, tuning of stored procedures and redesign of inefficient of compiled code. Overall workload reduced >30% with response time improved >90%.• Implemented error reporting mechanism for pro-active identification of critical bugs; reduced production errors to <5/day and support calls to 3/week while product usage increased over 200%.• For mobile solution, drove implementation of a Xamarin-based iOS/Android application and RESTful web services. Transitioned development in-house and actively participated in both Android and iOS coding.• Designed and implemented HL7 data feed mechanism based on Mirth interface engine. Implemented over 24 feeds in less than 6 months. Implemented web service integrations with major EMR vendors in post-acute space

• Improved data consistency and enforcement mechanisms of database.• Implemented role-based security model including ability for a single username to have access to multiple facilities.• Implemented auditing architecture to track data accessed by users and changes made to patient records

• Recreated Architecture team for flagship EMR and drove remediation of core architectural & runtime issues • Coded C# and SQL optimizations that lead to a 19% improvement in application responsiveness.• Planned and executed $1MM engagement with Microsoft resulting in over 40% improvement in application responsiveness and 50% reduction in memory usage.• Identified thread-related flaws in C# code of product and drove remediation of same.• Identified need for and drove elimination of 800+ C++/C# compiler warnings.• Drove introduction of code profiling and evidence-based performance remediation in development process.• Defined and coded SQL monitoring package used during product rollout to identify SQL bottlenecks.• Defined requirements for and oversaw implementation of nLog-based instrumentation package for client application that pinpointed client-side performance bottlenecks and application bugs.• Identified and implemented numerous process improvements that improved code quality (including use of FxCop and StyleCop).

• Supported 200% revenue growth through design of a new Utilization Management product:o Defined product in 6 weeks, personally authoring 65 requirements/technical documents.o Drove 6-month construction phase resulting in successful product delivery.• Spearheaded definition of and coded major components for new ASP.NET-based architecture that provided the foundation for future product/company growth. o Ensured continuity by managing development and deployment of 26 releases of existing ASP-based suite during development of ASP.NET-based suite.• As lone DBA for 7 years, performed and reviewed all data modeling and schema definition, identified need for, planned & executed upgrades to all SQL Servers, and introduced SANs for storage requirements.• Integrated new technologies (such as XML/XSLT, Service Broker and Reporting Services) into product and oversaw introduction of others (such as data warehouses/analytics and ExtJS).• Eliminated future database scalability problems by defining architecture for a horizontal scale-out solution and directing project implementation.• Optimized SQL reducing execution time by up to 90% and decreasing system contention.• Initiated SDLC improvements, including Scrum-based iterative development, which eased inter-departmental friction points and minimized risk.• Implemented continuous integration based upon Cruise Control.NET with integration of NUnit, NDoc and NCover.