Sonja Larson Email & Phone Number

United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Oakland, California, United States

Oversaw a ~$10M program and managed multiple teams in a highly matrixed organization. Defined, designed, developed, collected metrics, and delivered all inpatient technologies to open multiple 200+-bed hospitals across California. Coordinated with vendors across all inpatient care areas and incorporated best practices across the entire life cycle. Developed and delivered presentations to update executive stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.• Ensured continuity of service at multiple deployments by organizing extensive go-live support plans. Provided sites with a full application production support model for a seamless handoff.• Reduced time nurses spent on non-medical in-room issues after developing an application that patients could use to notify and get assistance from the appropriate department via an in-room television.• Exchanged a $120K IPC device hardware replacement for a simpler, less expensive code revision that reduced device downtime by 40%. Subsequently, conducted a systematic hard drive upgrade with minimal patient disruption.• Quashed a costly $500K technology project after conducting a cost / benefit analysis and a patient usability study.• Wrote a step-by-step playbook for updating, replacing, and adding new diagnostic spirometers to the health connect database, ensuring regional repeatability and local site support.• Reduced on-site patient room visits and saved short-staffed clinicians multiple hours spent driving to different facilities by researching, installing, and validating cameras to provide a 2-way interface between physician and patient.• Collaborated with nurses and hospital leaders on room requirements, converting existing hospital wings into Covid-19 isolation rooms.• Leveraged existing and developed new best practices across the organization to ensure future program success.

Oakland, California, United States

Managed each step of the new IPC product lifecycle, from ideation to market delivery. Continually evaluated client satisfaction to improve the product.• Conducted a comprehensive market evaluation of interactive patient care (IPC) systems, including smart TVs, wireless controls, pillow speakers, and bedsides stations. Metrics demonstrated increased patient satisfaction and a reduction in length of stay by 20%.• Gained approval for a 5-year technology strategy and established a standard implemented at all Kaiser facilities nationwide after presenting the benefits of the in-patient care system to the National Hospital Board.• Developed the first comprehensive product roadmap and highlight-reel used at all Kaiser locations, boosting IPC traction and assimilation by 10%.• Leveraged relationships with vendors and stakeholders across all Kaiser facilities to ensure timely delivery consistent with enterprise architecture and business requirements.

Oakland, California, United States

Managed both in-patient and out-patient application / technology development. Averaged 5 large projects at a time with 10-15 individuals per team. Defined requirements, designed technical solutions, planned risk mitigation strategies, and created training plans and support models. Performed regression, system, load, stress, and network testing and distributed beta release prior to project deployment. Collaborated across a matrixed team using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Led a group of up to 25 developers, testers, and architects to deliver products used by over 10K users across the top 10 insurance companies. Projects lasted from a few weeks to more than a year with multi-million-dollar budgets. Managed full project development and quality assurance lifecycle. Interfaced with Executive Stakeholders internally and externally.• Reduced time needed to complete a vehicle estimate by 20% by establishing a lab that developed intuitive user interfaces.• Customized calculations for independent insurance companies and streamlined process for translating and releasing user interfaces from 6 months to 6 weeks. • Conducted a comprehensive evaluation on the teams’ skill sets and determined which responsibilities could be transitioned to remote employees in Mexico and which needed to remain in-house.• Reduced testing time by 40% by training the Quality Team to automate test cases across releases and run calculation engine tests at night.

Roles included Project Lead, Architect, Business Analyst, and Software Engineer.Developed key architecture for mobile web-based applications, enabling object-oriented design, exposing key features for easy configuration, and isolating proprietary estimating code.• Created reusable COM and JavaScript components for a web-based insurance-estimating application.

As Project Lead I worked to manage a small group of developers to develop one of the first Pen-Based/Tablet applications for Vehicle Estimating. Worked with Microsoft Pen Labs and develop extensive user interface studies to achieve an award winning user experience that resulted in receiving a patent for the technology. Application had an extensive database of vehicle parts that allow selection of parts directly on mobile device to allow Vehicle estimator to walk the car and get a real time estimate and cost of repairs. As Architect I worked on developing key architecture for mobile web based applications that allow for object oriented design with key features exposed to allow for easy configuration and isolating proprietary estimating code.As Business Analyst I managed requirements, prepared business process models, designed user interface, configuration management, use case documentation, and partnered with product managers and other key business stakeholders and well as interviewed clients to develop workflows and validate requirements.As Software Engineer I was responsible for developing applications in C/C++, JAVA. Created reusable COM and JavaScript components for a web based insurance estimating application written in C++, XML, XSL, JavaScript, ASP, HTML, and SQL using COM+, ActiveX, and HTTP. The application was required to support the rich functionality of its Windows based predecessor and run over the Internet or in stand-alone mode with the same code base. Coordinated and performed code inspections/walk-thrus to ensure compliance to standards as well as validate efficiency

Ba, Computer Science And Business

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Minor in Business Administration Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI

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Activities and Societies: PMP Certified in Good Standing since 2009 Product Manager 280 Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Certified SCRUM.

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ADP Vehicle Pen-Based Estimating is the first pen-based estimating application with graphic drill-down capability.