Stephen Barker Email & Phone Number

Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand

Christchurch, New Zealand

Reporting to the EMIS Development Manager – Acute Care, the purpose of the position was to enhance and support the following client applications;• Department of Health and Families (DHF), NT, Australia (5 Hospitals) : CareSys Acute Care system, CareSys Outpatient Booking System and Clinical Work Station• Christchurch Women’s Hospital (CWH) , Christchurch District Health Board (CDHB), Christchurch, New Zealand : CareSys Acute Care system• Royal New Zealand Plunket Society, Wellington, New Zealand : POND MIS systemKey Responsibilities• Business Analysis• Software Development• Client Support• Operational Support• Client TOIs Key Achievements• Achieved business continuity for DHF by assisting with the transfer of the hardware and software support contract from Jade Software to Ascribe/EMIS Group resulting in a smooth transition for all parties.• Enhanced HL7 messaging functionality to departmental systems (e.g. PACS, Prescribing).• Developed bidirectional interface between the Plunket POND system and its proposed replacement enabling the synchronisation of demographic and event data between the two systems.• Implemented 3M Code Finder interface for CareSys (DHF and CWH) providing coders with a much improved method of entering ICD codes and calculating the DRG. Also implemented updates to the 3M DRG Grouper and ICD code sets.

Reporting to the Development Manager – Acute Care, the purpose of the position was to provide Jade’s clients with software enhancements and support. This involved liaising with clients, preparing requirements documentation (Use Case development), prototyping, software development, fault analysis and resolution.Key Responsibilities• Business Analysis• Software Development• Client Support• Client TOIsKey Achievements• Significantly simplified the theatre scheduling process for DHF Theatre Schedulers by designing and developing a sophisticated user interface. This resulted in a fast and simple method by which schedulers could define theatre sessions, assigning staff and other resources, then drag and drop waitlist entries into available sessions. This module was part of a larger project covering the full theatre workflow from waitlist to complete perioperative data entry. • Developed a complete report suite for Plunket, comprising some 70 statistical and operational reports using the Jade Report Writer tool. Significantly reduced run times by implementing a new flattened reporting structures. • Designed and built a set of interfaces to the National Health Index (NHI) for CWH, enabling users to search the NHI, compare and download patient demographic data.• Managed extensive work on enhancing and optimising data extracts for DHF’s Data Warehouse.• Redeveloped the HL7 messaging application for DHF, enabling multithreading of messages to departmental systems, creating a much more rapid dissemination of data to external departmental systems such as Synapse (PACS) and Medchart (Prescribing). • Designed and built an ‘Electronic Whiteboard’ for CWH to enable clinical staff to view a large real-time display of patients by ward, along with their status.• Led team in design and development of an Outpatient bookings system for DHF and Healthlink South (predecessor of CDHB).

Christchurch, Wellington New Zealand

Stephen worked in partnership with another in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand.Department of Social Welfare, Swift Benefit Processing systemFamily Benefit redesign. Technical Lead on design and development of client letter production resulting in fully automated client letters, significantly reducing workloads in branch offices. Transpac Holdings Ltd, Christchurch, New ZealandManaged all aspects of the Data Processing department including facilities management and design and development of the organisations MIS systems. Also assisted with the integration of other merged companies, including data migrations and system roll outs; successfully developed and marketed a technical documentation system.Client feedback includes“In all aspects of their work, Steve and Grant have displayed a highly professional and competent approach” Peter Garnet, Group Manager MIS

London, United Kingdom

Unisys UK, Magistrates Court SystemDesigned and developed components of the BCIS Court information system. Client feedback includes “…was highly productive in a short period of time” “high level of commitment and dedication” R Allen, Manager, UK Program Products

Christchurch, New Zealand

• Provided sales support and prototyping activities resulting in the sale of LINC to SIMU (AMI), significantly contributing to the profitability of Burroughs (Unisys) NZ.• Project Manager, Technical Lead – design and development of the SIMU (AMI) Insurance application. Led a team of 5, developing one of New Zealand’s (and the world’s) first LINC systems. Overcame challenges such as inexperienced personnel, complex system requirements and early versions of the LINC application development system. Delivered a comprehensive and state of the art online retail insurance application, significantly reducing operational costs and greatly improved functionality for branch users.• Secondment to Unisys LINC Development Centre, Christchurch to work on new LINC features.• Secondment to Unisys, Irvine, USA to assist with product support and liaison with the Christchurch LINC plantClient feedback includes“In all aspects of his work he has displayed total professional competence and diligence” Peter Hoskins, Director, Unisys LINC Development Centre “Is now acknowledged as one of New Zealand’s leading experts in LINC” , “He has gained the total respect of local users and fellow staff” R. A. McCallum, South Island Manager, System Support, Unisys

Information Technology

Certificate in data Processing

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