Brought new vision and ideas, providing technical direction to development teams and business analysts focused on replacing legacy system of this equipment-leasing services firm. Defined emerging IT architectures, technologies and development standards to be used throughout development effort of upgrading core business systems, ultimately increasing efficiency of new-lease processing and delivering web-based applications to retail locations, allowing for greater flexibility with retail sales partners. Participated in corporate systems process discovery and redesign project.

• Applied aggressive recruiting techniques, successfully hiring talent and building new architecture team in 2 months.
• Reduced development time 30% and delivered $10,000 savings in software licensing costs through leadership of architecture team in developing standards and customized application frameworks.
• Established cohesion across 3 development teams, developing standardized process and prototype application for collecting, classifying, and defining business requirements. Won buy-in and support for architectural decisions from team leads.

Hired to build and lead team of 4 senior technologists in defining and supporting object-oriented development methodologies used by engineering teams in developing application system designated to replace legacy system.

Made significant contributions over period of 9 years to the development and enhancement of company’s software product offerings, increasing value of products through improvements to both clinical content and software functionality. Member of leadership team that defined strategic direction of company’s primary clinical coding and auditing solutions and established operational procedures for product management, development, and support teams. Led the charge to cross-train product teams, effectively eliminating inefficiencies and enabling renewed focus on product enhancements.

• Managed software development teams in delivering bi-annual software releases that included new functional capabilities and improved clinical content (both content and types of rules).
• Merged previously separate product teams through cross-training, quickly resolving tensions between teams over allocation of resources and building an atmosphere of cooperation that increased productivity and performance.
• Strengthened value and ROI of claims auditing products by creating new pre-sales data analysis team that performed analysis of clinical claims data submitted by potential clients, ultimately enriching the clinical rules database and speeding pre-sales process.
• Collaborated on committee that streamlined business analysis and QA processes and enhanced requirements tracking throughout the product development life cycle (PDLC), resulting in more efficient PDLC and production of higher quality deliverables.

Promoted from non-management (Senior Programmer Analyst) to management (Manager Of Coding Systems and Clinical Data Analysis), culminating in role as Director Of Clinical Coding And Auditing Systems within this national firm providing automated claims processing, auditing, and adjudication solutions to commercial and government health care payors. Guided development teams for ClaimCheck, Autocoder, and Provider Insight applications; led 7 direct and 16 indirect reports in systems analysis, clinical data analysis, application design and development, technical writing, and clinical sales support.

Key contributor to the development and enhancement of Pharmacy Information Systems, including the implementation of a drug interaction and IV incompatibility monitoring system. Completed the analysis and design for an automated Patient Scheduling and Transport System. As an independent consultant, completed the analysis and design for a Floor Stock Medication management system.

• Completed implementations for the TPN, Large IV, Piggyback, and Medication modules of the Pharmacy System.
• Centralized the implementation of the allergy, medication interaction, and IV incompatibility modules to improve efficiency of the development and monthly database maintenance activities.
• Translated database design utilities to work properly with variations to the M global structures.
• Completed the Patient Scheduling System Design obtaining Medical Center Committee approval.
• Designed and implemented interim scheduling enhancements to improve outpatient service.

Hired as senior member of the pharmacy development team to lead and participate in all aspects of development from analysis through installation of the hospital pharmacy & IV systems. Served as lead analyst on the development of an automated scheduling systems. Retained as an independent consultant to design and develop a floor stock medication system.

Participated in the first external sale of the DECHealth system to the government of Sweden. Made significant contributions to the development and deployment of an Executive Information System used to graphically monitor the manufacturing, ordering, and finance information in the USCIC.

• Developed a system to allow end users to design required reports against the USCIC data warehouse.
• Developed a manufacturing monitoring system to dynamically alert management to changes in order revisions.
• Implemented realtime network interface for data retrieval by a VAX Station graphic management system.
• Developed and enhanced the DECHealth system modules providing automatic medical and safety training, equipment maintenance, medical exam abnormalities, material safety data sheet tracking and workers compensation reporting.
• Successfully presented DECHealth to the government of Sweden.

Hired as Project Lead for the DECHealth product in the Medical Systems Group. DecHealth was an industrial health and environmental hygiene monitoring and reporting system. Promoted to Senior Software Engineer in the US Country Information Center which provided data warehousing, business intelligence, and reporting for all manufacturing and finance areas in North America.

Implemented multiple systems and components of the Pharmacy Information System. Advanced though technical levels culminating in a technical advisor role. Provided significant contributions to the TRIMIS development effort.

• Key contributor to the IV Therapy System development project through the complete development life cycle from analysis through implementation.
• Provided significant contribution to through all phase of the development life cycle for Pharmacy Inventory, Drug Interaction, Utilization Review, E/R Medication, and Satellite Pharmacy Systems.
• Participated in an intensive development project of the TRI Military Information System (TRIMIS).

Hired after graduation as a programmer/analyst on the DEC Action Hospital Information System Development Team I performed analysis and development of the medication and IV information systems and the order processing system. Later promoted to advanced programmer / analyst and then technical advisor I made recommendations for the technical direction of the Action product, provided consulting and advisory services to other internal organization and customers.