Management Project Manager

Founder and Lead Consultant Resume

Title

Founder and Lead Consultant

Primary Skills

Management and Technology Consulting, Medical Informatics/Health Information Management

Location

US-NY-New York City

Posted

Apr-18-12

RESUME DETAILS

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Management-and-technology professional with track record of accomplishment and hands-on experience. Currently serving as Lead Consultant at Knowledge Advantages, Inc., a boutique management-consulting and software firm founded in 1996. Experienced in Medical Informatics and Health Information Management, Management Consulting, Business Development and Marketing, Busi-ness Analysis, Information Architecture design, and Knowledge Management.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Founder and Lead Consultant at Knowledge Advantages, Inc. (1996 -- present)

• Corporate Relations Executive at MIT Enterprise Forum of New York (2010 -- present, on leave)

• Reporter, NY Tech Industry at Reuters America, LLC/examiner.com (2010 -- present, on leave)

• Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Gramercy Innovations, LLC (2000 -- 2005)

• Associate in Medicine at Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (1995 -- 2004)

• Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at Boston University (1992 -- 1996)

• Visiting Scholar and Research Affiliate at Stanford University School of Medicine (1988 -- 1992)

• Senior Scientist (RSM) at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1983 -- 1992)

• Programmer/Analyst at American Management Systems (1980 -- 1982)

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Medical Informatics and Health Information Management

• At the Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, co-designed a healthcare multimedia support system as part of a consortium project, under which universities, technology firms, and entertainment companies jointly developed a mid-dleware platform for linking diverse organizations in healthcare.

• Assisted Lotus in the development of online extended healthcare enterprises and in re-engineering related processes. Delivered competitive analyses, developed technology use-case scenarios, conducted a field survey of customer requirements, and consulted on the development of supporting technologies.

• For a small telemedicine startup, provided enterprise-architecture innovations to support a global homecare network linking pa-tients, providers, monitoring devices, hospital information systems, and administrators.

• For AmeriCares, participated in the redesign and implementation of a medical outreach program platform. Advised the project manager and client professionals on requirements gathering, wireframing, project management, and front-end code implementa-tion.

• For Mobile Health One, produced a comprehensive business plan and a strategic product plan to move from prototype to commercial product. Continued on as an advisor to the CEO.

• For the New York Health and Hospitals Corporation, developed data-center production coding standards.

• At the Stanford University School of Medicine, co-developed an application to evaluate randomized clinical trials for publication, collaborating with an expert in biostatistics.

• Supervised postdoctoral research at the Harvard Medical School on a system for automatically referring patients to the most appropriate healthcare providers.

• Designed and presented Continuing Medical Education (CME) course modules for credit to audiences including hospital CEOs, CIOs, and other executives and physicians with investments in clinical computing.

Management Consulting and Thought Leadership

• For the Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation, participated in a pioneering effort in Knowledge Management to define the enterprise and its strategic implications. Conducted client site visits and consultations, produced white papers, and suggested new practice offerings. Advised the center's top management on future research and practice directions.

• For Expert Choice, an established scientific software company, assisted in the development of plans and materials to secure financing and to increase revenue. Developed an innovative business model and a strategic market plan for the new CEO toward repositioning the firm and its products in emerging markets. Advised the client about business development.

• Participated in the Program on Information, Strategy, and Economics at The Wharton School, a multi-company research effort sponsored by and conducted in collaboration with senior executives across industries. Personally focused on issues in patent trolling toward developing practical defensive strategies for sponsors.

• For Defreitas & Delsanto, a midsized accounting firm, performed a makeover of the brand, including the delivery of marketing copy, a website, and a technology infrastructure.

• For Reuters America, LLC reported via examiner.com on “hyperlocal” New-York events and Silicon-Alley technologies to an audience exceeding a billion readers. Author of dozens of publications, including books such as The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Decision-Analytic Intelligent Systems.

Information Architecture

• For the Knowledge-Management group at PwC, delivered a critical assessment of strategies, plans, processes, and technologies for an architecture to support consultants. Devised and supervised a software evaluation pilot and developed an internal marketing strategy, a deployment plan, and core marketing materials.

• Contributed to the architecture of IBM's KnowledgeTool expert-systems platform and advised research, development, and mar-keting groups from prototype inception through product release. Co-authored a book (published by Addison-Wesley) about building expert systems featuring KnowledgeTool examples.

• Designed and implemented a search engine for online shopping incorporating a new personalization architecture for Gramercy Innovations, LLC.

• At IBM, co-developed one of the first realtime expert systems. Received a Research Division Award.

• For Knowledge Advantages, developed Decision Calculator apps for making difficult decisions across a variety of industries and platforms. Focused on decisions with multiple competing objectives and uncertainty.

• Delivered technical courses at Boston University on core programming languages (e.g., C/C knowledge representations (e.g., rule-based systems, neural networks), and the processes of designing and building practical commercial systems.

Business Development and Marketing

• For the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York, served as Corporate Relations Executive focused on marketing strategy, relationship building, sponsorship and membership acquisition, strategic-partnership development, and business development.

• Defined and sold all engagements for Knowledge Advantages since 1996.

• Co-Founded and raised two rounds of venture capital for Gramercy Innovations, LLC.

• Conceived and developed a methodology for forecasting new markets and supervised its implementation in software. Led a pro-ject team in the development of a customer-specific, multi-product forecasting model to predict and focus the sales of a new IBM product.

Business Analysis

• Conceived a global Knowledge-Management strategy and infrastructure for AT&T Solutions, and led a client team in its design. Devised a supporting technology architecture and conducted executive workshops to produce a unified cross-organizational implementation plan.

• Developed methods for extending business performance-measurement systems for Ernst & Young.

• For a small proprietary trading group, traded equities with an eye toward new technologies. Proposed projects to top management to enhance the traders' infrastructure and add managers' tools.

• Managed systems design and implementation projects in budget preparation and payroll for the County of Nassau.

• Designed and implemented software modules for New York City's Integrated Financial Management System.

EDUCATION

Awarded merit-based, nationally competitive graduate Fellowships by IBM and (independently) by NASA.

• PhD, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

• MBA with Distinction (top 1%), The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

• MSE, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

• BS with Outstanding Academic Performance, Mathematical Sciences, Binghamton University, Phi Beta Kappa

Certifications

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