Engineer Health Care
Resume:
Joseph Kosowicz
Denver, CO *****
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Professional Summary
o Nine years experience in healthcare software development and implementation
o Solid track record managing large scale deployments, software design, and system
administration
o Demonstrated managerial skills leading teams and mentoring technical professionals.
Education
o Bachelor of Science, Computer Science - University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 2001
o Consistently ranked a top ten computer science program in US
o Professional Certifications:
Epic Systems Epiccare Ambulatory
Epic Chronicles Utilities
EMC2 Documentum Foundations
Technical Summary
o Programming Languages: .NET (C# & VB), Cache (MUMPS), VB6, and Java
o Scripting: HTML, XML, SQL, VBscript, Javascript, and Perl
o Software Applications: MS Visual Studio
o Other: W indows API, COM object relations, and relational database knowledge
Professional Experience
Aug 2004 Present The Children s Hospital Denver, CO
Integration Engineer III
Integration Engineer involved in integrating Children s clinical applications. Key member of
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team that lead to Children s recognition as the first pediatric hospital with a fully integrated
EMR and a leader in clinical technology (press release)
Member of Children s Enterprise Architecture team which is responsible for standards and
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guidelines for the electronic infrastructure
Programmed and implemented integration between Epic and EMC s Documentum product to
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provide a seamless integration between scanned paper records and electronic content
o W orked closely with clinical staff to create EMR workflows for many specialty groups including
occupational therapy, physical therapy, orthopedics, otolaryngology, audiology, primary care,
and rehabilitation
o Responsible for optimization, maintenance, and production support of critical clinical
applications. Systems include the Epic EMR, clinical printing, downtime infrastructure,
electronic order transmission, document scanning, and outbound faxing from the EMR
May 2001 Feb 2004 Epic Systems Corporation Madison, WI
Software Developer
o Member of the integration development team responsible for design and implementation of
shared modules utilized by all software applications. Active in all aspects of the development
process
Lead and participated in inter-company design sessions
Coding of solutions
Overseeing module testing
W orking with technical support staff to find solutions to customer needs and urgent
issues
o Development in Visual Basic, M (MUMPS), C++, and C# on Windows and Unix based
architecture
o Leading role on several innovative health care computing projects including:
Break the Glass - Epic s patented patient record protection features. Lead
programmer responsible for bringing consistent protection of the patient record across
Epic s integrated product. Assisted health care organizations with implementation of
these security features helping them realize HIPAA compliance
In Basket Epic s innovative messaging system, helping health care professionals
better communicate with each other and with patients. A design focused on
empowering the user in workflows that involve inter-staff communication such as
medication orders, transcription workflows, and nurse triage contact with patients.
Responsible for user interface design
Medical Records Reporting Lead programmer of modules that provide organizations
with comprehensive health care reporting tools. Heavy focus on ease of use for
physicians with very familiar HTML layouts for medical reports
Epic s Care Everywhere Member of programmer team charged with re-modeling
Epic s databases in order to share EMR build and patient records across multiple Epic
instances
May 2000 Aug 2000 Epic Systems Corporation Madison, WI
Software Developer Intern
o Responsible for the design and development of a user interface for Epic to track employee
time. Created reporting abilities and Excel spreadsheet integration to make data collection and
reporting easy.
References available upon request
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