Project Manager Software Engineer

DAVID J. KENNEDY

**** *** ***** *****, ******, OH 44321

acpcir@r.postjobfree.com cell: 330-***-****

OBJECTIVE: Contribute to an organization which will utilize my Healthcare

IT and HL7 design, development, vendor relationships, and ad-hoc project

management as needed. I have a mature attitude toward coworkers, vendors

and management.

Healthcare IT Career:

July 2014to Present HL7 development and Project Manager (ad-hoc)

Contractor (Independent): Working 'remote' to provide Mirth Connect

HL7 coding as needed.

March 2014 through June 2014 HL7 Project Manager (ad-hoc)

Contractor (via Vision Consulting) @ Parrish Medical Center,

Titusville, FL

Successfully oversaw HL7 development which includes validating

the HL7 developed interfaces for EMR Upgrade. All contractors

released.

October 2012 through February 2014 H.I.E./HL7 Interface

Analyst/Developer

Full time employee @ Vibra Health Care, Mechanicsburg, PA

This companies only HL7 interface analyst/developer.

Developed, tested, and certified over 200 HL7 interfaces for

over 20 vendors (pharmacy, labs, rads, progress notes,

demographics, etc) within the organization of about 30

facilities.

12 Usually tcp/ip and ftp.

Note: On Labor Day, successfully brought up interfaces for 15

new facilities.

October 2011 through September 2012 HL7 Interface Analyst

Contractor (via Etain) @ Community Health Systems (CHS)

Franklin, TN

. CHS cancelled project for EMR replacement with McKesson EMR.

All contractors released.

April 2008 through September 2011 HL7 Interface Developer

Full time employee @ Noteworthy Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio

. Company purchased and Cleveland office closed.

December 2006 through March 2008 Implementation Analyst (X12, 835,837)

Full time employee @ Emdeon Business Services, Cleveland, Ohio

. Cleveland office relocated to Nashville, TN

March 2005 through November 2006 Electronic Claims Developer

Full time employee @ Foundation Medical Systems, Inc., Barberton,

Ohio

. Electronic EDI successfully certified with Medicare, Medicaid,

etc.. Project Completed.

Healthcare IT Skills:

Mirth Connect : Mirth Connect Certified January 2013. 2+ years'

experience designing, developing, customizing channels for 30 plus LTAC

facilities.

- Oversaw switch from virtual to two Mirth Appliances. Grew channels

from 33 to 300+ channels.

Orion Rhapsody: 1+ years' experience supporting and developing routes for

labs (ORU), Admits (ADT), Scheduling (SIU).

HL7 2.x: 5+ years' experience with HL7 2.x such as Admits (ADT), Orders

(ORU), Results(ORM), H&P, Progress Notes(MDM), Rad results (.rtf), Medical

Administration (RAS), Labs (ORM/ORU), Pharmacies (ORM), Charges (DFT),

3rd Party Vendors: Patient Keeper, Dolbey, Epiphany, McKesson RPACS &

CPACS, Horizon Practice Partner, Teletracking, CPOE (Surescripts), ECIN

(Allscripts), Truven CareDiscovery, Nuance transcription, MedQ, GE PACS-IW, 24/7, MobileX, AMI(Denver), vRad, TridentUSA, Patient Keeper, Med-

Dispense, Pyxis, Cubex, Omnicell, MedSelect, and others.

EMR: Meditech, HMS ; HIE: Virtua, CORHI, Marin General, Beacon

Hill, KHIE

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, The University of Akron,

Akron, Ohio 1998

Additional Skills:

. Working knowledge of IT infrastructure for VPN, FTP, TCP/IP,

. Worked with facility-end user and management team to migrate third party

vendor application (non-EMR) and EMR reports into new/upgraded Meditech

EMR.

. On-site project management of digital imaging dept. (Dolbey, RPACS,

CPACS, Epiphany) and several other migrations during 'go-live' cut over.

. Managed and implemented integration of reference labs, radiology vendors,

pharmacy consoles, transcription vendors, as they relate to EMR HL7

integration using Mirth Connect.

. Daily HL7 Interface design, configuration, maintenance, and support (ADT,

SIU, ORU, MDM,RDE, DFT, ORM/OR)

. Support Director of IT in identifying relevant regional Health

Information Exchanges (HIE) across the country.

. PACS administrator, maintenance, and support for Long Term Acute Care

(LTAC) facilities nationally.

. On-site with EMR "go live" support for facilities nationally. Recently

involved with EMR "go-live" of ten plus facilities nationally. That is,

HL7 integration of PACS, pharmacy, labs, etc.

. Interface analyst for third party vendors, acquire quotes, and define

testing, scheduling, and other related activity for primary interface

engine during HIS conversion in a three facility hospital market.

. Work with facility and vendor IT resources to identify applications, data

migration, and deployment.

. Involved with daily HL7 interfaces to web based and stand-alone EMR

product using Orion Rhapsody.

. Clearing house processing of received ANSI X12N 837 to client's supported

file format, such as .CSV, .XLS, .NSF, etc. Also, supported clients

eligibility files.

. Developed, delivered, installed, and trained clients on company's first

EDI X12 (835, 837) claim submission and EOB auto-posting using the

company's practice management product.

Additional Work History & Accomplishments:

Accelent Systems, Inc., Akron, Ohio 2000 - 2003

Project Management and Sales Proposal Supervisor

2002 - 2003

Software Engineering Line Manager

2001 - 2002

Project Manager

2000

- 2001

Diebold, Inc., Uniontown, Ohio 1994 - 2000

Systems & Technical Support Specialist

1999 - 2000

Software Engineer I & II

1994 -

1999

Telxon Corporation, Akron, Ohio 1987 - 1994

Embedded Systems - Software Engineer

1990 - 1994

Application Department - Programmer

1989 - 1990

Operating Systems - Software Technician

1987 - 1989

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