Kara Tedeschi

*** * *** **** ***, Oak Park, IL **301

630-***-****

adckpe@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Over 7 years in health care IT, writing database queries, front end and back end tools, and developing interfaces

COMPUTER SKILLS

Languages

Proficient in: SQL, Javascript, CCL (Cerner’s proprietary language), KSH scripts

Familiar with: C++, C#, Java, COBOL

Software

Cerner development tools – DvDev IDE, Discern Developer EKM rules developer

Interfaces – Epic’s Bridges application and Ensemble interface engine, Cerner OpenEngine

EXPERIENCE

Senior Interface Analyst

2018 - Present

Advocate Aurora Health

Responsibilities

Maintain current interface connection in Ensemble interface engine

Convert legacy interface connections from Cerner EMR into Epic EMR

Schedule and lead planning/testing calls to establish connectivity and perform functional testing of interfaces

Support interfaces to several vendors and multiple EMRs with occasional 24/7 on-call support

Achievements

Converted Ambulatory and Inpatient interfaces into new Epic EMR over three separate large-scale projects

Senior Decision Support Analyst

2017 - 2018

Advocate Aurora Health

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain clinical reports, rules and alerts for Cerner EMR

Partner with clinical experts to develop new tools for patient care and revenue improvement

Explore new custom Mpage functionality, developing complex front end tools

Support Cerner EMR with occasional 24/7 on-call support

Attend and participate in weekly code review

Achievements

Designed and built an Inpatient Sepsis system that lowered overall Hospital mortality by 11%

Designed and implemented a solution to flag full risk and out of network patients that previously were not able to be identified

Created a Custom MPage that converted most open chart alerts into a single page where the alerts could be addressed on the physician’s time, and significantly reduced alert fatigue

Decision Support Analyst II

2015 - 2017

Advocate Aurora Health

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain clinical reports, rules and alerts for Cerner EMR

Maintain and build new rules and alerts within Cerner EMR

Support Cerner EMR with occasional 24/7 on-call support

Attend and participate in weekly code review

Achievements

Built multiple back-end tools that streamlined regular maintenance tasks, saving everyone on the Decision Support team hours per task

Built a Mpage that created a completely custom patient list on-the-fly to help Utilization Management team perform their work much more reliably than the Cerner solution could

Helped onboard multiple new hires, showing them how to perform regular tasks and navigate change control processes

Decision Support Analyst I

2013 - 2015

Advocate Aurora Health

Achievements

Develop and maintain clinical reports for Cerner EMR

Support Cerner EMR with occasional 24/7 on-call support

Attend and participate in weekly code review

Update report distribution lists

Responsibilities

Worked on a project to convert EMR backend from AIX to Linux, updating all reports to use new logic, as well as performed extensive regression testing

Developed a standard SFTP process and converted existing legacy FTP into SFTP

Updated hundreds of reports to conform to new Meaningful Use standards

Intern, 4G LTE

2012 - 2013

Alcatel-Lucent

Converted manual patient spec form into a dynamic web-based input (Built with C# .NET and SQL plugins)

Worked with team of myself and 4 other interns to develop an Arduino-based project

Intern, Development

2010 – 2011

C&R Research

Developed a web form to read in customer response data and file it directly into the database (Built with C# .NET and SQL)

Maintained a legacy application that documented bounced customer emails, and removed the email from the server if it was expired for a specific duration (Built with C# .NET and SQL, converted some legacy PHP code into C#)

Performed data entry for multiple large data sets manually into database

EDUCATION

Elmhurst College

Elmhurst, Illinois

Bachelor of Science, Computer Game Entertainment Technology, Computer Science

2009 - 2013

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