Interface Developer, Hl&, Fhir, Soap, Rest, Vxu, Oru, Qbp, Orm, Dft

Lead HL* Software Tester – REMOTE

Integration of healthcare applications, fostering collaboration, and improving patient care

AREAS OF STRENGTH

Strategic Thinking

Epic Bridges, August 2020

Decision Support

Application Support

Knowledge SOAP /REST /FHIR

HL7 /XML / SQL

Corepoint Health v7.3

Training and Development

Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Interface Developer at The Everett Clinic, part of Optum, 10/2019 - Present

Currently working with The Everett Clinic, part of Optum, developing integration solutions between Epic Bridges, Corepoint, and multiple healthcare applications. Certified in Epic Bridges and well-versed in developing HL7 interfaces on the Corepoint Integration Engine platform.

Contributions:

Evaluating Integrations standards and coding logic, providing my recommendation to leadership.

Lead the migration of Corepoint Health v5.2 to v7.2.2.

Scoping interfaces intake and build for major projects.

Primary developer for Epic Bridges and Corepoint at The Everett Clinic.

Developed interfaces for posting results (ORU) and Immunizations (VXU, QBP, RSP) with Washington DOH.

Exchange HL7, XML, x12, CCD-A, and CSV messages using TCP/IP, sFTP, SOAP, and REST-ful transfer protocols.

Senior Interface Developer at Providence St. Joseph Health (Renton, WA), 07/2016 – 10/2019

Collaborated across multiple teams through all phases of interface development and validation as a Senior Interface Developer. Partnered with application analysts and other subject matter experts in tracking, investigating, and resolving Interface errors and issues

Contributions:

Followed internal coding standards, evaluated HL7 interface build and provided feedback to developers about their build.

Provided input into trending topics, matters effecting patient care, and internal processes.

Identified as a team player, modeling flexibility, adaptability, and reliability.

Integration Engineer at IntegraMed (Purchase, NY), 01/2016 - 07/2016

Employed to develop pharmaceutical and lab interfaces in Corepoint between IntegraMed’s Oracle database and external systems.

Contributions:

Analyzed a failing in-house Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS) and structured a path to sustain the system, while organizing a plan replace it.

Refined the Ultrasound workflow by identifying numerous configuration issues with their DICOM acquisitions devices.

Epic Bridges Lead, System Analyst III at Providence St. Joseph Health (Renton, WA), 02/2010 – 01/2016

Administrated Cardiology applications, such as Lumedx (SQL Database), McKesson, GE MacLab, and Muse, across Western Washington ministries. Recognized as a key technical resource on the Epic Interface Team and was appointed to a Lead designation, managing the Bridges environments across several Epic instances.

Contributions:

Partnered with other teams, leading the effort to improve patient care by establishing processes and workflows to reconcile fatal interface errors.

Authored and enforced a standardized, step-by-step Epic Bridges change control process.

Executed a plan to re-align the Epic Bridges production environments with test, identifying thousands of discrepancies, limiting those discrepancies to a manageable level, and improving the interface testing process.

Self-appointed, management appreciated, onboarding coach for the Interface Team.

Spearheaded the 2012/2014 Epic upgrade for Bridges and devised the process for reviewing, delegating, and verifying completion of upgrade tasks to assigned resources.

CardioPACS Implementation Specialist at Lumedx (Bellevue, WA), 08/2008 – 02/2010

Responsible for the installation, ongoing configuration, and support of CardioPACS application. Provided system administration and end-user training. Ensured CardioPACS issues were identified, tracked, reported, and resolved in a timely manner.

Contributions:

Developed functional and system design specifications for clients engaged in a Lumedx CardioPACS installation.

Designed and publicized a detailed, interactive learning objective for the CardioPACS application

Influenced improvements and enhancement to the software.

Managed the roll-out of CardioPACS software revisions and hot-fixes

Senior System Analyst at Overlake Hospital Medical Center (Bellevue, WA), 12/2004 – 08/2008

Hired to manage multiple medical imaging applications and to lead the organization in replacing a legacy Picture Archive and Communication System. Heavily relied on to provide expertise into matters related to medical imaging workflow, processes, and imaging informatics.

Contributions:

Instrumental in engineering portable acquisition devices to go wireless on the network.

Reconfigured the legacy PACS system, simplifying Radiology workflow.

Headed a multi-million dollar well-researched and unbiased selection process to replace several imaging applications while navigating through the volatility of entitled physician practices not favorable to an impartial selection process. Lead the acquisition and implementation of the systems selected.

Successfully overhauled and redesigned a convoluted medical imaging workflow, increasing patient satisfaction and exam turn-around time.

Contributions to Other Employers:

Supervised several Radiologic Technologists and facilitated the daily operation of CT and MRI departments.

Hired and oversaw a small team to assist in the daily operation of administering Cardiology systems in a large academic medical center.

Trained CT Technologists on new, cutting edge technology and consulted in the restructuring of workflow to utilize it.

Appointed as Clinical IT specialist for several projects.

Negotiated, acquired, and implemented several Radiology and Cardiology applications.

Defined the quality assurance process for a several busy medical imaging departments and mentored technologists on acquiring diagnostic quality images.

Steam-lined and reduced costs in my assigned duty to supply and stock the medical imaging department.

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

Radiological Technologist/ NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) Warfare Specialist

United States Army Reserves; 1988 to 1996; Veteran of Desert Shield/Storm

Contributions:

Top of class for Radiology and NBC training.

Educated US Army soldiers on the proper technique for protecting patients and themselves during a nuclear, biological, and chemical attack prior to, during, and after Desert Storm.

Acting Non-Commission Officer in charge of the NBC team at the Tacoma Detachment of the 124th ARCOM - 50th General Hospital.

EDUCATION

Academy of Health Sciences; United States Army - Radiological Technologist, 91P10

Medical Imaging Institute; Seattle, WA - CT Cross-Sectional Anatomy, CT Instrumentation and Procedures

Corepoint Level 1, 2, Webservices, & FHIR

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, AND ORGANIZATIONS

Part of an elite group nationally certified in 4 imaging modalities with the American Registry of Radiological Technologists. Certified in Radiography (R), Computer Tomography (CT), Cardiovascular Interventional Radiography (CV), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MR).

American Society of Radiologic Technologists.

Washington State Certified in Radiography.

Epic Bridges Certified 2018.

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