Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
Greater Seattle Area
• Designed and implemented a production-level asynchronous backend data processing solution.
• Consulted on data models and design in a collaborative environment and advised on processing options approriate for the use case.
2018 — 2022
2018 — 2022
Greater Seattle Area
• Worked on a proof of concept of an integration with a FHIR compliant api, specifically against a Cerner client and getting an OAuth 2 authentication in place.
• Switched over to working on their analytics platform, starting with implementing a new event-based analytic event system.
• Built and solidified the existing data pipeline while handling the special concerns of dealing with HIPAA data, including a complete rewrite of the primary ETL layer that supported the companies visualizations.
• Worked on the solidifying the billing data pipeline, processing and analysis as well as other duties to support operational and analytical efforts around billing.
• Built a new report generation system and implemented customized underlying datasets.
• Designed and oversaw implementation of a greenfield data lake/data warehouse solution utilizing AWS Lake Formation with AWS Glue running pyspark scripts.
• Functioned as Lead Engineer for much of that time.
2017 — 2018
Seattle, Washington
• Implemented a proof of concept for a WSO2 DAS server
• Implemented a FHIR compliant appointment service to sit on top of a Interconnect API for Epic to support a insurance card OCR proof of concept.
• Worked on several new integrations with Epic Interconnect endpoints as well as a proof of concept for switching our system to their REST endpoints from SOAP.
• Implemented a cross-service solution to expose Physician Contact data through the API to support our mobile app.
• Worked in a whole-team project to convert the platform from C# to Java along support work for the new platform in the javascript orchestration layer.
• Implemented a new OAuth 2 implementation with a third-party.
2016 — 2016
2016 — 2016
Greater Seattle Area
• Worked with business stakeholders to identify requirements and priority of work.
• Worked on both the company's lead distribution system and their click ad selection engines.
• Worked on integrating new external services into the click ad selection engine, which involved complex database queries, legacy systems and code, a complex ad distribution system, parallel and asynchronous tasks and creating highly scaleable calls to external APIs.
2016 — 2016
Greater Seattle Area
• Lead a set of development teams comprising of 18 developers.
• Worked with upper management to look at improving our project planning and development methodology.
• Worked on several implementation plans for team migration to a scrum development model.
• Gave a leadership talk on Operational Excellence, focusing primarily on concepts from the book "The Lean Startup" by Eric Reis.
• Attended executive meetings on request and advised on ongoing development progress and addressing any technical questions or concerns.
• Organized and oversaw the migration on the companies deployment process to use a continuous integration methodology in order to address deployment errors.
Education
University of Washington Tacoma
Bachelor
2010 — 2012
The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
Graduate Performance Diploma
1999 — 2003
University of Cincinnati
Bachelor of Music
1993 — 1997