SUMMARY:

• 16 years experience with HL7 interface design and development
• 8 years experience with Rhapsody 3.4, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, and 6.x Interface Developer Engine
• 6 years experience with Confidential
• 1 year experience with Corepoint
• 6 months experience with Cloverleaf
• 15 years experience interfacing with the following EMR systems: Epic ADT, Epic Prelude, Epic Cadence, Meditech Magic, Meditech Client/Server, Siemens Invision, Siemens Soarian (Financials and Clinicals), Confidential STAR, Cerner Millennium, Cerner Scheduling Management, Allscripts, Pulse, Medhost EDIS, Passport, eCW, Montage, Intelerad, Fluency
• 15 years experience interfacing with the following interface systems/engines: Epic Bridges, Cloverleaf, Sybase, Confidential, eLink, Allscripts ConnectR
• 8 years experience with Symphonia Mapper
• 7 years experience with JavaScript
• 15 years experience mapping to XML format within interfaces
• Experience with SQL database queries and SQL queries within the Database Lookup filters and Database communication points in Rhapsody as well as SQL lookups from Confidential
• Experience with Stored Procedures within Rhapsody
• Experience with UNIX (HP and AIX), Redhat Linux
• HL7 Inc. 2.x Certification
• Achieved official HL7 2.x certification from HL7 Inc.
• Orion Health Rhapsody Associate Certification
• Achieved Associate Level Certification with Rhapsody

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Interface Developer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and test application specific and clinical interfaces in Confidential
• Manage other interface developer resources to keep projects moving forward
• Manage interface development and support tickets and assign them to interface developer resources
• Leading effort to document existing interfaces.

Confidential

Interface Developer

Responsibilities:

• Develop ADT, SIU, ORM, RDE, MDM and ORU interfaces, in Mirth, for feeds from Medhost and Cerner to go to Medicity for HIE project.
• Develop ADT and ORU interfaces in Rhapsody for feeds from Pulse to Medicity
• Migrate Rhapsody interfaces to Mirth

Confidential

Cloverleaf Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis on all production interfaces that feed or receive from Epic through Cloverleaf for Confidential Texas.
• Determine which interfaces are impacted by the upgrade and changes.
• Make changes in interfaces in Cloverleaf and perform testing with downstream systems and Epic to confirm changes are correct.
• Additionally: Develop Rhapsody interfaces for ND migration and support Rhapsody for Epic 2015 upgrade

Confidential

Application Developer III

Responsibilities:

• System - wide effort to migrate all interfaces on IBM IIB 7 to IIB 10.
• Perform Production Data Testing ahead of migrations
• Lead upgrade of IBM interface systems from v7 to v10.

Confidential

Rhapsody Developer

Responsibilities:

• Rhapsody Interface Developer for multiple, concurrent projects
• Design, develop, test, and implement ADT, ORM, SIU interfaces on Rhapsody 5.5.

Confidential

Rhapsody Migration Developer

Responsibilities:

• System-wide effort to migrate all interfaces on Rhapsody v4.1 and 5.4 to Rhapsody v5.5.3.
• Developing interfaces that match, yet improve upon, all legacy Rhapsody interfaces for vendors.
• Improve the design of the current interfaces by finding more efficient ways to build the interfaces, while still providing the same functionality of the legacy interfaces.
• Includes use of custom mappers (.mdf), Javascript filters, lookup tables, JDBC communication points (for retrieving and inserting data in Pulse), etc.
• Complete Rhapsody based and custom documentation for all developed interfaces.
• Coordinate testing with vendors ahead of 5.5.3 interface go live events.

Confidential

Corepoint Interface Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, build and test Corepoint interfaces.
• Gathering data requirements for all inbound and outbound interfaces that will feed through Corepoint.
• Analyze data and requirements to determine what will be needed to successfully build and test the interface connections.
• Create connections in Corepoint for EMRs to send ADT and various ORU results (lab, microbiology, transcriptions, etc.)
• Coordinate testing with vendors ahead of interface go live events.
• Support go live events.

Confidential

Rhapsody Migration Developer

Responsibilities:

• Migration from ConnectR to Rhapsody.
• Developing interfaces mapping inbound HL7 to XML that are used for Stored Procedures configured with the Database communication point that feeds data to Touchworks.
• Successfully developing interfaces with very little design documentation.
• Heavy use of SQL select statements in the Database Lookup filters to find data from an external table and populate message properties.
• Heavy use of internal lookup tables to populate data or filter messages based on needs.
• Assisting team with support documentation, naming conventions and care-and-feed processes to prepare them to support the new Rhapsody interfaces.

Confidential

Corepoint Techincal Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, build and test Corepoint interfaces.
• Gathering data requirements for all inbound and outbound interfaces that will feed through Corepoint.
• Analyze data and requirements to determine what will be needed to successfully build and test the interface connections.
• Create connections in Corepoint for EMRs to send ADT and various ORU results (lab, microbiology, transcriptions, etc.)
• Coordinate testing with vendors ahead of interface go live events.
• Support go live events.

Confidential

HL7 Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop HL7 interfaces in Confidential between various EMRs and Airstrip.
• Gathering data requirements for all inbound and outbound interfaces through Confidential .
• Using JavaScript within Confidential, mapping incoming HL7 to variables that are used in stored procedure calls to Airstrip database.
• Develop interfaces for ADT, ORM (including radiology, lab, etc), RDE and ORU messages.
• Complete support documentation for all interfaces developed.
• Coordinate testing with vendors ahead of interface go live events.
• Support go live events and tier 2 support post go live.
• HL7 Analyst/SME for Center for Medical Interoperability Project

Confidential

Rhapsody Migration Developer

Responsibilities:

• System-wide effort to migrate more than 3,400 interfaces, in all regions, from Confidential to Rhapsody by December 31st, 2014.
• Developed interfaces in Rhapsody that would replace legacy Confidential interfaces.
• This included writing and successfully implementing an interface that translated custom HL7 messages, which were nothing but Z segments, to standard HL7 order messages with no available specifications or documentation.
• Responsible for auditing Rhapsody code written by other Rhapsody developers.
• Personally responsible for migrating all of the interfaces belonging to Meditech in Confidential, which numbered in the hundreds.
• Working with Meditech, as well as other vendors such as M*Modal and Sunquest, to complete testing ahead of moving the new interfaces into production to replace the legacy interfaces in Confidential .
• Developing documentation to track the interfaces migrated for each Rhapsody Migration Developer.

Confidential

Lead Interface Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathering data requirements for all inbound and outbound interfaces through Rhapsody.
• Creating HL7 to XML and XML to HL7 data mapping.
• Creating EDI HL7 Definitions for each interface.
• This included ADT, PMU, SIU, ORM, and ORU messages.
• Developed customer-facing interface swim-lane diagrams to visualize flow of messages between multiple systems, including Confidential .
• Led upgrade of Rhapsody from 3.4 to 5.2 and then to 5.4 for Rhapsody bug fixes.
• Conducted Quality Assurance testing of all interfaces developed at Confidential in Rhapsody 5.2 and 5.4.
• Partnered with Interface Team direct reports to conduct Technical Integration Review Event (T.I.R.E.) testing with customer interface resource to validate interface code.
• Developed proof-of-concept interface to send nursing personnel information, via PMU message, from Confidential to hospital paging system using Rhapsody 5.4.
• Worked with EPIC to develop a new interface for orders, results, and schedules at a mutual customer site.
• Audited all interface code written for all interfaces in Rhapsody.
• Provided onsite, go-live interface support which included:
• Monitoring interface flow and stability
• Troubleshooting interface issues
• Editing or writing new interface code to resolve any issues that arise.
• Developed new methodology for delivery of interface and application solutions in a project.
• Represented Application and Interface Solutions organization to Confidential senior management and customer management/executive teams.
• Monitored the day-to-day delivery of the programs and services of the organization to maintain or improve quality.
• Developed interface for Texas Department of Health in Rhapsody 3.4
• Directory input with vaccination records in batched HL7 format
• Developed HL7 validation filter with appropriate tables to accept or reject HL7 messages.
• Translated HL7 to Texas DSHS flat file format to allow for HIE processing.
• Developed interface for new behavioral health unit at existing customer site in 3.4. HL7 to XML.
• Developed first ORM, ORU, and SIU interfaces for new Confidential product that interfaced with Siemens RIS and Invision Order Entry systems.
• This interface became the template for all ORM, ORU, and SIU interfaces.
• HL7 Interface SME for Company

Confidential

Interface QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• QA beta product’s HL7 interface functionality and provide consulting on ways to improve interface performance.
• Trouble shooting mature product’s HL7 interfaces when hospitals experienced issues through knowledge of interface flow.
• Led team to study for and pass the HL7 2.x exam with the highest passing percentage in the branch’s history.
• Led QA team through two simultaneous regression projects for two different hospitals in order to meet QA milestones.
• Supported UNIX based servers running legacy Confidential system with Message Broker interfaces. Used SQL queries and scripts to troubleshoot and resolve database issues for customers during business hours and after hours.

Confidential

Interface Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created Interface Architect standards and practices for designing and implementing interfaces.
• Designed interfaces for Confidential hospital to bring them all to an HL7 standard of operation with their interfaces.
• Worked closely with hospital facilities’ technical team and their specifications to design the appropriate interface.
• Developed a Knowledge Base of interface designs for different system.
• Created detailed data field mappings template for ADT and ORU results interfaces.
• Created detailed test plan template for each facility’s interface and their indigenous process requirements
• Designed interfaces to capture and send facilities their medical billing codes.