History with Healthcare

01 April 2023

A Natural Language Healthcare Provider Search


University of New Mexico Hospitals

Web Analyst III (Full-time) · Albuquerque, New Mexico · 3/2019 - 3/2021

Hired on full-time after a six-month contract (from 3/2019—9/2019). Served as a lead engineer on a team of nine.

  • Was awarded multiple “I Care” awards by teammates & customers

  • Enjoyed mentoring junior developers

  • Led the design, development and integration (across various IT teams) of a system that has become the flagship product of the team used by over 30 clinics throughout the hospital system and a waiting list of many more; saving the organization millions of dollars

  • Completed a project within a few months that had been stalled for over 3 years

  • Helped organization quickly pivot to remote teams by leading the development of a clean & user-friendly time-tracking application during the pandemic from a very raw prototype that had been previously developed

  • Led an experimental project to create a compiler to automate the conversion of legacy applications

  • With little mobile programming experience built a well received iPad kiosk app


01 September 2020

Health System Needs Punch System During Pandemic

01 June 2019

Stagnated Survey System Comes to Life

01 March 2019

Hospital System Needs Intake Form System


Pacific Health Research & Education Institute

Data Manager (Full-time) · Honolulu, Hawai'i · 1/2013 - 1/2016

Performed duties as a member of a research team for a NIH diabetes study (GRADE) including meeting with patients, processing lab specimens, etc. Also, served as IT liaison for the team, and developed custom software to improve day-to-day operations as well as many small scripts and programs for impromptu reporting and data analysis.

  • Developed a workflow and case management system with built-in reporting, scheduling and EHR features while handling other responsibilities as part of the research team.

  • Developed an application that interfaced with a legacy console application (VistA), parsed text reports and generated PDF reports performing tasks in seconds that previously took hours.

  • Coached researchers on creating complex SQL queries to query data-warehouse


While working as a part of the research team, developed a participant retention system that included workflow, scheduling, and EHR features.

01 September 2013

Health Research Participant Retention System

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Started as an MS Access database that helped to clean up duplicate and erroneous participant records. The system was later ported to MySQL and retained the MS Access UI, provided a new desktop UI and micro service that was used by other systems. A Ruby API and CLI tool was also created for quickly generating ad-hoc reports.