Category: HEALTHCARE

         PLATFORM ARCHITECT, HEALTHCARE INCUBATION LAB (HIL)       Summary    A driven technology professional with software architecture and development background and a passion for Agile methodologies. I enjoy designing and developing platforms consisting of web applications and services that help businesses innovate and stay competitive.      Accomplishments      

















 Over 8 years of
     experience architecting and developing data-intensive web-based
     applications and services with expert level proficiency in middle tier and
     Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and functional proficiency in data and
     presentation tiers
   Experienced with
     designing and developing horizontally scalable, secure and reliable
     multi-tenant web applications delivered in a SaaS model
   Proven success in
     working with dynamic startups as well as medium to large organizations
   Adept at navigating
     technical and non-technical challenges through use of excellent
     communication skills, creativity and practical knowledge
   Experience
     collaborating on cross-functional agile teams that include Product
     Development, Product Owners, Quality Assurance and DevOps
   Proven record of
     collaborating with internal and external (e.g. customers, vendors,
     partners and regulatory entities) team members


        Experience     01/2015   to   Current     Platform Architect, Healthcare Incubation Lab (HIL)    Company Name   －   City  ,   State     
















Premera Blue Cross is a not-for-profit healthcare
insurance provider in the state of Washington, USA.

 

  The Healthcare Incubation Lab is an internal
startup backed and funded by Premera Blue Cross. As a Center of Excellence
(CoE), HIL is tasked with exploring and developing new opportunities at the
intersection of Healthcare, Insurance & Technology. It is a very small team
using LEAN and agile practices to focus on the businesses major pain points.

 

  My role on the team is that of a hands-on Platform
/ Solution / Application Architect where I regularly explore and evaluate new
technologies, design solutions and develop proof of concepts (POCs).

 
   

 Led and
     collaborated with enterprise solution delivery teams in all phases – from
     ideation to iterative delivery
   Collaborated in
     design and development of an API platform enabling delivery teams to
     rapidly exchange data with external EMRs (Electronic Medical Records) as
     well as internal line of business applications
   Provided guidance
     on current technology landscape and advised management on purchasing third
     party products and engaging external vendors
   Architected,
     integrated and managed Okta IDaaS (Identity and Access Management as a
     Service) enabling all web applications and web services to follow
     consistent patterns for integrating with external and internal identity
     providers, allowing teams to rapidly build and deploy line of business apps
   Performed security
     code reviews and web application security testing such as penetration
     testing to identify and remedy possible exploits and vulnerabilities thus
     strengthening the organization's security posture     Integrated open source and commercial security
penetration tools such as Burp Suite and OWASP's ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) in the
continuous integration and delivery pipeline to automatically and
systematically test all successful deployments for common web exploits          04/2014   to   01/2015     Solution Architect, Enterprise Architecture & IT Strategy    Company Name   －   City  ,   State     
















The Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategy team
at Premera designs the systems and solutions built and used at Premera Blue
Cross and all of its subsidiaries. My role on the team was of a Project
Architect, which is essentially a hands-on solution architect.

 
   

 Collaborated
     in the design and development of a telephony and analytics solution built
     using a complex orchestration of web services to target customers for
     specialized care management, which allowed Premera to reduce healthcare
     costs while significantly improving healthcare outcomes
   As
     an internal technology consultant specializing in Service Oriented
     Architecture (SOA), helped various teams adopt current software
     engineering industry standards and practices resulting in higher code
     reuse and reduced delivery times
   Participated
     in a core workgroup tasked with developing templates for high level and
     detailed design documents that are used by the Architecture team as well
     as individual delivery teams to follow a consistent standard within all of
     Premera
   Worked
     closely with program managers, project managers, solution architects,
     enterprise architects and management to define milestones and ensure the
     high level and low level plans are aligned throughout the entirety of the project,
     which improved project success rate
   Assisted
     various delivery teams with adopting Agile Scrum & Kanban practices to
     improve customer satisfaction and reduce delivery time


          01/2013   to   04/2014     Application Architect, Research & Development    Company Name   －   City  ,   State     
















PriceMetrix is a SaaS startup based in the
financial district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. PriceMetrix processes vast
amounts of transaction-level data and provides business intelligence solutions
to retail brokerages, commercial and investment banks in US & Canada.

 

  The Research & Development team at PriceMetrix
designed and developed BI analytics SaaS applications that are used by
financial advisors throughout North America on a daily basis. As the
Application Architect, I was responsible for designing and developing a unified
SaaS platform for hosting all of the web applications and services.

 
   

 Led
     development of a new flagship SaaS platform to deliver business
     intelligence analytics to large North American financial institutions,
     which resulted in about 30% annual revenue increase for the organization
   Developed
     a highly available, mission critical web application with high quality
     user experience that is used by about 35,000 financial advisors on a daily
     basis and resulted in about 30% annual revenue increase for the firm
   Designed
     and implemented SSO (Single-Sign-On) functionality for PriceMetrix web
     applications platform, using SAML 2.0 (Security Assertion Markup Language)
     protocol and tokens, Microsoft ADFS 2.0 (Active Directory Federation
     Services), WIF (Windows Identity Foundation) and STS (Secure Token
     Services) to support multitude of clients with disparate authentication
     systems
   Conducted
     daily standups with technology and business teams of large retail
     wealth-management brokerages to customize and integrate PriceMetrix
     analytics applications within their proprietary order management systems
     and dashboards


          04/2010   to   01/2013     Software Developer, Research & Development    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      

















 Developed
     data services for core platform to replace stored procedures and functions,
     which enabled the customer facing web applications and services to
     orchestrate complex functionality without rewriting business logic
     reducing solution development times by 100% (an average of 4 months vs 8
     months prior)
   Built
     custom solutions to interface existing legacy systems with new applications
     to provide a seamless and rich experience for the clients while minimizing
     pains of using legacy systems
  


 Ported a data
     warehouse and various data marts into database projects, enabling the
     development team to fully automate deployment of databases and use source
     control to manage database schema, reducing build and deployment times by
     85%


          09/2009   to   04/2010     Enterprise Application Developer, Information Systems    Company Name   －   City  ,   State     
















OACCAC is a not-for-profit shared technology
services organization that supports Ontario's Community Care Access Centres
(CCACs) located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

 
   

 Created
     and delivered high quality software while in IT services group, which
     resulted in a promotion to Enterprise Applications Group within 1st
     year of joining the company
   Developed
     complex AJAX web-parts, user & custom controls for large healthcare
     applications: CHRIS (Client Health Related Information System) & HPG
     (Health Partner Gateway)
   Helped
     setup and deploy CruiseControl (a continuous integration/deployment tool)
     to reduce build and deploy times by 70%


          09/2008   to   09/2009     Software Developer, IT Services    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      Developed and improved applications used by the IT Services team by working closely with network and server specialists.  Assisted with design and development of OACCAC's public website (www.ccac-ont.ca), websites for 14 client CCACs, and a complex content management system for non-technical users.  

















 Developed
     and improved applications used by the IT Services team by working closely
     with network and server specialists
 Assisted
     with design and development of OACCAC's public website (www.ccac-ont.ca),
     websites for 14 client CCACs, and a complex content management system for
     non-technical users


Integrated Operations Configuration Management
Database (CMDB) with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to poll critical
performance indicators from servers; whenever a certain indicator reached the
predetermined threshold, an automated alert was generated and sent to
Infrastructure operations teams via email and instant messaging, allowing them
to pre-empt system failures and outages           Education     Jun. 2009     Bachelor of Engineering  :   Systems & Computer Engineering (B.Eng), Honours Program    University of Guelph   －   City  ,   State  ,   Canada                Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3 Training					Jan. 2010
The Open Group Architecture Framework - TOGAF 9 Level 1 Training				Oct. 2014              Skills    .NET, ASP.NET, Active Directory, Agile, AJAX, API, Architect, automate, BI, business intelligence, Cascading Style Sheets, excellent communication, ca, Computer Engineering, Configuration Management, consultant, content management, creativity, CSS, Client, clients, customer satisfaction, data warehouse, databases, Database, delivery, designing, Eclipse, Electronic Medical Records, email, financial, focus, Forms, functional, Gateway, HTML, IIS, Information Systems, Information Technology, Insurance, IT Strategy, ITIL, Java, Javascript, Linux, logic, Mac, messaging, Access, C#, exchange, Windows, Modeling, MVC, Enterprise, network, Object Oriented Programming, Oct, Operating Systems, order management, processes, Product Development, profit, promotion, Proxy, purchasing, quality, Quality Assurance, Research, retail, Scrum, servers, Scripting, software engineering, SQL, SQL Server, telephony, T-SQL, UML, Visual Studio, wealth-management, web applications, website, websites