Experience

ScriptDrop

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  Columbus, Ohio, United States



Berkman Consulting LLC

• Owner

  • Dec 2015 - Present

  Columbus, Ohio Area Technology consulting



Uleet

• United States
• Health and Human Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & CTO

  • Sep 2021 - Oct 2023

  Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area



CoverMyMeds

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Director of Engineering

  • Jul 2021 - Sep 2021

  Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

• Director of Engineering

  • Oct 2019 - Jul 2021

  Columbus, Ohio Area - I lead the engineering organization that is responsible for developing and supporting a high growth SaaS product called "Access for More Patients (AMP)" - AMP helps to solve specialty medication access and adherence challenges for patients by leveraging an extensive network of providers, pharmacies, and payers and by providing various automated and human assisted services - We scaled the engineering organization to 80 team members in the first 18 months - AMP Product revenue has… Show more - I lead the engineering organization that is responsible for developing and supporting a high growth SaaS product called "Access for More Patients (AMP)" - AMP helps to solve specialty medication access and adherence challenges for patients by leveraging an extensive network of providers, pharmacies, and payers and by providing various automated and human assisted services - We scaled the engineering organization to 80 team members in the first 18 months - AMP Product revenue has grown 200-300% Y/Y since launch in 2019 - I partner closely with product management, analytics, implementation, account management, operations, and commercialization leadership to grow AMP

• Senior Engineering Manager

  • Jun 2018 - Oct 2019

  Columbus, Ohio Area - I lead the engineering teams that built and supported our electronic prior authorization (ePA) and Real-time Benefit Check (RTBC) products, through integrations with our payer partners - The RTBC product integrates a growing network of EHRs and payer claims adjudication systems. The product was designed to aggregate, route, and transform a high volume of requests at low latency while optimizing for the best user experience - The ePA product was responsible for collecting, transforming… Show more - I lead the engineering teams that built and supported our electronic prior authorization (ePA) and Real-time Benefit Check (RTBC) products, through integrations with our payer partners - The RTBC product integrates a growing network of EHRs and payer claims adjudication systems. The product was designed to aggregate, route, and transform a high volume of requests at low latency while optimizing for the best user experience - The ePA product was responsible for collecting, transforming, sending and receiving multipart electronic prior authorizations (ePA) transactions with integrated Payer partners. Each transaction represents a patient’s attempt to obtain medication and requires a high level of data integrity and system reliability - My teams worked with many large Payer clients to integrate our systems in support of the RTBC and ePA products - I helped to lead the stabilization of a rapidly growing software platform by focusing teams on risk and incident management, capacity planning, proactive maintenance and SDLC best practices - I represented CoverMyMeds in healthcare industry standards organizations such as the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) and HL7 through participation in weekly calls and quarterly meetings - I helped to spearhead the reorganization of engineering and product teams to re-align focus on business priorities - I developed and promoted many new leaders through mentoring and coaching activities - Technology and tools included: Ruby, Rails, React, Postgres, git, Docker, Splunk, Sentry, New Relic, Puppet, Jenkins, FHIR

• Engineering Manager

  • Oct 2016 - Jun 2018

  Columbus, Ohio Area Engineering Manager - Payer solutions. I manage a team that develops and maintains a suite of products responsible for delivering and receiving electronic prior authorizations (ePA), which is core to our business.



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Manager - PKI Development team

  • Apr 2014 - Sep 2016

  Columbus, Ohio Area Managed a development team that builds various critical cryptographic services related to product identity, image signing, code signing, encryption, secure boot, SSL, Smart Cards, and more Implemented application development and release best practices and instituted peer code review across the organization Implemented Agile project tracking, secure source code management, continuous integration, automated deployment, and auditing capabilities Lead a project to roll out… Show more Managed a development team that builds various critical cryptographic services related to product identity, image signing, code signing, encryption, secure boot, SSL, Smart Cards, and more Implemented application development and release best practices and instituted peer code review across the organization Implemented Agile project tracking, secure source code management, continuous integration, automated deployment, and auditing capabilities Lead a project to roll out Smart cards company wide Technology and tools included Java, Tomcat, Maven, JUnit, Spring, Hibernate, git, Atlassian JIRA/Confluence/Stash/Bamboo, Artifactory, IAIK crypto libraries and more

• Project Manager - PKI Operations team

  • Apr 2012 - Apr 2014

  Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Managed an operations team that ran multiple highly available and highly secure data centers on both coasts in support of a half dozen critical, 24x7x365 services (including direct support to manufacturing) Delivered host based password management, auditing/logging, and increased monitoring throughout the infrastructure Managed a major data center migration project while maintaining application availability Technology included Splunk, Nagios, CentOS, SafeNet Hardware… Show more Managed an operations team that ran multiple highly available and highly secure data centers on both coasts in support of a half dozen critical, 24x7x365 services (including direct support to manufacturing) Delivered host based password management, auditing/logging, and increased monitoring throughout the infrastructure Managed a major data center migration project while maintaining application availability Technology included Splunk, Nagios, CentOS, SafeNet Hardware Security Modules (HSM), Cisco UCS, Spacewalk

• Project Manager - IT Release Management

  • Jan 2011 - May 2012

  Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Managed two major quarterly releases that enabled over four dozen independent projects to Go Live in production Collaborated with cross-functional IT teams to provide release scheduling and delivery leadership as well as provided performance enhancements using a consistent set of tools, processes and methodologies Streamlined the release process by focusing on process improvement, communication, and collaboration

• Engineer - Enterprise Data Warehouse

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

  Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Architected, developed and supported multiple applications that automated and improved the ability of Informatica to load and extract data from Teradata and Oracle databases Developed an application to visually map nightly scheduled tasks and their dependencies to determine the critical path for use in troubleshooting bottlenecks and to calculate total job run time Technology and tools included Teradata, Oracle, Informatica, Perl



Honda of America Mfg., Inc.

• Automotive
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern - Security Services

  • Jun 2007 - Aug 2007

  Columbus, Ohio Area Managed a project to select software to perform Active Directory auditing, logging, and other various administrative functionality Included presentations to upper management, requirements gathering, decision analysis, vendor review and selection, and implementation



Purdue University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Web Developer

  • Aug 2005 - Dec 2006

  Lafayette, Indiana Area Developed a conference scheduling application in ASP with SQL Server Developed a “Nutrition Tracking Application” for a university course



CUNA Mutual Group

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern - Database Services

  • May 2006 - Aug 2006

  Madison, Wisconsin Area Implemented the Quest Performance Analysis and Database Analysis tools for the company's database environment Performed database administration tasks in Microsoft SQL Server



American Honda Motor Company, Inc.

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Intern

  • May 2005 - Aug 2005

  Greater Los Angeles Area Developed multiple websites related to financial and trade compliance using ASP and DB2



Omnipath

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Developer

  • Mar 2001 - May 2003

  Columbus, Ohio Area Developed custom online training courses for companies such as SmartForce, AIG, Canon, Bloomberg, PNC Bank, and DBSS



ECOUTLOOK.COM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Intern

  • Jun 2000 - Aug 2000

  Columbus, Ohio Area Created documents that mapped EDI structures into XML as part of a “Supermap” solution, the first of its kind Worked as a high school student (14) along side college students