Experience

WiserTogether, Inc.

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Member of Technical Staff

  • Nov 2013 - Present

  Washington D.C. Metro Area * Led a team of 20 Developers and Tech Leads in the implementation and launch of healthcare IT project. * Align technology decisions with business priorities by managing scope and deliverables. WiserTogether provides the world's first online tool to match patients with treatments that work. Founded in 2008, WiserTogether sees the critical role consumers play in achieving better health outcomes while lowering costs for themselves, employers, plans, and providers. WiserTogether’s… Show more * Led a team of 20 Developers and Tech Leads in the implementation and launch of healthcare IT project. * Align technology decisions with business priorities by managing scope and deliverables. WiserTogether provides the world's first online tool to match patients with treatments that work. Founded in 2008, WiserTogether sees the critical role consumers play in achieving better health outcomes while lowering costs for themselves, employers, plans, and providers. WiserTogether’s shared-decision tool helps consumers choose treatments based on clinical evidence, personal preferences, cost, access and plan coverage. This tool is proven to be both engaging and highly effective. It leads to better treatments, higher compliance, improved health outcomes, and lower medical costs. WiserTogether’s products and other patient engagement services reach millions of consumers through employers, health plans, and providers. Show less



Laureate Education, Inc.

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director

  • 2010 - Sep 2013

  * Chosen by top-level management to take ownership of “can’t fail” technology project. * Oversee academic program development in liaison with University partners in USA and Europe. * Responsible for annual budget exceeding $2 million. * Drive synergies across partners to release product versions at speed and lower cost. * Daily operational responsibility of work by contractors and employees with management of deliverables to ensure quality, completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.



iCarnegie Inc

• Manager

  • Jun 1999 - Dec 2009

  * Scaled business from 100 course enrollments to 200,000 enrollments * Increased the number of certified course-instructors from about 10 to more than 1000. * Expanded the reach of curriculum from one city (Pittsburgh) to 20 countries. * Successfully managed the core business line with tight budget and time constraints. * Managed the team of course developers in creating and revising core CS curriculum with input from industry advisors and Carnegie Mellon University faculty.



Object Design

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales

  • Dec 1997 - May 1999

  * As pre-sales engineer, directly contributed to closing business worth $750k in three quarters. * Helped close deals at big-name accounts by influencing C-level executives. * Covered 6 states, primarily selling Object Oriented database, ObjectStore for C++ and Java.



Virtual University International

• Engineer

  • Feb 1997 - Dec 1997

  * Gathered cross-functional requirements and designed server-side functionality of content capture and delivery process. * Designed database model to capture multimedia course content. * Coordinated and led the efforts to build online courses



Oracle

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

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Jun 1996 - Oct 1996

  * Aided in the design of content management services for multiple releases of the Oracle Application Server. * Redesigned the architecture of Spyglass web listener to obtain a ten-fold increase in the response rate for URL requests. * Consultant to the Web site management team on installing, administering and upgrading Oracle’s external web site.



Xerox

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

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Jun 1994 - Oct 1994

  * Designed and implemented an automated schema generator module that models SGML documents using abstract data types in an object-oriented database (ObjectStore). * Integrated structured-querying (in C++) in ObjectStore and free-form textual querying of SMART (from Cornell).