Experience

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  Cotiviti

  • Towson, Maryland

  • Senior Data Engineer

    • Mar 2018 - Present
    • Towson, Maryland

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  General Dynamics Information Technology

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

  • Principal Software Engineer / Implementation Manager

    • May 2008 - Mar 2018

    As the lead engineer of the GDIT Business Solutions team, Dave has lead more than 50 STARSSolutions implementations and has maintained an extremely high quality record.Using his extensive knowledge of the products, Dave has designed and developed many custom processes for the mid-tier, back-end Data Integration system. These processes include custom claim adjustment processes, STARSCommander legacy case migrations, migrations of our older legacy systems to the newer product platforms, and Quality Assurance data validation processes.As the resident technical expert for the STARSSolutions Core products, Dave has been involved in many special projects including the ICD-10 integration into the STARSSolutions Suite and special data mining projects for the FBI and DOJ.Dave has implemented several Agile based methodologies into STARSSolutions implementation process including SCRUM and Kanban. These methodologies have helped streamline the implementation process and create more timely implementations.Dave has also acted in the project management role of many CMS Medicare STARSSolutions implementations (including the NDB). These implementations included adhering to the strict CMS IT Lifecycle methodologies.

  • Technical Manager

    • Jan 2000 - May 2008

    Functioning as a high-level senior technical member of the GDIT PSC and NDB Teams, Mr. Crum was involved in the day-to-day support and maintenance of the National Database (NDB) and WIC 15-State databases running at the CMS Data Center. Acting in a database administrator (DBA) capacity, Mr. Crum has been involved in data conversion, data modeling and design, and database migration projects (including STARS software upgrades). Mr. Crum has also acted as the technical project manager for the NDB NPI project. This project included the incorporation of NPI data into the NDB data model and ETL processes, creating custom NPI data marts, cross-walking historical claims data to populate the NPI, and redesigning the STARS provider tables to include the addition of new outside sources of provider data that include NPI values (i.e., SuperPES and NPPES).Mr. Crum also designed and filled requests for the retrieval of archived NDB claims data, which he restored from the tape silo’s at the CMS Data Center. In addition, Mr. Crum has experience with using both the DESY and DADSS systems to provide data to members of PSC projects and external law enforcement agencies. In the spirit of PSC cooperation, on a monthly basis, Mr. Crum provided extracts of the NCH TAP file data to the TrustSolutions PSC.This position involved reporting to CMS and the NDB Project team on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

  • Technical Implementation Manager

    • May 1995 - Jan 2000

    Mr. Crum functioned as the technical leader/manager or actively participated in 30 STARS installations for GDIT clients between 1995- 2000. This list of STARS clients includes but is not limited to: AdminaStar Federal, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators, Delta Dental Plan of California, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, and Wisconsin Physicians Service.

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  Prudential Home Mortgage

  • Frederick, Maryland

  • Senior SAS Programmer

    • Jan 1990 - May 1995
    • Frederick, Maryland

    Mr. Crum functioned as a Senior SAS Programmer for the servicing department of the Prudental Home Mortgage Company. Position involved developing custom reporting for the mortgage origination department.

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  Cap Gemini America Consulting

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • SAS Programmer

    • Jan 1986 - Jan 1990
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    Mr. Crum functioned as Senior SAS Programmer for the Quality Assurance department of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation as a consultant. This position involved designing, coding, testing, and implementing steel manufacturing QA reporting for the entire Sparrow Point, MD plant.

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  Rush Associates

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • SAS Programmer / Analyst

    • May 1982 - Jan 1986
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Mr. Crum functioned as a SAS Programmer for the National Instiutes of Health (NIH), Walter Reed Medical Center, and the University of Maryland Medical School as a consultant. This postion involved designing, coding, testing, and implementing custom reporting for NIH’s National Stroke Data Bank and Tramatic Coma studies, along with the Tramatic Gun Shoot Wound study at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.