Kevin Olbrich
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Hank Head
Kevin has the rare combination of skills needed to understand product requirements, architecting efficient solutions and foster the team and DevOps environments needed to deliver effective solutions. In the world of AI and clinical decision support, Kevin has lead a small (and somewhat secretive) team that has won mind and marketshare over IBM Watson and numerous payer lead initiatives. Kevin also embodies the servant leader philosophy and key knowledge sharing principles that seem lost in post-XP agile. He is a true team builder and master craftsman.
Mark Riedeman
Kevin Olbrich is a fantastic problem solver. And he's superbly pragmatic and humble about it. I can not even count the number of occasions when we would run in to some obstacle or another that seemed almost insurmountable, and Kevin would quietly ponder it for a while, go home, and the next day, show up with not just an idea for a solution, but with a demonstration of how he actually solved the problem. Because of that, his patience, his great attitude, his willingness to always devote time to his team, and his ability to learn and understand new technologies extremely quickly, I would absolutely recommend him to anyone who is looking for a secret weapon in their development team's arsenal.
Hank Head
Kevin has the rare combination of skills needed to understand product requirements, architecting efficient solutions and foster the team and DevOps environments needed to deliver effective solutions. In the world of AI and clinical decision support, Kevin has lead a small (and somewhat secretive) team that has won mind and marketshare over IBM Watson and numerous payer lead initiatives. Kevin also embodies the servant leader philosophy and key knowledge sharing principles that seem lost in post-XP agile. He is a true team builder and master craftsman.
Mark Riedeman
Kevin Olbrich is a fantastic problem solver. And he's superbly pragmatic and humble about it. I can not even count the number of occasions when we would run in to some obstacle or another that seemed almost insurmountable, and Kevin would quietly ponder it for a while, go home, and the next day, show up with not just an idea for a solution, but with a demonstration of how he actually solved the problem. Because of that, his patience, his great attitude, his willingness to always devote time to his team, and his ability to learn and understand new technologies extremely quickly, I would absolutely recommend him to anyone who is looking for a secret weapon in their development team's arsenal.
Hank Head
Kevin has the rare combination of skills needed to understand product requirements, architecting efficient solutions and foster the team and DevOps environments needed to deliver effective solutions. In the world of AI and clinical decision support, Kevin has lead a small (and somewhat secretive) team that has won mind and marketshare over IBM Watson and numerous payer lead initiatives. Kevin also embodies the servant leader philosophy and key knowledge sharing principles that seem lost in post-XP agile. He is a true team builder and master craftsman.
Mark Riedeman
Kevin Olbrich is a fantastic problem solver. And he's superbly pragmatic and humble about it. I can not even count the number of occasions when we would run in to some obstacle or another that seemed almost insurmountable, and Kevin would quietly ponder it for a while, go home, and the next day, show up with not just an idea for a solution, but with a demonstration of how he actually solved the problem. Because of that, his patience, his great attitude, his willingness to always devote time to his team, and his ability to learn and understand new technologies extremely quickly, I would absolutely recommend him to anyone who is looking for a secret weapon in their development team's arsenal.
Hank Head
Kevin has the rare combination of skills needed to understand product requirements, architecting efficient solutions and foster the team and DevOps environments needed to deliver effective solutions. In the world of AI and clinical decision support, Kevin has lead a small (and somewhat secretive) team that has won mind and marketshare over IBM Watson and numerous payer lead initiatives. Kevin also embodies the servant leader philosophy and key knowledge sharing principles that seem lost in post-XP agile. He is a true team builder and master craftsman.
Mark Riedeman
Kevin Olbrich is a fantastic problem solver. And he's superbly pragmatic and humble about it. I can not even count the number of occasions when we would run in to some obstacle or another that seemed almost insurmountable, and Kevin would quietly ponder it for a while, go home, and the next day, show up with not just an idea for a solution, but with a demonstration of how he actually solved the problem. Because of that, his patience, his great attitude, his willingness to always devote time to his team, and his ability to learn and understand new technologies extremely quickly, I would absolutely recommend him to anyone who is looking for a secret weapon in their development team's arsenal.
Credentials
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SAFe® 4 Certified Agilist
Scaled Agile, Inc.Jul, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master
Scaled Agile, Inc.Feb, 2018- Nov, 2024
Experience
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HUED
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Vice President Of Technology
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May 2022 - Present
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Ontada
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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200 - 300 Employee
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Sr. Director, Software Engineering
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Jun 2021 - May 2022
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Director, Software Engineering
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Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Oncology Clinical Decision Support
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McKesson
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Director Software Engineering
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Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
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Lead CDS Developer
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Feb 2014 - Apr 2019
Managed a team of software developers and contractors to help build a cutting-edge clinical decision support system (CDS) that helps doctors determine the right form of chemotherapy to use for patients with cancer.Involved in high level architecture design, customer and partner relationships, process improvement, HIPAA and security compliance. I also directly develop the product and play a key role in the deployment, maintenance and devops required to provide and scale the service.
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6fusion
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Rocket Surgeon
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Jan 2012 - Feb 2014
Worked with an agile team to build and deliver great software. Some of the projects I've been involved in include: * Designed and implemented deploy tools * building our linux profiler (initially in Bash and later refactored to use Go). * Architected and built virtual appliances for installation in customer infrastructure that provided a distributed, secure, and reliable method for collecting consumption data from Xen and VMware installations. * Built support for remote upgrading of appliances deployed to customer infrastructure. * Built support for provisioning and orchestration of virtual machines (Xen / VMware) * Architected and built a system for collecting consumption data from AWS (using the CloudWatch API) and Joyent. Other areas I worked on: Continuous Integration, development using Vagrant, production support and troubleshooting, provisioning and configuration management with Chef, asynchronous processing and message queuing systems, and monitoring with NewRelic. Primary Tools: Ruby (1.9.3), JRuby (1.7.x), Ruby on Rails (3.2.x), Go, Bash, Chef and Capistrano, TorqueBox (2.3.x), Padrino Show less
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iContact
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Operations Engineer
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Dec 2008 - Jan 2012
* developed a web application deployment system utilizing a combination of Capistrano and Debian packaging. * helped develop a highly automated environment build system which creates a virtualized cluster of servers for QA testing and continuous integration. (utilizes KVM and Capistrano). * Pioneered and instituted automated testing of a PHP application using Cucumber * Developed a wire protocol server for Cucumber to facilitate functional testing in PHP (cuke4php). * Built a dashboard for monitoring mail sending and overall site performance * Troubleshooting of production issues * Improving software security * Release Management * led efforts to institute DevOps practices Primary Tools: PHP, Ruby (1.8.7), Capistrano, Ruby on Rails (3.2.x), Cucumber, KVM Show less
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Near-Time
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Software Development
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Sr. Developer
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Feb 2007 - Nov 2008
Responsible for design, implementation, and support of a large web-based group collaboration and publication system. Developed and implemented several major features related to e-commerce, advertisement support, system security, WYSIWYG editing, a wiki rendering engine, XHTML export, Docbook import, and user interface design. Also responsible for training junior developers, development process improvement, cross-browser functionality, and overall application quality improvement. Responsible for design, implementation, and support of a large web-based group collaboration and publication system. Developed and implemented several major features related to e-commerce, advertisement support, system security, WYSIWYG editing, a wiki rendering engine, XHTML export, Docbook import, and user interface design. Also responsible for training junior developers, development process improvement, cross-browser functionality, and overall application quality improvement.
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Consultant
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Aug 2006 - Feb 2007
Freelance web application design for small biotech company. Freelance web application design for small biotech company.
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Duke University Medical Center
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Asst. Research Professor
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Jan 1997 - Feb 2007
Dept. of Maxillofacial, Oral and Plastic Surgery. Conducted medical research on tissue engineering, tissue-implant interactions, and designed medical devices. Dept. of Maxillofacial, Oral and Plastic Surgery. Conducted medical research on tissue engineering, tissue-implant interactions, and designed medical devices.
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Education
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1993 - 1997
Duke University
PhD, Mechanical / Biomedical Engineering -
1991 - 1993
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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1987 - 1991
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BS, Biomedical Engineering
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