Summary
Senior healthcare IT professional with demonstrated
experience in Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing management, architecture and deployment; vendor negotiations; and quantitative
data analysis/reporting. Background includes work with academic medical centers, integrated hospital systems, pharmaceutical
marketing, disease management, biomedical research, software sales and retail operations.
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Work Experience
2/2007 – Present Director
Strategic Data Services: Massachusetts General
Hospital
Boston, MA
§ Program & Project Manager with design, delivery and support
responsibility for entire lifecycle of a clinical enterprise data warehouse built to track and improve longitudinal quality
& safety outcomes. Current production data warehouse deeply and flexibly integrates terabytes of data from >15 administrative,
clinical and operational feeds, meeting SLA and data quality requirements.
§ System Architect of hardware, software & process infrastructure
to support hospital-wide data quality, data integration & master data management initiatives; as well as to enable strategic,
tactical and operational reporting & analysis at all levels within the hospital. A novel system architecture
was designed, built and productionalized from scratch within 2 years with less than 8 in-house FTE-years.
§ Hiring & Procurement Manager with budget development, resource allocation, vendor management and TCO responsibility.
Grew team from zero to 5 FTEs; disbursed >$1.5M of capital budget, >$1.5M of consulting budget with recurring
management of >$1M in operating budget; ran three distinct competitive vendor selection efforts, restructured existing
contracts resulting in an average contractual discount of >65% below list pricing.
10/2005 – 2/2007 Founder & CEO:
Eupraxis Solutions, LLC.
New York, NY
§ Set strategic direction, assembled leadership & legal teams,
negotiated offshore services contracts & closed all sales. Achieved investor breakeven prior to retiring
product line and company.
§ Designed and architected product suite, oversaw offshore development, and lead quality
assurance efforts.
7/2005
– 2/2007 Independent Data Warehouse Consultant: Golden Touch Imports, Inc.
New York, NY
§ Provided Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse lifecycle planning,
development and support for $500M+ fashion wholesale company. Two years later this data warehouse is still
an essential component of daily and weekly operations with steadily increasing adoption rates and usage.
§ Architected physical data warehouse & logical business intelligence design as an early implementation of operational
data warehousing utilizing trickle-feed, ELT and real-time techniques and technologies.
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Consulted on initial vendor
selection & negotiations, facilitating contractual discounts of >40% below list pricing.
7/2005 – 10/2006 Independent Business
Intelligence Contractor: Forest Laboratories, Inc.
New York, NY
§ Implemented & tested Business Intelligence solution for pharmaceutical
market research department. Built and maintained segmentation, share and performance decks for lexapro, namenda, campral,
combunox, aerobid and tiazac used in designing market and go-to-market strategy.
§ Redesigned Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse logical
& physical architectures to best practices. Report performance, system scalability and development
cycle-time were significantly improved as a result.
8/2003 – 6/2005
Senior Pre-Sales Consultant : MicroStrategy, Inc.
McLean, VA
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Closed $6.5M of software &
services sales across multiple verticals, exceeding quota targets.
§ Supported Account Executives throughout sales cycle including
delivery of technical & business demonstrations; responses to RFPs; proof-of-concept implementations, and close customer
& prospect relationships.
§ Developed training program for new Account Executives to foster & promote sales
best practices.
1/2003 –
7/2003 Senior Business Intelligence Architect & Administrator: Bed, Bath & Beyond, Inc.
Union, NJ
§ Designed logical & physical data models for a retail merchandise
Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse implementation. One supply chain initiative resulted in more than $3 million of new chargeback
revenue per year.
§ Responsible for installation, configuration, & administration of MicroStrategy
Business Intelligence platform.
§ Documented functional requirements, report definitions and data structures based
on SME interviews.
8/1999
– 12/2002 Senior Production Consultant: MicroStrategy,
Inc.
McLean, VA
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Designed logical & physical
data models for application, departmental and enterprise-wide Data Warehouses in the retail, financial, government, entertainment,
ISP, dot.com, telecommunications and CRM verticals.
§ Provided hardware, software, architecture & project management
support based on client needs & best practices.
§ Wrote corporate and client white papers on security, technical
architectures & data modeling best practices.
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Education
2001
M.S., Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge,
MA
1992
B.A., Chemistry, Cornell University Ithaca,
NY
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Teaching Experience
2002 - 2005
Instructor: MCAT Verbal Reasoning. The Princeton Review, Inc. New
York, NY
2004
Developer and instructor: Regional Sales Training. MicroStrategy, Inc. McLean,
VA
2003 - 2004
Instructor: Introduction to Business Intelligence. MicroStrategy, Inc. McLean,
VA
1998 - 1999
Supervisor for Undergraduate Research Assistants: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
§ Principal Investigator: Prof. Richard J. Wurtman, MD
1997 - 1998
Head Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Psychology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge,
MA
§ Instructor: Prof. Steven Pinker, PhD
1996
Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Psychology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge,
MA
§ Instructor: Prof. Steven Pinker, PhD
1995 - 1998
Tutor: Office of Minority Education. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge,
MA
§ Biology, Genetics, Psychology & Neuroscience
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Fellowships and Awards
2000
4th Quarter Production Consulting Staff MVP Award
MicroStrategy, Inc. McLean,
VA
1999
Customer Support Group Employee of the Week
MicroStrategy, Inc. McLean,
VA
1999
Goodwin Medal for Conspicuously Effective Teaching by a Graduate Student
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Cambridge,
MA
1999
Angus N. MacDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching
Brain & Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge,
MA
1998 - 1999
Glenn/AFAR Scholarship Award for Research in the Biology of Aging
American Federation for
Aging Research New
York, NY
1995 - 1998
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award
National Science Foundation Arlington,
VA
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Current Member Affiliations
2009 - Present Penn State IST Enterprise Architecture Advisory Group
Member, Research Committee 9/2009
- Present 2009 - Present The Value Enablement Group, LLC
Principal
Consultant 9/2009
- Present
2009 - Present
Healthcare Financial Management Association
Member 7/2009
- Present
2009 - Present Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession
VP & Director of Communications 5/2009
- Present
2007 - Present The Data Warehousing Institute
Boston Chapter Secretary 5/2009
- Present
Member 5/2007
- Present
1996 - Present American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member
10/1996 - Present
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Authorship
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Joint Authorship on 5 Peer-Reviewed Journal
Articles & 1 Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter.
§ Primary Authorship on 2 Publications, 3 Conference Presentations, & 2 Invited Presentations.
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Healthcare BI/DWH Blogger for Healthcare Informatics Magazine
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Miscellaneous Skills
§ Expert Architect, Administrator, and Developer for the MicroStrategy
Business Intelligence Platform.
§ Experience with T-SQL and PL-SQL, Visio for Enterprise Architects and Sybase PowerDesigner
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References Available Upon Request