Founding partner of  Über Operations, Jeff continues to work as an IT consulting professional working to serve client’s needs in the areas of  data integration and health care information technology.  Beginning his IT career with Infinity Software Development as a programmer analyst, Jeff's determination and curiosity to seek out the best solutions to meet his customers needs has led him to gain expertise in complex application development, data integration, HIPAA compliance and billing, and extensive experience in the health care IT industry.  Most recently Jeff served as the architect for the State of Florida DOH's Electronic Lab Reporting project.  On the horizon Jeff envisions a progression towards the Electronic Medical Record for which his past experience and growing knowledge is well suited.

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Skills

• Enterprise data integration and web development expertise
• Extensive experience with the analysis and development of Healthcare related information systems and integration
• HIPAA EDI solutions analysis and implementation experience
• Project Management experience
• Experience with data architecture design (Transactional, Business Intelligence)
• Highly skilled object-oriented and business analyst with excellent analytical ability
• Experience with the needs assessment methodology,
• Joint Application Development (JAD)
• Excellent client relations, communication, organizational, writing, and editing skills.

Experience

• Rational Suite (Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest, RequisitePro, SODA), Rational Unified, Process, UML, MS Office, ERWin, S-Designor, Visio
• Integration Brokers and Tools: Quovadx QDXi Integrator, Data Junction
• Enterprise Master Person Index: Aligndex
• Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Access
• Data Formats: HL7, X12, XML
• Query Languages: SQL (TSQL, PL/SQL)
• TCL, Perl, Unix Shell Scripting, ASP, ASP.Net (C#), HTML, DHTML/CSS, VBScript, JavaScript
• Visual Basic 6.0

Award

• 2002 Davis Productivity - Second Place: Electronic Lab Reporting for the Division of Disease Control – Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (For developing electronic lab integration at an estimated cost savings of 3 million dollars)
• 2002 NASCIO (National Association of State Chief Information Officers) - Recognition Award Nominee: Enterprise Data Integration Architecture and Implementation (For implementing and architecture for data integration that is providing business benefits for the Florida Department of Health)

Education

• BS Communications - Florida State University, 1999, Tallahassee, FL

Training

• Cloverleaf Integration Level 1 and Level 2 (Integration Essentials)
• ASP.Net Training
• Rational University (ClearCase and UCM, Rose, Object Technology, OOAD, Project Management)

Experience

June 1999 – Present

• Bureau of Laboratories – BOLIMS Integration (9/2003-Present) - Design and development of the Bureau of Laboratories LIMS system currently under development. Creating HL7 based interfaces for lab request and result delivery. Guaranteed delivery, translation, content based routing and content-based alerts are some of the functionality developed using TCL and the Quovadx QDXi (formerly Cloverleaf) v. 3.8.1.
• Department of Health – HIPPA Billing (6/2002-9/2003) - Develop a HIPAA compliant enterprise integration solution for DOH Medicaid billing. Including the implementation of a secure encryption solution, and the development of X12 translations that will be used by DOH program area
• Department of Health – Small Pox Vaccination Adverse Reaction(6/2002-9/2003) - Developed data integration interface for acquiring, translating, and publishing of Small Pox Adverse Reaction data captured in the Florida SHOTS (immunization registry) to the Bureau of Epidemiology.
• Department of Health – Electronic Lab Reporting (3/2002-9/2003) - Implementation of Electronic Lab Reporting to accept Lab data from multiple sources (both state and private labs), filter the data for diseases our accepting applications track, route and translate the lab data for each DOH program area that needs the lab data and provide notifications based on disease or severity to DOH program staff as part of the DOH Bio-terrorism response and NEDSS initiatives.
• Department of Health – Active Integration Service (XML-RPC) (6/2002-8/2002) - Analysis and development of a platform independent web service based upon open standards to be used by new software developed for the DOH in order to implement active integration with the DOH Enterprise Master Person Index. The web service will provide XML-RPC access to the Madison Aligndex API.
• Department of Health – Data Integration - EMPI/Integration Broker (3/2000-6/2001) - Selection and Implementation of software tools to build an Enterprise Master Person Index (an index of clients the DOH servers populated from disparate systems and linked via probabilistic matching), and support application-to-application data integration of legacy applications. Worked to implement the EMPI with the Madison Aligndex EMPI product and pilot data integration with the Quovadx Cloverleaf Integration Broker.
• Department of Health – Data Administration (3/2000-6/2001) - The purpose of the IHIS (Integrated Health Information System) Data Administration program was to analyze and develop a foundation for data integration (data standards, common data dictionary, procurement of EAI tools) across the enterprise while performing a market scan and cost-benefit analysis of Software Development Modeling Tools (the recommendation of Rational Software Suites was made in 6/2000) followed by the procurement, configuration, and administration of the appropriate tools.
• Division of Environmental Health (DEH) (2/2000) - Research/analysis of the availability of environmental health information systems that meet the DEH's business system requirements.
• Division of Environmental Health (DEH) (6/1999 – 1/2000) - Analysis of the DEH business processes utilizing the Joint Application Development Methodology. Responsibilities included business process analysis, extensive documentation, leading joint application development sessions, implementing a web application to facilitate information collection from 67 Florida counties, budget planning, financial assessment, creation of an entity relational diagram for the DEH business system, facilitation of client communication and interaction, and project status reporting.

Navigator Interactive
January 1996 – June 1999, Ocala, FL, USA, Chief Programmer

• CarePresenter - Designed and developed a client/server application used by health professionals to present care and treatment plans to patients. The software was developed using Visual Basic 6.0 and third party ActiveX controls.
• Web Development - Responsible for the analysis, design, and implementation of the company’s internet and intranet web sites.

M & M Creative Services
May 1997 – December 1997, Tallahassee, FL, USA, Web Programmer

• Responsible for client interaction, site design, development, modification, and maintenance.