Apr 2018 – Jul 2024 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

• The Office of Research Analytics and Systems Computing delivers actionable or analysis-ready accurate and compliant information from Advocate Aurora’s clinical systems to investigators and research stakeholders. The team leverages the electronic health record (EHR) to align investigator’s research questions with the right data available and build reproducible datasets.

Feb 2013 – Mar 2018 · 5 yrs 1 mo

• The Research Analytics team supports organizational growth for clinical research and innovation. The Analytics team provides the capacity and infrastructure to both obtain and manage data for research at Aurora Health Care. The team works collaboratively with clinical trials, investigator initiated research, physicians, and outside organizations to leverage health data in order to answer research questions. It also works with departments and teams from across the organization to integrate data from Aurora’s non-integrated databases and medical systems.

Jan 2011 – Feb 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Manage the Center of Urban Population Health's information systems, which include developing data registries, creating public-facing web sites for community partners, and serving as an honest broker for protected health information.

Jul 2007 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Developed a number of applications including IRAP Registry, a cross-facility, eleven screen database to track a rare type of pancreatitis; Starting Strong, a web application to manage Milwaukee County’s birth-to-three program; and the Center for Urban Population Health's public web site. Also, led several special projects in PeriData.Net, a birth and labor database adding 60,000 birth records annually, including: added address verification and geocoding to addresses, converting simple JDBC data access to Hibernate persistence, and a major update to receiving data from a third party. Continued managing the help desk and hosted training webinars. Finally, mentored several interns and a junior developer.

Apr 2005 – Jul 2007 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Significantly contributed to the development of PeriData.Net, a birth and labor database used by a majority Wisconsin birthing hospitals, and the administration web site for e-Sight, a vision screening solution for Milwaukee Public Schools and Prevent Blindness Wisconsin. Also, managed a help desk during business hours.

Feb 2004 – Apr 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Milwaukee Area

• Significantly contributed to the architecture, development, and support of both the corporate web site and a conference management system. Both systems were developed in Java and used MVC frameworks. Also, created a course on Javadoc and JUnit integration with Eclipse and taught to test class of 20 people.

Jun 2002 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Milwaukee Area

• Solely maintained a Java-based time tracking system, Automated Time Card (ATC), for entire firm as well as developed small web applications for the firm's Intranet. Also, created program to import performance management workbooks for entire firm.

Nov 2001 – Jun 2002 · 7 mos

• Handled hundreds of client technical issues by telephone and interacted with clients in six different computer labs. Trained three employees on basic skills and operations for their jobs. Finally, taught training course for 20 employees on the ColdFusion programming language.

Feb 2000 – Aug 2001 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Worked as a customer service technician, marketing assistant, programmer, and support technician. Developed an e-commerce web site for Hughes Design, Inc. and CUSTOMS Info, a subscription-based Web site, for Fuglei and Associates.