Senior Information Architect

Providence Health & Services 20B+ healthcare system in 7 states Portland, Oregon October 2013 to June 2018

Played a central and crucial role in the vision and work that became a strategic enterprise data information portal as a member of the enterprise Healthcare Intelligence (HI) group.

Guided the unification of emerging strategies for Data Catalog, App Store and Data Lake platforms through consultation, architecture, leadership, mentoring, and a talent for synthesizing diverse ideas into a working whole.

Designed, developed, and operationalized the enterprise's information search stack and SharePoint BI reporting portal platform.

Researched and tested semantic web data and content management capabilities on patient and provider data, which introduced the enterprise to graph database technologies.

An EDW infrastructure

Enterprise data warehouse infrastructure diagram representing how current and future plans might play out.

May 18, 2018

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Home Medical Equipment - graphics

Icon and graphic for a Home Medical Equipment proof-of-concept knowledgebase search application at Providence.

November 13, 2017

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Provider 360 - graphics

Icon for Providence's Provider360 search app identity and graphics communicating provider data at a glance.

November 28, 2016

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myHIway - icon

Icon representing a data discovery application called "myHIway."

November 28, 2016

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myHIway - graphics

Graphics from early releases of Providence's myHIway data asset search application.

November 28, 2016

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Appstore (internal) - icons

Work that helped visually collect a diverse set of data-driven apps into a family of branded departmental products.

November 27, 2016

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Enterprise Insights Platform

This platform underpinned several Providence search and business productivity web app initiatives.

September 04, 2016

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Contemplating metadata

Some like the dry definition of metadata as 'data about data,' but it has more value when thought of as a form of storytelling.

January 01, 2016

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Fusion Server – V2.1 Start Up as Non-root User in CentOS 6.6

Starting up Lucidworks Fusion 2.x automatically on a single CentOS 6.6 server is tricky, because the Fusion 2.1 Users Guide assumes you are using Ubuntu Linux and Upstart scripts. On CentOS or Red Hat Linux, you’ll have to roll your own.

December 23, 2015

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Explaining ELMS

Graphics for a presentation explaining the technical bits of an Data Governance program initiative called Enterprise Level Metadata System (ELMS).

December 20, 2015

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Semaphore 4.x ontology model not flushing properly when published

Smartlogic Search Application Framework (SAF) search dialog box suggestions context did not change after the underlying Smartlogic Semaphore 4.x ontology names changed from “Locations” to “Organizations.”

December 12, 2015

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Fusion Server – V2.1 SQL datasource connector returns only one document

When working with Lucidworks Fusion 2.1 search, one of the first steps is to index content from a data source. You’ll find it can index just about anything, but when indexing a MS SQL table it might fail silently and not return all documents.

December 10, 2015

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Data tsunami

The tsunami of demand for data can easily outpace an organization's capacity to deliver.

October 14, 2015

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Tiles web part

An easy to maintain SharePoint web part that grouped document links into colored category boxes and resized to fit all desktop display devices.

July 04, 2015

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Provider 360

A mobile and desktop search application that helps Providence caregivers quickly find basic information about all enterprise employed, contracted or affiliated providers.

November 04, 2014

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Home Medical Equipment KMS

A mobile and desktop search application for finding durable medical equipment that aligns a patient's therapeutic needs and payment plan.

October 28, 2014

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myHIway

A mobile and desktop search application for finding, collecting, comparing and accessing data assets across multiple enterprise business intelligence platforms.

May 18, 2014

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Top Reports

An enterprise SharePoint web application which identified and curated the "top" reports from multiple reporting platforms.

April 01, 2013

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Automatically close a SharePoint 2010 Edit form opened from a Reporting Services web part

SharePoint 2010 Edit and Display forms can be modified with InfoPath. This opportunity comes with a few new bugs, but the UI and functionality can be compelling.

April 28, 2012

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