🧠 Lead Developer · ImageTrend

January 01, 2010

Company: ImageTrend Dates: January 2010 - January 2014 Location: Lakeville, Minnesota

Summary

Led engineering across trauma registry and EMS data products, combining hands-on architecture, team leadership, and product coordination to deliver standards-driven systems for hospitals, EMS agencies, and regulators.

What I Was Responsible For

• Technical leadership across development teams
• Establishing engineering standards, development practices, and review cadences
• Guiding system design, data modeling, and architecture decisions
• Coordinating sprint planning, specifications, and delivery across engineering, support, and client stakeholders

Key Contributions

• Designed and implemented trauma registry workflows aligned to NTDB and ICD-10 coding standards
• Built relational data models, validation logic, and reporting workflows to ensure accurate capture and submission of structured clinical data
• Implemented NEMSIS national EMS data standard workflows and interoperability pipelines across regulated healthcare products
• Represented software vendors and technical stakeholders in national forums discussing trauma data standards and registry updates with the American College of Surgeons
• Organized sprint planning, backlog refinement, and review cadences while creating specification documents that aligned engineering, support, and client stakeholders
• Co-built an automated commit monitoring, testing, and code review creation application to improve engineering quality and team consistency
• Developed programmatic solutions to IBM Rational AppScan remediation and helped standardize data collection and exchange processes across products

Systems & Thinking

• Standards-driven healthcare data systems
• Scalable architecture and interoperability patterns
• Team capability building through process and mentorship

Related Work

• NTDB
• NEMSIS Data Submissions

Highlights

• Organized team development cycles with sprint planning, backlog refinement, and review cadences
• Created specification documents and coordinated delivery across engineering, support, and client stakeholders
• Designed and implemented trauma registry workflows aligned to NTDB and ICD-10 coding standards (American College of Surgeons)
• Built relational data models, validation logic, and reporting workflows ensuring accurate capture and submission of structured clinical data
• Implemented NEMSIS national EMS data standard workflows and interoperability pipelines
• Conducted client walkthroughs, conference sessions, and vendor-facing standardization discussions
• Participated in bi-annual NTDB vendor meetings and other national forums for trauma data submission standardization
• Co-built and implemented an automatic commit monitoring/testing and code review creation application
• Led multi-day conference sessions on product updates and enhancements for current and prospective clients
• Conducted candidate phone & on-site interviews & competency exams
• Developed, tested & implemented programmatic solutions to IBM Rational AppScan security testing suite remediation
• Standardized data collection and exchange processes across products
• Championed project tracking and ECM solutions across the organization

Tools & Technology

ColdFusion, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server, version control systems, IBM Rational AppScan

Categories: experience

Tags: leadership, product-management, development