As Program Manager in the Office of Physician Relations at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. My work is quite varied and spans projects ranging from operations to marketing. Current projects on my plate include management of our secure referring physician’s web portal, leadership of an operations-focused process improvement team for our Global Oncology Center, projects focusing on web delivery of EMR information, and several physician-targeting marketing and outreach efforts that leverage social media.
I have a bit of an entrepreneurial streak. In the early nineties I was involved in a startup that created the first online florist wire service. We spent a few million dollars over a couple of years, had EDS build some really nice software, and launched successfully only to have the primary partners sue each other into oblivion. I was Vice President of Operations when we finally closed the doors for good.
More recently I co-founded, and served as the CEO, of bAnywhere.com. I’m no longer affiliated with bAnywhere.com but my partner and I had quite a bit of success developing wireless applications for the Palm VII platform. Our customers included Palm Computing, Lockheed-Martin, and the PGA Tour. We developed some really interesting systems, in the brief period that the platform was supported, including the first use of a wireless PDA to send commands to an orbiting satellite (more about that here) and a system that would deliver real-time PGA Tour scores to wireless PDA users.
I spent a number of years in aerospace working in and around NASA’s Johnson Space Center for a variety of contractors including Loral, Lockheed-Martin, and SAIC. Notable jobs during those days included serving as a field engineer for the Shuttle Training Aircraft program and later as the webmaster for the Space Shuttle Program Office’s secure global extranet (SSPWEB) via the United Space Alliance Space Flight Operations Contract (SFOC).
Specialties:
* Enterprise-level application development and design
* Strategic planning
* Emerging technologies
* Social media campaign development and execution
* Physician and patient portal design
* Open source development methodologies
* Word-of-mouth/viral Internet marketing
* Business process improvement and design
* Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
* Content Management Systems (CMS)
