Fred Harmon

Experience

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  WebMD

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

  Software Engineer

  Development in Progress 4GL, C# and Data Merge Language (DML) on a variety of modules including EDI, Patient Portals, and Interoperability with focus on object oriented design.

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  Emdeon Practice Services

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Software Engineer

  Development in Progress 4GL, C# and Data Merge Language (DML) on a variety of modules including EDI, Patient Portals, and Interoperability with focus on object oriented design.

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  Sage Software

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2011

  Software Engineer

  Development in Progress 4GL, C# and Data Merge Language (DML) on a variety of modules including EDI, Patient Portals, and Interoperability with focus on object oriented design.

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  Vitera Healthcare Solutions

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2013

  Senior Software Engineer

  -Tested Intergy at Connectathon for 4 years providing Greenway access to participate in the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase-IHE Profiles including PIX, PDQ, XDS.b, XCA and ATNA.-Provided live demonstrations of working interoperable software at HIMSS Interop Showcase-Refactoring of C# .NET CCDA generation code to reduce average document generation time from 60 sec to 5 sec-Mentoring of junior developers including onboarding assessments, code reviews, and lunch & learn seminars

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  Greenway Health

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2020

  Development leader for the Intergy EHR platform reporting to CTO with 14 development teams including 40+ onshore and 60+ offshore developers with 5 development managers. Key resource for providing development estimations and roadmap alignment with Product Management. Manage contract negotiation and development partnerships with dozens of 3rd party vendors. Organization and execution of product technical debt backlog. -Oversight of $30M next-gen EHR project using Angular UI, .NET Core microservices, and existing Intergy backend over a 2 year period to deliver a cloud-native EHR to our customers-Led development team through a year-long effort to recertify Intergy EHR for 2015 ONC Edition to become only end-to-end re-certified EHR vendor in the market with full compliance-Onboarded 80+ offshore development resources while reorganizing teams into hybrid onshore/offshore blended teams to maximize collaboration and knowledge sharing-Developed estimation techniques utilizing tee-shirt sizing, complexity, and confidence to provide Product Management with 50% more accurate estimates-Created custom reporting tools using Excel PowerQuery, VersionOne APIs and DOMO to simplify and automate team metric tracking for delivery to ELT to highlight successes and areas for improvement-Managed of $6M annual Intergy development budget including $3.5M offshore contracting budget with monthly invoicing, projections and adjustments to improve ROI-Negotiated contracts with external vendors including $4M+ contract amendments with Progress simplifying license tracking-Led data migration efforts of 100+ practices from the sunsetted SuccessEHS platform to Intergy EHR to ensure customer retention and smooth transitions Show less Reporting to VP of Development while supporting 20+ onshore resources across 3 teams with varying skill sets and experience levels.-Interviewed 100+ candidates and hiring of 20+ onshore developers over a 3 year period.-Retooled onboarding program to reduce timeline from 6 months to 3 months-Implemented Innovation Day program to elicit innovation and outside the box solutions resulting in high impact product changes and customer delighters-Tracked/reported dev metrics including unit code coverage, defect rate, and code churn to help pinpoint deficiencies in the software development lifecycle-Provided oversight of system architecture decisions including DB schema and data models ensuring adherence to published best practices of design patterns Show less Lead developer across multiple disciplines with focus on clinical workflows, interoperability and APIs. -Created architecture for Intergy REST APIs to move away from proprietary techniques -Developed standards for request/response models, authentication, security and error handling-Introduced SwaggerAPI documentation and standardized documentation best practices-Grew API counts to 150+ methods over the course of 3 years-Implemented NCPDP SCRIPT 10.6 eRx standards with EPCS connectivity to DrFirst APIs -Transitioned the company from waterfall to agile methodology as Certified Scrum Master and improved customer feedback loop for increased adaptability to changing requirements-3 years of dual role as development team lead and scrum master Show less

  • Product Engineering Senior Director

    Jan 2017 - Jan 2020

  • Product Engineering Manager

    Jan 2015 - Jan 2017

  • Principal Software Engineer

    Jan 2013 - Jan 2015
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  Ready Computing

  Aug 2020 - now

  • Designs, builds, and implements Health Information Exchange solutions for of healthcare industry organizations.• Guides Ready Computing’s customers in best IT practices.• Architects and develops site-specific solutions based on the latest relevant Health IT paradigms and standards (HL7, IHE, X12, FHIR, CCDA/CDA, XML, JSON)• Integrates systems and applications at Ready Computing’s customer sites often utilizing Intersystems technology including Healthshare, Ensemble, Cache, ObjectScript• Conducts training and education sessions for Ready Computing customers.• Assists Ready Computing in sales presentations, project bid responses, and other business development activities.• Represents Ready Computing in technical workgroups and committee meetings.• Represents Ready Computing in trade shows and other marketing activities. Show less

  • Technical Manager

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Solution Architecture Manager

    Aug 2022 - now

  • Principal Solutions Architect

    Aug 2020 - now