Project Manager & QA Manager, Systematic Software Engineering Limited 1994-2001
Project overview:
- healthcare electronic data interchange (EDI), working with UK’s National Health Service hospitals and laboratories;
- EDI projects with UK Ministry of Defence and NATO, UK Ministry of Agriculture[1];
- non-EDI projects for Railtrack and NATO.
Responsibilities:
- Introduced Agile-style[2] practices to enable a small development team to better respond to customer requirements, stop-start conditions, and maximise effectiveness while minimising churn.
- Collaborated with the UK National Health Service’s standards committee (Information Management Group) to improve EDIFACT message definitions for medical data exchange.
- Successfully delivered many-to-many EDI translation system configured to enable the transfer of test results from hospital laboratory systems to physicians.
- Identified sales opportunities leading to three significant new contracts worth over $8 million.
- Seconded to the company’s head office (in Aarhus, Jutland) for a crucial role in military messaging product development.
- Ensured acceptance of Nuclear Biological Chemical (NBC)[3] hazard prediction system by the Ministry of Defence; conducted training for NATO’s NBC experts.
Technical environment:
- Hardware: Siemens Nixdorf; Sun; HP; PC
- Operating systems: Sinix; Solaris (SunOS); HP/UX; SCO UNIX; Trusted Solaris; Windows
- Languages: C; shell; Systematic’s EDI toolset
- Other: EDIFACT; HL7; ASTM 1238; ITSEC; MMHS (X.400 + STANAG 4406); NBC / CBRNE
Corporate website: Systematic Software Engineering.
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