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Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Palm Harbor, FL, United States
Toptal member since January 30, 2020
Expertise
Bio
Michael is a product leader with mobile and cloud product management experience at startups and Fortune 500 companies. His focus has been in healthcare/life sciences, including medical device analytics platforms, electronic medical record systems, and chronic care management platforms. Michael excels at understanding and refining market/user requirements quickly and working effectively with engineers to deliver winning products.
Project Highlights
Medical Device Data and Outcomes Analytics Platform
Led the design and development of a medical device data and outcomes analytics platform.
Electronic Medical Record for Sports Teams
Served as a product owner of a prototype build of an iPad-based electronic medical record system for a major sports league.
Analytics Platform for Chronic Care Management
Built a company-wide analytics platform for chronic care management.
Expertise
- Analytics
- Cloud
- Healthcare
- Product Management
- Product Ownership
- Product Positioning
- Scrum Master
- User Stories
Work Experience
Product Owner
2019 - 2019
CodeScience
- Consulted on implementing product backlog management and project coordination at a firm specializing in building applications on the Salesforce platform.
- Primarily focused on a project for a major health insurance company.
- Led a project team of 7-to-8 full-time developers, designers, and QAs.
Scrum Master | Agile Coach
2017 - 2018
eQuility
- Led a medical device mobile app software development team—overseeing the development, QA, and validation of programming code and products. Responsible for successful product delivery.
- Created project outlines and timelines and distributed responsibilities to team members.
- Facilitated daily scrums, standups, and meetings to monitor project progress and resolve issues.
- Removed project obstacles and developed solutions with team.
- Fostered strong relationships with stakeholders and product owners.
- Documented progress and communicated to upper management and stakeholders.
- Educated team at all levels on agile principles, providing them with tools for implementing the process in their own work.
- Provided training and skills development to help drive the organization-wide adoption of agile methodologies.
Data Architect
2017 - 2017
CareSync
- Led the implementation of a health data analytics platform for a chronic-care management company.
- Interacted with key stakeholders to gather requirements and to develop data cubes.
- Implemented various processes (extract, transform, load) that connected diverse data sources including Salesforce, Five9 as well as internally developed health IT applications.
- Trained super users to produce reports based on the platform.
Director of Product Development, Information Products
2013 - 2017
OrthoSensor
- Led the development of a system that collects intra-operative joint replacement sensor data and OEM partner implant metadata during surgery, along with patient-reported outcome measures, interfaced with hospitals' electronic health records.
- Oversaw the development of an automated data collection system and data warehouse for all anonymous knee sensor utilization data from customer sites.
- Implemented centralized configuration and software management of all sensor collection stations deployed at customer sites.
- Built a data warehouse for internal manufacturing testbench data.
Director of Product Development
2010 - 2013
CareCloud
- Took product ownership of the company's web-based healthcare IT business intelligence product covering both financial and clinical metrics and for the company's first-generation electronic health record product.
- Gathered requirements and handled the prioritization, wireframing, design and specification, release delivery, ongoing product life-cycle management, and meaningful-use certification.
- Worked extensively and in close coordination with clients—guiding the engineering team in an agile development environment to ship products that delight users.
Product Manager, Platforms
2005 - 2010
Sage Software Healthcare
- Oversaw and was responsible for the architecture and design vision of a new generation of web-based electronic medical records and practice management products for small medical practices.
- Managed technology platform products by driving technology platform standardization across electronic medical records and financial product lines.
- Transitioned the flagship EHR product from a monolithic single-server architecture to a multi-tier architecture.
- Migrated legacy Unix products to Linux.
Project History
Medical Device Data and Outcomes Analytics Platform
Led the design and development of a medical device data and outcomes analytics platform.
The system is a medical device analytics platform that collects knee sensor data and joint replacement implant metadata during surgery. It also contains pre-operative and post-operative patient-reported outcome measures, combined with demographic information from hospitals' electronic health records via HL7 interfaces.
My contributions ranged from requirements gathering and specification documentation to working with the development firm as the product owner in an agile development framework to roll-out and deployment in operating rooms across the country.
My contributions ranged from requirements gathering and specification documentation to working with the development firm as the product owner in an agile development framework to roll-out and deployment in operating rooms across the country.
Electronic Medical Record for Sports Teams
Served as a product owner of a prototype build of an iPad-based electronic medical record system for a major sports league.
I performed numerous requirements gathering and user research missions to multiple sports franchise training facilities, including discussions with team medical personnel.
I was an integral part of an agile development team that designed and built the prototype. I then presented the prototype to league executives.
The prototype included a number of cutting-edge technologies including medical voice recognition and natural-language processing to codify medical terms.
I was an integral part of an agile development team that designed and built the prototype. I then presented the prototype to league executives.
The prototype included a number of cutting-edge technologies including medical voice recognition and natural-language processing to codify medical terms.
Analytics Platform for Chronic Care Management
Built a company-wide analytics platform for chronic care management.
I integrated data from numerous sources and designed the data architecture the data into an analytics platform for a startup that provided outsourced chronic care management services to medical organizations. The data sources included an in-house-developed medical records platform, call center software as well as the Salesforce CRM system.
The platform delivered diverse KPI metrics dashboards to all stakeholder audiences at the company.
The platform delivered diverse KPI metrics dashboards to all stakeholder audiences at the company.
Education
1987 - 1991
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Government and Politics
University of Maryland - College Park, MD, USA
Certifications
APRIL 2016 - APRIL 2020
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Balsamiq, Jira, Confluence
Paradigms
Agile Product Management, Requirements Analysis
Industry Expertise
Healthcare
Other
Product Ownership, Mobile, Product Management, Product Roadmaps, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Feature Roadmaps, Feature Planning, Product Strategy, Requirements, Data Warehouse Design, Scrum Master, Cloud, Data Warehousing, Analytics, Product Positioning, User Stories, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Technical Product Management, Medical Devices, Medical Software, Salesforce, Story Mapping
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