Professional Experience

April 2024 - Present

Clinical Informatics Engineer

Early employee at a startup focused on developing a revolutionary, AI-enhanced Trauma Registry product for improvement of the quality of trauma care and trauma response, as well as trauma mitigation across the United States. 

April 2024 - Present

RN, Clinical Float Team

Outpatient RN for a multi-specialty medical group with more than 300 providers in primary, specialty and immediate care.  Floating to a variety of offices in a 70 practice setting serving 34 communities across southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts, including 7 Immediate Care facilities with lab and x-ray services on-site, offering walk-in care 7-days a week.

Part of an outpatient / ambulatory clinical team dedicated to improving the health and well-being of our patients with innovative programs and preventive health resources.  Foundation supports the community with easy access to high-value services and partner with civic leaders to target pressing health challenges.

July 2020 - Present

University of California Davis, Continuing and Professional Education

Davis, CA (Remote)

Roles:

• Teaching Assistant, Applied Biostatistics (2020)

• Instructor, Quantitative Methods and Decision Analysis (2022)

• Designer & Instructor, Using Statistics in Medicine (2023 - Present)

Mentored students in SAS programming and statistical methods via weekly drop-in Zoom tutoring sessions

Coached students during Capstone analysis planning and communication of their statistical model interpretations

Assisted students with cohort creation planning and provided SAS code as needed

Provided example code in SAS for creating training, validation and testing sets and performing model evaluations with confusion matrices

Provided example code in SAS performing descriptive and predictive modeling using a variety of statistical methods including CMH and chi-squared testing, linear and logistic regression, regularization and survival analysis.

Created lessons on Regularization / LASSO Selection, Logistic Regression & Model Evaluation, and Algorithmic Bias.

Currently developing a new online course in Health Care Statistics for UC Davis CPE's Health Professions Post-Baccalaureate program, focusing on how health care professionals can understand, apply, and constructively critique methods commonly used in clinical and health outcomes research.  Developing curriculum and lessons using Canvas in partnership with UC Davis CPE program directors and instructional designers, to include a variety of learning modalities including:

Videos and lectures

Discussion assignments

Interpretation assignments

Self-grading quizzes, and

Google Colab Notebooks with hands-on python examples, including:

• Bayes Theorem, applied to a healthcare example

• Random Walks and the Central Limit Theorem

• The Age Distribution of Cancer Incidence (Distribution Testing)

• Descriptive Statistics & Measures of Central Tendency with the Cleveland Heart Attacks data set

• T-Testing & ANOVA with the Cleveland Heart Attacks data set

• Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Intervals

• Correlation and Linear Regression

• Multivariate Analysis - Logistic, Poisson Regression, MANOVA

• Survival Analysis using the Framingham Data

• Categorical Techniques: Chi-Squared, CMH, Correspondence Analysis

🩺📈 RNalyst

Oct 2023 - Present

Biostatistics, Statistics and Data Science Teaching and Consulting

Some current projects:

• Applied biostatistics course design and materials creation

• Individual projects consulting 

• Mentorship in python, R, SAS, SQL, mathematics & statistics and data science concepts and methods

University of New Hampshire

Aug 2020 - May 2022

Durham, NH

Full-time Graduate Student

Master of Science, Health Data Science

2021 recipient, Dinesh Thakur Health Analytics Scholarship

Click here for more details, including Thesis / Practicum, TAship, and Internship.

Catholic Medical Center

Mar 2016 - May 2020

Manchester, NH

Cardiac Progressive Care RN, The Heart & Vascular Interventional Unit (D200)

Delivered safe, thorough, compassionate, and individualized care to progressive care / telemetry patients experiencing hospitalization for cardiac and vascular conditions and minimally-invasive state-of-the-art procedures including stenting, TAVR, Watchman, PPM, and interventional radiology.

Instrumental in creating hospital-wide interdisciplinary patient mobility program, as part of BSN capstone. 

Produced training materials for the hospital's nurse mobility champions, and inspiring, educational posters for all Nursing units. 

Conducted detailed literature review and qualitative research to understand issues surrounding patient mobility and nursing care. 

Helped create patient mobility improvement plan and nursing unit mobility champion program, and served two years as my unit's champion. 

D200 was awarded the AACN Silver Beacon Award for excellence in Progressive Care Nursing in 2019.

Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital Network

Jan 2014 - Aug 2016

Salem, NH & Nashua, NH

Acute Rehabilitation RN

Formulated, executed, delegated, and supervised individualized care for patients recovering from orthopedic surgeries, trauma, amputation, stroke, and traumatic brain injuries.

Achieved CRRN certification in 2016.

Represented hospital-wide stroke team for Nashua location. 

Served as Nashua stroke educator, planning and providing 50-minute educational sessions twice per month for patients and families focusing on stroke recovery and prevention/risk mitigation.

Software Development Positions

Between 1998 and 2011 I held a variety of programming, scripting, and software development positions.

Here is a brief summary of where I worked, and the types of work I did:

BBN Corporation / BBN Planet; Internet sales and provisioning support, tools / script requests, database auditing, bash, sh, csh, Informix, Perl

Ziff-Davis Publishing / ZDNet; online publishing, content management automation; Unix/Windows, Perl, Tcl/TK, HTML/CSS

Internet.com (later JupiterMedia); online publishing, content management automation, dotted-line management, mentoring, team training and education, project and technical leadership; Tcl/TK, JavaScript, SQL, HTML/CSS

Mathsoft Engineering & Education, Inc; online publishing (StudyworksOnline), content management automation, document transformation, web-server maintenance, Tcl/TK, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, XML/XSLT, SQL Server, VBScript, C#

Fidelity Investments, Brokerage Company Technology; Web Services, VBScript, C#, Oracle, PL/SQL, technical leadership

Imprivata, Inc; JavaScript, AJAX API. HTML/CSS

Freelancing & Contract Work; PHP, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, python