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Senior Technical Project Manager II at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Senior Technical Project Manager II at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
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Senior Technical Project Manager II
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Dec 2024 - Present
Senior Technical Project Manager II
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Responsible for preparing organization’s data quality assurance infrastructure for Sentinel RFP and expanding Quality Assurance Tools portfolio’s support of industry sponsored projects - Leading project assessing of emerging standards around data models and data quality assurance, and evaluation of suitability of new technologies, including AI, for enhancing data quality assurance processes - Responsible for managing data updates, including the addition of new tables, for industry sponsored studies
Senior Technical Project Manager I
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Mar 2022 - Dec 2024
Senior Technical Project Manager I
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Responsible for successful implementation of $5–7 million annual portfolio of deliverables and work orders, representing 15% of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Sentinel Initiative’s annual budget - Managed the implementation of FDA Sentinel’s Real World Data Enterprise (RWE) data network, adding 25 million linked claims-EHR patient lives to the distributed database - Acts as the voice of the customer for the Quality Assurance Tools Development team. Works with customers to develop user stories and requirements, sets development priorities, and manages releases - Responsible for managing external contractors billing and payments - Recognized for advancing software engineering principles and project management practices across the data quality and analytics product development teams
Technical Project Manager II
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Technical Project Manager II
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Provided project oversight, leadership, and coordination for methods development, pioneering the use of FDA’s Sentinel System common data model and tools to examine drug safety and effectiveness questions transnationally across the United States, Canada, UK, and Denmark - Responsible of data quality program for Sentinel Network including management of the Quality Assurance Tools Team - Served as acting scrum-master for Analytic Development Team
Technical Project Manager
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
US
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Technical Project Manager
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
US
Provided project oversight, cross-functional leadership, and coordination to successfully deliver updated version of Sentinel Common Data Model to FDA, including enhancement of internally developed software tools and successful upgrade of 14 external data partners - Served as coordinator for analyst team responsible for reviewing quality of data delivered by external partners - Served as project manager for team responsible for development and quality control of software used to query, analyze, and visualized electronic healthcare data
Independent Consultant
Self
Cambridge, US
Aug 2015 - Oct 2019
Independent Consultant
Self
Cambridge, US
• Member, Data Science and Ethics Group (a nascent inter-agency working group focused on the risks posed to displaced persons by advanced data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence) • Ethics Reviewer, Humanitarian Data Science Review • Freelance cartographic, network, and data visualizations for political risk clientele
Researcher—Standards and Ethics, Signal Program on Human Security and Technology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
Researcher—Standards and Ethics, Signal Program on Human Security and Technology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Researched governance and management issues related to the use of ICTs and information in humanitarian response with a particular focus on standards and ethics, and the impact of technology on humanitarian crises and affected populations. - Investigated the safe, ethical, and rights-based use of digital ICTs and data in humanitarian settings through scholarly research and field assessments: - Co-authored a rights-based approach for assessing digital technology and data use during humanitarian crises, as well as the subsequent obligations necessary for humanitarian agencies to realize these rights - Developed an assessment template and capacity development curriculum to help organizations understand the scope of the digital technology use and associated risks - Created and facilitated workshops on the use of digital information and communication technologies for humanitarian practitioners - Engaged with internal and external stakeholders to support the Signal Program’s research aims: - Collaborated across institutions to help produce interdisciplinary work on topics ranging from GDPR compliance to the impact of disinformation on the Syria conflict - Facilitated workshops and panels on future technological threats to the humanitarian system - Promoted the Signal Program’s research through digital outreach, public speaking, and written communications - Designed promotional materials, including posters for speaking engagements and event invitations, as well as document layout for research reports - Held Signal Program corporate card, made team travel arrangements, and managed reimbursements per University guidelines
Senior Consultant
Digital Aurora, Inc.
Cambridge, US
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Senior Consultant
Digital Aurora, Inc.
Cambridge, US
Developed strategies with pharmaceutical industry clients for the generation of real-world evidence for drug safety surveillance and health economics and outcomes research - Wrote landscape reports monitoring policy changes and industry trends and assessed the business impacts and opportunities of emerging technologies - Designed research frameworks, governance policies, and procedures for the creation of multi-stakeholder distributed research networks using real-world evidence to monitor drug safety and effectiveness - Convened industry, healthcare, academia, and government actors to build organizations which met the varied regulatory and business needs of stakeholders, including: • the Biologics and Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium (BBCIC), a $8M, multi-stakeholder distributed research network to monitor the safety and effectiveness of biologics and biosimilars • a three-year, $18M research plan for the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) drug safety methods public private partnership
Product Designer
The Hudson Standard
Hudson, NY
Oct 2013 - Dec 2014
Product Designer
The Hudson Standard
Hudson, NY
Project Manager
Digital Aurora, Inc.
Manchester, VT
Jan 2012 - Dec 2014
Project Manager
Digital Aurora, Inc.
Manchester, VT
Intern
National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance
US
Sep 2010 - Dec 2010
Intern
National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance
US
Research Analyst
Digital Aurora, Inc.
Manchester, VT
Jan 2006 - Aug 2009
Research Analyst
Digital Aurora, Inc.
Manchester, VT
North American Order Manager
The MathWorks
Natick, MA
Aug 2004 - Dec 2005
North American Order Manager
The MathWorks
Natick, MA
Education: 3
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)
Master of Public & International Affairs, Human Security
Aug 2009 - Apr 2011
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)
Master of Public & International Affairs, Human Security
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Non-Degree, Political Science
Sep 2008 - Jun 2009
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Non-Degree, Political Science
State University of New York at Albany
BA, History
Aug 2000 - Dec 2003
State University of New York at Albany
BA, History
Projects: 4
Sirona
github.com/Numina-Systems/Sirona
Feb 2026 - Present
Sirona
github.com/Numina-Systems/Sirona
Sirona is a custom agent that translates natural language questions into sophisticated SQL queries against Sentinel Common Data Model formatted data. Code is written and executed in a sandboxed Deno runtime for token efficiency and execution safety—the sandbox prevents network access, filesystem writes, and source data modification.
Skywatch Blue
bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue
Feb 2024 - Present
Skywatch Blue
bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue
@skywatch.blue is one of the largest community labelers on Bluesky and the ATProto network, intended to provide users with the ability to refine their timelines and remove unwanted content. As part of this I: - Built and maintained the first two iterations of automated moderation - Built a range of automated sidecar services for statistical detection of anomalous content to assist in Trust & Safety investigations - Built and maintain Skywatch MCP tooling and Claude skills for agentic assisted moderation at scale
Every Child Is Our Child
everychildisourchild.wordpress.com/
Jun 2010 - Aug 2010
Every Child Is Our Child
everychildisourchild.wordpress.com/
Website creation for the Manya Krobo Queen Mothers Association.
Standards Advisory Service
digitalaurorainc.com
Sep 2005 - Aug 2009
Standards Advisory Service
digitalaurorainc.com
Multi-Company Advisory Service on Healthcare Information Technology and Life Sciences Informatics Standards and Strategy
Publications: 4
The FDA Sentinel Real World Evidence Data Enterprise (RWE‐DE)
PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY
Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domains
Proceedings of the 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-18)
A Rights-based Approach to Information in Humanitarian Assistance
PLOS Currents Disasters
Volunteering: 3
Disaster Action Team: Trainee
American Red Cross - Massachusetts
Goat Dairy Operations and Animal Care
Róisín Dubh Farm
Governance and Development Committees
Manchester Riverwalk