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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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Highly experienced Senior Project Manager with a background in building global healthcare data networks for real world evidence generation, software development, and product management. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams and diverse stakeholders to drive product innovation and deliver impactful results.

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Career: 12

Senior Technical Project Manager II

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

Dec 2024 - Present

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

Technical Project ManagementSAS (Programming Language)ManagementStakeholder ManagementJiraConfluenceBitbucketGitAgile MethodologiesR (Programming Language)

Senior Technical Project Manager I

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Mar 2022 - Dec 2024

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

Project Manager

Digital Aurora, Inc.

Manchester, VT

Jan 2012 - Dec 2014

Intern

National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance

US

Sep 2010 - Dec 2010

Research Analyst

Digital Aurora, Inc.

Manchester, VT

Jan 2006 - Aug 2009

North American Order Manager

The MathWorks

Natick, MA

Aug 2004 - Dec 2005

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 Massachusetts, Amherst

Non-Degree, Political Science

Sep 2008 - Jun 2009

State University of New York at Albany

BA, History

Aug 2000 - Dec 2003

Projects: 4

Sirona

github.com/Numina-Systems/Sirona

Feb 2026 - Present

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 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

Website creation for the Manya Krobo Queen Mothers Association.

Standards Advisory Service

digitalaurorainc.com

Sep 2005 - Aug 2009

Multi-Company Advisory Service on Healthcare Information Technology and Life Sciences Informatics Standards and Strategy

Publications: 4

Volunteering: 3

Disaster Action Team: Trainee

American Red Cross - Massachusetts

Oct 2018 - Oct 2019

Goat Dairy Operations and Animal Care

Róisín Dubh Farm

Mar 2013 - Dec 2015

Governance and Development Committees

Manchester Riverwalk

May 2013 - Dec 2014

Skills: 30

Technical

Claude CodeCloud ComputingData GovernanceGitJiraR (Programming Language)RStudioSQL
TypeScript

Business

Agile MethodologiesManagementProduct ManagementStrategic PlanningTechnical Project Management

Creative

Adobe Creative SuiteDesign

Interpersonal

LeadershipPublic SpeakingStakeholder ManagementTeamwork

Community

Trust and Safety

Other

Agile & Waterfall MethodologiesBitbucketCollaboration ToolsConfluenceGISPolicy AnalysisQuantitative AnalysisSAS (Programming Language)
SAS (Software)
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