# D Scarnecchia (@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
Headline: Senior Technical Project Manager II at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

## About

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.

## Experience

- **Independent Consultant at Self** (2015 – 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
- **Senior Technical Project Manager I at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute** (2022 – 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 at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute** (2020 – 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 at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute** (2019 – 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
- **Senior Consultant at Digital Aurora, Inc.** (2015 – 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 at The Hudson Standard** (2013 – 2014)
- **Project Manager at Digital Aurora, Inc.** (2012 – 2014)
- **Intern at National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance** (2010 – 2010)
- **Research Analyst at Digital Aurora, Inc.** (2006 – 2009)
- **North American Order Manager at The MathWorks** (2004 – 2005)
- **Researcher—Standards and Ethics, Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health** (2016 – 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 Technical Project Manager II at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute** (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 viability of adopting OMOP Common Data Model within HPHCI 
  \- Implemented internal QA data aggregation pipeline in Python, cutting storage needs to 10% of SAS pipeline, making Power BI ingestion of large datasets supporting characterization of Sentinel Distributed Database possible
  \- Technical advisor to internal pilot project converting querying tools from SAS to Python, enabling use with Apache Spark and Databricks
  \- Designed architecture and requirements for automating cross-ETL quality assurance checks with the aim of reducing time-to-data-delivery
  \- Led modernization of Sentinel’s Mother-Infant Identification Program Package
  \- Led project assessing emerging standards around data models and data quality assurance, and evaluation of suitability of new technologies, including AI, for enhancing data quality assurance processes

## Education

- **University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)** — Master of Public & International Affairs, Human Security (2009 – 2011)
- **University of Massachusetts, Amherst** — Non-Degree, Political Science (2008 – 2009)
- **State University of New York at Albany** — BA, History (2000 – 2003)

## Skills

- Claude Code
- Stakeholder Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Quantitative Analysis
- Policy Analysis
- Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
- SAS (Software)
- SAS (Programming Language)
- Confluence
- Cloud Computing
- SQL
- Collaboration Tools
- Teamwork
- R (Programming Language)
- Strategic Planning
- Design
- GIS
- Public Speaking
- Management
- Leadership
- Data Governance
- Bitbucket
- Jira
- TypeScript
- Trust and Safety
- Product Management
- Technical Project Management
- Git
- Adobe Creative Suite
- RStudio

## Projects

- **Every Child Is Our Child** — http://everychildisourchild.wordpress.com/
  Website creation for the Manya Krobo Queen Mothers Association.
- **Standards Advisory Service** — http://digitalaurorainc.com
  Multi-Company Advisory Service on Healthcare Information Technology and Life Sciences Informatics Standards and Strategy
- **Skywatch Blue** — https://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
- **Sirona** — https://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.

## Publications

- The FDA Sentinel Real World Evidence Data Enterprise (RWE‐DE) — PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY (https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.70028)
- Valsartan, Losartan and Irbesartan use in the USA, UK, Canada and Denmark after the nitrosamine recalls: a descriptive cohort study — BMJ Open (https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/4/e070985.abstract)
- Impact of angiotensin-receptor-blocker (ARB) recalls due to nitrosamine contamination on arb utilization in the US, Canada, and Denmark — PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY
- The Signal Code: Ethical Obligations for Humanitarian Information Activities.” — Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (https://hhi.harvard.edu/publications/signal-code-ethical-obligations-humanitarian-information-activities)
- 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) (https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM18/paper/view/17836)
- Humanitarian data breaches: the real scandal is our collective inaction — IRIN (https://www.irinnews.org/opinion/2017/12/08/humanitarian-data-breaches-real-scandal-our-collective-inaction)
- A Rights-based Approach to Information in Humanitarian Assistance — PLOS Currents Disasters (http://currents.plos.org/disasters/article/a-rights-based-approach-to-information-in-humanitarian-assistance/)

## Volunteering

- Disaster Action Team: Trainee at American Red Cross - Massachusetts
- Goat Dairy Operations and Animal Care at Róisín Dubh Farm
- Governance and Development Committees at Manchester Riverwalk

## Other profiles

- github: https://github.com/scarnecchia
- website: https://notes.numina.systems