Open To Work
David Athey
Health Data and System Engineer
Quitman,MS
Work Preference
Summary
Dynamic engineering professional with extensive experience in developing and maintaining innovative systems that enhance operational efficiency. Expertise includes data architecture, report automation, and big data technologies, with a strong emphasis on reliability and adaptability in system and data analysis. Recognized for a collaborative approach and results-driven mindset, consistently delivering high-quality solutions tailored to evolving project needs while optimizing data workflows. Committed to driving team success and fostering organizational growth through effective teamwork, strategic problem-solving, and dedication to continuous learning.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
System Engineer
KFMC Healthcare Improvement Partners
08.2024 - 09.2025
- Managed hybrid infrastructure of on-premises and Azure-hosted servers, including Hyper-V and VMware environments.
- Administered Microsoft 365 Tenant.
- Maintained hybrid Active Directory environment with group policies and federated services.
- Deployed software updates across all systems.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues.
- Automated routine auditing, security, and notification tasks using SQL and Windows PowerShell scripts.
- Developed and implemented system architecture for complex projects, enhancing overall efficiency.
- Led cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve critical system issues, ensuring operational continuity.
- Streamlined processes through automation, resulting in improved system performance and reduced downtime.
- Conducted thorough system testing and validation, guaranteeing adherence to industry standards and specifications.
- Evaluated emerging technologies to recommend strategic improvements that align with organizational goals.
Data Engineer, Healthcare Data Analyst II
KFMC Health Improvement Partners
01.2014 - 09.2025
- Served as analytic lead over 4 states and 5 analysts, coordinating analytic activities (data comparisons, data cleaning, statistical testing, etc), information dissemination, management of milestones and deadlines, timeliness, and communication of analytic findings to the project team.
- Designed, developed, documented, and maintained user-friendly dashboards and reports to visualize patient outcomes and key metrics.
- Developed custom data visualization, collection, and tracking tools for better understanding of complex health information, making insights more accessible to non-technical stakeholders.
- Designed, planned, created, tested, and maintained web-based applications.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline data collection, accuracy, and integrity. Enhanced data quality by performing thorough cleaning, validation, and transformation tasks.
- Conducted quality assurance checks on datasets to ensure accuracy and reliability of reports and analysis. Collaborated with clinical teams to ensure accuracy in health data reporting processes.
- Supported preparation of regulatory reports by compiling, validating, and analyzing datasets. Familiar with medical and general research terminology. Able to convey highly technical information to both clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Collaborated with IT to ensure data security measures were in place, safeguarding sensitive information. Improved data governance practices, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and internal policies. Strategically managed large-scale datasets while ensuring privacy compliance under HIPAA regulations.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify data requirements, optimize data architecture, ensure project alignment, and implement data solutions. Designed and maintained data models ensuring accuracy and accessibility of information.
- Optimized extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes, enhancing data quality and reducing processing timeliness.
- Led initiatives to streamline data workflows and indexing strategies, increasing efficiency of analysis processes. Designed, implemented, and maintained data pipelines to support healthcare analytics and reporting initiatives.
- Fine-tuned query performance and optimized database structures for faster, more accurate data retrieval and reporting. Streamlined reporting processes, resulting in faster turnaround times for monthly performance reports.
- Evaluated various tools, technologies, and best practices for potential adoption in the company's data engineering and analysis processes.
- Analyzed large-scale, complex datasets of health data identifying trends and patterns in patient and provider behaviors to inform strategic data-driven, decision-making processes, enhance patient care, and improve patient outcomes. Identified gaps in care through targeted analysis of patient records. Assisted medical professionals in making evidence-based treatment decisions through the provision of reliable, up-to-date health statistics.
- Spearheaded the adoption of advanced analytics techniques such as predictive modeling to inform strategic planning in healthcare organizations. Automated the application of statistical techniques for hypothesis testing and validating performance metrics from routinely received data, freeing up time for more complex analysis.
- Mentored junior analysts on best practices for SAS coding, data analysis, and interpretation.
System Conversion Manager
One Life America Administrative Services
12.2008 - 12.2013
- Oversaw and facilitated the reconciliation of their Medicare Advantage insurance sales venture into data sets to resolve past payment issues and to set up and run a renewal commission system.
- Developed procedures and systems to reconcile historical policy, agent, and financial data in conjunction with internal and external systems.
- Integrated multiple sources of disparate data into cohesive datasets using ETL processes, improving overall analytic capabilities and policy research.
- Reduced data redundancy with effective data modeling, ensuring optimal use of storage resources.
- Compared paper commission data to its electronic versions created through optical character recognition (OCR) software, inputted by other employees, or obtained by data downloads from its related insurance carrier to locate data inconsistencies through VBA scripts and queries within Microsoft Access.
- Related past and current financial, policy, and agent data by viewing trends to determine missing or incorrect information.
- Followed data trends relating the agents and past financial records to create rules showing historical contractors and other agreements that were not properly recorded.
- Created various Excel documents and Access databases to assist with pulling metrics data and presenting information to stakeholders for concise explanations of best placement for needed resources.
- Implemented robust control measures to improve analytical output reliability.
- Worked with software vendors to implement customizations within their software to increase productivity.
- Coordinated projects to increase efficiency within the commission department.
- Taught the employees how to better use Microsoft Access and other tools were available to them.
- Created manuals for such things as the internet base interface the agents could use to view the commission information that related to the payment that were received.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Dual Major in Computer Engineering And Mathematics
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN05.2005
Skills
- Expertise in SAS 94 base programming, functional modules, and report writing
- Expertise in Microsoft Office tools, VBA coding, and Power BI
- Expertise in MS SQL and Oracle SQL programming
- ETL development and big data processing with Microsoft Azure data warehouses and others
- Database design, testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis
- Problem-solving, decision-making, and multitasking abilities
- Skilled in both independent and collaborative work in a remote environment
- Project planning, prioritization, and management
- Skilled in analytical techniques
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Adaptability, flexibility, and reliability
- Regulatory adherence
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
swipe to browse
Timeline
System Engineer
KFMC Healthcare Improvement Partners
08.2024 - 09.2025
Data Engineer, Healthcare Data Analyst II
KFMC Health Improvement Partners
01.2014 - 09.2025
System Conversion Manager
One Life America Administrative Services
12.2008 - 12.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Dual Major in Computer Engineering And Mathematics
Vanderbilt University
Certification
- Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer [PCEP-30-02], Python Institute - 2025